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Waiting for some promptfondler to complain that this kind of assignment is not really fair for an AI because it has actual requirements.

Here's a fun exercise: go email the author of that blog (he's very nice) and ask how much of it he still stands by.

Has someone already done it or should I send the email? Ludic would be delighted I'm sure

I guess my confusion is this – at what point does reality exert any influence on the lies-and-trash accounting? What in the physical reality is the reason they can't just keep fapcircling the economy forever?

So we don’t have smoking gun evidence that Windows 11 is broken trash literally because of vibe coding. But Windows 11 feels like the most vibe coded thing ever. Nobody cared about Windows 11 working. Microsoft, where quality is job number 55 or so!

I think the timelines don't quite match for that, when Windows 11 came out the LLMs couldn't even output code that compiled more than half the time. However, the moment I've learnt the start menu was coded in React I knew the age of ~~man~~ Windows was over. I don't know how good the guy behind it was in internal politics but everyone on the path from the idea to pushing it to main should be tried for treason and sent to hard labour (debugging the Azure web UI).

I think this was the good old artisinal vibe coding of the previous era, where you still had to not care about quality manually.

wasn’t audited (...) prompting the SEC to open their own investigation.

Ye, I guess I should've said "investigated" there, precision is important here.

There's not only no stock-holding public to hold them to account, even if there was and they filed a lawsuit nothing would happen. SEC doesn't exist.

I guess this is the part I don't understand - can't they all just play this game of pretend forever? There has to be something that corresponds to music stopping in your musical chairs analogy, but if everyone plays along forever what happens? Is there any load bearing part of this bubble where real reality can have an impact? If the stakes of calling the bluff are a complete collapse of the stock market then why would any NVidia stockholders call the bluff ever?

So you talk about Depression 2, but do you have any idea of what could possibly be the spark? You compare it to Enron, but Enron got had because they got audited. The AI bubble seems unparalleled in creating fake money from nothing, is there any limit to how long they do it? Tether still exists

Also "tokens per watt per dollar" by god where are we. It's like when Elon started to talk about "userminutes per tweetparsec per death threat" or whatever when he took over Twitter

Huh, I hope Satya asks Copilot how to solve this or they're in trouble!

Well, Satoshi's whitepaper is called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", so it's pretty obvious what the author(s) consider(s) its main contribution to be. Arguably, the concept of a blockchain wasn't invented by Satoshi (the idea of a ledger using Merkle trees of hashes existed before), neither was proof-of-work (the idea of requiring computation as a cost of performing an action also existed, e.g. to prevent email spam). The novelty was combining all that to create a currency system and the implementation. And the motivation spilling throughout the paper is very much libertarian and goldbuggy.

I'm sorry but like why do you think Satoshi created Bitcoin, like what was the purpose of that paper?

Wait, does the Starlink internet suck as well? I mean, it has to have high latency, that much I've assumed, but other than that?

The market can remain irrational longer than a chud's heart can remain functional