There’s something about this that reminds me of the “you’re just a kid” scene in Good Will Hunting.
The Mongolian Meta
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#33I'm mongolian and thanks for reminding me I don't know anything about mongolia.
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#35Is this whole thing just a strategy guide for playing Geoguessr in one country?
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#36Mirror as PDF: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/security/2021-kommu-themongoliangeo... (it doesn't appear to have been updated since 2021 and Google Docs are bad for longevity/discoverability/archiving).
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#37I'm mongolian and thanks for reminding me I don't know anything about mongolia.
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#39Is there an index of resources that lists metas that people have put together for each country?
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#40This stuff must get outdated very quickly. Google could very well upload an entire new set of photos for Mongolian roads tomorrow. How do Geoguessers keep on top of that? Is there a central repo/db where they store the dates that each country, or even potentially province or town, get updated by google. Im imagining some kind of RSS feed that Geoguessers all subscribe to which alerts them of a country update and they…
It's like a metaphor for life: you tend your garden, then the storms come and level everything, and then you tend a new garden from scratch. No human labor is everlasting—it's why the nomads invented yurts.