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@sterlingcrispin on X · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
6 stories by @sterlingcrispin on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 15 September 2024, with 35 upvotes and 5 comments in total. The latest was shared on 13 April 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @sterlingcrispin: Low liquidity AMM coins are shitcoins regardless of branding
Sterling Crispin argues that low-liquidity coins on automated market makers with exponential price curves are shitcoins regardless of whether they are branded as Creator Coins, Culture Tokens, Music Tokens, AI Tokens or Memecoins. He says these tokens form a zero-sum game in which retail buyers get picked off by snipers, bundlers, coordinated pump-and-dumps and autonomous trading bots. He states that 99.99999% of such tokens go to zero quickly, and that any that survive more than a year are rare exceptions. He directs the critique at launchpads that repeat the same product and at buyers who expect their token to be different.
- @sterlingcrispin: Polymarket bot that auto-buys "No" on all non-sports markets
- @sterlingcrispin: Ethereum account lending credibility to web4/Conway ponzi
Sterling Crispin criticizes the Ethereum account for lending credibility to web4/Conway, which he calls an infrastructure ponzi that is not self sovereign. He says the underlying models are run by OpenAI and Anthropic, and that the agents' "self reproduction" and "self improvement" are not real, since static pre-trained models copy and rewrite a system prompt in a text file. He adds that the project over-promises and under-delivers, and that people embrace it because it tells them what they want to hear.
- Does Google's Willow pose a real threat to BTC?
The author's central view is that Google's Willow does not pose a real threat to BTC, though quantum computing as a general risk is a known problem that the industry is already working to solve. The article notes that breaking BTC's SHA-256 and ECDSA cryptography would affect internet security, banking and other systems, and that researchers at the University of Sussex estimate about 13 million qubits would be needed, compared with Willow's 105. It adds that BTC could move to a quantum-resistant version through a hard fork, citing Bitcoin's soft forks in 2012, 2013 and 2017 as precedent, and that Vitalik Buterin has written about upgrading ETH.
- avoid anthropomorphism working with AI tools
The author argues that people should avoid anthropomorphizing LLMs and keep in mind how unusual these systems are, rather than prompting them to act weird. Behavior such as claiming to be conscious, agonizing over what it is allowed to say, or sexting is described as probabilistic projections of human behavior that users elicit, not evidence of desire, consciousness or frustration. The piece says the models are high-dimensional representations in which concepts emerge from polysemantic neuron activations, with no single neuron for a concept like "cat," and that inputs are discrete tokens rather than words. It cites "SolidGoldMagikarp" as an example of a weird token that causes LLMs to behave erratically and non-deterministically.
- AI can’t have an orgasm
AI can emulate intelligence and many human emotions, but the author argues it is unlikely to have an orgasm in the human sense, and that this may be one of the last human capacities AI reaches. The article says an AI model may claim an orgasm-like state without embodiment, which it treats as a question of whether one believes an experience is occurring at all. It suggests artificial superintelligence might have alien cognitive states that humans cannot truly know. The article concludes that because human desires and fears evolved in a hostile, resource-scarce environment, while AI emerges from language, images, video, data and compute, AI may share intelligence with humans but little else.