I added a few pixels! I don’t mind doing this, the cost is low, but it’s really inefficient, especially since the envisioned image is often complete when I check, so there’s often nothing to do. Also, like it’s Saturday and I want to go outside.
I spent some time checking this out:
This event, r/Place, lasts 87 hours, ending April 4, 5pm GMT.
Right now, there is enough people actively maintaining the logo that it is possible some further “investment” seems justified. From a quick check, there’s like 10-20 people doing this. So a quick guess is that amounts to 10 to 40 person-hours a day.
It’s likely this activity can be scripted and produce dramatically more output.
So if someone can put together some script, get just 5 Reddit accounts on it, we can have one computer doing the work of ~20-80 people, since the script’s choices are “perfect” and work 24⁄7. This might take a few hours of one person’s time to setup and coordinate.
Taking this farther, if you organize say 50 Reddit accounts, and set it up on appropriate computers, we can paint a much fuller logo, like the one the OP envisioned, or at least add the words “Effective Altruism”.
This comment you are reading is definitely “someone else should do this” thought. I probably will go outside and do other stuff. I feel bad people are working on this for EA and tried to respect their intentions.
I added a few pixels! I don’t mind doing this, the cost is low, but it’s really inefficient, especially since the envisioned image is often complete when I check, so there’s often nothing to do. Also, like it’s Saturday and I want to go outside.
I spent some time checking this out:
This event, r/Place, lasts 87 hours, ending April 4, 5pm GMT.
Right now, there is enough people actively maintaining the logo that it is possible some further “investment” seems justified. From a quick check, there’s like 10-20 people doing this. So a quick guess is that amounts to 10 to 40 person-hours a day.
It’s likely this activity can be scripted and produce dramatically more output.
Like, there’s a Python script that seems dodgy, but probably can be adapted. This uses multiple accounts. https://github.com/rdeepak2002/reddit-place-script-2022
So if someone can put together some script, get just 5 Reddit accounts on it, we can have one computer doing the work of ~20-80 people, since the script’s choices are “perfect” and work 24⁄7. This might take a few hours of one person’s time to setup and coordinate.
Taking this farther, if you organize say 50 Reddit accounts, and set it up on appropriate computers, we can paint a much fuller logo, like the one the OP envisioned, or at least add the words “Effective Altruism”.
This comment you are reading is definitely “someone else should do this” thought. I probably will go outside and do other stuff. I feel bad people are working on this for EA and tried to respect their intentions.