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Cryptoland [video]
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Re: Cryptoland [video]
#142This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a lot of other things in this space I didn't think could be serious that are. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
This must be an art project, right? Legitimately still perplexed.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or just straight-up stolen art. For every one artist selling NFTs of their own art, there are easily five NFTs sold by fraudsters misrepresenting themselves to have to right to do so.
Perhaps a sort of trusted authority could validate that...
So, why would you need all the crypto if an authority provides you the value?
One day people will get that crypto is an implementation detail raised to a cargocult status.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#144This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a lot of other things in this space I didn't think could be serious that are. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
This must be an art project, right? Legitimately still perplexed.
Guess with the "Silicon Valley" series wrapped up, writers gotta still write.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#145Here[1] is an article with more details. One worrying detail is that whoever runs the Cryptoland Twitter account "joking" about the age of consent being the age of "mental maturity". It is always interesting what laws these people prioritize changing. [1] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n38x/cryptocurrency-invest...
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Re: Cryptoland [video]
#146I watched the whooooooooooooooooooole video
I've not felt like this since 1999 when I did a party with co-workers at the T1 ISP I worked for at the time. The E-Trade monkey commercial came on and we laughed. We were already reviving large number of T1/T3/Sonet disconnect orders and it was obvious the end was coming soon.
I don't know when crypto will pop. I don't think we've hit max stupid yet.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, not a single communique of theirs has led me to believe that English is their first language.
communiqué a good example of Muphry’s Law, that every online grammar correction/complaint will contain a grammatical error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
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Re: Cryptoland [video]
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…
I think you may be referring to the following: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-... https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82814/secretly-smart-rea... by immediately weeding out the skeptical, they can focus their direct person-hours of communication back and forth labor setting up the scam on the most vulnerable and guillible.
Applies to genuine ads too. Where there's any cost involved, it's important for ROI to disqualify non-customers at any stage of the funnel (aka avoiding false positives).
e.g. if you're paying $100 per click to attract a specific demographic, you don't want to run an ad that's so intriguing any random visitor will click on it. Not only will you be charged $100 for a dead lead, you'll also be making your ads less favourable to the algorithm, thus driving up future costs and/or making your ads less likely to appear in future.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#149319 ETH per acre. ($1mil USD today) I'm struggling to find a way to constructively criticize. Project aside, the video is not at all professional to a western audience. (watch all of it, I dare you) It's stylistically tone-deaf for their target market, grift notwithstanding. Who decided that real estate investors need a cartoon? At least Fyre's promo content felt "cool."
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Re: Cryptoland [video]
#150319 ETH per acre. ($1mil USD today) I'm struggling to find a way to constructively criticize. Project aside, the video is not at all professional to a western audience. (watch all of it, I dare you) It's stylistically tone-deaf for their target market, grift notwithstanding. Who decided that real estate investors need a cartoon? At least Fyre's promo content felt "cool."
It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…
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