why does every crypto dude in 2026 look like they were generated by an AI prompted to create "a man who definitely has opinions about age of consent laws"

[huxley@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan
Maybe because AI's are good at superficial generalisations?

[vonskinnback@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan well it does look like after years of screaming about protecting women and children from sex trafficking & sexual assault it would appear that after finding out all of their heros are involved or big fans of it that they have now found a new position on the matter, if they are rich, white, republican (MAGA republican only) part of the cryptocurrency community or the tech community, then that behaviour is cool & definitely not illegal or problematic...

[heidilifeldman@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@Daojoan what was that about a man who “knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction”?

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
The datasets must have a very large number of Epstein's photos \s

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Daojoan Because they were trained on Reddit's corpus.

[tstudent@infosec.exchange]

@Daojoan How soon we forget that libertarians exist and have always been Like That

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@Daojoan

I wonder how closely aligned the "cryptocurrency" and "opinions about age of consent laws" vectors are in large language models

[pstewart@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@Daojoan 2026 being what it is, I'm assuming it's because half of them actually *are* AI-generated.

[stevefoerster@social.vivaldi.net]

@tstudent @Daojoan I've traveled in those circles since the early '90s and that's simply not true. Crypto Bro libertarianism is very different from what came before.

In the span of about five years the movement went from "individualism because we can make a better world" to "individualism because fuck you".

That's why I don't travel in those circles anymore:

The Trouble With Being A “Libertarian” – SteveFoerster.com

(stevefoerster.com)

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@gbargoud @Daojoan Libertarianism used to be about performing gay abortions while smoking weed, not oh fuck I'm in the Epstein files in 23 places.

[mraptronym@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I mean, they were always libertarians, even back in 2010.

[macacator@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan spawned from the bowels of Grok'a virtual anus

[tstudent@infosec.exchange]

@SteveFoerster I was referring to antipathy towards age of consent laws specifically, which has been a feature of the ideology for as long as it has existed (and pretty darkly funny). I agree that the current breed has zero culture and is pure Id, with zero checks