Remove the profit motive of gambling is prohibition, what???

Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: “What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?”

A worldview where one’s worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the lunar new year.

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they’ve finally burnt out all the good will.

We’ve been begging people for 17 years to understand that reality matters.

Crosslinking SRD: reddit.com/…/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_to…

Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating.

Hank Green has been one of my barometers for the moderate opinion and he’s sounding worryingly like Zitron in his last video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TpWitfxPk

The attention black hole around nvidia and AI is so insane, I guess it’s because there’s everyone knows there’s no next thing to jump onto.

if there isn’t, I’m calling it Muskware.

The truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.

My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.