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Replying to Avatar ₿en Wehrman

What’s the first emotion that pops into your head when you think about #AI?

Excitement?

Fear?

Intrigue?

Undecided?

To those whose first emotion regarding AI is negative, I recommend that you:

A) Listen to this podcast; a conversation featuring nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe & nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev, which uses an ultra-big-picture lens to debunk a lot of the primary scaries most of us originally feel about AI 👇

https://youtu.be/s8XoMg3tb0s

B) If your objection is, "It will absorb lots of jobs and put people out of work", ask yourself this:

WHY is the idea of mundane jobs being eliminated scary to us?

No, it's not because punching keys on an accounting program every day (or any other menial job which millions of people currently work) is a mental, physical, or spiritual loss for any of those workers...

It's because under the Fiat Standard, people NEED to work constantly in order to pay rent, put food on the table, and keep themselves and their families' heads above water.

But why is this constant hyper-working by 95% of the population required in the first place? I thought USA was the richest country in history?!

Because everyone's government-printed paper currency is bleeding out, losing value via dilution every time anyone in D.C. decides they want to throw trillions of dollars at anything, ever. (But hey at least we can feel good about getting poorer, because they're using that printed money to bomb more Syrian children for oil 😃👍)

But I digress...let's summarize:

Why do we as a society instinctively feel that people NEED to spend their days shuffling papers, ticking boxes, and calculating numbers (all things that could be taken off of our collective plate this decade by AI)?

Because under the Fiat Standard, the poors have to run on the hamster wheel 24/7/365.

On a #Bitcoin Standard, when people no longer have to participate in wage slavery to chase inflation (because #Bitcoin supply is fixed; it's DEFLATIONARY)…people will no longer NEED to load their schedule with all of these useless jobs to survive. Their savings will grow with time rather than deteriorate, increasing their living standard, and lowering their time preference.

This seems like an outlandish concept...how could we just get richer over time? Sounds too good to be true.

The answer is simple, but "they" want you to think it's complicated. Once you vaporize the cancer of the money printer, all these countless trillions of dollars being spent on the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma donor payouts, and constant bailouts of megabanks, that value will go to YOU.

🤯

[Further explanation of that inflation vs. deflation dynamic can be found on this excellent podcast: https://youtu.be/RuCqFjU9Wi4 ]

To (finally lol) wrap up this opening AI rant:

The combination of AI + Bitcoin is a match made in heaven. It will free people's time, while ALSO reallocating the resulting productivity gains to the PEOPLE, not the bloodthirsty oligarchs that have been silently siphoning everyone's wealth away since central banks gained God-status in 1971.

But this cannot be emphasized enough: the #Bitcoin piece is absolutely critical to a positive outcome for the world. If we don't distinguish the fiat disease, the dystopian hellscape scenario where the overlords suck up even MORE of the productivity gains for themselves, and in turn FURTHER STRENGTHEN the money-printer Death Star, would be well within the realm of possibility.

I hope all of this somewhat makes sense. This is a new topic for me too, so my ability to understand/explain the big picture is still developing.

Stay tuned. Excited to continue venturing into this rabbit hole with you all :)

Great post Ben! Thanks for summing this up!

The podcast with #[1]​ and #[2]​ is really awesome!

AI + Robots + Fiat Money = war and slavery

AI + Robots + Bitcoin = peace and prosperity

Who ever wants the second outcome just have to change fiat crap for sound BTC! #peace #BTC #AI

Nostr, BTC and Lightning ⚡️🧡🇧🇷 #nostr #bitcoin #lightning

Replying to Avatar Korhag

I just listened and Alex Gladstein talk on Swan Channel: https://youtu.be/OsLwHfCHkD4

They are epic as usual and felt thankful for Bitcoin to opened the way for me to find and listen to these guys.

But toward the end of the interview they started talking about Fedimint. It didn’t click with me. I try to read from their web site and still no progress. Why instead of self custody we prefer to participate in a pool and how it is private and safe while trusting another. Hearing two of them explaining it made me feel like I’m missing a huge point just staring into my face. Can anyone help with that?

#bitcoin #fedimint #grownostr #plenchain

#[4]​ #[5]​ #[6]

Imagine if you were born in Africa, South America or Asia and you don’t know how to self custody and you also don’t have a bank account. Anyone that you trust in your family, your community or your tribe can start a “federation” fedi account to store sats so now you have a way to send and receive payments. I agree that it’s not the ideal way but in certain parts of the world that’s the best way for now. I live in Brasil and I see it can work pretty well here. That’s my point of view, hope that helped. Have a good one! #bitcoin #fedimimt