V0ldek

Artists using GenAI tools are among the most hardworking and innovative creators I've encountered.

oh sweet fuck, dude, it's not our fault everyone you hang out with has the innovativeness and work ethic of a concrete slab

His probably most famous venture was trying to construct and sell a self.-contained BTC miner in an RPi form factor, which crashed and almost literally burned hilariously.

Oh, I remember that one! That's a claim to fame if I've ever heard one.

10x smaller doesn’t mean 10x cheaper when things you’re cutting corners on are warhead and rocket engine that is cheapest components per gram that also make the entire thing work.

Wait, what else is there in a missile though? I'm obviously a complete ignorant in this space but in my head a missile is the thing that goes boom (warhead), the thing that goes vroom (engine), electronics, and the packaging. I'm assuming the packaging is also not the main cost here since "smaller doesn't mean cheaper", sooo, what, are the electronics that expensive?

Shout out to my senior teammate at Microsoft who sanitised my comments for external consumption.

We'd have a group chat with some folks from another team, they'd say something stupid, so I'd private message my teammate "jesus fucking christ what the fuck are they talking about I swear to god those fuckers don't read any docs we send them I'm going to print them out and staple them to their bloody foreheads" and he'd laugh and then post "Hey, thanks for your comments, we discussed this previously here [attachment], but we can go over it again on our Wednesday meeting, cheers".

I swear he was the only reason I wasn't fired and forcefully escorted out of that building.

Wait, are those people so fucked in the head they genuinely tricked themselves into thinking users... Like ads?

Wait isn't that the only kind of DAO

Okay, first of all, classic question from me, who the fuck is this? How many chuds were produced by the crypto bubble, it's insane, you could have a fucking Pokemon card deck with them. My brain already struggles to retain information about both SBF and Wrinklewusses, there are no more resources to be allocated to a Balaji.

Second, most of this is irrelevant bullshit even for the standards of a crypto grifter, but I really wanted to read the "Learn" section. First there's some nonsense about "proof-of-learn" which, again, completely irrelevant, and finally the single paragraph that actually says anything about the curricullum:

Our initial material focuses on founding tech communities, as distinct from tech companies.

Is there a word for stuff like this? Filler? Cruft? Meaningless, utterly redundant words that just pad the text. Anyway, this post is 90% that.

As such it touches on everything from crypto, AI, and social media to history, politics, and filmmaking.

So your idea of "everything" in tech is crypto, AI, and social media, in order: a useless tech that is already dead, an ill-defined hype term for tech that doesn't exist in the best case and is useless in the worst, and just a general concept of platforms with users? Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot of software engineering by analysing the architecture of pre-collapse Twitter, like you can run an entire course on microservices just off the back of that, but I somehow doubt that's what this guy is selling.

It should be useful even if you’re just growing a traditional company or building a following.

What the fuck does this even mean. This should be useful if you're growing a company or not actually trying to do or achieve anything? Do you need any sort of education for "building a following"? What does that even mean, like a traditional Jim Jones-style following? You definitely don't need a school for that shit.

Also what's a non-traditional company? What's the avant-garde corporate trend now? Companies that actually turn a profit?

Over time, of course, every branch of the sciences and humanities becomes relevant when building a community.

I'm not sure what he categorises as "building a community" but I'm not sure if like molecular quantum mechanics ever become relevant for what in my head is community-building, as in establishing networks of support and communication between people. Just saying that choosing "building a community" as the guiding principle of what to include in your curriculum might tend to exclude some important branches of science.

Also lol, lmao even, dude how the fuck is AI or crypto relevant to building any sort of community other than a communal fart-sniffing chamber.

But we’re intentionally starting with something simple. Our learning is about continuous education, about solving the problem-of-the-day [emph. mine].

Oh, so they're gonna tackle climate change almost exclusively! You know, the actual problem-of-the-day we have in this current day! Wonder how crypto helps with that, though... 🤔

Anyway, in conclusion, your "university" doesn't have a coherent fucking curricullum, what are you even doing. I hope this is going to be a sex island, otherwise this is a giant waste of everyone's time.

provide just enough service that you don’t go elsewhere.

It's not even that, is it? As long as they can force you to use their stuff it doesn't even have to provide any service.

If there was a way for Google to hold you at gunpoint via internet until you pay them $100 every day they'd have a fiduciary duty to do so.

suggests goverment role

Imagining Batman sitting in Congress as an elected representative

This vial has a 50/50 chance of containing cough medicine or cyanide, but hey, it's still better than no medicine!

What the men do is irrelevant.

What most of the orange site frequenting men do is indeed irrelevant, though for different reasons than they think.

What's SB1047 about? The post doesn't clarify that in any way.