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Re:Fences, Not Sandboxes by Animats on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:52PM (#49428548)
This scrolled off HN too fast.

The concept is like Gas Town - AI as a organization, not an emulated human. Yes, it's inefficient. But it scales.

(A very long time ago, I got a tour of Xerox PARC, even before Steve Jobs did. Alan Kay explained that they were building the future of computing, accepting that it cost far too much to be cost-effective. They assumed the hardware would catch up. It did. Took about ten years.)

Re:Fences, Not Sandboxes by grebc on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:29AM (#49431098)
Where’s the benefit in that?

It’s not like Xerox is at the forefront these days. Maybe investors made a tonne on their equity back in the day? (What the real game is).

Re:Fences, Not Sandboxes by rmaxdev on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:57PM (#49437131)
The purpose of any game is to get better at playing the game