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1) applause for idea and realization

2) slight scepticism, how is this information curated ? can someone infect the pool by injecting bogus news ?

3) the idea of video game players crawling through virtual worlds to acquire real knowledge.. is the most poetic idea in game I heard in 10 years



>2) slight scepticism, how is this information curated ? can someone infect the pool by injecting bogus news ?

I think your skepticism is genuine but it just makes me think about how long it will be until this library get's banned, cancelled, and censored because they found some small percentage of fake information that could've been planted by literally anyone for fun or by state actors who have the incentive.

This library was created for a reason.


Minecraft servers can prevent visitors from modifying anything.


Yeah, so cool, it's like Ready Player 1 meets Greg Egan's Truth Mines [0]

[0] https://everything2.com/title/Truth+Mines


Greg Egan's short stories have been just the right dosage of mind-blowing for me, I'm a little intimidated by his more esoteric books, to be honest.


> the idea of video game players crawling through virtual worlds to acquire real knowledge.. is the most poetic idea in game I heard in 10 years

Poetic, sure. There’s also the way more mundane yet infinitely more effective method of just using a goddamn VPN, which gives you access to the whole internet instead of a random collection curated by activists.

The architecture is amazing, though.


#2 is impossible to satisfy, even moreso without ruining the states goal of the project.




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