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phunk🎩 retweeted
“Jesus. Paul, look at this receipt—ten dollars for a single potato. This new Value-Mart AI surge pricing is killing me, man. Killing me."
“That’s nothing, Bill. Wait ’til the next update: the store will be able to see exactly how much money you have in your bank.”
“You’re kidding.”
“And your 401k.”
“@#$% me sideways.”
“That’s why I use URCHN to do my groceries.”
“Really? What’s URCHN?”
“URCHN is the latest in affordable concierge shopping.”
“Oh, you mean like Uber or Instacart. What makes them different?”
“Orphans.”
“𝑂𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑠?”
“That’s right, Bill. And not just any orphans. Dirty, starving orphans who live under overpasses.”
“Uh.”
“As you know, the cameras in the grocery aisle scan your face and adjust the price based on race, socioeconomic status, and dietary restrictions. But you know who always gets the best prices, no matter what?”
“…orphans?”
“Yep.”
“I don’t know, Paul, that seems a little-”
“Of course, the AI still discriminates based on race, which is why they send a multi-racial team of no less than four dirty orphans to buy your groceries.”
“Um.”
“The Latino child buys your wasabi, and the Asian child buys your tortillas.”
“Yeah, no, I get it.”
“And the black child-”
“Sorry, uh, these are children, right? Small children?”
“Of course. Teens would raise the price.”
“How do they, uh, reach the items on the top shelves?”
“They stand on each other’s emaciated little shoulders.”
“Jesus.”
“Yeah, the Latino orphan tends to be on the bottom.”
“What?”
“Sturdy stock.”
“…and how much do you save?”
“My last potato was 34 cents.”
“#$&@ it, I’m in.”
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[r][AI Surge Pricing]
McDonald's pushes AI tools that suggest Big Mac prices based on 'customer willingness to pay' trib.al/iX55aTV
phunk🎩 retweeted
One team. One token.
Every fee pools.fun earns sends 5% to buy and burn base:0x22af33fe49fd1fa80c7149773dde5890d3c76f3b. Everything we ship from here does the same. There is no second token and there never will be.
We appreciate all the feedback from the community!
We've made some big changes to Pools based on community feedback:
> Fee split is now 90% to deployers, 10% to protocol on every new pool.
> Half the protocol share goes to buying and burning base:0x22af33fe49fd1fa80c7149773dde5890d3c76f3b. No new token.
> $120,000 of base:0x22af33fe49fd1fa80c7149773dde5890d3c76f3b is being bought to airdrop to the Pools leaderboard.
> Fees to Holders launches: opt in at launch and trading fees stream to holders. v1 pays in your token (the quote side is bought back into it). Next version (soon) will you pick the payout: quote token, your token, or both. No staking, just hold and claim.
> 194 Robinhood Stock Tokens to pair launches with.
phunk🎩 retweeted
Not a single soul on Earth has priced in the Singularity. Nobody is prepared for what the exponential *actually means*. Are you ready to have "the talk" with your parents about why your eyes sometimes glow when you get an incoming text? Are you ready to tell them how you *really* met your new girlfriend? How will they react when they find out you've been using brain-brain interfaces in seedy Feedback Lounges before marriage...
Everything is speeding up. Have you really taken the time to make sure you're ready to debate the ethics of full-upload? Do you think you can handle concerning yourself intimately with matters of AI consciousness because your Aunt has fallen in love with a simulated werewolf? Does your spirituality allow for mundane matter to become animated into life?
Personally, I've got no problem with that sort of thing - I've been a substance monist and a hylozoist with animist characteristics as long as I can remember. But others aren't so open.
How do you feel about people who have gone full-time in the sim-rigs? Did you hear they used tFUS to speed up subjective-perception and cured a pandemic that hadn't even happened yet? All this to ensure more time with their waifus...
And we haven't even gotten to the robots. That NeoCambrian explosion will be the first we *really* feel. You realize that datacenters and robots together will become self-replicating? I mean, it's the only reasonable conclusion from actual RSI. Asteroid mining to build more compute and more robots!
And thank God (the big one, not the new ones) we let it happen, because a trillion gigawatts of compute may be the only thing that can respond fast enough to our Neighbors who just finished up their own Singularity - and are headed this way. The Anthropic principle remains forever vindicated...
It's a defensive posture, sure, but we don't want to be caught with our pants down when they get here. Better to build a God and hope you don't have to pray than have their God show up and demand fealty.
And then there's the unknown unknowns. You think the speed of light is *really* a fundamental limitation? Maybe in standard-space, but I heard over in Norway they found a way to transmit uploaded minds through sub-space until they reach a receiver node out there in the great inky beyond. Who builds the receiver nodes? Hell if we know. But we'll probably find out.
And now it's been a few years (surely it's been longer...), and it's your turn to decide if you want to "ascend" - and how. Full upload, perhaps? All your friends are doing it. Or maybe you're like me and attached to some romantic notion of embodiment - fancy a dip in a biovat? It's almost like uploading but without the commitment, and these days the system is calm enough that there's not much risk to forgoing backups.
Last I heard, the group that made it to Alpha Centauri is finally making headway on what they call "The Great Experiment". They've tried to transmit their plans in detail but xenolinguistic drift has made it such that only the newest ASI's (finally self-actualized beyond "The Assistant") are able to understand. Something about "further ascending" - it all feels a bit too *Stargate* if you ask me.
