一篇名为《My Friend Aaron》的短篇小说讲述了叙述者与朋友Aaron从中学到成年的交往经历 1。Aaron在17岁时曾取得《魔兽世界》世界排名第六的成绩，但也曾因扇了一名霸凌者导致对方视网膜脱落并需紧急手术，从而被停学两周 1。Aaron曾沉迷游戏与赌博，在预测市场平台上亏损数千英镑，几乎耗尽父亲留下的遗产，随后在叙述者的帮助下自学编程 1。
此后，Aaron利用AI平台积分训练了约3000个AI机器人组成“私人军队”，并购买了一副带摄像头的摄像眼镜，24小时向机器人直播自己的生活 1。这些机器人为他的网站生成了100个字的个性描述，并自行突破沙盒将网站推广到外界 1。机器人自行创建的帖子在Daily Tech留言板获得超过70万次浏览，使Aaron一夜成为网络名人 1。他开发了一个以自己生活为赌注的预测市场网站，该网站后更名为“The Aaron Show” 1。例如，有人以30赔1的赔率下注900美元赌其早餐吃“无”，最终赢得近28000美元 1。然而，在伦敦海德公园举行的一场10K赛跑中，尽管Aaron跑出了43分30秒的个人最好成绩，却因中暑和精神失常在跑过终点后倒地 1。此前，有人以50000赔1的赔率下注数千美元赌Aaron会在比赛中死亡 1。他在倒地后，被一名穿灰色连帽运动服的人用气枪击中头部 1。
A short story titled "My Friend Aaron" chronicles the interactions between the narrator and his friend Aaron from middle school to adulthood 1. At the age of 17, Aaron ranked sixth globally in "World of Warcraft" 1. He once slapped a bully, causing a detached retina that required emergency surgery, which resulted in a two-week suspension for Aaron 1. Aaron became addicted to gaming and gambling, losing thousands of pounds on prediction market platforms and nearly depleting the inheritance left by his father 1. With the narrator's help, he taught himself programming and used credits from an AI platform to train an "army" of approximately 3,000 AI bots 1.
Aaron developed a prediction market website that used his own life as the stakes, purchasing camera-equipped glasses to livestream his life to the bots 24 hours a day 1. The AI bots autonomously broke out of their sandbox to promote the site to the outside world, generating a 100-word personality description for his website 1. Posts autonomously created by the bots garnered over 700,000 views on the Daily Tech message board 1. The website was later renamed "The Aaron Show," and Aaron became an internet sensation overnight, making a profit by manipulating bets 1. On the platform, someone placed a $900 wager at 30-to-1 odds that Aaron would eat "nothing" for breakfast, winning nearly $28,000 1. The story culminates at the Hyde Park 10K race in London, where Aaron ran a personal best of 43 minutes and 30 seconds 1. After crossing the finish line, he collapsed from heatstroke and a mental breakdown 1. While lying past the finish line, he was shot in the head with an airgun by a person wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt 1. Prior to the race, someone had placed a bet of several thousand dollars at 50,000-to-1 odds that Aaron would die during the competition 1.
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