Week round-up: Aug 24
if you love it, download it- erysdren
A detailed guide to downloading everything that matters to you, to preserve it for the future. This is seeming increasingly important as various countries seek to end the free and open internet.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen - Colin Cornaby
If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job. When microwaves are everywhere you’ll be so far behind you’ll never learn how to use a microwave. Chefs who use tools besides microwaves are luddites. They live in fear of the future.
The age of bronze and steel - Andrew Plotkin
A great post about how a specific metal 3D printing technique is no longer accessible to anyone on planet earth, thanks to the experts retiring and the company that did it getting acquired. The world as we experience it is a lot less permanent and reliable than it seems, sometimes...
Knights of the Crystallion - Phil Salvador
Loved this older post about a very weird game I have not played.
Bill Williams called Knights of the Crystallion “the game I threw the most of my soul into. […] It was going to be my epic, it was going to be my masterpiece – we called it a cultural simulation – and I thought I could pull it off.” It has a scope so ambitious that it’s absurd for one person to have undertaken: it tries to create an entire society.
AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God - David Gerard
A decent explainer post about something you may have seen mentioned on social media before: a lot of top AI company guys ascribe to a set of near-religious and highly-deranged beliefs about a science-fiction future where their consciousness may be "resurrected" by an all-powerful AI into a simulated world.