Billy
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My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
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OK, I'm known to be a crypto bear (& yes, having fun staying poor etc). But if it's just a load of people YOLO-ing money - even if they are doing so in a personally unwise way - it's not a systemic issue really (tho encourages criminality etc). Banks lending against crypto collateral is different...
Keep climbing higher and higher
Contagian
You can take it or leave it
Contagion
But you'd better believe it
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Contagian
You can take it or leave it
Contagion
But you'd better believe it
on.ft.com/4oiGrCD
JPMorgan explores lending against clients’ crypto holdings
Bank’s chief Jamie Dimon, who once branded bitcoin a ‘fraud’, has moderated his tone
on.ft.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
OK, I'm known to be a crypto bear (& yes, having fun staying poor etc). But if it's just a load of people YOLO-ing money - even if they are doing so in a personally unwise way - it's not a systemic issue really (tho encourages criminality etc). Banks lending against crypto collateral is different...
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The distance between Elon Musk being the richest person in the world and Elon Musk being in prison for an obvious Theranos-style scam that kills its victims is the distance between the world we live under and the world we have on paper
For comparison when Bloomberg published video this week of a Tesla in fraudulent Full Self-Driving Mode blasting full speed into stopped traffic to kill a woman who was wearing a safety vest, it only shaved like 12 bucks off the share price www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
A Fatal Tesla Crash Shows the Limits of Full Self-Driving
As Elon Musk touts robotaxis in Austin, federal regulators are investigating whether Tesla’s system is dangerous even with a human behind the wheel.
www.bloomberg.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The distance between Elon Musk being the richest person in the world and Elon Musk being in prison for an obvious Theranos-style scam that kills its victims is the distance between the world we live under and the world we have on paper
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I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.
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This definition may govern what legal will allow you to call corrupt in a legacy publication in order to be maximally careful to avoid getting sued but journalists would do well to remember that not all rules imposed on us at work are actually about truth-seeking
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This definition may govern what legal will allow you to call corrupt in a legacy publication in order to be maximally careful to avoid getting sued but journalists would do well to remember that not all rules imposed on us at work are actually about truth-seeking
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Twitter/X is down, SpaceX rockets are exploding, Tesla sales are plummeting. If the world had treated Musk like the charlatan he is we might not be in this mess
March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Twitter/X is down, SpaceX rockets are exploding, Tesla sales are plummeting. If the world had treated Musk like the charlatan he is we might not be in this mess
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There are other people in the world: defector.com/there-are-ot...
There Are Other People In The World | Defector
Pay attention to the things around you! Be aware of the space you take up, and the space other people take up, and when those two things might come into conflict!
defector.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There are other people in the world: defector.com/there-are-ot...
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We didn't, and he was wrong, and his proscription would have immiserated many millions of people, which should prompt a serious rethinking of what exactly he got wrong, but won't, because this is just a game to him
October 1, 2024 at 1:03 PM
We didn't, and he was wrong, and his proscription would have immiserated many millions of people, which should prompt a serious rethinking of what exactly he got wrong, but won't, because this is just a game to him