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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • As I said: not surprised.

    Shootings in a war zone, who would investigate?

    There are places in the world where the law breaks down. You wouldn’t even have to go to a war zone for that: If the super rich abducted some homeless people who would notice? Especially if it’s in a poor country with already corrupt police.

    Hell even in “first world” countries the poorest are nearly unprotected.


  • Humans tend to push boundaries. For the super rich there are nearly no boundaries set. Breaking most laws only costs money, which doesn’t scale with the wealth of the culprit.

    Drugs, legal girls, legal entertainment gets probably boring if you have it all the time. So they get more depraved.

    I would not be surprised if some of them torture, kill and enslave people just for kicks




  • Blockchain solves a specific problem: safe transactions without a trusted authority.

    It has a lot of downsides to solve this problem without a trusted authority, so in any case where you can use a trusted authority (for example a central server) it’s much better to use that instead of a blockchain.

    So everyone who added blockchains to their projects gained all the downsides while never having the problem it was meant to solve in the first place.

    AIs, and I assume you meant LLMs with that, are a different breed. LLMs are new: never before could a computer handle natural language to such a degree.

    Problem is, that it’s still new. So no one knows what the “killer applications” are or what monetization should look like, or what the laws about it will be.

    People just throw every against the wall and see what sticks… And hope for AGI/ASI and to be on the side that rides that nearly infinite potential to the moon.

    Or, you know, crash and burn in case AI reaches a wall/diminishing returns/systemic problems that can’t be fixed.

    We will see.