Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Once you see the connection between LLMs and psychics / seances / spiritualism, it’s hard to unsee. At the center: people •want• to believe, and that is powerful. Thinking of modern-day SV, listen to some of the stories of how con artists used spiritualism…

…as a business: https://www.history.com/news/ghost-hoax-spiritualism-fox-sisters

…as wartime subterfuge: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-234-the-seances-9-8-2023

…as almost a kind of therapy: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-79-secrets-and-seances-11-17-2017

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/