bitofhope

joined 1 year ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

That works for general decision making. The reason I'm asking for input is that there might be risks or opportunities involved that I haven't fully considered. There are also people here who have more experience interacting with the AI alarmists' target audience and might be able to comment on their experiences or suggest strategies and talking points.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the technobabble generator I built for an IRC bot years ago. Seems that it still works:

The developer will pipe the log before they frobnicate the USB. Now we execute the logs and fork the BSOD. Why don't you populate the terminal unless you define the protocol. You just untar the octals lest they undo the ECC RAM. Our only option is to kill -9 the more magic or compile the patch. The developer will convert the tarball before you rebase the virtualization. Let us mask the compilation and then WONTFIX the wetware. Now rebase the ECC RAM or you might have to fix the Layer 4.

I wonder if I should update it with more ML/FP buzzwords.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

How about this row?

  • owned by a huge corporation
  • what if everything was finance (maybe a stretch?)
  • ads!
  • ~~doesn't actually work~~ they have legs now
  • everything is a subscription
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Trading stocks has been very successfully done by computers for ages now, yet somehow investment bankers still exist.

I'm not holding my breath for the capitalist class to automate themselves away.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

My brother in Dawkins, you literally are biology.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Watch me bring them something unnecessarily overcomplicated that boosts their ego to win all of the money.

A micropayment platform designed to integrate with long form textual content. The subscribers will be able to vote with their wallets on the topic they wish the CONTENT_CREATOR to cover.

But there's a game theoretic twist. The final price of each vote will be discounted based on the share of votes it received, so if you vote for the winning option, your votes will end up costing less. This encourages strategic voting based on what would be the most interesting topic to the largest share of subscribers, incentivizing subscribers to maximize for total utility instead of just their own interests.

Additionally, below a certain threshold of share the votes will be free of charge. This is to encourage heterodox views and foster engagement with unconventional interests that would otherwise be risky to vote for.

The cutoff for the free Complimentary Contrarian's Votes will be determined by a prediction market running in parallel with the vote.

The winning votes will become investments into the post, binding the CONTENT_EXCRECATOR to CREATE_THE_CONTENT and based on some configurable metric (post score, ad revenue etc.) the investment will accrue dividends, which the subscriber can cash out to a charitable organization. However, this can only be done once per publication per subscriber, meaning the subscriber should wait for the investment to accumulate before cashing in. A global high score will show the subscribers who have cashed in the largest amount in donations and their voting power will be increased in proportion to their score.

I want 15% equity and a public live stream session of the AI box game with Yud where I roleplay as the shittalking French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

At least the people on Shark Tank sometimes bring in cool or entertaining prototypes. Your version would be just slide decks of fintech, vaporware and things that already exist but with a subscription model slapped on.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe this person is a time traveler from a century ago when libertarianism mainly meant anarchism and similar decentralist leftist ideologies.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Just being diligent about replication

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same, I can seldom tell if people are talking of the SSC anagram namesake guy or the other guy, and usually don't want to either. If it's the Dilbert guy I can usually tell by the context. And I worry there might be one or more notable treacles with the last name Scott to make it even more confusing.

Personally, I have better things to keep track of and you probably have as well.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

The 8088 saga is a serial escalation in mindblowing. I'm still working on the Bad Apple!! post (some scope creep happened) but 8088 domination is one of the crowning moments of win within that history as well.

The IBM PC is a neat machine and it's not its fault it has been holding back the IT industry to this day.

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