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Imagining the technological singularity with Factorio

Imagining the technological singularity with Factorio

7 min read feature
The trouncing of the world’s top Go player by Google’s AlphaGo AI has led more than a few people to speculate on how we’ll be feeling the ramifications of this victory in the near future. What this speculation mainly concerns is the question of what will happen if software continues to eat the world
Factorio gives the middle finger to SimCity’s vision of industrial utopia

Factorio gives the middle finger to SimCity’s vision of industrial utopia

1 min read News
SimCity is about building a flourishing biome where citizens can live without dying of smog. Factorio, contrarily, says screw that. It is a game about wrecking the environment by building sprawling, Rube-Goldbergian, obscene, waste-shitting factories out of conveyer belts and tens of thousands of cl