My employer isn't paying me in MMO-Bux, I am converting MMO-Bux into govt. backed currency at a date and time of my own choosing. There's no need to record anything other than the financial transaction.

> There are societies that collapsed never to rebuild or became mere shadows of themselves.

Yeah but the people were still there. Collapse of a society is a change in people's point of view, not always (or just) fiery death for everyone. Armageddon is a change in social order.

To bring this closer to home; the dot-com bust wasn't really noticed by cash positive startups with clients in the real world. One person's collapse was another's Herman Miller and Ducati Monster sale.

Ideas that didn't scale past a comfortable income for the three people originally involved.

You also have real-time ETAs from an actual human local to the issue. Plenty of domains where your clients won't care if AWS is down for everyone.

What’s normal about bigotry? It’s brain damage.

There's some very, very rich irony in your comment.

Pattern matching is very much a defining trait for humans.

Sadly it's quite common in the human population.

> What’s normal about bigotry?

uh I don't know, try asking almost any person who was born pre-1960? Doubt they all had brain damage. Not that it was necessarily a good thing, but it was certainly 'normal' in many eras throughout time.

> try asking almost any person who was born pre-1960? Doubt they all had brain damage.

Actually, they probably did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

Leaded fuel existed for a few short decades. Bigotry and tribalism have existed since time immemorial.

Sure. But those born from the 1920s to the 1970s got a touch of brain damage, as a treat.

When you buy a book you’re entering into a well-trodden ToS which is absolutely broken by scanning and/or training.

That's empirically false. If it was true, there wouldn't be any ongoing litigation about whether it's allowed or not. It's a legal gray area because there specifically isn't a law that says whether you're allowed or not allowed to legally purchase a text and sell information about the text or facts from the text as a service.

In fact, there's exactly nothing illegal about me replacing what Anthropic is doing with books by me personally reading the books and doing the job of the AI with my meat body (unless I'm quoting the text in a way that's not fair use).

But that's not even what's at issue here. Anthropic is essentially banning the equivalent of people buying all the Stephen King books and using them to start a service that specifically makes books designed to replicate Stephen King writing. Claude being about to talk about Pet Sematary doesn't compete with the sale of Pet Sematary. An LLM trained on Stephen King books with the purpose of creating rip-off Stephen King books arguably does.

I mean look at the number of industry apologists in this thread alone.

Strikingly similar to the reaction around cancer clusters, including the witch doctors who still think “mass hysteria” is a thing.

It’s not always environmental, but it’s usually environmental and weird to not start with that assumption.

The students operating at this level are identical. There’s no practical difference between a 4.0 and a 4.5 GPA when comparing students from different schools.

Hofstadter's GEB is challenging. Francis Bacon's Popes are disturbing. Aphex Twin is irritating. None of these people hate their audience and they're all pushing boundaries.

Andy Kaufman was challenging, disturbing, and irritating in equal measure and he did hate his audience.

The assessor's office in my county provides data older than two weeks (iirc) as a few sql export dumps because that's how things were done back in the day.

Current information is gated behind a web2.0 view of their live data with severe limits. It wasn't designed to be scraped and is in fact hostile to the attempt. I'd imagine they're seeing rising hosting costs and that they'll keep rising.

I should reach out to them and see what this looks like from their angle. The local commercial real estate community is pretty tech-savvy and I'm wondering if we could all be a bit more proactive around data access.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on county vs state vs national data! I'd be very interested in any bandwidth usage or processing requirement info you might have recorded.