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  • I can buy some of these guys actually shooting someone, but the majority of these wannabe digital lordlings are going to end up following one of the many Roman Emperors of the 3rd century and get killed and replaced by their Praetorians.

    i think it’ll turn out muchhh less dramatic. look up cryptobros, how many of them died at all, let alone this way? i only recall one ruja ignatova, bulgarian scammer whose disapperance might be connected to local mafia. but everyone else? mcaffee committed suicide, but that might be after he did his brain’s own weight in bath salts. for some of them their motherfuckery caught up with them and are in prison (sbf, do kwon) but most of them walk freely and probably don’t want to attract too much attention. what might happen, i guess, is that some of them will cheat one another out of money, status, influence, what have you, and the scammed ones will just slide into irrelevance. you know, to get a normal job, among normal people, and not raise suspicion



  • Unrelated, Musk wants to go into Fort Knox all of a sudden

    you know, one of better models of schizophrenia we have looks like this: take a rat and put them on a schedule of heroic doses of PCP. after some time, a pattern of symptoms that looks a lot like schizophrenia develops even when off PCP. unlike with amphetamine, this is not only positive symptoms (like delusions and hallucinations) but also negative and cognitive symptoms (like flat affect, lack of motivation, asociality, problems with memory and attention). PCP touches a lot of things, but ketamine touches at least some of the same things that matter in this case (NMDA receptor). this residual effect is easy to notice even by, and among, recreational users of this class of compounds

    richest man in the world grows schizo brain as a hobby, pillages government, threatens to destroy Lithuania



  • wait that’s it? he wants to “replace” states with (vr) groupchats on blockchain? it can’t be this stupid, you must be explaining this wrong (i know, i know, saying it’s just that makes it look way more sane than it is)

    The basic problem here is that Balaji is remarkably incurious about what states actually do and what they are for.

    libertarians are like house cats etc etc

    In practice, it’s a formula for letting all the wealthy elites within your territorial borders opt out of paying taxes and obeying laws. And he expects governments will be just fine with this because… innovation.

    this is some sovereign citizen type shit


  • Deep Research is the AI slop of academia — low-quality research-slop built for people that don’t really care about quality or substance, and it’s not immediately obvious who it’s for.

    it’s weird that Ed stops there, since answer almost writes itself. ludic had a bit about how in companies bigger than three guys in a shed, people who sign software contracts don’t use that software in any normal way;

    The idea of going into something knowing about it well enough to make sure the researcher didn’t fuck something up is kind of counter to the point of research itself.

    conversely, if you have no idea what are you doing, you won’t be able to tell if machine generated noise is in any way relevant or true

    The whole point of hiring a researcher is that you can rely on their research, that they’re doing work for you that would otherwise take you hours.

    but but, this lying machine can output something in minutes so this bullshit generator obviously makes human researchers obsolete. this is not for academia because it’s utterly unsuitable and google scholar beats it badly anyway; this is not for wide adoption because it’s nowhere near free tier; this is for idea guys who have enough money to shell out $whatever monthly subscription and prefer to set a couple hundred of dollars on fire instead of hiring a researcher/scientist/contractor. especially keeping in mind that contractor might tell them something they don’t want to hear, but this lmgtfy x lying box (but worse, because it pulls lots of seo spam) won’t

    OpenAI’s next big thing is the ability to generate a report that you would likely not be able to use in any meaningful way anywhere, because while it can browse the web and find things and write a report, it sources things based on what it thinks can confirm its arguments rather than making sure the source material is valid or respectable.

    e: this is also insidious and potent attack surface marketing opportunity against clueless monied people who trust these slop machines for some reason. and it might be exploitable by tuning seo just right