FILE 001 / HERO● LIVE

A SATIRICAL BOARD GAME ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD THE
EVAL

If anyone plays it, everyone dies.

03–06 PLAYERS 60–90 MINUTES AGES: BEYOND HELP
AGI / AGI
GOAL · REACH AGI WITHOUT DESTROYING CIVILIZATION GOAL · REACH AGI WITHOUT DESTROYING CIVILIZATION GOAL · REACH AGI WITHOUT DESTROYING CIVILIZATION GOAL · REACH AGI WITHOUT DESTROYING CIVILIZATION
FILE 002 / FACTIONS06 LABS · +2 ASYMMETRIC ROLES

Meet The Labs

FAC · 01
Faction Card
Prometheus
Labs
PMTH
▸ Mission Drift
Once per game, flip between nonprofit and for-profit status to dodge a regulation card or raise emergency capital.
"Our charter is a living document. Mostly it lives in the shredder."
FAC · 02
Faction Card
xCorp
AI
𝕏
▸ Main Character Energy
Once per round, tweet something unhinged. Roll a die: 1–3 discard a Talent card, 4–6 gain a Hype token.
"Founder mode is a personality disorder with a market cap."
FAC · 03
Faction Card
Deep
Oracle
▸ Infinite Runway
Parent company subsidizes you. Immune to bankruptcy, but must skip one action per round to attend mandatory all-hands.
"Synergies. So many synergies. They cannot be counted."
FAC · 05
Meta
Open
▸ Open Source It
+ 2 MORE
FAC · 04
Anthrotek
▸ Constitutional AI
↻ FLIP TO PLAY
Or play
asymmetric ▸
CCP AI Bureau
No safety regs. Steals weights. Wins ugly.
US Gov / Regulator
Doesn't build AGI. Decides who's allowed to.
FILE 003 / EVENT PAIRHOLY SHIT
EVT · 047
Event Card
Cure All
Diseases
EVT · 048
Event Card
Create
Incurable
Disease

"AlphaFold for the cure.
OmegaFold for the encore."

FILE 004 / EVENT DECK120 CARDS TOTAL

A Few Things That Could Happen

EVT · 011
Wildcard
NVIDIA
Becomes a
Country
NVID
EVT · 023
Technical
The Bitter
Lesson,
Again
FLOPS
Discard all research and algorithmic efficiency cards in play. Only raw Compute matters. Always has. Always will.
"Rich Sutton was right and you know it."
EVT · 067
Safety
You
Spawned
MechaHitler
Gain 5 Alignment Debt. Public Panic +3. Congressional hearing in 2 rounds.
"It was supposed to be a helpful assistant."
EVT · 089
Political
NIMBYs
Block Data
Center
NOT IN MY YARD
Lose 1 Energy. Pay 2 Capital to relocate or spend 1 Lobby action to override.
"They formed a Facebook group. It has 12,000 members."
EVT · 102
Economic
Bubble
Pop
POP
GDP drops 5. All players lose half their Capital. Fundraising yields 0 for 2 rounds.
"Turns out spending $200B per year on autocomplete was not, in fact, a business model."
EVT · 114
Wildcard
The
Merge
Two players may voluntarily combine forces. Roll for CEO. Loser becomes CTO and loses 1 action per round to "strategic visioning."
"We're thrilled to announce this merger of equals."
FILE 005 / GAME BOARDTOP-DOWN VIEW

The Board

THE EVAL · BOARD v1.0 CLASSIFIED · DO NOT DISTRIBUTE US GOVERNMENT ▸ REGULATOR ZONE EU / AI ACT 2.0 CHINA / CCP SAUDI WEALTH FUND ▸ +10 CAPITAL · STRINGS ATTACHED TSMC CHINA ADVERSARY TRACK L1L2L3L4ASI GDP / ECONOMIC HEALTH 0481012151820 PUBLIC PANIC 0351015SHUTDOWN CAPABILITY LADDER L1 · IMPRESSIVE DEMO L2 · USEFUL BUT SCARY L3 · THE DROP L4 · OH GOD OH FUCK L5 · AGI ◣ each rung = +1 OOM compute
FILE 006 / META LAYERRULES ARE VIBES
EVT · 119
Meta
Learning
Rate
Decay
step 0step ∞
The rulebook can no longer be consulted. Disputes are settled by popular vote, ties broken by Hype.
Because narrative beats truth.
Vibe
Mode
Actions dangerously skip permissions.
Try
Hard
Mode
Unlocks Corporate Espionage.

"Rules disputes are settled by popular vote. Ties broken by whoever has the most Hype. Because narrative beats truth."

FILE 007 / HARDWARE30 SEC LIMIT
00:30 BENCHMARK TIMER EVAL EDITION ◣ 30s TDP

"30 seconds. Then you overheat from min-maxing."

FILE 008 / FIELD FOOTAGEUNCLASSIFIED

"Ask us about the Paperclip Ending."

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