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this guy is an alumnus of the FTX beanbag polycule so you know this dude is forever marked for this kind of kooky money bullshit

Add in some diddling and this whole thing looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein.

He does even seem to look like a real person. I'm reminded of one of these.

Of course

While you were partying, I studied The Blade

I already called dibs on Andromeda

One of the crazy things about our elite political media is how many of them lack a functioning bullshit detector, which is a one of the most important qualities to have as a journalist.

of course douhthat admired him😏

What's an uber Catholic convert doing officiating a wedding?

It’s a big club etc etc

Leopold Assenbrenner

Cue a different form of those platforms that allow you to invisibly cheat on job application coding tests.

I would love to see them explain, just once, HOW its supposed to enable this bullshit

This seems pretty affordable.

Thank god he didn't want to become a Supreme Court justice. We have enough crazies on the SC.

Then there's the alternate timeline where he'd be an environmental activist in the Green Party in Germany.

I saw the tv glow: evil version

Could I just buy one of the Magellanic Clouds at a discount?

Nostradamus mentioned, so I feel compelled to bring up the fact that James Randi wrote the Mask of Nostradamus, a biography of the man. Exhaustively researched and interesting as hell. Dude was pretty clever in how he made his living.

“There are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness,” he wrote in his viral essay. “Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them.” The amount of farts that this dude was huffing is measured in pounds

Greedy has totally corrupted them.

Nostradumbass.

yeah like I said, anything with a price on it. because he failed to hedge his AI bet so badly that even when the book was up by like 400 percent some minor turbulence wiped him out

I don't even need to click to know it was another wallet inspector. Rich people are stupid as hell and consistently fall for every Bernie Madoff scheme they can find.

Tech takes a lot of L's from our supposed leaders (who are really just finance guys) but this one is genuinely a finance guy.

"After years of success that inspired one podcaster to nickname Aschenbrenner the 'Nostradamus of AI.'" "One podcaster." We now live in a world where for the price of a microphone and (optionally) a camera you can be an expert and people will believe you.

depends on whether you mean "investor" like someone who puts money into an endeavour in good faith so that it will grow and profit or the modern sense of an overpriced conman who buys out companies, ortolans them up into dying overinflated blobfishes, and sells promises of how big they'll get later

or the Spanish Inquisition

Ok, but what are the odds this guy knows the difference between a galaxy and a solar system?

Yea, right.

And the odds are good that there are people (in the broadest sense of the word) already living there.

There has been pushback against the anti-ai sentiment here on Bluesky. And sure, fine: ai should be judged on its merits weighed against its costs. But ai proponents often deserve pitiless derision. They're as bad as Musk. Don't like being thought a walking self-parody? Then don't act like one.

Leopold Aschenbrenner can't hurt me. Leopold Aschenbrenner isn't real....

I would have sold him mine on the spot.

location, location, & location

I think I would have concluded the guy was a weirdo and an idiot. I mean, that's what I'm concluding now, anyway.

It says something about the times we live in, how much I think about this quote now... www.goodreads.com/quotes/79473...

He's fucking idiot... like many of them.

(plus these things might actually have sentient beings, who would presumably feel a certain kind of way about learning that they now belonged to a snot nosed tech bro many light years away lol)

Buying would imply they are for sale..? Who is selling these galaxies exactly

He can buy them from me, I am the owner of the known universe, and I have an NFT to prove it.

no no. Andromeda, the close one, is a mere 2.5 Million light years away.

I already bought all the galaxies. This guy owes me rent.

the way these guys talk about ai... it's straight up Underpants Gnome shit

It will still take the same amount of time on Earth, but it won't feel that way to you.

Can I get expedited shipping

I mean, I have bought a lot of Milky Ways in my time

there was a scam decades ago where a company would sell people the deeds to distant stars...

This is just a plot point from the sequel to the 3 Body Problem lol These fuckin dorks

So the yearbook photo WSJ selected was accurate.

If my husband spent a lot of money on a far away nothingness, I would not be thrilled.

People like this need to touch grass.

