ZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

I just heard an "AI victory" story on the radio. 🙄

Guy gets into crypto in university. Also weed. Gets locked out of his crypto wallet. Tries unsuccessfully for a decade to remember his password.

Finally, he tries Claude. Feeds it old files from his university computer. Claude finds the password in an old crypto file. Dude recovers $400k.

Not by compressing twenty years of social engineering work on his old stuff with AI efficiency into a short time, nothing like that. Just looked in the old crypto file he gave it.

Moron. You tried for ten years, and you didn't think to check your old files from that time? You didn't need artificial intelligence, you needed *intelligence*. You could have done that yourself, Day One.

May 15 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadPatch ArcanaMay 15

@ZenHeathen This could have been solved with like four lines of bash scripting and a sufficiently broad filter on grep.

Man made a fool of himself and then went on the radio to make a bigger fool of himself.

Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈May 15
@patcharcana He could have done it *by hand* in probably an hour. Some people's brains respond differently to pot, maybe?
Show threadGallus LuchnosMay 15
@ZenHeathen @patcharcana Of course, the true winning move was probably not to get wrapped up in crypto.
Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈May 15
@GallusLuchnos @patcharcana ☝️👍
Show thread*|FNAME|*May 15

@ZenHeathen
Fun story: back in the day, at the peak of my post-smoking days, I’d get baked with a friend and we would have these amazing conversations where we’d solve the worlds problems and come up with these amazing, world-changing ideas that we’d forget by the next day. Finally, it occurred to us to write stuff down while we were ‘in the zone’, so we could save these brilliant ideas for when we were sober.

They were crap. (Well, the few that we could actually read were, who knows about the other ones?). 🤣

@patcharcana

Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈May 15

@crispius @patcharcana They did this on That '70s Show once, taped themselves thinking they were brilliant. Same result.

Even straight, though, I once spent a month trying to come up with the best way to roll over in bed and write something down without turning on a bright light, because my brain is busy at bedtime and oh, so brilliant, but I didn't want to disturb the process of going to sleep. Same result. By light of day, those great ideas I'd been having but forgetting were garbage.

Show threadZeke 🇨🇦May 15
@ZenHeathen @crispius @patcharcana
I love the feeling in the dead of night of having the solutions to the mysteries of life. It doesn’t matter that the written record is gibberish because nobody is listening anyway. Just enjoy the complete and utter contentment of the moment.
Show threadGeorge BMay 15

@crispius @ZenHeathen @patcharcana

Don't worry the others were the good ones

Show threadAinsley LowbeerMay 15

@ZenHeathen

He's got the money.

Show threadlemgandiMay 15

@ZenHeathen

Bonus idiot points for not using a password manager.

Show threadfan boy 🪭May 15

@ZenHeathen
Reminds me of game shows where it's just dumb luck.

> You picked a suitcase which has $2000, do you want to give that up to pick a different suitcase?

Show threadMatt Hardy 3.11 for WorkgroupsMay 15
@ZenHeathen day one it would have been worth $50k
Show threadAndreas NeustifterMay 15
@ZenHeathen @leo ...
Show threadMaya GranadeMay 15
@ZenHeathen it found the password I wrote on a post-it note and stuck to my monitor!