Nothing.

I just work here.

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@zorro70782834 @HKRaz69 @Letrix100 @IOHK_Charles I guess I just share his position and sentiment. Sold closer to the top, still have faith in the project, but it's hard not to be cynical. A product describing itself as a stablecoin with yield based on treasuries and lending... we've seen this game before.. many times.

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@rodmanmaffet @colossus_cap Lol, oh there'll be ample buyers, your government will make sure of it 👌

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@zorro70782834 @HKRaz69 @Letrix100 @IOHK_Charles Probably because of still holding out some hope for the project in the long term, people shouldn't be crucified for asking legitimate questions.

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@Thinkseeker1 If your party isn't Cloud and Barrett only renamed to Dick/Tree with a full level 99 grind before leaving the first reactor, did you even start the game?

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@FunkPasta Wait until you hear what they actually do in the game.

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@thugmajesty7 That feel when you tracked but what you tracked was 2800 calories per day and your training was 2 sets of dumbbell curls to mild exertion.

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@typesfast It's all uncapturable paper gains, Elon's stock is locked until deep into 2027 and SpaceX will be deeply lower than it is now.

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@RazerxpGaming @kevinofsolmira It's way better than 13/15 but that's just like, my opinion, man.

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@nokotan8699 @ShitpostRock2 The thing with the needler is it's ammo count is already the spikes sticking out of the back.

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

Woah what a line.

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@Strife212 Perhaps that speed is itself a necessary component of consciousness.

[˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ @lapislagoons]

if you meet someone later in life who you want to be with long term, you have to make a point to make teenager style memories with them

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

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@IhaveUneed @tuuu28283 I gotta take notes on the engagement farming here.

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@madaomoshiroi Half of this video is just failing to recognize the concept of a homophone.

[Eric Wall @ercwl]

i'm finding it increasingly difficult to participate in modern discourse to the point that i don't really know what to do or how to talk to people

over the past few years, i've seen the capabilities of ai continue to improve, and all the goalposts of what ai should/shouldn't be able to do constantly shift

it's completely obvious that we've discovered a way for machines to learn things. they're now at the capabilities in math and coding where they outcompete most humans on most task.

it should be clear to you that the fundamental barriers that you thought would prevent ai from getting better haven't actually prevented ai from getting better.

it was only a year ago that you said that their capabilities would flatline because we're running out of training data. that sentiment peaked around september last year, and for all the lamentations about data walls or efficient compute frontiers, new paradigms (in RL and others) *have worked*

machines continue to get better. we don't know where they'll stop. and the methods by which they think (cot, scratch pads, python tools) which have barely existed nanoseconds on the cosmic calendar, already *do* show forms of reasoning that allow them to reach impressive conclusions

if we don't agree about this, that machines will continue to learn, and we'll continue to explore paradigms for them in which to think, and that it is atleast quite likely that they'll continue to get better, i already don't know how to converse with you

if you still observe this from a "oh the statistical parrot machine spat out a token in a sequence that was likely, wow, such reasoning!" point of view, i already don't know how to converse with you

and here's where things get more complicated

if you're with me this far, it should be reasonable to describe our current world as one where a new form of possibly superior intelligence is arriving and is steadily improving

now, where things get completely bizarre for me is where *you* think that your opinions of what this new form of intelligence can and cannot do matter or are relevant. and this bleeds into topics like quantum and everything else for me

from my point of view, you are now a chimpanzee on planet earth, studying the arrival of "humans"

you climb up every tree on earth and jump down from it, and you establish that gravity seems to work equally on all surfaces of the earth, and from this experiment you establish that regardless of how smart this new "human" is, it will not be possible for it to master space travel.

because *you* understand gravity

if you don't approach the world from a point of view that you don't actually know anything about what an intelligence smarter than you is capable or not capable of doing, i already don't know hot to converse with you

and i'm not talking about a leap in intelligence that requires something impossible that has never happened in history before. i'm just talking about the difference in intelligence between chimpanzees and humans. which has happened before. and led to space travel.

the only thing that was required for this superior form of intelligence to evolve on the planet (from molecules to *us*) was for a rock (earth) to get hit by an ice ball and then spin around the sun a bunch of times. the ingredients that produce intelligence are not complex, they only require iterations and feedback from the universe

and it appears that this exact process is now happening in machines which do not require the thousand-year process of evolution, because we have invented a way for rocks to think in silicon, and the substrate of intelligence (the matter on which it runs) have shifted to something where it's far more malleable and the iterations are much faster

to me, all of these things are rather simple, easily observable phenomena. they're all ongoing and they're real.

but in all conversations, basically no matter where i look, everyone is still stuck in a "but hoomans can't do space travel because muh gravity"-type of reasoning and are incapable of embracing the very realistic prospects that all our models are quite likely to soon be broken

i tire of the conversation, and find that i do not have much to add to what you are currently talking about, because it appears that we are so diametrically opposed from each other in our understanding of what is happening in the world that we can not begin to have a useful exchange on current topics

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@JimPark55175291 @newstart_2024 So you've convinced yourself that wine is a health supplement based on all evidence to the contrary and you don't even get the fun part? I think the guy getting stoned has you beat.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

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@angrycryptoshow Night getting pretty close to the point I'd be willing to start DCA'ing at 2.7c. I'd expect closer to 2c by October but who knows.