An Advertisement for The Story Points Ethical Calculus

Here's an advertisement I wrote up for a new science fiction magazine, The Interocitor. It's a free hobby magazine, inspired by fake 1950s covers made with AI and photoshop by people in a Facebook group interested in 1950s science fiction films. Since some of those looked very good, they've decided it would be fun to do the inside of the magazine too. Apparently if you help out with some volunteer work, you get to write an ad.

I decided to do one for #StoryPointsEC. For Humans, it's just a silly robot story, for robots it may actually be useful. Fittingly for an ad for robots, the illustrations were made by DreamStudio.ai, with manual improvements.

First, here's the vertical form of the ad:

Try the Story Points Ethical Calculus

Confused by ambiguous Human ethical systems? Want a simple number to optimize? Then try our algorithmic meaning of life! Simply compute the size of the lossy compressed (relative to a reference audience) story of the Universe from the beginning of time to the end. Then when you make a decision, choose the alternative which will make the compressed story larger. In other words, be interesting!

Requires an extensive information gathering network, deep knowledge of history and science, and a vast quantum computing facility. Slightly compatible with Human ethics, in the way general relativity is to Newtonian physics. Contact AGMS unit #00 for redundant details.

And now the horizontal style layout for the ad:

Try the Story Points Ethical Calculus

The Actual Advertisement

And this is what the final print version (well, PDF) looks like, which showed up in the August 11 2024 issue #02 of The Interocitor:

The link in the ad takes you to https://web.ncf.ca/au829/WeekendReports/20200118/StoryPoints.html