EamonnMR

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, we're in the industrial era of the digital world. Now a single corporation can train an AI using someone's copyrighted work and in return profit off the knowledge over and over again at industrial scale.

The idea that copyright simply doesn't apply to AI has more to do with AI companies deciding that they're not going to comply with those laws than the design of the laws. Also a very successful lobby against enforcement by positioning AI as a strategic necessity.

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 with it after all.

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 static content that you could host easily by slapping it into an Nginx or Apache directory.

Is it the tool for the job?

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 everything.

YouTube the site where people form parasocial relationships with flat-earth-fluencers and break their brains is the worst invention since leaded gasoline.

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 with the horizontal gene transfer pathway, sure, but considering how quickly antibiotics become ineffective I'm just not sold that their modified bacteria will be as untouchable as they seem to think. Certainly not 20 grand effective.

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 was a perfectly serviceable EV like. One of the most technically ambitious flash games I ever played.

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 an engine from scratch.

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-rockets-and-escape-v...

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.

I wish people were slightly more up front about their games being Spring Engine mods.

The elephants would get wise to that though.

If you want something editable by hand, yaml is much nicer than Json because you get comments and you don't need to worry about missing a bracket.

Their funny little language is really close to Python so it's tapping into a huge base of Python developers.

The removal of flash ruined the entire online games catalogue, not just theirs.

If kiwifarms was just about being a jerk and not about doxing I do not think people would have as big a problem.

I wonder if it's because Rails creates such a specific set of expectations that when you actually try to do something without it you run into problems. "Oh, that's only a rails thing? I thought that was a ruby thing..."

Ruby's monkey patching convention might make this worse.

YMMV, but I've only seen Rails fans use any of those.

Rails was really good at building a very specific type of website and that kept Ruby popular for a while, but SPAs resulted in back end web apps that mostly just shuffled json around, something you don't need Rails for (though rails does a fine job of it) with it's page-oriented world; that responsibility got delegated to React.

Meanwhile, python ended up being the default programming language taught to domain experts in a ton of different domains. Having your engineers write the same programming language as your domain experts turns out to be really useful for business. Using NodeJS as your backend if you consider web your domain is also an excellent choice and also eats into Rails' market share.

I have seen some shops with modern rails deployments do truly awesome stuff, but it's hard to beat being able to take a script an analyst has written, hit it with a linter, and throw it into your production application.

Also, for what it's worth, the python 2/3 debacle was a much bigger deal back in the height of Rails' popularity. I was genuinely worried that the schism would continue to haunt the community; that someone would fork 2.x and we'd have two competing pythons. That didn't happen thankfully.