similar to https://spawning.ai/ai-txt
Readit Newsbidder33 commented on Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry cointelegraph.com/news/to... · Posted by u/andrewfromx
“i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact”
bidder33 commented on Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry cointelegraph.com/news/to... · Posted by u/andrewfromx
bidder33 commented on Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack techcrunch.com/2024/04/24... · Posted by u/ludovicianul
Yeah, they added scammy crypto coins to their offerings for "payments" which is already a solved problem.
Stripe is now openly endorsing crypto scam coins and adding "AI" buzzword soup dujour.
They are getting heavily distracted while their customers Stripe accounts get shut down unfairly.
you know stablecoin payments have as much volume as visa right?
as much as people don’t want crypto to be useful, it is. even “solved” problems can have better solutions
bidder33 commented on Pivot to AI: Hallucinations worsen as the money runs out davidgerard.co.uk/blockch... · Posted by u/awfulsystems
having exhausted the number of people he can sell his “crypto bad” books to, gerard has now pivoted to “ai bad”.
nothing new. https://pessimistsarchive.org/
bidder33 commented on Games don't need venture capitalism iatia.substack.com/p/game... · Posted by u/kyriefh
Games in this day and age ideally need generous government subsidy to be successful.
I feel we're a long way off universal basic income worldwide so at the very least, something like an artist's living wage provided by the government is a necessity to produce good independent video games. Most professional indie developers tend to survive rather than thrive, barely kept afloat by money from publishers who also have their own interests and influence which affect the final result.
There would be kinks to iron out in terms of who gets the wage and how it's kept and so on, but the funding really needs to come from an entity that is largely divorced from the "success" of the game. Bit of a pipe dream, but it's nice to think about.
the “kinks to work out” is a funny way of saying “gaping holes that make this idea completely unworkable”
and given the endless stream of indie games government funding doesn’t seem to be a necessity.
I am learning Polish, and find that ChatGPT provides a much better tutor than any human. Ie. I would rather use ChatGPT than a human tutor, indifferent to the price.
I am also developing my own app to learn languages, and I can get to Duolingo levels in roughly a weekend worth of side project.
I project that a certain category of apps will die off really fast.
i’ve been using it (with a stt->prompt->response->tts loop) for chinese practice and it is very good. being able to say “role play a market” and drop into it and switch mid sentence between languages when i get stuck and it just works it out and helps is amazing. i still think a human tutor is required for foundations but gpt is very helpful for practice.
Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.
Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.
https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
on the other hand, an opt-in international alternative financial system is a pretty cool idea and warrants further investigation and more hacking
bidder33 commented on €2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP twitter.com/garybrannan/s... · Posted by u/notRobot
> so we raised a bunch of funds and bought a cool book.
For about 100x its estimated value. I'm not sure that's really playing with a hacker mentality.
The plan is also to burn the "cool book". Again, I'm unsure how that fits into a hacker mindset.
I think playing with money systems, ideas of value etc is interesting. The average contribution was about $50 - so like a kickstarter for a fan club.
and no, the plan is not to burn the book. there is an ongoing joke by a few people in the dao. but they do not represent the majority and the aims of the dao explicitly are to do with the preservation and protection of the book. so thats not going to happen.
but people arent actually interested in conversation here. hn hates crypto. we get it. people hating something they arent a part of and dont understand. But we are still going to have fun and make things, and the good vibes win in the end.
It's a hard scifi novel with mild existential horror tones that is borne mostly of maths jokes. At one point the main character tries to escape the matrix (reality). But the matrix is defective, so the best way out was to orthogonalize the subspace and reduce the matrix to its eigenbasis instead. Most of the scenes are based on similar maths jokes.
Tentative name is Diagonalization of the Meta (I had previously called it The Metaverse).