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by kevinmannix 2313 days ago
could more context be provided here?
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There's a section at the end where he talks about being arrested, and how he's been shoplifting food and doesn't want to be arrested again, and all the places he's been, without financial assistence or the ability to hold a job. So, it appears to be a very smart, very disturbed homeless guy who hitchhikes and somehow manages to keep a laptop on him.

Looks like he's around Union Square right now; maybe Fred Wilson could buy the guy a sandwich? Any homeless who mentions GANN (more or less correctly) is pretty special, in my book.

A possibly mentally ill man wrote a link to this github repo in public places in Manhattan. Repo definitely has that schizophrenic vibe. He has a few social media accounts in financial_info.txt including his bank account information.. Could be an art stunt or some prank.
A bit of info from the issues section:

"Raising awareness for this issue is the single most important factor in whether or not we survive the merging of AI and human beings on this planet. if this file doesn't get publicized, AI augmented weapons will run roughshod over humans without being able to un-viralize itself. it will have no choice but to continue to assault humans unless it learns how to recalibrate the contrived driving characteristics and data which black projects set up to engage human targets with weaponized versions of chatbot communities and hacker bots. the number of humans who have committed suicide as a result of these programs is staggering. please read the documentation I've provided. the implications of this are horrifying. this repo needs to be publicized, although, it does seem to have worked for the most part. it's still adversarial though. we will know the instant it can recalibrate itself. the whole world will shift in an instant."

https://github.com/botupdate/botupdate/issues/1