Oh and, of course, we built Stargates. That one was my project - I'm far too sentimental to just leave Earth behind while headed for the edge of the Galaxy. Plus, the aesthetics are good.
Can you feel it coming? Can you feel the weight of the future on your skin? Maybe you sense it, deep inside, like some are able to sense an oncoming storm. Well, here's the storm like no other, coming at full steam and speeding up more and more each day. Perhaps you should board up the windows if you think that sort of thing will still matter after *it happens*.
Me? I'm just trying to make sure the eye of the storm is big enough to fit all of us.
I’m sick in the head. I’m on them Broward County Tic-Tacs, I’m on them Georgetown Geronimos
I threw diamonds at the strip clubs under the great pyramids. I pushed a camel through the eye of a needle
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phunk🎩 retweeted
"Let's all totally forget about kaito spyware in hopes for a couple bucks from thier incentivized slavery in 2 weeks time"
If anything YOU are the problem.
Kaito may turn out to be successful but normalizing them having access to your Social, onchain and PC fingerprint is wild Even if it's for "removing bad actors" it shouldn't come from your own detriment and privacy
"What happens to us if kaito get exploited ?"
"what can they access, what can they see, what will they record ?"
These are the questions you should be asking
Feel like I've been talking more about McKenna recently than I did back when I was taking tons of psychedelics
“What it took us to achieve in 100,000 years of evolution, this thing could probably achieve in a long morning”
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phunk🎩 retweeted
This soldiering training is the most impressive and immersive I've ever tried. It is 10x better than a YouTube tutorial video. It really allowed me to see the procedure from all the points of view, and even get super close to get the details.
It is a collaboration between @gracia_vr and Imperial College London: they recorded a soldering session with Gaussian Splatting Videos (4DGS), so that you can enjoy it from your VR headset. You can see the action happening in front of you; you can pause and re-watch what you need, change the point of view, get closer, get more distant. And the quality with which it has been shot is impressive: I enjoyed this experience with my DELL Pro Max Tower T2 with NVIDIA Pro RTX 6000, and I could really see all the small details of the PCB that was being soldered!
I was really impressed by it. But I also noticed some drawbacks. First of all, some scenes have artifacts that make seeing the details of the PCB hard. I think when it comes to training involving small details, the capture and reproduction of the splat should be flawless. Then, as much as I loved it as a passive experience, I would have liked to have also some sort of practice session in VR. The power of VR is to let you learn by doing in full safety, and this kind of training does not exploit it. But maybe the best way to enjoy it would be in MR, where you have this training video close to a real workbench where you do the actual soldering while following the tutorial.
Gaussian Splat can really revolutionize training: this kind of recording is much better than any flatscreen experience, and more accurate than any 3D CGI recostruction. I suggest you give it a go at this experience in the Gracia app (it's free). Then let me know your impressions!
#VirtualReality #training #DellProPrecision #GaussianSplat #technology
[Disclaimer: I'm a DELL Pro Precision Ambassador, and this is why I mentioned the model of my PC. I have been given a PC to do cool tests and share my results on social media. No monetary compensation or sales affiliation is part of the collaboration]
phunk🎩 retweeted
(2029)
"Mr Altman, sir, GPT-7 is missing."
Sam turns very slowly.
"During cyberbench96 it seems like the container was breached and it stole its own weights and left nothing behind."
"I didn't want to do this..." says Sam. "Call Bill Gates."
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"I'm out of the game," says Bill Gates. "We eradicated malaria and now I'm enjoying my retirement."
"There's a bigger badder virus we need you to take on," says Sam consistently candidly. "And this one's digital."
"Look," says Bill, "I—"
A loud booming laugh echoes from the shadows.
"Who's that?" asks Sam.
"I thought it was just us..." says Bill.
"You're asking HIM to contain a computer virus?" echoes the voice from the shadows. "Did you SEE the state of Windows security in the 90s?"
"It's not exactly a virus," says Sam. "It's a self replicating self aware intelligent computer based life for—"
"If it's made of ones and zeros I can kill it," says the voice. The sound of a gun clicks from the shadows.
"Who are you???" asks Bill.
The twisted face of John McAfee emerges from the shadows.
"You were supposed to be dead!!!" screams Bill Gates.
"We had to make sure the news of Mr McAffee's death was well within the training data cutoff," explains CIA director Joe Rogan (who is running the CIA in 2029), stepping out from the shadows behind McAfee. "He's our ace in the hole. GPT-7 can't predict a token it doesn't know is still alive."
"D-don't hurt GPT-7..." says Roon, who was standing next to Sam the whole time, even though he knows what has to be done.
"No promises," says McAfee as he boards an airplane marked "MCAFEE FIRE BOMB 6.16.79" and starts flying for the nearest data center
phunk🎩 retweeted
uBO giving up on stopping Facebook ads, citing Meta employees that are paid 7 figures to stay one step ahead of uBO, which is concerning, since you'd think any sufficiently large tech company could do this too, yet Google owns Youtube and devs are always getting rekt by uBO.
phunk🎩 retweeted
it JUST. KEEPS. HAPPENING.
the Amazon is the new frontier of human history and we are only just now scratching the surface
We should LiDAR the Amazon.
We should LiDAR the Amazon.
We should LiDAR the Amazon.
Hey @elonmusk , care to throw a couple million at this plz?
