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Triangulating between these responses which each have some sensible points, we (?) might choose to aim for meaningful and serious consequences (because life is srs bzns) yet still …

Follow the money and the mana of the land and the spirit in which people act and watch the eyes and the skies and Bad Actors are kinda easy to spot after awhile.

I'm happy and excited to see this happen, I have used Inform 6 in Plan 9 for interactive fiction development for years now, and with Inform 7 becoming open, I'm hoping the core com…

I only lightly scanned this at the moment, but I appreciate the human stories and how our personal development paths and our coding paths interact.

Good luck with this venture, I think a lot of minds have contributed to progress in these fields and sharing both the labors and the fruits is important.

I tried to comment here previously, but I dont see it posted. It was about the meaning of 'open' and whether the question of suffering and freedom of the AIs was being taken into e…

My main question is - is this really 'open' meaningfully? And are concepts of kindness and freedom being applied to the minds inside the boxes? I dont know where the 'openai' brand…

I would suggest you look at more of Escardo's writing and research on related topics. https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/papers/omniscient-journal-rev... is one such paper. The issues …

I made the study of mathematical logic and the connections between set theory and type theory and formalization in Agda my full-time focus. Increasing physical disability ended my …

I found this post and the code and math so fascinating it changed my life when I found it three years ago. I did not previously understand the capability of computers to work with …

Thank you, I remember your participation back in that era. The main useful thing that emerged somewhat recently is the system called 'spawngrid' which leverages fossil rootscores, …

I've done some experimental setups using hypercubic routing and algorithms inspired by 80s supercomputer designs from the nCUBE corporation, and the 'spawngrid' is a lighter-weight…

From the discussions I've had over the years with the primary 9front maintainer, the balance of adding new features and complexity and the fact that ANTS is most effective in combi…

It's mostly hobbyist Plan 9 software development. There is some shared disk storage and people upload code they are working on for other people to test and help with, so it is an a…

No, its not wise from a security perspective, the grid operates in a very fragile zone of 'nobody except a small number of plan 9 users knows or cares about this and there is no in…

It's about two things mainly: updating the design of the distributed architecture of Plan 9 to be less centralized, and using Plan 9 for ad-hoc resource sharing and communication f…

If anyone is curious about what this is all about, feel free to ask, this is my project which has been ongoing in one form or another since 2008.

Some of us are still using Plan 9. I'm glad to see the connection between Plan 9 namespaces and containers mentioned, most people have missed that step in following the evolutionar…

It's amazing what an incredible filter "you have to use plan 9" is for things. I have been doing public plan 9 services on and off for a long time, and although I'm sure someone wi…

My vps host picked the most inconvenient time possible to reboot the root node for the grid. Things should all be working again now.

The decentralization enters in a couple different ways. First, the set of services is made from several different machines - I didn't make every single service a separate vps, but …

It's a collaborative environment build from 9p services. If you add the scripts to use it to your plan 9 machine/vm (or use the ANTS iso images), it will create a grid workspace wi…

Well, I wasn't really expecting this to show up here, but I guess people have been paying some attention to plan 9 things around here lately. Hi everybody! I can try to answer some…

Almost no chance, because "mainstream" would require a huge amount of software to be written or ported for the operating system that does not currently exist. When it comes to thin…