Sidenote: AFAIK, even with this pardon, Ulbricht still ended up spending more time in prison than if he took a plea deal he was reportedly offered:

He was offered a plea deal, which would have likely given him a decade-long sentence, with the ability to get out early on good behavior. Worst-case scenario, he would have spent five years in a medium-security prison and been freed.

Gotta say, this whole situation’s reminding me of SBF - both of them thought they could outsmart the Feds, and both received much harsher sentences than rich white collar criminals usually get as a result.

Somehow, Ross Ulbricht returned

If we did start apportioning political power to whoever can execute a basic strategy while clicking as fast as possible I think we’d all be bowing down to God-Emperor Flash or something.

Misread that and thought the joke was about bowing down to people who are good with Adobe Flash.

Admittedly, being good with Adobe Flash would be more impressive than being good at a video game - at the bare minimum, it implies you’ve got some art skills.

Also, a reminder that Musk was a junior programmer on two of the worst Sega CD games.

Which two? I already knew his accomplishments are pure garbage, I just wanna know which games he fouled with his programming “prowess”.

I suppose they could up with a scheme where a portion of the $$ from BTC sales to the Treasury get used to buy TrumpCoin or whatever. But that requires him to trust BitCoin bros. Is that plausible?

Depends if he sees BTC bros as easy marks - and by my guess, he probably does.

Shit’s so diseased its a sequel to Tuskegee. They cooked this cack with CIA-grade crack.

(I have no rational way to respond to this - I’m just trying some Dracula Flow-type shit and hoping it lands.)

Man wrote nearly 5k words of pure unfiltered cap:

I’m not sure how someone can read all this without capping themselves. We could sneer this all fucking day.

Far as I can tell, the only real benefit here is significant energy savings, which would take LLMs from “useless waste of a shitload of power” to “useless waste of power”.

Starting off with a weapons-grade sneer: How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI

Found a couple QRTs cooking the guy which caught my attention:

https://twitter.com/denimneverdies/status/1872364569743786286

https://twitter.com/TheWapplehouse/status/1873915404529406462

It took me a good minute or so to realise this was satire. Nice find.

I mean, at least it’s not some stupid vaguery that armchair dullards will argue in circles forever about word meanings and minor technicalities that have nothing to do with AI and everything to do with their own malformed views of reality and humans behavior.

They’re called “programmers”. They think it makes them sound smart.

Well-known YouTuber Markiplier also went off on Honey back in 2019, and needless to say he felt pretty vindicated:

I knew AI bros were lazy fucks but Jesus Christ

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Put this up about 20 minutes late, so I’m starting off by saying Honey got exposed

In other news, Character.AI has ended up in the news again for allowing school shooter chatbots to flourish on its platform.

You want my off-the-cuff take, this is definitely gonna fuck c.ai’s image even further, and could potentially leave them wide open to a lawsuit.

On a wider front, this is likely gonna give AI another black eye, and push us one step further to the utter destruction of AI as a concept I predicted a couple months ago.

I’m a senior software engineer

Good. Thanks for telling us your opinion’s worthless.

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