• David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      loved how they got the second castle in the Czech republic for a mere 4m EUR, and didn’t at any point question why a whole fucking castle was on sale for just 4m EUR

    • Charlie Stross@wandering.shop
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      @maol 25 years ago I saw one for sale in the Scottish borders for £250K. An absolute steal—if you could afford the £25K/year for heating and the extra £100K+ to repair the leaky roof. Never mind the £50K to install double glazing and insulation and the £200K or so in renovation it urgently needed. Etc.

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        There’s a reason there aren’t any aristocrats living in the shagging things anymore - you need a big staff and a lot of resources to run them! They only made economic sense when there were throngs of peasants to work in them for cheap or free, and people had very different expectations when it came to energy, heating and lighting.

        It’s hard to see what OpenAI could have gotten out of this purchase, except the chance to fulfil their Bond villain fantasies.

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          Are you undervaluing how important it is to them to fulfill their Bond villain fantasies?

          (Anyway the x-risk people think there’ll be hoards of peasants to staff them as soon as the Evil AI/Dirty Bomb/Typhoon destroys civilization, and they need a place to live when they open their survival bunkers.)