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AI is weird. It may not have been given the information explicitly. Instead it could be an artifact in the scan itself due to the different equipment. Like if one scan was lower resolution than the others but you resized all of the scans to be the same size as the lowest one the AI might be picking up on the resizing artifacts which are not present in the lower resolution one.

You ever heard about the South Bend shovel slayer? That’s him. Back in ‘58 he murdered his whole family and half the people on the block… with a snow shovel. Been hiding out in this neighbourhood ever since! Not enough evidence to convict. They never found the bodies. Now it’ll just be a matter of time before he does it again.

He walks up and down the streets every night, salting the sidewalks. You see that garbage can full of salt? That’s where he keeps his victims. The salt turns to bodies… Into mummies…

Look out!

“Black on yellow, kill a fellow!”

No, I think you’re mistaken. I don’t think they feel that way at all. I think billionaires keep going because they are competitive. They want to win! And they often lose unfathomable amounts of money in the process, which they don’t care about. Survival brain does not shrug off huge losses so casually.

The other reason they keep going is because they want power. They’re used to being in charge and they hate when others have power over them. They’re subject to all kinds of scrutiny and they’re afraid when political power is leveraged against them. So they do what comes natural to them: try to leverage what they have for more power (and more wealth, which brings more power with it).

It also does not illustrate what motivates a billionaire. It just makes their behaviour seem totally irrational which does not do you any favours.

Is there one that disables 1-9 keys for jumping around in the video? I’ve accidentally pressed those so many times and lost my spot in a long video. Extremely frustrating!

GICs then!

Edit: looks like GICs are only guaranteed up to $100,000.

But honestly if you consider stocks and bonds to be gambling then you could really argue that buying anything is a gamble. Buy $100 million worth of onions and the price will go up due to scarcity, then try to sell them. Someone actually did this years ago and made a ton of money while bankrupting a lot of farmers and investors. The government responded by banning the trading of onion futures!

All this is to say it’s actually impossible to fulfill the genie’s rules if you take into account market fluctuations on the price of anything you buy.

Oh, I thought this was a video game based on the screenshot (shows how long I’ve been out of the scene).

I think Wesley would’ve been an amazing character for exploring the downsides of being labeled a gifted child: disliked when young and disappointing when old.

Yeah I barely even looked at mine. I had to buy it in order to get access to the online site for assignments but otherwise I just used the lecture notes.

It’s a handy reference to have now though!

That’s a niche. GP was asking about a niché. I had the same question. Something to do with this guy?

Me too! What a brick that thing is!

Perhaps Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I’m sure he managed to squirrel away some of his wealth and now lives comfortably in exile, albeit with a huge bullseye on his back. But if your standard is “lose 100% of their wealth” then that almost never happens to anyone, even working class people who declare bankruptcy due to overwhelming debts.

Does Muammar Gaddafi count? He lived like a king with an anime-style cadre of elite female bodyguards, being essentially the emperor of Libya. He died after some soldiers dragged him out of a ditch and summarily executed him.