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by ganafagol
2094 days ago
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That's the "how". But I'm missing the "why". What a colossal waste of brainpower and computing resources. How bored out of their minds do people have to be to invest all that energy into such a project. Sure it's technically challenging. But so much is! You have one life and are obviously talented+educated but then burn it on such nonsense. Don't get me wrong, not everybody needs to try to solve cancer, world peace or climate change. But finding a minecraft world seed? Wtf people.. |
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The minute inherent value of the answer is not why it was done. Finding the answer became personally valuable to people for a few reasons:
The unavailability made it seem more valuable. The idea of making something seemingly unknowable known is enticing. Making headway on a problem makes the solution personally valuable. The production, rhetoric, and appeals to nostalgia in Sal's first video about the project made it seem more valuable to many. Being part of a group who share an objective that matter to them is inherently valuable to humans.
I believe the project added value to the lives of everyone involved, and the experience gained and the connections made will add value to the rest of the world.
All of this could have been true for a project that actually matters, yes, but those projects tend to have high barriers to entry, consequences for failure, and distant horizons of success. I think this project replaced time and computing power that would have been spent on games and youtube, not on important problems.