Nice.

I recently sold a portion of my crypto at a profit and am just keeping it in a money market for the moment. I want to have a certain amount to throw in stocks when the next crash comes, but don’t want to lose out on some of the good things happening now in terms of investing.

It’s true. A person has to make the best choices for themselves.

Oil stock, in my case, paid off my student loans and paid for the down payment on my home, and just in time too given that the US leaders have allowed things to get so bad for the people in those arenas.

The way I justify it to myself is that, as far as investing goes, I am among the smallest of the small fish. Unless you own enough to sway votes in a public company, your investment doesn’t particularly matter as far as a company’s policies and behavior.

Oil stocks were down 90% in March 2020. That’s what I went with. You can profit off a lot of things if you’re willing to hold for a few years.

I hope you’re all keeping some money set aside for when the LLM bubble pops. It could end up being the best time to invest at a discount since March 2020.

Could be you’re right. I don’t know, and I hope I don’t live to find out.

I think that, in a world where legal systems have collapsed completely and billionaires have survived, I don’t think labor will be a matter of choice anymore. I think they’d turn to slavery and likely already have designs on how they’d do it.

Current general LLMs are decent for prototyping or example output to jump-start you into the general direction of your destination, but their output always needs supervision and most often it needs fixing.

This.

LLMs do not produce anything that can be relied upon confidently without human review, and after the bubble pops, that’s only going to become more true.

Hell, I’m glad the first time I ever used it it gave me a bugged hallucinated and false reply. I asked it to give me a summary of the 2023 Super Bowl and learned that Patrick Mahomes kicked a field goal to win the game.

Oh, they’ve planned for it. They have their billionaire bunkers. Bezos has three that we know of.

It’s a stupidity tax, basically.

Really wish I could have back every dollar my parents spent on lottery tickets over the course of their lifetimes, go back in time, and drop it all in stocks instead.

Oh yeah. My mom is a big fan of the ol’ “Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but…”

And I always say: “If you’re not supposed to be telling me, then don’t.”

Marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.

Yup. My old-ass refrigerator has them.

But the thing is, I already had a Brita pitcher and ice trays. I don’t need the fridge to dispense them.

You have done well.

Haven’t really had anything I’ve enjoyed lately, but I am ready an exceedingly good video game-esque novel. It’s called ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’.

Nearly everyone in this country lacks critical thinking skills.

It’s why we still have a two-party system.

Hell yes.

Switch to Mint, folks! It’s easy and works just like Windows, except better.

He IS handsome.