Interesting

Looks like NCI's homepage is active again. Some quotes for posterity:

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The more persistence an X04 protocol tries to have; the longer it is set up to last; the greater number (and broader variety) of people it tries to attract; and in general the more immersive it sets out to be, then the more breadth and depth of human experience it needs to support to be successful for more than say, 12-24 months. If you try to create a deeply immersive, broadly appealing, long-lasting experience that does not adequately provide for human tendencies such as violence, acquisition, justice, family, community, exploration, etc (and I would contend we are nowhere close to doing this), you will see two results: first, individuals in the population will begin to display a wide range of fairly predictable socially pathological behaviors (including general malaise, complaining, excessive bullying, harassment, territoriality, inappropriate aggression, and open rebellion against those who run the protocol); and second, people will eventually vote with their feet, but only after having passionately cast a pox on both your houses. In essence, if you set people up for an experience they deeply crave (and mostly cannot find in real life) and then don't deliver, they will become like spurned lovers--some become sullen and aggressive or neurotic, and eventually almost all leave.
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Like the descent into an LSD trip, where the filters of ordinary perception are removed and every dew-drop, every phrase, floods the mind with its fulsome infinity, the journey into the heart of an anomaly can teach one the ultimate precariousness of perception. Nothing is what it seems to be - or rather, beyond a few shared basics, everything can be seen as something else.
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The first one sounds like a post-mortem (paiwdjvw x ldjasc'i qt hjgegxhts xu iwt ujcrixdc du crx lph egxbpgxan id hijsn iwtht qtwpkxdgpa itcstcrxth xc iwt uxghi eaprt). The second almost sounds like they are thinking about starting up operations again. Interesting.