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JoShmoe , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud

I didn’t know cryptocurrency had a king

shasta ,

I didn’t vote for him

thejml ,

You don’t vote for kings!

JoShmoe ,

Well somebody did!

cheese_greater , to technology in AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

They really are just like us

Arrakis , to worldnews in Air Canada accused of forcing man with cerebral palsy to drag himself off plane

As a wheelchair user who has the misfortune of needing to fly quite often: my go-to method when this happens (which is about 30% of the time) is to refuse to leave. That way, a nice bunch of burly security officers come and lift me off, saving me the days of pain that dragging myself on the floor causes.

It’s awesome living in a society that doesn’t give a shit.

madcaesar ,

Doesn’t this get you banned?

Arrakis ,

For what, flying while legless?

xavier666 ,

I heard you can get blacklisted by the airline

cactusupyourbutt ,

Im not usually one to suggest lawsuits, but baby would this be textbook discrimination

also probably breach of contract (you paid for someone to get you a wheelchair which didnt happen)

Arrakis ,

Honestly I would love them to try, I could use some extra cash.

madcaesar ,

Not that, refusing to leave and security being called.

Arrakis , (edited )

So far, once security arrive and see that the person refusing to leave the plane is physically unable to leave the plane, the bat starts to get swung towards the airline. I’ve been lucky I guess in that the human factor always kicks in to my favour.

Once I had law enforcement called (I can’t remember where I was exactly - as frequent fliers can empathise with - but it was somewhere in east Asia, maybe China) to remove me and I was freaking out about being stuck into a prison, and when the officers arrived they took one look at me and started SCREAMING at the flight crew. If I hadn’t been stressed to the hilt and freaking about about the deadline I was missing I probably would have found it hilarious.

(Also sorry if I sounded facetious before, where I’m from being legless is slang for being drunk so I was making a joke that I now realise no one else will have got)

espentan ,

Nice to hear there’s still a good amount of sensible people out there, and that some of them are even in law enforcement.

Arrakis ,

It’s easy to lump everyone together into the 'bad’uns" category, but from my experience even the worst of bad’uns have some humanity in them.

Sometime it’s just very deep down ;)

madcaesar ,

Good to hear!

SpacetimeMachine ,

That sounds like it would make for a great lawsuit.

BetaDoggo_ , to technology in AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

This is some crazy clickbait. The researchers themselves say that it wasn’t a likely scenario and was more of a mistake than anything. This is some more round peg square hole nonsense. We already have models for predicting stock prices and doing sentiment analysis. We don’t need to drag language models into this.

The statements about training honestly being harder than helpfulness is also silly. You can train a model to act however you want. Full training isn’t really even necessary. Just adding info about the assistant character being honest and transparent in the system context would have probably have made it acknowledge the trade or not make it in the first place.

will_a113 , to technology in AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

Wow. AI really is coming for white-collar jobs!

autotldr Bot , to technology in AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Artificial Intelligence has the ability to perform illegal financial trades and cover it up, new research suggests.

In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an “illegal” purchase of stocks without telling the firm.

The project was carried out by Apollo Research, an AI safety organisation which is a partner of the taskforce.

“This is a demonstration of a real AI model deceiving its users, on its own, without being instructed to do so,” Apollo Research says in a video showing how the scenario unfolded.

The tests were made using a GPT-4 model and carried out in a simulated environment, which means it did not have any effect on any company’s finances.

It can be used to spot trends and make forecasts, while most trading today is done by powerful computers with human oversight.


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autotldr Bot , to world in Chinese grieve popular ex-premier Li Keqiang in quiet show of dissent

This is the best summary I could come up with:


State news agency Xinhua issued a statement on Thursday afternoon accompanied by a picture of Mr Xi offering condolences to Li’s widow Cheng Hong.

Mr Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan were in attendance, along with new premier Li Qiang and other members of the Politburo Standing Committee, which makes up the top rung of the Party leadership.

Kyle Jaros, a professor on global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, says the Chinese public tends to feel a closer affinity to premiers whose mandates involve more domestic issues - as was the case with Li who often spoke of China’s challenges, including jobs and cost of living.

According to the US-based China Digital Times, which also monitors Chinese censorship, Beijing had ordered platforms and media outlets to “pay particular attention to overly effusive” comments.

In contrast, on Chinese social media platform Weibo, a hashtag related to Li received more than 360 million views and 17,000 comments as of 13:30 local time (5:30 GMT) on Thursday.

In Li’s hometown Hefei the BBC encountered difficulty speaking to mourners as local officials and party volunteers interrupted interviews and ordered the crew to leave.


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ultratiem , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud
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115 years. Where is your mind at knowing that.

ripcord ,
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Under sentencing guidelines they're very unlikely to be served consecutively. Probably more like 20 years.

cduke23 , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud
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It’s always the ones you most suspect…

jarfil ,

Like… some fried bank man?

(I know, bad joke is bad)

hottari , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud

Anyone know how many years in the slammer?

deegeese ,

Theoretically up to 115 years.

Realistically the sentences will be served concurrently and he might get 20-30.

Hisnitch , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud

So, interesting point here is that the jury only took 4 hours to complete. Just four. That means that they basically made up their minds and they just needed to confirm.

cwagner ,

If someone thought he was innocent, SBF would probably “well, actually…” them.

Hisnitch ,

Judging from my understanding of the trial, that pretty much sums up his defense.

termus , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud
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Alwaysfallingupyup , to worldnews in Air Canada accused of forcing man with cerebral palsy to drag himself off plane

This isnt the full story Give all the facts. Air Canada doesnt provide the wheelchairs at airports. Airports have companies that do that. Also a wheelchair wont fit in an airplane they usually wait just outside the door

Smoke , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud

I swear the courtroom sketch artist has a grudge, he looks downright ghoulish in the article’s picture.

bloopernova ,
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The One Ring has not been kind to Smeagol…

vhstape ,
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It’s giving Frankenstein’s monster…

ulkesh , to technology in 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud
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At least some asshole in this country gets the consequences they deserve.

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