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Impressive that it was a one line code change to allow a 65b credit line. This is some office space level stuff.

by makestuff 4y ago

heavyset_go 4y ago
Satire is dead and the last couple decades of reality killed it.
- giardia 4y ago
  I kind of figured it was the other way around.
- recuter 4y ago
  Every once in a while I read about some wanna be criminal mastermind that got his idea for a crime from some TV show. Maybe everything is feeding on itself and that's what the singularity actually is, humanity disappearing up its own butthole. Logic as follows: A) Truth is stranger than fiction. - Golden age of streaming begets insatiable thirst for content. 3) An army of writers bangs out every ludicrous plot line imaginable. ◅ Quibi raises $2,000,000,000 to target youngsters with 10-minute quibisoides • Movies with talking raccoons fighting space gods smash box office records *) An AI trained on a billion monkeys with typewriters more efficiently hallucinates imagery than humans deemed possible. Prompt generated raccoons sweep oscars. > SBF commits a 1 line change to FTX that results in 65 jillion dodge boondoggle Somewhere a hackernews reader cackles manically in the darkness of night as he (or she!) conceives of hooking up Chat GPT to news feeds for soft real time true crime drama content generation for Netflix whilst waving goodbye to the last remnants of what was left of their sanity reading this bullshit instead of going to bed its 3am already what are you doing your brain is fried~~ (ﾟヮﾟ) A16Z invests the GDP of a small country to buy marketshare. A Quaranteeny views a 10 second Quibi ad on TikTok for SBF: The Musical based on the novel "Git Push by SapphireAI" and gets inspired to drop out of high school and run for president. President Comanche is sworn into office, January 20, 2029.
  - toss1 4y ago
    Yup, President Comanche timeline is in a film posing as a comedy, but which is actually a time-shifted documentary with the value of T unknown (and definitely not the stated value)...
    - Oxidation 4y ago
      The most unbelievable part of it is that the president would actually admit he didn't know what he was doing (and actually want to fix a situation out of genuine care) rather then double down and just have the protagonist killed in order to maintain control over whatever was left. Or that Brawndo wouldn't have carried out a character assassination (or a genuine one) to keep sales rising for another quarter.
  - Oxidation 4y ago
    This is basically the plot for Accelerando but rebased onto Rule 34's having accidentally started to come true.
- itronitron 4y ago
  Maybe satire never existed, but we are only now realizing it.
Oxidation 4y ago
The IOCCC[1] ain't got nothing on this in terms of stakes! Though the real test is if it fails to be explained with plausible deniability. [1]: https://www.ioccc.org/ https://www.ioccc.org/
AlexanderTheGr8 4y ago
This reminds of the book Dark Forest in the series 3 body problem Spoiler Alert : In this book, a character invents a way to impart any belief into your mind. So if you read "water is poisonous" while in the MRI-type machine, your brain will completely believe that water is poisonous. The intention was for people to believe that they can win against the technologically superior aliens. But the character made a one character change (+ to -) to modify the machine to make a person believe the opposite. So "humans will 100% win against aliens" became "humans will 100% lose against aliens" Very interesting idea.

Impressive that it was a one line code change to allow a 65b credit line. This is some office space level stuff.

heavyset_go 4y ago

Satire is dead and the last couple decades of reality killed it.

giardia 4y ago
I kind of figured it was the other way around.
recuter 4y ago
Every once in a while I read about some wanna be criminal mastermind that got his idea for a crime from some TV show. Maybe everything is feeding on itself and that's what the singularity actually is, humanity disappearing up its own butthole. Logic as follows: A) Truth is stranger than fiction. - Golden age of streaming begets insatiable thirst for content. 3) An army of writers bangs out every ludicrous plot line imaginable. ◅ Quibi raises $2,000,000,000 to target youngsters with 10-minute quibisoides • Movies with talking raccoons fighting space gods smash box office records *) An AI trained on a billion monkeys with typewriters more efficiently hallucinates imagery than humans deemed possible. Prompt generated raccoons sweep oscars. > SBF commits a 1 line change to FTX that results in 65 jillion dodge boondoggle Somewhere a hackernews reader cackles manically in the darkness of night as he (or she!) conceives of hooking up Chat GPT to news feeds for soft real time true crime drama content generation for Netflix whilst waving goodbye to the last remnants of what was left of their sanity reading this bullshit instead of going to bed its 3am already what are you doing your brain is fried~~ (ﾟヮﾟ) A16Z invests the GDP of a small country to buy marketshare. A Quaranteeny views a 10 second Quibi ad on TikTok for SBF: The Musical based on the novel "Git Push by SapphireAI" and gets inspired to drop out of high school and run for president. President Comanche is sworn into office, January 20, 2029.
- toss1 4y ago
  Yup, President Comanche timeline is in a film posing as a comedy, but which is actually a time-shifted documentary with the value of T unknown (and definitely not the stated value)...
  - Oxidation 4y ago
    The most unbelievable part of it is that the president would actually admit he didn't know what he was doing (and actually want to fix a situation out of genuine care) rather then double down and just have the protagonist killed in order to maintain control over whatever was left. Or that Brawndo wouldn't have carried out a character assassination (or a genuine one) to keep sales rising for another quarter.
- Oxidation 4y ago
  This is basically the plot for Accelerando but rebased onto Rule 34's having accidentally started to come true.
itronitron 4y ago
Maybe satire never existed, but we are only now realizing it.

Oxidation 4y ago

The IOCCC[1] ain't got nothing on this in terms of stakes! Though the real test is if it fails to be explained with plausible deniability. [1]: https://www.ioccc.org/ https://www.ioccc.org/

AlexanderTheGr8 4y ago

This reminds of the book Dark Forest in the series 3 body problem Spoiler Alert : In this book, a character invents a way to impart any belief into your mind. So if you read "water is poisonous" while in the MRI-type machine, your brain will completely believe that water is poisonous. The intention was for people to believe that they can win against the technologically superior aliens. But the character made a one character change (+ to -) to modify the machine to make a person believe the opposite. So "humans will 100% win against aliens" became "humans will 100% lose against aliens" Very interesting idea.