Researchers beware of ChatGPT's "Wikipedia Brain"
ChatGPT gave the wrong answer to a research question. I published an article with the correct answer, then checked to see if ChatGPT could find it.
Fortress of Doors
Lars Doucet's personal blog -- Game design and stuff.
Latest posts
Super Municipal Property Tax Simulator 2000
I show a new web-playable game I'm working on, the rationale and philosophy behind it, as well as a detailed Godot 4 tutorial that outlines my process step by step.
We Trade with Ants: From the Notebook of Anastasia Demoupoulous
We "big speakers" keep projecting our human minds on them, and the "little speakers" keep projecting their ant mind on us. This is the problem.
We Trade With Ants: Plague
When disaster strikes, Jeff and Anastasia call in some professional help
GeoSpooktral Information Systems
“Now Ma’am, I’m afraid that um, the property tax code of the state of Texas does not recognize ‘haunting’ as grounds for a reduction in taxable valuation.”
Little Petter's Friend
Jens Trondsen rocked slowly back and forth in his chair on the side porch of his house. It was a beautiful spring day and the house was empty–Jens' wife Margaret and their two girls were at a play date at a friends' house. Right now it
We Trade With Ants: The Little Speakers
Jeff and Anastasia subject the ants to a series of tests to verify whether the "little speakers" really can talk...
Dark Mirror Ideologies
A Dark Mirror ideology stands only in moral opposition to its counterpart, while otherwise making the exact same factual claims about how the world works. The only thing the belief systems disagree about is what we're supposed to do about it.
Mass Appraisal for the Masses
Howdy everyone! As part of my new job working for the Center for Land Economics , my co-founder Greg Miller and I have taken over day to day management at ye old Progress & Poverty substack , and one of our duties is for one of us to put up a
Announcing the Center for Land Economics
Three big announcements today: I've started a new job at the Center for Land Economics. My colleague there, Greg Miller, and I are relaunching the Progress & Poverty substack , which had gone dormant for a while. In a few weeks I will be launching a new open source
Defender's Quest 2 is released
Defender's Quest 2, at long last, is available to play.
Will capital-havers or capability-havers gain the most from AI?
Imagine, if you will, a world in which pretty much anybody can own a magic lamp, complete with magic genie, for an operating cost on the order of $100/year. The genie isn't all-powerful, but it's perfectly obedient, perfectly benevolent, and very smart. So smart
Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
There are certain kinds of experiences that most human beings know very little about because a) they are rare, b) they can only be felt from the "inside", i.e., by the people who have them, and c) not all of those people choose to, or are good
Take the pedals off the bike
Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.
Memory Eternal, Nikolas Doucet
Nikolas Andreas Doucet, age 8, died painlessly of sudden cardiac arrest on Friday, November 8th, 2024, at 7:03 PM Central time. He was buried on Friday November 16, 2024. The following was the eulogy that I, his father, gave at his graveside.