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"Please Don't Be Lazy"

Ken Liu · 1 Oct 2025

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  1. With all that investment and theft and hype, we’ve built these machines that are supposed to bring about the next Industrial Revolution, and now we have to beg them not to be lazy.
  2. while I can’t rule out the possibility that a few of these may be legitimate service providers, the vast majority are scammers.
  3. With the rise of AI, these scammers have been using LLMs to make their pitches far more targeted and precise.
  4. With all that investment and theft and hype, we’ve built these machines that are supposed to bring about the next Industrial Revolution, and now they’re used to make money by exploiting our vulnerabilities, our desire to connect.

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