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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 20 hours ago

Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah: Not So Different

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  • news accompanied by another crypto scam
  • price faked via >"$10b" of dubious stablecoin pseudodollars created out of thin air
  • no liquidity, trading super thin (even more pumpable)
  • public still not buying in
  • (yet)
  • lol

nothing has changed in my last few posts on the subject https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is

out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder if there’s any analysis to link NFTs and blockchain boosters back to the AI pushers as well?

literally the same VCs

compute power to some extent, or repurposing wired-up crypto mining data centres

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago

pivot to ai has a new beg post, but mostly i wanna show off Sad Robot In Snow:

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

N-rays were discovered in 1903, clearly it's just early days

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nah, people have loved travel stories for centuries. The markety fakeness to the point of straight up synthesis is the problem.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you'll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

next up: "In The Barn" as first effective altruist text

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

"which stereotypes?"
"oh, you know the ones"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

that's Beff too

the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

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featuring nobody's favourite e/acc bro, BasedBeffJezos

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/01/does-ai-startup-extropic-actually-do-anything/

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https://nonesense.substack.com/p/lesswrong-house-style

Given that they are imbeciles given, occasionally, to dangerous ideas, I think it’s worth taking a moment now and then to beat them up. This is another such moment.

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