Real life as food for thought. Reading you all I'm reminded of the part in Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days where he basically repeats the "every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief" trope -- I'm wondering why artists are so much more ready to admit to this than technologists.
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Even with something like Tlon, which is a "clean slate implementation", you can look at the git repo and see all of the libraries listed in the Makefile, and the code comments talk about "XYZ's hashing algorithm" and "QRS type checking".
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I keep stumping for SQLite to run clay... It’s a valid format for Library of Congress archiving, to name just one benefit
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A lot of it is written under a license which explicitly says “in return for all the code i have stolen, you may steal this, but only if you allow others to steal your changes in turn”
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yep. related, in another tab I've got
@slatestarcodex arguing in favor of Georgism " Capitalists deserve to keep the value they create, but they also owe rent on common resources which they enclose and monopolize " synchronicity !
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In a weird way that's 100% a better analogy for our entire symbolic existence haha. Even tho you end up creating real stuff that alters physical existence for those using it. Then you have the artist-thieves, a less good analogy for symbolic life, yet they *create* symbolic life.
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