nixCraft 🐧Genie: I'll give you ten billion dollars if you can spend one billion in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.
Data Scientist: Can I train gen AI models from scratch on NVIDIA hardware?
Genie: There are 4 rules.
Canageek@nixCraft That honestly doesn't seem that hard. Houses around here go for over a million each, I'd just phone up a real estate agent and buy all the houses on the market...then sell them below cost and crash the market as soon as I'm allowed.
Oliver D. Reithmaier
j@odr_k4tana @Canageek @nixCraft
Well Vonovia (largest company for housing in Germany) has a worth of 23 Billion dollars. So just buy some smaller real estate companies.
The difficulty would be to have the buying process done in one month.
And honestly: buying houses / real estate companies is not what I would understand as "spending". That's investing. Otherwise you could also just buy some stocks.
I think the challenge is to spend it on things which are relatively worthless after buying.
@odr_k4tana @nixCraft If you have a Billion dollars you could just offer twice the going rate for them.
Plus it is only a million a house near me, in the sticks, in a decent city they will be far, FAR more than that, so you'd have to buy far less.
Natalie@Canageek @nixCraft I had the same thought. a cash offer closes in less than three weeks in Washington state so I have three days to find a team of lawyers who can manage 500 real estate transactions. seems easy since I can pay them whatever rate they ask. Problem needs to be updated to take Seattle into account, lol
@gnat @nixCraft It's easier since I don't care about the houses, They are just a sacrifice to get the 10 billion. So I can go a lot farther cuz I don't care if I'm getting ripped off, there could just be swamp land for all I care. So I can wave all inspections and not even bother getting lawyers to make sure that I'm not getting ripped off, I just phone up every real estate agent in the city and say I will pay cash for any properties you can bring me by the end of the week.
Albirew (backup account)@nixCraft
Data Scientist: Can I run all my company's servers on AWS?
Genie: There are 5 rules.
Ian@nixCraft "I purchased an over-valuated startup with no revenue model."
Genie: "I said no throwing it away!"
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AMS@jezebelkat @nixCraft That's not gambling. That's philanthropy.
Luigi Rosa 
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Me: can I buy licenses for an XDR for my company with all the options activated?
Genie: There are 6 rules.
Benjamin E.@nixCraft on crée une entreprise, on se vend à soit même 1 000 000 d'action à 1000€ ?
Advanced Persistent Teapot
Kaito@nixCraft but can I invest it in crypto?
@nixCraft but can I VC fund a startup?
fhekland@nixCraft I'd say it was already covered by all three existing rules 😂
Alex Lohr (RIP Natenom)@nixCraft I think that's included in "not throwing it away"...
Beardyneedle@nixCraft brewster's millions was a great film ;)
Sylvain"Great! Always wanted to get into retro console gaming!"
"Fine... here are your 10 billions."
Joshua Doll 🤷♂️@nixCraft you couldn't make a movie like Brewster's Millions today
Michael BuschVC: I give an "AI" company a billion dollars to not release any software.
The genie rescinds the offer until it can figure out different rules.
Via @davidgerard : https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
Voline@michael_w_busch @nixCraft @davidgerard
$2 billion for nothing? This guy already has super intelligence.
$2 billion for nothing? This guy already has super intelligence.
Pseudo NymHeard the same joke, but with AWS services.
bluestarultor@nixCraft I mean "burning it" should have been a rule anyway. XD
Anke@bluestarultor @nixCraft To be fair, I believe getting a billion in cash from your bank might be tricky.
@Anke Oh, no, "burning it" in this case figuratively by buying hardware to set the WORLD on fire for something with no return on investment.
@bluestarultor hm. Now I wonder if buying stocks counts as "spending"
@Anke Oof, we want to talk about stocks, in the US? Technically yes. One of the ways rich people hide their money is by putting it all in stocks and then using their shares as collateral on loans, which are considered a liability. So they end up with the same amount of cash on hand in the end, but it's been laundered through 2 steps so it doesn't count for tax purposes.
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@nixCraft there's those Boeing planes that China no longer wants 🤔
rjohnsonmn ❌👑@nixCraft Ha ha, but this is an easy one! I’d buy the Minnesota Twins team. The Pohlads are selling them for $1.7 billion, pretty sure I could give them $1 billion first as a down payment and the remaining $700 million a month later.
@nixCraft A dozen or so rockets?
Kevin Karhan 
@nixCraft I could do that easily with those rules...
- I'll gladly show them.
In fact, I could even do so in a single day!