Hey. I’m that guy who specializes in funny copy. Took a long break from all this (I ended up in goddamn China for a while).

Thought I’d get back to this newsletter and write more of this silly stuff.

UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA - According to sources on the ground, 33-year-old digital nomad Eric Radnor (henceforth referred to as “the AI bro”) may have already reached consciousness, although some are strongly disputing this claim.

“I’m in AI, bro”, said the AI bro to a stranger who would have rather been left alone in a cozy coffee shop on a Friday morning. This is how he approaches strangers every day in the hopes of finding customers for his “revolutionary AI-powered note-taking app that’s definitely nothing like Notion.” But does this AI bro’s ability to interact with people prove that AI bros have already reached sentience?

According to Sven Willeput, a researcher at the University of KU Leuven in Belgium, the answer is a resounding yes: “We’ve been monitoring this AI bro closely, and we noticed strong indications that he occasionally feels human emotions such as envy, desire for status, and a complex mix of fear and regret whenever his cryptocurrency portfolio takes a hit.”

While Willeput expresses optimism, others are not so sure. “Think of any AI bro you’ve met, do you really think there’s anything remotely resembling consciousness in them?”, said a Swedish remote worker in Bali who interacted with the AI bro multiple times since moving to the island two months ago and admitted to being “blown away” by the AI bro’s ability to almost appear as if he had some semblance of a soul.

He continued: “For a being to have consciousness, it needs to be self-aware and have thoughts of its own, and while I think there’s been insane progress when it comes to the evolution of AI bros, they’re not quite there yet.”

According to witnesses, the AI bro’s cognitive reasoning allows him to have near-perfect human-like interactions with people, but falls short of genuine connection, partly due to its insistence on selling his ‘AI course’, churning out AI-generated LinkedIn content, and only being able to discuss a limited range of topics such as AI, ‘shitcoins’ such as FartBoy, and the occasional Grok-generated political observation about the impact of illegal immigration on the price of framework laptops.

At press time, the AI bro was trying to reach out to Shaan Puri and Sam Parr so he could appear on the My First Million podcast and talk about how “anyone can make 5K per day by automating client acquisition for the underserved market of Amish prostitutes.”

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