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[–] 416 points 10 months ago (23 children)

If this actually worked, the rich wouldn't be trying to sell AI to the poor. They'd keep it to themselves.

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  • [–] 119 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    When there's a gold rush, don't find gold, sell the tools

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  • [–] 72 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Your comment mentions NVIDIA. I'd like to invest $500000 into your comment. I only request that you immediately also invest the same exact quantity into my comment.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    That's not how it works and you know it.

    Here, they invest in my comment and pay for it with stocks of their comment, then I loan you money to buy their comment backed by my new position in their comment.

    We all then announce this massive growth in our comments, say AI at the end and line goes up, we all make loads.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you to coming to our annual shareholder meeting. We welcome all human and AI shareholders.

    This year, we've seen unprecedented growth in the number of times we've said "AI" on stage, largely driven by our investments in AI and our desire to talk about AI.

    In Q3 alone, our CEO said "AI" over 400 times, contributing to explosive stock value growth.

    Our Q4 was looking to be slowed down after our CEO lost his voice, limiting his ability to say "AI" a lot, but thanks to our AI capabilities, we used AI to generate an AI voice and AI video of our CEO saying "AI." Thanks to AI, we've finished the year with a valuation 300x the start, according to our AI analyst.

    Obstacles to continued growth include all words in the English language other than "AI." Also, after saying "AI" enough, "AI" stops sounding like a word anymore. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AAAAIIIIII. That's really weird. You know, that's another advantage of AI presenters. They can say "AI" so many times and just keep going. It doesn't affect them.

    In the next year, our AI R&D efforts are focused on seeing if more voices saying "AI" at once has a larger impact on stock price. We've created an AI chorus to chant "AI" at our next presentation and are very excited to see the results.

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  • [–] 79 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It’s classic MLM dynamics

    • The money makes itself! It’s impossible to not make money with this system!
    • You get to be the boss!
    • If you’re not making money, you must be doing it wrong — my (paid) training course can help
    • Heaps of unsold product rotting in garage/warehouse
    • Religious-coded language
    • Requires infinite growth to stay profitable for all current players
    • FOMO, “getting in on the ground floor”
    • Mid-levels taking huge financial risks to onboard more down-levels
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  • [–] 127 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The bit about losing $400k due to a failed logic sounds plausible.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    The part that was the tell was that it worked on first try.

    Okay, in which way? Did the person just run the first attempt with all their wallet info in production?

    Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid… I hope.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    run the first attempt with all their wallet info in production? Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid

    Oh the things I have seen cryptobros on twitter do, you would not believe

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The first three drafts of my favourite test program (a program to drive servos to point a heliostat mirror at mirrorLattitude, mirrorLongitude, mirrorAltitude in altitude and azimuth to direct the reflected ray at targetLattitude, targetLongitude, targetAltitude) wouldn't run.

    It's very rare for any AI to use real modules for the language (even when I say "please use library modules that exist in CPAN") and they nearly never know how to reflect a ray

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    Was going to say, what will happen next month is he will be broke.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    So he invented a gambling robot that is wrong sometimes?

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The losing 400k is the only realistic part of this.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    So many people are never going to read that last line.

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