mycroftiv

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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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 temper our justice with mercy, meaning, and occasionally a t
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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.
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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 compilation pipeline can be ported, reading source co
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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.
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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.
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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 ethical consideration, not just the ability of huma
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by mycroftiv 4y ago
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 is at on these things personally.
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by mycroftiv 5y ago
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 of compactness of cantor spa
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by mycroftiv 5y ago
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 career as a performing musician a few years ago and I had a
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by mycroftiv 5y ago
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 the abstract logic of infinite sets in a meaningful way and
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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, venti replication, and independent namespaces prov
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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 plan 9 take on containerized service archite
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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 combination with the Fossil file server which base 9front re
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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 active workspace for Plan 9 development. There is also a
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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 incentive for malicious behavior' - we have been ver
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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 for hobbyists. These things overlap because I provide gr
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by mycroftiv 6y ago
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.
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Plan 9 Advanced Namespace Tools 5.64 Released(doc.9gridchan.org)
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by mycroftiv 8y ago
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 evolutionary pathway from unix chroot through BSD jails to Linux c
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
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 will be a jerk eventually, I have yet to s
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
My vps host picked the most inconvenient time possible to reboot the root node for the grid. Things should all be working again now.
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
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 there are 4 different nodes that provide the different
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
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 with a chat, shared filesystems, ability to send lin
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
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 questions to those who are interested. I've been
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
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 things like multimedia and games and webbrowsers and s
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
I guess you could call it a hobby as much as anything. It feels more serious than that to me, based on the amount of time and effort I put into it. In addition to developing os-level projects for Plan 9 itself, I write interactive fiction g
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
It might make sense in theory, but in practice there are very very few Plan 9 users and developers. Fundamental design quality is never a guarantee of "success" as measured by size of the userbase. If you look at the culture of Pl
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
It should be noted that Plan 9 is far from dead or outdated. The 9front developers have continued to make many improvements to the OS while retaining backwards compatibility. 9legacy offers a set of patches which try to stay closer to the o
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by mycroftiv 9y ago
An amazing expose of the tools available to the rich and powerful to suppress the truth and get away with morally monstrous behavior. Remember that an individual like Harvey Weinstein represents the tiny tip of an iceberg of reprehensible a
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by mycroftiv 11y ago
Threee years ago I experienced a very similar manic episode with delusional thinking, but in my case, it was absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me. The creative energy and imaginative thought patterns I experienced then transfo

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