I haven’t seen qualifications this relevant and high-quality since “architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.”

I think that he might share a social media manager with Jordan “please stop me from posting” Peterson.

I think that people have a really hard time conceptualizing compound interest rates. $10,010 invested with bit connect at their claimed rates would be $3.1 million after 12 months. But you get your “capital back” after 4 months?

The interminable length has got to have started out as a gullibility filter before ending up as an unspoken imperative to be taken seriously in those circles

Only in these circles could an article that AI can read to you in an hour and forty-eight minutes be clickbait for the paywalled “companion piece.”

Not a cult.

from r/EnoughMuskSpam

Hard to know if “Contovicsy” is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

Starting a wall of text with a non sequitur is a bold strategy. I cannot follow his 9/11 logic at all.

Of course. Thanks.

The Gropers and the Groypers are the Trump people. It’s the grouper that can breathe underwater, right?

IPoAC

Thanks. I googled that and it was worth it.

I wasn’t aware that they made Paolo the CEO until reading this article. Initially I thought Amy made a typo and had to google it. I guess JVL was sick of doing all of those media appearances /s.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.

10/10, no notes

The have a firstly and a lastly, but no inbtweensly in their description.

Also - “setting industry benchmarks for innovation, utility, and transparency.” hahahahahahahahahaha

Amazing. Thank you for guiding me there.

The statements about payments of claims of customers and creditors in full is always caveated by the word “allowed” (see id. at 24). The expectation is that allowed claims will be paid in full if all of the hard work described above pays off (Id. at 24). The question remains, though, how one takes a filed claim and turns it into an allowed claim. One must first start at the total dollar amount of claims filed. That number is $23.6 quintillion dollars. (Id.). One quintillion is one billion billions. It is the number 1 followed by 18 zeros. The task of addressing filed claims and reducing them to their proper and “allowed” amount is monumental. Mr. Bankman-Fried assumes this is a breeze. He is wrong—very wrong.

At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here … something caught my eye in #5:

Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it’s around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that’s not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

“Given the same chance, Sam would dedicate his post-prison life to charitable works,” Mukasey wrote.

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could bring a slideshow of what Effective Altruism^TM considers “charitable works” to the sentencing hearings? “Charitable work” = traveling the world while having a laptop on the beach, in the jungle, by the pool…

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

Muito Bem.

If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Obviously it’s a cult, but when they use this phrasing, they just give the game away.