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Oh, it's just a bit of fun: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... You'd be amazed at how seriously people can take things like date formats sometimes.
I find it improper that we count from 2025 years ago. We should count from the beginning of time.
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Yes, the title has been changed. The one I posted clearly said "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation”.
Can you change it back? Currently it says "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg, has died," which seems to be misleading people.
Just to clarify, Greg Newby was not the CEO of Project Gutenberg, which was founded in 01971, but of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which he founded in 02000 or 02001. It has contributed immensely to Project Gutenberg, but they are not the same thing. Newby would never have attempted to take credit for PG. Edit: the post title has been fixed now.
Are the years intended to be read in octal?
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You got me curious about the leading zero.
Oh, it's just a bit of fun: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... You'd be amazed at how seriously people can take things like date formats sometimes.
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I find it improper that we count from 2025 years ago. We should count from the beginning of time.
I've become an unironic proponent of HE, the Human Era. For CE dates, we just add 10000 (I'm writing this from 12025). But for BCE dates, they're subtracted and it makes things so much clearer when it comes to telling how long ago something was. E.g. the sundial was invented around 6000 HE, steel was developed around 9000 HE. Kurtzgesagt has a really great video about the subject: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs There's…
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Can you change it back? Currently it says "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg, has died," which seems to be misleading people.
I can’t, sorry, there’s no edit button, I guess because of low karma. Maybe the mods (or who changed it) can revert it to the old title.
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While new works do trickle into the public domain every year, it's worth noting that copyright status is not currently the main bottleneck to public domain cultural works being made widely available to the public under F.A.I.R. (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. There's a huge amount of extant literature and music in the public domain that someone has scanned and perhaps put up online as raw…
That's true, but its framing sort of rests on an assumption of fungibility that doesn't really hold. There are many important cultural works whose copyright status is currently the main bottleneck to their being made widely available to the public. Part of why this happens is that, in any medium, most works aren't very popular. A few years ago, someone who worked at YouTube told me that more than half of YouTube vide…
Why not? What's a more likely question to an AI that might have been trained on these books: "Tell me some ideas for my kid's birthday party next January" or "Write out a huge book-length story about a magical school for wizards?" I surmise that the former is a lot more likely to happen than the latter. "Harry Potter" is just pure ephemera. Nobody will find it worthwhile in 200 years.
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I find it improper that we count from 2025 years ago. We should count from the beginning of time.
I've become an unironic proponent of HE, the Human Era. For CE dates, we just add 10000 (I'm writing this from 12025). But for BCE dates, they're subtracted and it makes things so much clearer when it comes to telling how long ago something was. E.g. the sundial was invented around 6000 HE, steel was developed around 9000 HE. Kurtzgesagt has a really great video about the subject: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs There's…
While I don't believe the Kurzgesagt staff endorse genocide and cannibalism, I think they may not have clearly thought out the implications of their choice of terminology.
Premack's timeline that you link does not make the same error, calling it the "Holocene Era", as Emiliani did.
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2011/Sep/michael-hart-has-passe...