if you ever need to, you know you can rattle the tin. if LessWrong can get fucking $2 million …

Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just … didn’t? I can’t find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.

it’s better than that, he didn’t dump a penny in

the deal is:

1. they get unregulated
2. they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they’re totally getting round to it bro

the Smasnug investigation is amazing

lol i was about to reply “welcome to awful systems here’s your accordion”

also they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff

they can’t even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it’s about $1000 per query lol

or just ask for one here

do it

that being the specific model when we started it! “web3 is going great but it’s AI”

molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one

Microsoft 365 Coilot

365 toilet

intel frantically taking notes

love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something

and bullshitting and dogwhistling and obfuscation

jfc

need to start charging these guys $100 a word so they can complain about the merchandise

jesus fucking christ

eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don’t exist yet.

they’ve already made it clear they’re gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I’ll credit them with

as it says at the top, always feel free to spin a post out, there’s no quota

just use AI instead obv