Demiurge

Why do you think I am confused? Is this a form of internet condenscension, or are you able to diagnose my mental state based a single comment? No, I don't think I'm confused.

There are satellites in geostationary orbit that have realtime live feed and agile pointing capability. However, besides the SAR, RGB style observations are limited by clouds, and also you can’t switch out the sensors on a whim. Airborne platforms are always more flexible and cheaper for certain missions.

You’re thinking long horizon tasks. I agree that Sol is great at it. I don’t think it’s smarter in quick win tasks that are still difficult.

This is where intelligence is not one of a kind, these systems have different pros and cons.

I use Sol as an architect and fable as a brilliant single task solver.

Entropy.

Yes, this applies to every company. The institutions have evolved a lot, and how we look at social safety and fairness have both evolved and devolved at the same time.

Companies, individuals, and governments have different roles. Rationality from their perspective is specific to their perspective, and I don’t believe just because evolution or physics are rational we should die off from a new virus or asteroid impact. That would be perfectly rational, but I don’t care about the global rationality of the universe.

What is best for my family and other families is not what is best for Sam Altman or Sataya, or Elon Mask.

We’re just talking about market players. What I’m saying is that these market forces need an outlet via some new infrastructure and regulation. Maybe it’s not micro-payments, maybe it’s some other new ideas.

I just don’t want the next century to be the century of East India AI sticking me in a Matrix pod, rationally.

I don’t see how this is different from having Stripe easily available to any web developer. I want this feature, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to add it to every website I build. I think of it as Stripe pay wall at infrastructure level rather than a JavaScript popup. If we look at NYT, WP, many already do this. But HuffPost and Reddit rely on different models.

I don’t think this will make the internet less open, I think the internet is already pretty much less open. Who blogs these days for free? They rely on medium or substack, and have no choice, they submit to these platforms rules about the articles they write, even though they’re pretty generous.

Now, if the reward system was as open as say, Bitcoin, I think there would be a lot more independent and different bloggers and journalists, and independent platforms.

I didn’t mean to say it never happened. It’s just that when it happened it was a memory stick, MB, or other non Windows specific issue

Perhaps I’m contrasting it to my Windows ME experience…

But, I have seen BSOD multiple times, it’s just that I could trace the problem pretty easily, to something like IRQ interrupts and faulty hardware, MB needs to be replaced, bad driver needs to be downgraded, things like that. And it used to happen a lot more often.

Overall, I just think XP and NT kernels kind of solved this, in large part, by improving the system logging, sys internal tools, adding system restore, etc

On my MacBooks, however, whenever I get the beach ball, I rarely have any idea what to do, and have reinstalled or changed random hardware multiple times.

So yeah, I’ve had my share of problems with all systems, and worked in different environments, but personally I have rarely seen BSOD compared to all the other issues.

I have tried cookie based sessions and I have tried multiple things. I have been battling DDOS and script kiddies longer than CF has been a thing. You’re wrong in that you think I could continue to maintain the site without CF in front of it, I would just shut it down. It’s not a profitable forum, it’s just a hobby.

I think that to prove I am not a crawler I probably just need to supply a Safari user agent string. The crawlers on my sites actually self identify for the most part. The malicious ones are banned when they try to post spam.

Anyway, what’s wrong with making 2 cents? :)

Windows crashing all the time? I haven’t experienced crashes since WinXP… Or when trying beta drivers and overclocking. As a day to day windows and OSX user, I’ve had more stability issues with OSX than Windows.

Because I also use AI, and I actually want the content from the site to show up for me, as well as other AI users.

More over, I actually pay for three different AI subscriptions, and use them a lot. I also think it’s fair that I pay for their services. I just want them to also pay for what they use.

What would you suggest as an alternative? Block the bots yourself ?

That’s definitely pretty annoying, it’s almost like the walled gardens scenario. I wish this could be more democratized.

I’m not a participant in this race.

Are the AI companies worried about anything but their valuations?

I don’t care about their valuations, but I do care about the risks that they are creating for the economy, society, and the technological advancement, at large.

Micro transactions [in this case] are a great idea, these crawlers need to be taxed and made to pay for the unaccounted external costs. Furthermore, we need to fund any risk mitigations, security coordination, and other safety work. If these things are not imposed on the market, the most ruthless player will create the biggest mess they can get away with.

I don’t see a better way to do this, right now, than to allow Strips, or CF, to create some way to charge the crawlers. Imagine I have some really expensive content, I can put it behind the paywall, or subscription model, but that’s very specific to the human consumer. What if I do want to search engine or content aggregator to consume some of the content? It would be quite hard for me to sign an exclusive agreement with OpenAI, like what Reddit or NYT are doing. It might be quite beneficial to create some infrastructure to let bots automatically to pay for access. It might even be crypto based, I don’t think it really matters. It just has to be easy for me to integrate it, and the bots need to find it easy to use.

If we all start doing this, I think this could be of benefit to all content creators, such as musicians, movie makers, game developers, and even independent journalists.

We used to pay for software and things, but what has happened? Walled gardens and production monopolies are taking over. This has largely reduced the quality of all the content we consume.