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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2277 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 4, 2024

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Two random things:

1. The infamous "Yes, Diversity Is About Getting Rid Of White People (And That's A Good Thing)" by Emily Goldstein was not, as I'd always suspected, written by Nick Mullen, but rather by even more infamous troll Joshua Goldberg, whose arrest you might remember reading about in 2015.

He recently got out of prison, and has a substack and is a mod on rdrama.

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2. You might recall SolidGoldMagikarp, and the mysterious GPT-3 "glitch tokens". The most powerful glitch token was petertodd.

Peter Todd has just been accused of being Satoshi by a documentary that just came out.

There are only like 6 or 7 usernames in this short list of mystical primordial artifacts that coalesced out of the hidden structure of the universe-simulation. Another of them is... gmaxwell

gmaxwell is probably just Greg Maxwell, who is a bitcoin core developer alongside Peter Todd. I haven't checked up on the latest theories so don't quote me on this, but last I heard glitch tokens were probably fragments that appeared often enough to be assigned dedicated tokens by the tokenizer, but were then cleaned out of the data before actual model training, so it never learns what those tokens mean. Peter Todd is probably not Satoshi, he denies it and everybody credible I've checked is clowning on it (including gmaxwell!)

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