I’ve saved a bunch of lives. Give blood! It’s easy and makes you feel better about yourself.

Yep, I’ve worked with a LOT of war veterans. (American sheet metal factory)

You clearly want the economy to collapse. The bailout will actually be profitable for the government. /s

If LLMs fail and they invested: bailout

If LLMs succeed and they invested: rich

If LLMs fail and they passed: everyone else bailed out

If LLMs succeed and they passed: out of business

Therefore, the logical choice for a business is to invest in LLMs. The only mechanism to not do the stupid thing that everyone else is doing is gone.

I wonder how much that’ll be worth by next year.

Nothing will ever top “clean coal”.

He’s still checking it because we’re acting like it’s still the Twitter we knew.

If you can’t tell the difference in quality between slop and Oscar-winning art, then you’re making the AI bro argument for them.

Another great example of this being an economic rent problem.

Namecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, but never caught on because it’s >99% domain name squatters. There’s no mechanism to increase the cost of renewal to anything proportional to the value of the name, so they always renew for practically free. Consequently there’s no incentive for web browsers to support it.

A domain name is like a plot of land. Right now our choices are crony capitalist ICANN with eminent domain, anarcho-capitalist crypto DNS, or sailing the high seas on an .onion address.

Disney+, so we can poison your wife in exchange for slop videos.

That’s not how the legal system works anymore. Only the rich will be protected, the poor will be constrained.

Me too 😭

In context I think they mean morally

Surely FIFA fans won’t put up with an incredibly oppressive country

Americans are incapable of thinking that far ahead. They will literally scoff at any foresight, like the future is unknowable.

It wasn’t

They breed cows (and kill wild animals) just for you. More vegetarians = fewer dead animals.

A YouTube source implies no good sources exist.

This guy in the Linux threads: lol you folks are all nerds