My thoughts are less about the merits of creating something that already exists than they are about _knowing_ you are doing that. Which I think my post made very clear :)
reply> I’m sure they would have done naturally prior to GenAI.
replyI gave a simple counterargument to this. Since there are "countless" prior games, many of them released before genAI, your argument is pointless.
Do you think the only reaction to knowing you’re not the first to do something is not to do it? Do you think I said that?
replyTo spell it out in case it is still non-obvious: knowing this allows iteration. It allows remixing. It allows you to inspect what has come before and what it did well and where it succeeded and where it fell short and thus what you could _add_. It is an enabler of creativity! Thus I think it is interesting that GenAI may make it harder to have this experience.
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reply> why didn't the previous authors, supposedly grass-fed genuine checkmark blood-through-their-veins humans didn't notice the other 9-8-7-6-5... games, and still released their own version?
replya) To make it better
b) To learn, in service of a) or another project
They said they think they would have encountered those other games without GenAI, not that they or any of those other authors shouldn't have released the game.
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