gerikson

u/gerikson@awful.systems
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too bad most of your debts are denominated in this shitcoin so you pay relatively less as it depreciates

(standard reminder that deflation is good for lenders and almost no-one else)

Comments are utterly mired in jargon

Humanity should count as actual AGI, but it remains slow.

It's a weird middle ground, where it is fooming but pretty slowly. (I mean, as a human, I would think that, i.e. I would experience time on a scale that's somewhat faster than humanity's foom.)

I don't think the term "FOOM" as ever been explicitely defined, it's just verbal tic/shorthand for "intelligence explosion". How can something explode slowly???

also nice save defining "AGI == humanity" => goal reached

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)

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