Where can I find Shii's whitepaper?
Remember when this was linked on every single page of 4chan for a couple of years? Now I can't find it at all. Almost like it's been scrubbed.
If you don't remember, it was a short essay on chan philosophy, the point mostly being how by making people anonymous you force ideas to compete on their own merits by preventing people from reacting based on authority or personality.
You pretty much got the whole content right. Not much more to say.
yeah but I want to read it again and I find it fucking suspicious as hell that it's been apparently scrubbed from google
This whole site's been scrubbed from google
Big news
it was always hosted offsite. never on a chan server.
and there should be mirrors and pastebins. this is an important document in le internet historie
It was most likely on shii's website….Its looooooong gone now
you're probably right, do you remember the domain so i can check the internet archive?
god it might be shii.com like i said it's been years
shii.org yeah
the wayback excluded shii.org but there is this website
ohh man i remember this and I am going to read everything
shii.bibanon.org
is the whitepaper here though?!??
seriously i want to reiterate how fucking strange it is that this doesn't exist on google even though it was linked on every page for years
it's almost like…
bump, curious
Slowly reading through the wiki user posted, but I haven't seen a hint of it yet.
It's weird to me how when I google "Shii's whitepaper" literally the only two results I see is my own posts asking where the fuck it went
consider me spooked
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Maybe in shii.bibanon.org
Little chance for that. Although Hippo sold ED it was demonstrated that some stuff CAN be deleted from the internet. I guess around GamerGate they deleted it.
Reminds me of Zuckerberg saying he made Facebook to connect people, lol.
I remember moot saying in Something Awful, in no uncertain terms, that the reason he made 4chan was just to get easy porn while getting a "cocks" email address. Everything else was collateral effects. His merit was trying his user site again and again, starting from zero each time the site was killed (how many times was the post count resetted? Ten times? Last time was in 2007 I guess). But he sold out, of course and I'm sure Shii did the same.
Didn't moot also do a TED Talk about the benefits of anonymity or something? And then later he repeatedly said anonymity wasn't the point. moot is such a fucking faggot, who just happened to accidentally do a couple things right, at least for a while.
well we got there eventually: wakaba.c3.cx
Well, see and
hahaha
protip moot was never real, and "chris poole" is an actor.
I remember that talk. he stressed anonymity for a different reason than shii's paper.
moot valued anonymity (or rather, pseudonymity) because it allowed what he termed "faceted personalities". I.e. that unlike Facebook, where you and everything you discuss is tied to your one IRL-linked account, people should be able to compartmentalize their online existence, separating their discussions of one topic or another from a central identity.
ironically, Reddit permits moots "facets" better than image boards, and he himself complimented Twitter for doing it well too.
shiis arguments revolve around registration vs no registration and social capital on a platform without names.
I wouldn't say he sold out – more like he just dropped out of the scene.
shii (power word: Avery morrow) has like a doctorate in religious studies or something, and last I heard about him, he does shit like travel around Japan cataloging, publishing and translating obscure Shinto religious apocrypha he finds off at backwoods shrines. that and hes a wikipedo who maintains a lot of obscure pages about east asian religion.
Anonymous comes through again.
Man, he wrote a paper on it? You'd have to be down-syndrome stupid to not realise that.
It was written before 4-channel existed (or maybe just after).
I don't think it was supposed to be rocket science; just promotion for the concept.