Oh man, this is a blast from the past. Played TF2 with him a few times, he hasn't been online on Steam for a long time, but apparently he just left AI behind before it turned into the dystopian techbro circlejerk it is now, and still continues to work on other things he likes today, which is great to hear.
It does feel like the "hacker" part of Hacker News is all but gone at this point, the only thing people are trying to "hack" anymore is their bank account balance. I will remember 15.ai as a landmark from the tail-end of the "people doing cool things just for the sake of doing them and showing it to others" era of the internet.
I have friends that still play with him, he's still active on the same servers with a different username. He's currently working on an AI-free artist marketplace:
It does feel like the "hacker" part of Hacker News is all but gone at this point, the only thing people are trying to "hack" anymore is their bank account balance. I will remember 15.ai as a landmark from the tail-end of the "people doing cool things just for the sake of doing them and showing it to others" era of the internet.