As long as you’re paying attention to the cutting edge, you’re making money. Whether that currency destabilizes, ehh we’ll see.
It gets harder to find that cutting edge the older you get
Edit: I want to state that I think this is trash and VCs should be regulated. But I made a grip of money on bitcoin once so who am I to really complain?
Or if you’re in on the pyramid scheme in the early days. That’s what all cryptocurrencies ultimately are (ok, in some cases they’re reverse funnels of success).
Did someone say “Stupidest Timeline Coin?”
Because I think I heard someone say “Stupidest Timeline Coin”. It has a market cap in the millions, apparently, that have already doubled.
"a study in memetic contagion and the tail risks of unsupervised infinite idea generation in the age of [large language models]
Memetic contagion…I suppose that’s a more modern way to describe the dopamine addicted rush that the internet fuels. But this is really no different than a hype man, a huckster, a charlatan / almost con artist. It’s the modern equivalent of the super charismatic sales man plying his trade selling you a miracle potion that cures whatever ills you.
The difference now is the charisma has been replaced by dopamine fuel tweets and cures with profit.
According to Cointelegraph , Andy Ayrey, the bot’s creator, clarified in an October 13 Twitter post that Truth Terminal was not directly responsible for launching the token but was involved in promoting it.
Anytime I hear about LLMs acting like this, I feel deeply that it’s all just an elaborate, human-guided, puppet show. LLMs are not general AI. They can’t be ‘traumatized’. Just someone creating their own ‘lore’ and not converting it into a money-making scheme once they saw it had an audience.
The bit that gets skiied right over is the degree to which this guy is likely goosing the outputs and the results to make it seem more significant and important than it really is.
Folks are buying into the meme, but it’s being used to gloss over the lack of there there.
We are pattern-matching monkeys who see Jesus in a piece of toast.