I just can’t comprehend why Andrej Karpathy seemingly has deleted his tweet about ‘small fraction of money’ payment feature.
Modern ‘online’ services required us to pay a large amount of ‘values’, for a service package that may be used only once, or a little bit return of value of it. Let say 1/100 per package value. Pay as you go service is here, but small fraction payment for single action is basically none.
we used to be using small penny, and just doing no brainer payment for something might be simple. The great thing about small fraction of penny is there is no paywall that fuzling us with registration.
We need to pay large amount of price to use a service. We pay $100 to get access for photo editor we may utilize once. We paid $10 for a paywalled article, subscribing a month package for a media platform that their other articles might less interest us. And so on.
in AI and LLM and image generation era, cost of tokenization, bring us a feeling that regular calculating ordinary numbers is way so cheaper. We might asked, in this world where cost of calculating a value much less effortless, implementing technology to help us record and calculate and be the bridge to implement ‘pay as much as you need’ might not be too much to asked.
I remembered Karpathy tweeted; we need some kind of this payment feature, to pay a little amount of value, sharing it to something that truly matters to us, or even we think we love it, and want to appreciate them for a little bit.
Maybe we want to ‘sawer’ –pay a little amount of money– the author that we find their quotes is meaningful to us. Maybe a photographer that their photo is so stunning and touching.
We have seen maybe this kind of small acts and small portion of value had already translated into some feature in some platforms. We can give a creator a diamond or flower emoticon on Tiktok or Snackvideos. Then the creator can aggregate and convert them into real money. This idea is worked.
But I constantly thinking how to implement this to be more platform agnostic, and less fuzling. So we able to pay anything that we think deserves.
And also, maybe we can sell something and get paid by this a little bit portion of values. What kind of values is might be more ‘precise’.
Back to my main question. Why Andrej Karpathy deleted them? Or turned out it’s only me that failed to search and found the related tweet?
Is this idea dumb enough so the Karpathy found this is too embarrassing? Hard to implement, near utopia to implement, idk.
Or, turned out this issue is a million dollar Business, needed to be buried for now, and some limited group has already develop this quietly(?).
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