Age of Scaling Game Development for AI Civilization

Anthropic's @_sholtodouglas provides an update on his "Age of Scaling" game, where instead of playing through an Age-of-Empires-like tech tree, the goal is to get to AI superintelligence and a Kardashev-scale civilization. "Dylan's been getting us all into Age of Empires with these five-a-side matches on the downstairs table. And I wanted to see if I could make an 'Age of Scaling' where you build solar panels, and data centers, and you train AI models, and drones, and so forth. Instead of farms and mining and all this." "I only got 70 to 80% done. All the mechanics work, but it turns out it's really hard to make a game that's fun." "I wanted to capture some of that dynamic of late-night discussions of San Francisco in a game."