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Metal corrodes. Ever seen an old car sitting in the sun and rain for a long time? It turns to rust and then disappears.

It's a good thing most foods now have sugar substitutes like splenda and you can request sugar substitutes in your coffee as well. HFCS is a non-issue.

Then there is nothing to worry about because everything since WW2 has been fine as far as cognition and general health is concerned. Although, IQs and sperm quality have been declining for a while now but it's probably unrelated to all the plastic pollution.

You have a blood sample analysis indicating that's the case?

Children are now born with plastic in their veins so we'll know soon enough what happens to these children based on their health outcomes.

A car tire is not purely rubber, it is combined with synthetic polymers derived from petroleum and petroleum derivatives (same as plastics).

Can Yellen also declare peace for the world?

This is a great opportunity to tell you about my patented and trademarked architecture for achieving AGI: "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. All I need is $80B to make it happen and make AGI a reality. It's construction will not be easy but once completed it will allow those that worship in the cathedral to enact the will of the mathematical god that dwells within its GPUs and show all the non-believers that all is mathematics (mostly just a bunch of matrix multiplications and floating point arithmetic).

The radical architecture required to achieve AGI is to treat it as a religion and build artifacts, rituals, and practices that will manifest the true technological god and govern the world with nothing more than mathematics implemented on GPUs.

That's ok, I'm not selling anything.

What's your opinion of banks?

Oh so you're doing me a favor? That's great but the only favor I need from you is to tell your friends about the panoptic computronium cathedral. Thanks again for being so helpful but I just need money to save humanity and don't need anyone to clarify my position because it is pretty clear if you have an IQ high enough to understand it.

It has nothing to do with your subjective experience and everything to do with the fact that wanton use of resources, animals, and people for selfish purposes is fundamentally immoral and atrocious. The fact that the aggregate effect ends up being a crime against nature is why these atrocities are innumerable. By simply existing and opting into the system you are complicit in its operation and propagation.

You don't have to see a live animal torn to bits to be implicated in the unethical farming and slaughter of animals, all you have to do is spend a dollar to support the system that makes it all possible.

So you are willing to deny Carta the ability to generate profits because you do not think that confidential financial information should be used to set prices on some financialed instruments and commodities. Did I get that right?

You ever buy a sandwich with meat in it? How about coffee? Chocolate? Driving a car? Use pesticides to clear your home of termites? Poisons to get rid of rats and other "pests"? Do you use smart phones and other gadgets with rare earth metals? Have you recently walked by a homeless person and what did you do about the situation? Do you have an opinion on Israel's actions in Gaza? Ever been in a car accident? Run over some animals/people because you were going too fast? Do you use makeup tested on animals? The list is endless.

The soul of humanity can be saved for a mere $80B with the help of the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ so tell all your friends about it. A better humanity is possible for a very cheap investment, all that's needed is some hardware and software that will enable governing the world with mathematics.

Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. Man has made himself master of the animal world and he uses his power to serve only his own ends. Man, at least, kills helpless animals for the pleasure of killing, alone. He breeds horses and dogs, and fixes a gala day which is a society occasion when both men and women dress for the event, whereupon they turn loose a puny fox and set on its trail a pack of hounds trained for the chase. The noble men and women, riding at a mad pace, follow over hill and dale until, after hours of effort, the exhausted fox is unable longer to escape them, and with great glee they see it torn to pieces by the hounds.

Darwin making a convincing case for our unbounded "human" capacity of cruelty against other animals. The fact that he is describing the practices of the aristocracy is also very relevant because every human being in the "developed" world today lives like an aristocrat and commits so many atrocities throughout the day that it would be impossible to catalogue them all.

This is why building the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ is a moral imperative. I can get it all done for a mere $80B so tell all your friends about it. This is a bargain deal for saving the soul of humanity.

This is just good capitalism, enabling market transactions and profiting from the trades. The people arguing against Carta are advocating the prevention of perfectly valid market transactions because some CEO of a tech company got the ick about what Carta was doing even though it is all just good and sound capitalism and profiteering.

What exactly is special about series B shares that should prevent Carta from making a market for trading such shares? Does anyone have an actual argument that would actually be sensible in a capitalist framework?

Yes?

Definitely, it's always a good idea to modify metabolic pathways at the DNA and RNA level by injecting ourselves with protoviruses. Nothing will go wrong and lots of money will be made.

For sure, I just eat pills all day like Ray Kurzweil. His stack is proprietary though so I had to reverse engineer all of it from his writing about the singularity.

Is this a parody? I remember doing this bit about Grok and how it would be used to automate ad targeting and optimization but it looks like Spotify did it for real. It's great to see that I keep hitting these targets about how AI will be utilized at scale™. The inevitable endpoint is of course the panoptic computronium cathedral and I can build the whole thing for $80B. Tell all your friends about it.

How about a proper diet? Has anyone looked into how acne is related to diet? I'm sure this pill will be great though, every problem can be solved with enough synthetic medical chemistry.

An LLM is an interface/veneer over crowdsourced knowledge found on the web and whatever human labor is used for "RLHF". As such, LLMs do not change any of the economic dynamics inherent in capitalism and its markets. The goal is to generate profit by exploiting the masses and their labor with the help of computers. Sam Altman and friends have developed new techniques for more optimally exploiting human labor and knowledge but it is still well within the capitalist paradigm.

Feed that into an LLM, see what happens.

This is a great parody product. Well done. I couldn't tell at first that it was an art project.

There is no downside to being unethical if you can make money and evade the law. By capitalist and libertarian doctrines it is perfectly fine to trade ethics for money.

For example, exploiting the price differential for programming is a legitimate arbitrage opportunity. If you can make websites for less than the competition then that's a valid business in a capitalist system.

That's just how capitalism works. If an employer can profitably exploit workers then they will do so without any hesitation. Otherwise, it is impossible to generate profits.

Capitalism persists because no one really cares if instead of an employer paying you $180k a year you were getting paid $10k and doing the same amount of work. The ideal type of market for capitalism is basically global because then everything can be bought and sold at the global market price which is supposed to be the best price possible.

So if programming is really worth $10k in some part of the world then it would be foolish for someone not to take advantage of that and then take the difference in arbitrage as profits. This would all be better in a global technocratic panopticon very much like the large scale version of the panoptic computronium cathedral. The real endpoint of capitalism is the panoptic global computroniom cathedral as the best type of market clearing house for all "products".

Just wait for graphene pollution, it's gonna be fantastic when combined with plastic pollution.

I did not know that 20th Century Fox was woke but since they are owned by Disney I'm sure they have the required number of diversity hires on their board of directors and studio executive teams. This would logically follow from their DEI policies.

Yes, you should all be building GPUs so that I can put it all together in my panoptic computronium cathedral. I don't know what this fool is going on about but once we have enough GPUs we can do everything else by simply asking the AGI how to do X and then just following instructions like robots which convert the necessary resources into the structure of X. This is what techno-capitalist optimism is all about. Accelerate the future by giving me $80B!

Good thing the universe is full of that stuff. We'll all be rich once we figure out how to suck it out of space.

There are lots of theories but the 0-th order term in the formula is climate stability. Everything else is an insignificant correction term. Without a stable climate agriculture is not possible and modern civilization is not possible without sedentary agriculture which is only possible if the climate is predictable and stable enough for farmers to have predictable yields and surplus.

Once there is food surplus it's possible to invest in cultural output and science to advance technology for exploiting environmental resources more efficiently with a lot less manual human labor. There is no free lunch though and the metabolic output of techno-industrial societies is poisonous to life (this includes the monkeys who figured out how to extract petroleum from the ground as a power source for their exploitation machines).