And potentially contain inhabited worlds. Fuck outta here, Aschenbrenner you idiot

They might be taking singularity a little too literally here, enabling faster than light travel and all that

Depends on the universe, but certainly any FTL travel capable of crossing to other galaxies in a reasonable amount of time entails being able to get anywhere *within* a galaxy near-instantaneously. That's actually one of my bigger problems with Star Wars - it takes like a week to cross the galaxy.

Yeah, sure, AI will allow humanity to ascend to a new state of being, but money will still be a thing. Just the dumbest, most incurious people in the history of the world.

RIP Tim Curry

I’m pretty sure Elon already believes he owns all of Space

Wow, not used to hearing about snake oil *buyers*

The key is to take out leveraged positions after you get the first few hundred millions, rake in the dough, brag about your performance, and keep doing it until the market turns. Yeah your investors will take a beating, but 20% is 20% while it's good.

I’ll sell him one right now for a very good price. I also happen to have a couple bridges for sale at deep discount.

Give him my number, I'll give him an amazing price on Andromeda

And they kept giving him money to play with! Instead of any of the other things they should have done with someone exhibiting such hostile delusional behavior.

And comprise of billions of stars each.

Good news! I have located a Big Beautiful Galaxy (that is definitely not a shithole galaxy). I can rename it Galaxy of America (as indicated, or even Most American Galaxy America if you wish. Contact me for pricing.

I am going to sell him a galaxy on the blockchain.

E = mc^2 (for everyone except me, daddy's special boy)

chatbot madness should be in the DSM V at this point

These people aren't brilliant visionaries, they're absolutely brain-cooked deluded cult leaders.

These people are clearly insane.

I've heard of "galaxy brain" but I always thought it was dumb. Turns out it was way dumber than I thought.

This Flight of the Conchords clip covered the idea quite well… although they were only thinking stars. They should’ve dreamed bigger! youtu.be/YSeFsX2waus

Well AI is gonna turn galaxies into paperclips so it's largely moot. 🤪

Jesus fucking hell what the fuck do these idiots even think LLMs are?

2040 techbro voice: bro you can put 5 schmoingles on each doingle, it's backed by fankurium blockchain

I know a site where he can buy a star for like $40

"To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far." - Cecil Rhodes Same ambition, extra delusion

I wonder how many apes this dude bought.

Unless it's by space time warping but that requires amounts of energy that likely needs antimatter in large amounts and it would need to create enough energy that it might have the kind of mass that it could create a blackhole if too concentrated.

Technically the closest one is just a mere 2 million light years away. And at the fastest "safest" speed we can travel (0.2c), it will take a mere 10 million years to get there. But I already bought that galaxy, so you can't go there without my permission.

Has he considered buying NFTs of galaxies instead?

I’ve got galaxies he can buy.

The egocentricity is breathtaking.

He found an angel investor

This is ridiculous. He couldn't possibly buy galaxies. At least, not without my permission. I hold title on them all. He has never contacted me to make an offer. I don't think he's even checked my price list. Some of them are remarkably affordable, if you pay in cash.

AI Sniffers doing sci-fi "Scramble for Africa" from first principles, amazing

why are these idiots given any kind of influence

Dude thinks he's Paul Muad'Dib

He's got Weyland-Yutani tastes with Estes money

smart and they think it can be extrapolated to the rest of the world. Even their factual, basic level physics, chemistry and astronomy is laughable. But still they think they’re smart. This is white men confidence flavour with money sprinkled on top

jokes on him I already bought the galaxies from jean-luc Skywalker

I would gladly sell him a galaxy

“Buy a galaxy” is the kinda shit a brain generates when you do DMT after never having once been intellectually curious or paid attention in science class, so the drugs have no grounded information to work with. Just the illusion of epiphany built on infinitely nested failures in comprehension.

Just gotta get my deed notarized before I submit it to the Intergalactic Recorder's Office....

Like Ford Galaxies? Why didn’t he just go to @bringatrailer.bsky.social ?

So far, but yes, you would need to invent wondrous new technology to have a chance to bend space in a way that could actually do the job. They aren't anywhere close to that kind of a mass or gravity warping device.

These people are fucking imbeciles.

didn't someone already sell individual stars back in the 90's?