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> We have copyright and intellecual property law already, of course, but those were designed presuming a human might try to profit from the intellectual labor of others. With AI, w…

Gotta be a sunk cost thing right?

If they wanted to do that they'd probably not try to draw this much attention.

Suppose we each backed up sites we cared about rather than trying to mirror the whole thing...

I keep wanting to do this for old sites, make like a personal mini IA. Besides just using wget or curl, any tips for pulling down useable complete websites from IA?

His bunker kinda tells me all I need to know.

For testing shaders you can use the editor, at least.

Would you then say that in general Open Source doesn't matter for almost everyone? Most people running Linux aren't serving 700 million customers or operating military killbots wit…

I'm very interested in something like archive box but: * Can also download Internet Archive snapshots * Suitable for (read only) exposure to the open Internet, or saves sites as st…

Somehow both things are true, and I don't know how we disentangle them. YouTube the site where people can dump videos is incredibly useful because there are visual tutorials for ev…

It's a shibboleth for the Rationalist community, that's why.

For them, content is free.

That's a pretty fair characterization of the Roko's Basilisk crowd though, isn't it?

The idea that they've engineered a bacterium that will successfully outcompete naturally selection indefinitely seems overly optimistic. They blocked the most obvious failure mode …

This is really cool, and perfect for an aughts-throwback music project I've been chewing on. Thanks!

Actually, he based the gameplay on reading the Elite manual but never actually having played Elite.

Wow, another Broken Mirror fan in the wild! Yes, that was the best Trek game there eas until Infinite came out this year. The author really got what made Trek tick and the gameplay…

I'm still a bit salty that they didn't leverage any of the perfectly good EV clones or general purpose game engines out there and have spent the time since the Kickstarter building…

The Kestrel in Nova is a copy of the Kestrel from the original EV, which itself was a copy of the Estes 'Corsair' model rocket kit, see: https://blog.eamonnmr.com/2018/02/estes-roc…

The original DOTA was a mod wasn't it?

Always love a good EV clone. I loved this one back when it was much more Nova-like.