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by astrange 793 days ago
I have a vague memory in the 90s of a website that was trying to collect crowdsourced somewhat-structured facts about everything that would be used to build GOFAI.

Was trying to find it the other day and AI searches suggested Cyc; I feel like that's not it, but maybe it was? (It definitely wasn't Everything2.)
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DonaldFisk 793 days ago
It might have been one of these two projects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mind_Common_Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindpixel

The leaders of both these projects committed suicide.

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astrange 793 days ago
GAC! Yeah, it was Mindpixel.

I guess that's what happens when you learn too many facts.

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dredmorbius 793 days ago
Portland Pattern Repository?

<https://c2.com/ppr/>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Pattern_Repository>

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