It would be better to have a Reddit-style service where all the blogs are in one place.
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
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Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve blogged on and off since the late 90s when it was more “update the /writings.html file with a new addition every now and then” and I learned pretty early that I don’t actually care if anyone reads the stuff I like, I just like the act of writing. Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think…
None of you have your blog or anything linked in your profiles here. I'm not trying to be critical, I was just curious about what they'd look like
I don't anymore but heres mine from 2005 when I was 16
https://web.archive.org/web/20051231031003/http://www.lordse...
My even cooler self php made blog from 2013. Want cringe? Just visit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130816005929/http://www.paw-fo...
My blog was dead before dead blogs were cool.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#63There are two issues: - Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed. - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there. - Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by emai…
> Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed.
It's easier then ever. Shared hosting with cPanel has enabled anyone including my mother to host a website, blog or whatever.
A blog doesn't need to be an abstraction of JavaScript libraries and frameworks tucked behind Cloudflare. Just make a CRUD application and you have a blog. It yes requires knowledge but it's not hard. With LLMs now running the internet it's even easier than before.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#64I second the sentiment expressed. I used to blog often and cross post on Medium and Twitter. At peak, every third post I wrote went viral. But then I stopped because I had no return from it. I recently started writing on my blog again: https://shivekkhurana.com The main reason was to get back into the habit of writing, and by extension thinking. ChatGPT has weakened my thinking capacity.
What kind of return were you expecting? Exposure? Ad revenue? VIsibility? Those are not good reasons to maintain a blog… not today anyway.
My time was better spent building my startup.
The return from the startup was experience, friendships, skill-development and money.
I chose to trade my time for tangible returns.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
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And if that puts a nail in the coffin of LLMs then I'm all for it.
At scale? It'll just put a nail in the coffin of mass literacy, cognitive ability, emotional well-being, sheer sanity . The nonsensical will become even more normalized, while the reaction to someone e.g. doing maths will come to be: "ew, die"
Okay, so if you open up your site for free, there should be a way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window. That link can be obfuscated in some way too, perhaps. Also, it'd be very cool to split that payment back to the AI.
- You help the LLM by putting something up for free and pinging it upon publishing
- The LLM helps back by linking to you (hopefully)
- The user helps by paying you when they visit the paid version
- You help the LLM by splitting that payment back to it
optional: your free page can have reference links.. so other pages that helped you reach your final version can get a split of the payment as well. Perhaps the LLM can handle that part in "upstream distributions."
In fact, your reference links can lead to even more reference links further upstream when stepping back through the totality of references: the pyramid slice. Perhaps it should be capped at say 3 steps back.. that can be decided somewhere or the payments can be diluted the further back the focus.
So here's the crux - there should be a way for the user to decide how much they want/can pay you. A tipping culture can work. If you're broke, just don't tip anything or put it on hold. Big Business can be transparent on their payments and build up social capital by disclosing their "giving." There can be a level of transparency and privacy that can be tweaked for each situation.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#66Real blogging means a domain url nobody could even type by accident and a robots.txt telling everyone to get lost.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
At scale? It'll just put a nail in the coffin of mass literacy, cognitive ability, emotional well-being, sheer sanity . The nonsensical will become even more normalized, while the reaction to someone e.g. doing maths will come to be: "ew, die"
Okay, so if you open up your site for free, there should be a way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window. That link can be obfuscated in some way too, perhaps. Also, it'd be very cool to split that payment back to the AI. - You help the LLM by putting something up for free and pinging it upon publishing - The LLM helps back by linking to you (hopefully) - The u…
Oh, it absolutely can work! What you describe makes sense, I'm just not particularly optimistic that it will be allowed to happen at all. If it's a technological inevitability, what I expect to happen is for a self-defeating version of your model to be rolled out at a snail's pace, so that the people who depend on the old ways have the time to live their life, die, and be replaced by ones who'll be like "hey, this was tried last generation and didn't work" (because it wasn't actually tried). Meanwhile the people excited about it will have time to go through enough stages of grief in recursive iterations to forget what they were even excited about.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve blogged on and off since the late 90s when it was more “update the /writings.html file with a new addition every now and then” and I learned pretty early that I don’t actually care if anyone reads the stuff I like, I just like the act of writing. Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think…
None of you have your blog or anything linked in your profiles here. I'm not trying to be critical, I was just curious about what they'd look like
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#69Write for yourself, because you enjoy writing, and don't worry whether anyone reads your writing. If someone reads it and enjoys it, all the better. If not, your personal satisfaction is the reward.
Re: Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, so if you open up your site for free, there should be a way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window. That link can be obfuscated in some way too, perhaps. Also, it'd be very cool to split that payment back to the AI. - You help the LLM by putting something up for free and pinging it upon publishing - The LLM helps back by linking to you (hopefully) - The u…
Oh, it absolutely can work! What you describe makes sense, I'm just not particularly optimistic that it will be allowed to happen at all. If it's a technological inevitability, what I expect to happen is for a self-defeating version of your model to be rolled out at a snail's pace, so that the people who depend on the old ways have the time to live their life, die, and be replaced by ones who'll be like "hey, this wa…
> I'm just not particularly optimistic that it will be allowed to happen at all
Maybe, but in a recent comment of mine I alluded to a "long-tail" of AIs popping up. So there's a possibility in one of those. But if no one has any money to invent or create, or they feel there is a risk in sharing, it won't really work too well.
I bet to get to AGI, humans will have to actively help: it can't be a parasitic relationship. People are pessimistic about AI, but why can't it lead to free energy, patent obsolescence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNR_6aBQyDk), supernatural abilities and utopia instead? Wait those things will come, they will just remain with the special people in the "breakaway civilization," perhaps.