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Captainant

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  1. You are not wrong, but I don't think the fix is to burn 1000x more energy than those entities to accomplish something with 1000x more latency in confirming transactions. Bitcoin is definitionally a currency. It's in the whitepaper. Proof of work in itself isn't a bad thing, but the work should be for something useful. "Contribute compute cycles and get a token to spend in return" is a great idea for the information age. But proof of work is just guessing a number to fit an arbitrary hash function output, and doing that at the rate of quadrillions of times per second for ten minutes. At least that's what it is for BTC. But what if that proof of work was going towards folding proteins for cancer or drug research? Or going towards crunching vast astrological datasets to get ever more value out of our investments in space travel? That's the opportunity cost of all the energy that's being wasted by BTC. At it's core, BTC is just a means to financialize entropy. And it incentivizes by its core protocol and intent with proof of work the escalating use of energy to prove its work.
  2. Except there is a literal cartel of memory producers that are the sole suppliers. And as mentioned previously, they've literally been convicted by a jury for price fixing in the past. Their current profit margins are greater than what they were when they got popped for price fixing. All signs point to this being "the new normal" because there IS no other competitor, and speculative asset buying driven by debt and and evangelistic belief in LLMs is going to continue to drive this unhinged demand. As noted, there are firms like Microsoft with MILLIONS of GPUs that each cost >$10,000 just sitting in warehouses. They don't have enough power or datacenter capacity to run these things, but it's still fucking up the economy writ large.
  3. Job losses? We don't care about no stinkin job losses! America is GREAT AGAIN baby!
  4. Not talking about that specific instance, but have you been approached with respect to non-violent and opinion-based speech? Things like having a bad opinion of the regime resulting in feds asking for userdata? It sounds tinfoil-y but they're using fuckin gmail info to harass people at this point Or I guess a better question is: are they all actual subpoenas signed by actual judges, or merely administrative subpoenas?
  5. re: memory prices. They're up NINETY FUCKIN PERCENT Q4'25->Q1'26 https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/Memory-Prices-Surge-Up-to-90-From-Q4-2025 SSD storage and RAM are through the roof, all being driven by the speculative circle jerk of genAI. There's hundreds of billions worth of inventory sitting in warehouses solely to deny competition access, because they don't have capacity to host the chips. This is gonna end very very ugly for us all
  6. I have some csgo skins that skyrocketed in value from some changes they made a few months ago.... I'm tempted to sell some skins and try to fund a steam machine that way but I'm worried the price has doubled from what they were planning to launch at. On a related note, I may be buying a Mac mini m4 soon to do home server stuff that I was thinking I could do with the steam machine
  7. Wow who could have guessed that failure to punish their past malfeasance and fraud would only encourage MORE fraud in the future?? I sure am glad that the legal system moves to seemingly exclusively benefit the fascists, while taking every opportunity to grant ever more power to the shit smeared king
  8. Apropos of nothing, this came across my YT feed and seemed just right
  9. I'm pretty sure all that is a feature, not a bug
  10. ....does he know about what MBS did to a journalist he didn't like? He headlined a journalist murderers comedy show! At least it's easier to speak there amirite???
  11. What do you mean? @realgreggym has thoroughly established that the adults are FINALLY back in charge
  12. Dude was wearing a red hat, I'm not sure if he's capable of feeling shame. He's too busy feeling like a king of the world now that maga is in charge again and FINALLY taking care of those murderous children
  13. Something something dollar cost averaging! But while further diluting your shareholders lol
  14. The doom I feel wrt/ "AI" isn't from the tech itself but rather the extremely poor and short sighted decision making that it is driving and encouraging
  15. So THATS what chickensandwich has been up to after disappearing
  16. On the other hand, Buzz Aldrin endorsed a fucking fascist and campaigned for the reign of terror that nonwhites and protesters are currently enjoying. Truly, a real American hero
  17. Fun fact, SpaceX just finished full acquisition of xAI https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-spacex-merge-with-xai-combined-valuation-125-trillion-bloomberg-news-2026-02-02/ Really putting all the eggs into one basket. And a completely farcical valuation lmfao
  18. Welp, just tested very faintly positive for COVID after finding out that my BIL also tested positive when coming onto Ft Hood for his deployment training
  19. Bondi is doing a takesies backsies with the Epstein files https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612.848.0.pdf NOTUSDOJ Takes Down Thousands of Epstein Documents for Victims...Lawyers for Epstein’s victims requested the removals in a letter Sunday.The Department of Justice removed public access to several thousand investigation documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case due to redaction errors, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a letter to Manhattan federal judges Monday. The documents, which were released Friday and posted to the DOJ’s website, “may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human error,” Bondi wrote. Bondi submitted the letter to the court a day after lawyers representing several of Epstein’s victims requested the DOJ remove the documents posted online, citing “thousands of redaction failures.” The lawyers said the documents contained identifying information related to the victims. Bondi wrote that the DOJ has removed “nearly all of those materials specifically identified by victims or their counsel,” as well as “a substantial number of documents identified independently by the Department.” The Justice Department is reviewing the newly released documents to “identify any other documents that may require further redaction,” according to the letter. Bondi, along with co-signers Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, said that the department has revised its protocols in response to victims’ requests over the weekend.
  20. I actually just had a great video come across my feed this morning that touched on this very issue. Rhett and Link of GMM have talked a TON about their personal deconstruction of Christianity, but they know the Bible deeply and personally. TLDW: is it Christianity's fight to bend the world to their view? The embrace of collecting power to enforce christianity on the world is diametrically opposed to Jesus' message. When Satan temps Jesus in the wilderness, his third temptation is to offer Jesus every kingdom in the world if he will bow down to Satan. The one opportunity that Jesus has to embrace power is presented as a temptation of satan. To quote Rhett's thesis: "The more that Christians have embraced the pursuit of political power, the more they have embraced political leadership that looks less like Jesus and more like the devil himself."
  21. somehow, Epstein returned.
  22. My point is: it doesn't HAVE an "idea". It repeats patterns, based on its training data. LLM's don't "reason", they just output tokens that are the most likely thing to follow what came before. I do agree that the idiot executive class is WAY over-eager to just hand over all their critical thinking and personal agency to their AI agent, and that is already leading to problems. Hell, I've gotten multiple required training modules pushed out to me this year that are AI-authored and full of fucking WRONG information that's pretty critical like our pricing and engagement model for that offering. And then when leadership got pushed back on they played fucking dumb about it and didn't believe the LLM could be wrong. The problem as ever isn't the technology, it's the idiots going around and seeing every problem as a nail to hammer with genAI. The fever won't break until the strange evangelical-like belief in LLMs is shattered. edit: lol this just was on my YT feed. Very apropos
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