I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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  • I’m using the term a bit loosely to mean “libertarian citadel except with techies”. Though I think the phrase is technically supposed to mean a nation that starts out as an online community.

    Anyway for some reason these weirdos all have this idea that if it wasn’t for all those pesky regulations and people they could usher in a glorious new sci-fi and/or cryptocurrency society. Like look at this example: this B-list CEO in the apartment rental business thinks he’ll be the ruler of a fiefdom that brings about AGI, Quantum Computing, a nuclear energy revolution, bladerunner style flying cars, and sci-fi materials. It’s delusional; or at best grift.

    The canonical example of network state is Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School. He owns(?) a building in Forest City, Malaysia (or as he calls it: an island in an undisclosed location off the coast of Singapore). But in a broad sense it’s useful to consider everything from Sidewalk Labs to California Forever to the M.S. Satoshi as thematically in the same sort of ballpark.






  • Edit: But also - why do AI scrapers request pages that show differences between versions of wiki pages (or perform other similarly complex requests)? What’s the point of that anyway?

    This is just naive web crawling: Crawl a page, extract all the links, then crawl all the links and repeat.

    Any crawler that doesn’t know what their doing and doesn’t respect robots but wants to crawl an entire domain will end up following these sorts of links naturally. It has no sense that the requests are “complex”, just that it’s fetching a URL with a few more query parameters than it started at.

    The article even alludes to how to take advantage of this with it’s “trap the bots in a maze of fake pages” suggestion. Even crawlers that know what they’re doing will sometimes struggle with infinite URL spaces.