So we've got bots automatically saying they're not bots, whilst humans still have to use their finite time on this world to manually confirm they are alive? Ok.
Disclaimer: Im a cofounder, we focus critical spaces with AI. Also i was the feature request for claude code hooks.
But my bet - we will not deploy a single agent into any real environment without deterministic guarantees. Hooks are a means...
Browserbase with hooks would be really powerful, governance beyond RBAC (but of course enabling relevant guardrailing as well - "does agent have permission to access this sharepoint right now, within this context, to conduct action x?").
I would love to meet with you actually, my shop cares intimately about agent verification and governance. Soon to release the tool I originally designed for claude code hooks.
Can I suggest that you ignore all the criticism about the pricing on this thread and immediately find a sales rep or SE that has worked at an early stage DB company and begin cold calling high end customers with thousands of GPUs.
B2B deals at 200-300k+ are your best bet at selling this IMO.
The vast majority of new deposits are leveraging different technology to enrich yields or extract it from challenging environments. Seems like a common problem for resource extraction that gets solved with time and investment.
One of the biggest differences is that oil is all _primarily_ the same stuff and the difficulty is pulling out impurities. This means it can be quite cost effective to ship it where it needs to go to be processed. Crude oil is considered sour for example if it contains 1-2% sulfur.
Ores on the other hand are usually mostly not the actual mineral you're looking for, and you're lucky if you're hitting double digit percentage concentrations, Lithium being "high concentration" if you're reaching 6%. This means that you ideally need to be doing most of (and usually all) of the processing at or very near the mine. One of the only minerals we regularly ship raw ore of is iron, since it tends to be in relatively high concentrations. Some Lithium mines might ship some ore but this is usually only done as an initial source of revenue while the processing is being built.
The end result of this is that it's harder to take advantage of economies of scale where you can have a handful of processing facilities working on a very specific type of ore.
So all of that Australian lithium being shipped off to China, is it being mostly processed in Australia first, or is most of the processing done in China, or something half half?
The main reason America develops great oil tech and not lithium tech vs China is that the USA has lots of oil, while China doesn’t.
A lot of it is sent as partially processed ore, but two major reasons for that are:
1) a lot of these mines are very new and
2) Australia in particular is _very bad_ at secondary industries. We have a long history of just sending our minerals and raw food ingredients overseas to be processed and are lacking in expertise.
Its not that different from oil. Oil has the same different from different sources requiring different refining. But oil is an industry is about 100-1000x bigger. Lithium until just a few years ago was a absolutely tiny industry.
So in oil its very worth it to build the right refining capacity for large resources and there are tons and tons of experienced people to do those things.
You still need downlinks with this. You could have some base stations run by amateurs, but that paints a target on their backs in a similar way running a Tor node already does.
As with Sealand/HavenCo and international waters/micronations more broadly. Even if no country with guns chooses to take direct action, it takes very little--if they care enough--to cut off supplies and any meaningful communications.
Only 11-year-old Libertarians think this way. "Circumventing sovereignty" is the surest way to destruction. Anyone who stands outside the protection of a legitimate sovereign power will be immediately destroyed by a real country. If you fly your shit out in space and declare your satellites to be independent of any flag, I am sure that they will all promptly disappear due to mysterious causes. Likewise, if you believe that you will simply move to a remote floating platform where you declare independence, you will soon discover what the U.S. Navy is for.
Far from just 11-year old libertarians - virtually all Americans don't understand (or acknowledge the existence of) our empire. They think Epstein's private island really was private.
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