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    19 hours ago

    If I were a politician I’d take all the bribes. Every one offered. It would all go in to a fund to prosecute every one of the bribers very publicly and openly and none would get what they wanted out of the bribery.

    I’d probably get shot on day one.

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        17 hours ago

        The short version is crypto company that was run by a pseudo-intellectual tech bro who tried to altruism-wash his image and lobbied both dems and gop to get what he wanted.

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      16 hours ago

      Except AI has a limited but valid use case, where FTX was straight up a scam. Will get back to you if (and that’s a big if) they discover a way to do AGI.

      I do agree though. It isn’t far off from from what SBF did. All this money circlejerk has a limited run. I’ve stopped investing past couple of months. Will see if I lose or win.

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        5 hours ago

        Can’t really trust techbros named Sam as we’ve seen

        Or any techbros really, but especially the ones named Sam.

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    18 hours ago

    All this money from where? Lol like aren’t these companies desperate to turn a profit? Are the investors cool with these companies just burning investor money for political spending? Or is that the point of AI, just a new excuse yo dump money into the austerity narrative

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      It’s literal fake money. When you read news of Anthropic investing $400B in Google, do you think that’s “money” in the same sense it is for real people?

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      17 hours ago

      Why do you think the investors are investing so much in said company? They want more, and buying a politician has, so far, had a pretty good ROI.