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xp84last Thursday at 4:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

This practice of defining a reconstruction so pedantically as to be wholly unlike real life is just so dumb to me, as a layperson. This would be like “recreating” the experience of using a Commodore 64 but we can’t find any intact copies of the software at all so we provide a fake “OS” that requires the user to write code in ASM only, and say “Ladies and gentlemen, behold our reconstruction! This is what it was like!”


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wang_lilast Thursday at 9:38 PM

All of those CRT simulators? Largely bullshit, and we still have them around to look at!

nextaccounticlast Thursday at 9:06 PM

The alternative is no reconstruction at all on one hand, and adding fake detail on another hand

And if one wants to add fake detail, why should archeologists be involved? Just have AI generate them

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