Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Haven’t been around for a while and wanted to drop by the best darn hootenanny on the internet and ….

Looks at comment count.

13.5k!!!!

Self, this is how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt! That ended well for him, right? Never did finish that book. Anyway, at this rate we can get an AI trained solely on the corpus of this thread. The Pineapple Express AI! An AI that spends it time not joining the discourse about AI, but instead makes comments on YouTube videos that are about the stupidity of AI discourse.

It’s going to try to put /.

 

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[Cadence]

I wonder if one of the things I would occasionally have to do if I was really, really, really rich would be to avoid spending some small percent of the money on researchers, fact-checkers, the occasional private investigator, and a PR person in order to "win" arguments on the internet - whether by lining up the evidence about the facts in question or about the hypocrisy of the posters - without getting permabanned from whatever the site was.

For that, and similarly silly reasons, I think I would need to force myself to give all the exorbitant parts of my wealth to good charities and causes so that I didn't have the leftover to waste.

 

[Ryujin]

I wonder if one of the things I would occasionally have to do if I was really, really, really rich would be to avoid spending some small percent of the money on researchers, fact-checkers, the occasional private investigator, and a PR person in order to "win" arguments on the internet - whether by lining up the evidence about the facts in question or about the hypocrisy of the posters - without getting permabanned from whatever the site was.

For that, and similarly silly reasons, I think I would need to force myself to give all the exorbitant parts of my wealth to good charities and causes so that I didn't have the leftover to waste.

I have no such thoughts about myself. I would conceal my wealth as much as possible, keep living in my current rented townhouse (moving sucks), and would retire. A few film making friends would find they had a mysterious, anonymous benefactor and I'd likely travel a bit more. With any luck I'd keep my secret until they stuck me in the ground, after which a bunch of people would find their lives were suddenly made much easier (hopefully also without knowing the source).

 

[Cadence]

I have no such thoughts about myself. I would conceal my wealth as much as possible, keep living in my current rented townhouse (moving sucks), and would retire. A few film making friends would find they had a mysterious, anonymous benefactor and I'd likely travel a bot more. With any luck I'd keep my secret until they stuck me in the ground, after which a bunch of people would find their lives were suddenly made much easier (hopefully also without knowing the source).

That seems like the way to do it... but the number of billboards I could buy up when things annoyed me, or political ads during that time of the year... or the game companies I would be tempted to buy when they annoyed me, or.... (How much would it cost to get a battery of lasers to write messages on the moon visible from earth and have enough of a private security force to stop it from being easily shut down...)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’ve known a few people who have gotten substantial windfalls ($5M+) for a variety of reasons. I also studied windfalls in college & law school.

One concrete lesson is this: if you don’t have a real plan in place when you get your money, you will- on average- fritter it away in 5-7 years.

Of the people I know personally with such an experience, some are on each side.

So even though such an event is unlikely, I’ve had a concrete plan in mind (but not written down) for 20+ years. I’ve convinced my parents to plan likewise.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That seems like the way to do it... but the number of billboards I could buy up when things annoyed me, or political ads during that time of the year... or the game companies I would be tempted to buy when they annoyed me, or.... (How much would it cost to get a battery of lasers to write messages on the moon visible from earth and have enough of a private security force to stop it from being easily shut down...)

Chairface Chippendale, is that you?

 

[Cadence]

Chairface Chippendale, is that you?

I had never seen that before!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Tick was, is and always will be awesomesauce!

 

[Ryujin]

That seems like the way to do it... but the number of billboards I could buy up when things annoyed me, or political ads during that time of the year... or the game companies I would be tempted to buy when they annoyed me, or.... (How much would it cost to get a battery of lasers to write messages on the moon visible from earth and have enough of a private security force to stop it from being easily shut down...)

EDIT - Damn, beaten to it