• db2@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If I were a politician I’d take all the bribes. Every one offered. It would all go in to a fund to prosecute every one of the bribers very publicly and openly and none would get what they wanted out of the bribery.

    I’d probably get shot on day one.

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        The short version is crypto company that was run by a pseudo-intellectual tech bro who tried to altruism-wash his image and lobbied both dems and gop to get what he wanted.

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      Except AI has a limited but valid use case, where FTX was straight up a scam. Will get back to you if (and that’s a big if) they discover a way to do AGI.

      I do agree though. It isn’t far off from from what SBF did. All this money circlejerk has a limited run. I’ve stopped investing past couple of months. Will see if I lose or win.

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        Can’t really trust techbros named Sam as we’ve seen

        Or any techbros really, but especially the ones named Sam.

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        If we get AGI it can perfect fusion reactors, and we can put the entire thing in space and it wouldn’t be a problem.

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    All this money from where? Lol like aren’t these companies desperate to turn a profit? Are the investors cool with these companies just burning investor money for political spending? Or is that the point of AI, just a new excuse yo dump money into the austerity narrative

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      It’s literal fake money. When you read news of Anthropic investing $400B in Google, do you think that’s “money” in the same sense it is for real people?

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      Why do you think the investors are investing so much in said company? They want more, and buying a politician has, so far, had a pretty good ROI.

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          Occasionally I have to do training at work where we learn not to take bribes. I’m sure it works wonderfully.

          At one point they give examples of bribes we should not take, and they’re always rubbish things like a free meal at a fancy restaurant. Nah I want some money, I want to be bribed properly.