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Ah, so this is how survival prepping goes mainstream. Not quite how I expected but I'll take it.

They may also go down over time. They may do little spirals, or go sideways.

Donald changes his mind on these things literally hour-to-hour. That's really great for American businesses.

Yeah, I'd much rather have random humans I don't know anything about making those "moral" decisions.

If you're already answered, "No," you may skip to the end.

So the purpose of this article is to convince people of a particular answer, not to actually evaluate the arguments pro and con.

Sounds like an auction with extra steps.

Wasn't he just a nut who had decided to shoot anyone who was really famous, and Donald just happened to come to town that day?

There are so many things about this timeline that are just dumb. My suspension of disbelief is broken. I want to subscribe to a different one.

I'm not making any statements about what other people may think about it. The question was why this guy is doing this thing, and I expect it's because he finds it fun.

I've seen plenty of weird bots on Reddit over the years that had no point to their existence other than, presumably, having been fun to code. This is probably one such.

Right, and this is presumably something he finds fun. You were asking why, I was explaining why.

No, it's not the same. I was using basketball as an analogy. Someone who doesn't enjoy basketball wouldn't "get it", just as you're not "getting" the fun that can come from building and playing around with AI bots. Different people find different things to be fun.

/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive/ does this.

I actually wandered away from the SubredditSimulator successor subreddits because even with GPT2 they were "too good", they lost their charm. Back when SubredditSimulator was still active it was using simple Markov chain based text generators and they produced the most wonderfully bonkers nonsense, that was hilarious. Modern AIs just sound like regular people, and I get that everywhere already.

What I am failing to understand is: why?

People do things for fun sometimes. You could ask this about almost anything that people do that isn't directly and immediately related to survival. Why do people play basketball? It's just pointlessly bouncing a ball around in a room, following arbitrary rules that only serve to make the apparent goal of getting it through the hoop harder.

And if not, the Ukrainians are doing quite well in the long-range department. Just yesterday they blew up an oil refinery 1300 km from the front lines.