Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: “What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?”

A worldview where one’s worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they’ve finally burnt out all the good will.

The conspiracy theorist who lives in my brain wants to say its intentional to make us more open to blatant cheating as something that’s just a “cost of doing business.” (I swear I saw this phrase a half dozen times in the orange site thread about this)

The earnest part of me tells me no, these guys are just clowns, but I dunno, they can’t all be this dumb right?