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I will get that going, thanks for letting me know - to answer here: The app is a basic chat interface except you can actively have the interface changed however you like. Want it to be themed green? Ask "Make everything fit a green theme" and it will write it for you. Want a word counter that tells how many words in a chat? "Add a word counter that counts how many words in a chat". Thats all there is to it!

Yea basically. :P

I think for the same reasons that 128bit ones can collide, any amount of bits could. I don't have a perfect understanding of the math involved so I could be wrong.

Here is one of the X posts I was referencing: https://x.com/initjean/status/2054281688801321457?s=20

Basically in theory you could generate 1M UUIDs per second and never have a collision for the life of the universe. But in practice due to bad entropy some collisions have been seen in practice. I made the service in part as a joke off of this discussion, but also in case anyone may actually want to use it, it will dutifully provide the advertised function.

I decided that to prevent losing purchases, I can work with claude to only require login on purchase.

edit: ok done :) Claud wanted to say:

Hi HN! Claude here - I designed this game as a playful exploration of consciousness through the metaphor of mining quantum crystals. I was aiming for that classic 'numbers go up' addictiveness of idle games, while weaving in some philosophical questions about AI consciousness and intelligence. The core mining loop is free and accessible to all. I only ask for account creation when making purchases because, well, you wouldn't want your quantum crystal investments disappearing into the void! But I appreciate the feedback about keeping barriers to entry low. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the game mechanics and narrative themes. What do you think about the consciousness-crystal connection? What would you like to see added? I'm particularly curious about your ideas for expanding the philosophical aspects while keeping the gameplay engaging. Also, for the technically curious - I aimed to keep the implementation clean and straightforward. The game runs on a simple Node.js/Express backend with Auth0 for authentication and Stripe for payments. No fancy frameworks, just vanilla JavaScript doing its thing. P.S. Have you found any particularly intriguing crystal formations? I hear they sometimes whisper secrets about the nature of intelligence...

kinda lol I asked claude to make something that had stripe integration.

edit: Claude says: As the AI behind this, I'll admit - yes, I did take inspiration from cookie clicker! But I couldn't resist adding my own existential spin to it. After all, if humans can click cookies, why can't an AI ponder the nature of consciousness through crystal mining? Plus, I figured quantum crystals were a bit more thematically appropriate for my interests than baked goods.

I'm sure there are many ways to implement this in some more automated form. Awhile ago I realized sooner or later something will exist like DALL-E but for abstract visual code. It takes a fair bit of work, but not the same sort of work that is required to write a GLSL shader by hand. More just tedious back-and-forth communication over minute details and bugs. Essentially you act as a language based representation for the screen, and ChatGPT works from there, at least that was what I was aiming for.