alt Hacker NewsGiven that treasure hunters and looters can also use the process outlined in this blog post, leaving it alone seems like a guarantee that it will be explored by looters first.
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This is in response to people in the comments saying we should do lidar of the entire world and have AI find whatever it can.
I would humbly suggest that perhaps the most consequential looters might be more like script kiddies than bond villains. Just vicinity and convenience
IDK, this jungle terrain is very difficult to navigate
would be funny if they went there and it was already looted
Using slop engines to loot ancient ruins is an apt metaphor for what slop engines have already done to humanity's written corpus.
For their next trick, perhaps billionaires can exhume our dearly departed and see whether they have any gold teeth or baubles worth scavenging.
That's a story that's been going on for literal centuries.