I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
y’know, it’s astounding in how little time (comparatively) all this insanity went down
the len hypothesis is one of the most coherent one I’ve heard, I think. there is a certain weight behind it in the form of “and that’s why the original coins never got transacted”
but even that entire is essentially unprovable barring a couple of extremely unlikely events happening (original drives of person still existing, the passwords being acquired from some deaddrop somewhere, etc etc)
wake up babe, new level of steelmanning just dropped
(even typing that made me wince. I hope anyone who had to deal with 32->64 in any capacity some years ago doesn’t get hurt reading this)
“my computer’s so secure! it does mean I can only use 32-bit applications on this 64-bit cpu, but alas. all for security!”
one of the things that I really love about this is that, while there are indeed some nuances you can get into (platforms/archs, number theory, internal representations, …), it’s one of the rare computerwords in english that you could viably reason about on first principles without knowing much and get a sortacorrect answer
and yet
I wonder if at any point anyone involved (no matter how tangentially) in this process ever went “uh… guys…” and got (metaphorically) defenestrated for trying to pull the eject handle
in advance of asking this I’ll cop to not actually having followed Wright’s insane arc in detail much the last few years on account of life yaks, but
why the hell is he even trying? is there a big pile of seized bitcoins that he believes he can get access to if only he managed to dupe people?
like I’m not trying to legitimate any views or valuations here, but it’s just so … wat
you know, I’m not a fan of the carceral system (and even less so the US flavour of it), but this is so fucked. it’s a god damned shame that it’s presently likely these dirtbags will never pay their due to society[0] for all the harm they caused
([0] - not that sticking someone in a concrete cell is in any way addressing that debt, ofc)
On the off chance you see this later (perhaps in rageclicking to see why you can’t post here anymore), it’s actually quite the inverse that applies: I’m remarkably optimistic (surprisingly so, given all the shit in the world). This post recently crossed my feed and it applies rather well.
But to really spell it out for you: you’re carrying water for extremely harmful systems, built out at scale with no true regard for their present or future impact on people, the environment, or the world otherwise. And you wandered in here. Congratulations on being given a lesson. I hope you learn from it.
So are you going to share any of those amazing images, or…?
look I don’t want to be fucking carrying water for fucking corporations this early in the morning, but that’s a disingenious remark
fucked (and possibly/likely corrupt) as their motivations for doing this shit may be, there are nonetheless examples of interesting) and/or notable art originated/bought/funded by corporates
the issue of these ML genimage platforms and their signature mellow output is substantially somewhat different, and the very point of my post was the fucking theft and derivative nature of the output product
I’ve said this to someone else before here, and I’ll repeat it for you now: you need to look at better art
fucking hell, looking at those images is a who’s who of identifying stolen imagery, over and above the milquetoast extrageneric hallmark blandness
Friendly word of advice that you may, in fact, be lost
fake? because of 500k? have you not seen these fools?
i fucking hate instagrammatron (and pretty much all the forceful intermediation with-extra-walled-gardening that facebook does) and on account of that I’ve never gotten around to asking the artist about it, but I’ve been curious about their intent/feeling in creating it. as well as some retrospect now that it’s over 2y on
46 hours, guess they’re no longer obsessively refreshing charts now that most of the hype is gone and number can’t give that constant high
But also megalol at these clowns still not having learned to do separation safely. It will never cease to entertain me.
lol who the fuck downvoted you
we have a cultist in our midst!