i need to ping ludicity for a pod

Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it

Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0

a heartwarming start to your day

Balaji’s free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately

Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.

lolol

looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything

there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren’t going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it’s a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn’t really have a compelling use case in its own right.

i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism

i saw TPOTs on Twitter going “shit I know him”

for those not following it’s https://mas.to/@zzt/

now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest white researcher lady

no no seventeen more of our guys jumped into the flaming pit after the first one, yep

but the NYT printed the scary version of the tale and they wouldn’t make shit up right

BRYAN JOHNSON: transhumanist body hacker, fucks self up and dies by 50

HUNTER BIDEN: subsists on crack and hookers, will live to 100

No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for “Ecosia” and cut’n’paste some text you had to hand?

Son speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.

SoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.

AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW

fuck

Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic’s favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it’s received wisdom.

this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

that’s right, NFTs

No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language “Verse” for “metaverse”.