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Comment by lukeqsee

11 years ago

What server/platform is the code actually running on? I fail to see how the license can apply, unless there is no server owned by a human entity running the code, and there is no mention of how that works.

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mappum  11 years ago

The bot is just running on a DigitalOcean VPS.

The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as autonomous entities are starting to become a real thing. This project probably won't become skynet though.

  • lukeqsee  11 years ago

    > The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek

    I assumed that.

    However, I think the notion of autonomous entities existing entirely in code is a fascinating idea. It reminds me of a fun game: http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/. You play as an AI that lives in servers and does "menial" tasks for enough money to grow into the ruler of the universe.

    • FeepingCreature  11 years ago

      Love the game, but it's a bit annoying that you can't build an army of killer robots.

      Bloody humans don't know how good they have it that the game forces me to play pacifist.

      ... Or maybe the AI is just deeply socially anxious, so that it completely shuts itself in when threatened by mere human contact?

      That's really the only way to justify your behavior in the endgame.

    • tokenizerrr  11 years ago

      Just played this game for a while after seeing your post, quite fun. Too bad development on it seems to have died off, and that there appears to be no option to actually overtake humanity as the end game.

  • teraflop  11 years ago

    Is the bot running on a machine that can accept incoming HTTP connections? It would be cool if it could serve a status page showing the currently running revision, the status of pending votes, that sort of thing.