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Cake day: November 30th, 2023

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  • The real answer has to lie in the definition of “nothing” in the context of what counts as having something to show for your spent money vs not having anything to show for it and succeeding.

    It’s most basic form is:

    If nothing means no physical products then you can’t buy a jet, but you can donate it all to charities.

    You win

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    So the next level of having nothing at the end may prohibit donations, considering that to be a type of “gifting”

    So now you have to spend it on a service. No holding on to goods, no donations.

    So you use AWS and set up a bullshit loop of web traffic that produces a 100M$ bill for server usage.

    You win.

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    So now we must ask if the genie considers the service performed to you by AWS to be “something.”

    What could we possibly do next?

    Set up a charity ourselves and use the 100M as seed capital? Maybe, but if you own it or gain the assets like buildings or something you might lose.

    Buy 50M lotto tickets and hope you don’t win? (Powerball is 2$ a piece I think.). Maybe…but that’s risky. That’s like a 1 in 6 or 7 chance to win at that point, plus you’re nearly guaranteed to win snaller prizes which would have to be dealt with.

    I think the answer is a boat. A fuckin huge one that’s a little older. This does two things, 1.) its a single object holding all the value. If we can end the month without it, then we win. 2.) it’s easy to get into dangerous and perilous situations in a boat.

    Sail that bitch into a hurricane and try to turn around. This runs the risk of failing if the boat lives, but all you gotta do is turn it sideways relative to the huge waves. As long as you genuinely were sailing the ship and not sabotaging it I don’t think it would fall under the “throwing money away” category.

    Idk. It’s hard I’ve you get ticky tacky with the definition of nothing. I guess you could just yolo options. Either you’re going to be broke or you’ll have billions of dollars by the end so you win either way? Maybe the boat thing ain’t the answer. Lol I’m gonna leave it anyway.





  • No, the automation technology gives them that power, ubi is a consequence of it. The more productivity per worker a company can achieve, the fewer employees they need.

    You really think as technology advances and companies implement more and more of it, that companies only end up with more leverage if the local government is doing UBI?

    UBI is welfare product that helps low bracket earners. If the tax code was functional it would be paid for by the corporations and 1% themselves and even so it’s still extremely helpful where it’s implemented.









  • *Riloe

    *Architect of games

    *Nakey Jake

    *Gamer makers toolkit

    *Curious archive

    *Lemino

    *12 tone

    *AI and games

    *Alpha Phoenix

    *Barely sociable

    *Be smart

    *Branch education

    *Brick immortar

    *Bytebytego

    *Cgp grey

    *Coffeezilla

    *Defunctland

    *Eckharts ladder

    *Electroboom

    *Every frame a painting

    *Lessons from the screenplay

    *History of the earth

    *History of the universe

    *Internet Historian

    *Kurzgesagt

    *Lockpickinglawyer

    *Markrober

    *Mustard

    *Cold fusion

    *Polymatter

    *Minute physics

    *No clip documentaries

    *PBS spacetime

    *Pursuit of wonder

    *Real engineering

    *Scishow

    *Secret base

    *Stevemould

    *Technology connections

    *The b1m

    *The history guy

    *The squidd

    *Throttle house

    *Tom Stanton

    *Tom Scott (retired now)

    *Veritasium

    *Vsauce

    *Wendover productions

    Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below

    *Half as interesting

    *Undecided with Matt Farrell

    *3blue1brown

    *Numberphile

    *Mathologer

    *Miniminuteman

    *Sam o’nella

    *Alternate history hub

    *Road guy rob

    *8-bit guy

    *Modern vintage gamer

    *Bobby Broccoli

    *Jenny Nicholson

    *Animagraffs

    *Captain disillusion

    *Driving 4 answers

    *Engineering explained

    *Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

    *Kings and generals

    *Michael Reeves

    *Noah caldwell-gervais

    *People make games

    *Pointless hub

    *Smarter everyday

    *The engineering mindset

    *The great war

    *The operations room

    *The modern rogue

    *Zack Freedman

    *The backyard scientist

    *Brew

    *I did a thing

    *Neo

    *Stand up maths

    There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

    These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

    Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo