Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.
It would be nice if PayPal did an HP/Autonomy like clawback. The founders of Honey were frauds from the start and this was coordinated grift that enriched VCs and their founders at PayPal’s expense.
It’s just concrete proof that Nvidia as well as all of the big LLMs just stole their training data. I mean this has their legal team mulling their risks. Good artists copy, great ones steal. All hail Scam Altman!
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