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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • holy fuck what an embarrassing post

    You’re giving “David,” and I doubt very much you’re personally familiar with him, credit where it isn’t due.

    hey “David”, this fucking weirdo goldbug gold stockpiling enthusiast says we don’t know you

    anyway, I had to dig through way too many of your unending awful posts (please log the fuck off) to find out that the reason why you’re in here posting about gold is because you’re into the other thing weirdo ancaps love:

    Of course, BitCoin is doing better than ever, and it will continue to rise while Russia is under sanctions and drives demand.

    Unless you do what they call a “rookie move” and don’t keep a personal wallet.

    so how about you fuck off out of buttcoin






  • once upon a time a guy named paully sucked at lisp, but most people couldn’t tell so they figured he must be good at it

    then he made a website that was an ugly orange color, and everyone assumed it was ugly on purpose even though every web site paully makes is ugly and barely functions under load

    then paully implemented moderation structures on the orange site that both cloak and enable discrimination and bullying, and everyone figured that couldn’t be correct because the orange site said it had good moderation

    and now paully’s godawful startup accelerator is run by openly fascist little freaks and all it does anymore is AI, but the orange site says it’s prestigious and not at all a multi-layered affinity grift

    the moral of the story is fuck paul graham









  • I think you’re absolutely correct, and this feels to me like the only reason why we’re seeing some of the bizarre shit we’ve been keeping an eye on:

    • several old forums, all of which are unique high-quality data sources, are being polluted by their own admins with backdated LLM-generated answers. this destroys that forum as a trustworthy data source and removes it as competition for the LLM that already scraped the forum — and, as a bonus, it also makes training a future LLM on that data source utterly impractical without risking model collapse.
    • Wikipedia refuses to compromise on quality in general, so it’s under increasing political pressure to change. the game here is to shut down or pollute the original data source by any means necessary, so that the only way to access that data becomes an LLM. the people behind the AI startups are experts at creating monopolies, and shutting down a world-class data source like Wikipedia or making it otherwise unusable would guarantee a monopoly position for them.