“monument to the first 500” or something, really fun concept - rich people pay a massive amount for essentiially suicide, get a monunment for their pains

I kinda like the Revelation Space universe, but I am literally stuck at 85% on book 4 or 5

Good luck with your novel!

nominative determinism strikes again

it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected

Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)

the orifice will pulse invitingly

gonna be the biggest flop since that facehugger apple made

could be a legacy admittant

enjoy ur hypertopical vibecoded website du jour

https://coldcardwatch.com/

we’re up to 51 replies to the post, which has 198 karma points. I guess it’s hard to distinguish between those that are in support of the racist, in support of a fellow rationalist, or some other reason.

JFC it’s already been 2 years

if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat

also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that’s not been scrubbed is very close to 1

I’ve been following it a bit, there’s a lot less comedy gold to mine nowadays

here are some links from another forum

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/31/major-bitcoin-wallet-flaw-drains-594-btc-in-25-minute-sweep (crypto shill outfit link)

https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/31820a53956b53c5/image.png

https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/c0804335a52922e4/image.png - this last is attributing to malice what’s clearly stupidity

Based on the other entries in the slobslack, I think it is

https://inpreparation.substack.com/

an EA racist is offered a job, gets duck-milk-shaked, and worries that future AI models won’t be aligned correctly (i.e. be racist):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FuGfR3jL3sw6r8kB4/richard-ngo-s-shortform?commentId=dk35MPynRbrLs3aqN

here’s some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%

https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/

HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222

Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.

Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords

https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians

I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.

Non-sober spaces

I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.

Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

A wallet’s seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.

Coldcard’s firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block’s Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.

Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip’s serial number and clock registers.

yeah it’s a common trope/cope

like “most human programmers suck too”

ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from