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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 ?

Bend space, wormholes, instant teleportation, going to an alternate dimension where travel is faster... the method doesn't matter. If an outside observer sees it as faster than light would get there, then you can make a time machine by traveling between 3 points and adjusting reference frames.

These people are fucking imbeciles.

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

I mean you can already buy stars, why not. How can I get in on a galaxy sale grift? These tech bozos seem pretty gullible.

Buy them from...who?