Article note: “The reason websites don’t make their results easy to scrape and compare is that they want to cheat you. They want you to buy something more expensive and/or inferior than the best match for your desire. There is no way for an AI agent to know when a website is lying to it, and the websites that lie the most are incentivized to have the best, highest-grade automation hooks for an AI agent to connect to (just as spammers have the best, most pristine anti-spam incidia, from DKIM to SPF to DMARC records).”

Today’s links

AI’s pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world.

Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

Object permanence: Galaksija, TSA shock-wand, Reverse-centaur apocalypse.

Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.

Recent appearances: Where I’ve been.

Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Colophon: All the rest.

AI’s

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