”Some men just want to watch the world burn”
This is such a dystopian take. I mean, why would you assume these people are always villains?? I don’t know the details, but given that these people are all boomers, they probably think primarily about the mentality that boomers uphold. Thus, it makes sense that they are probably thinking more about affluent people (boomers) and how to get them from a hoarding mentality to a ”investing in the future” mentality. Ie rearranging already existing fiscal, legal and financial systems to enable more unlocking of savings — this doesnt need to mean they will outright ”grab” the money from peoples savings.
Libertarians/ancaps usher a narrative of ”decentralization=good” and ”centralization=evil”. This is a false narrative. Centralization is not bad per se, neither is decentralization good per se. The issue is to build systems where the two elements are balanced, while having healthy feedback loops to keep it so.
Indeed, for the moment a necessary evil for protection of individual sovereignity in the ”physical layer”. But eventually, when robotics become cheaper, more readily available and much more capable, the government will become redundant even in that domain. From this perspective, the US constitution with its amendments may in fact be surprisingly futureproof.
Yes. Every bitcoiner is a potential target for a $5 wrench attack, but the greatest threat for executing such attack may in fact be the government itself. Given that the mob mentality may take hold of the government and turn it against bitcoiners, it can go fast.
I think the simplest explanation is that people are just people. So is Elon Musk. I believe he was (and still is) heavily influenced socially by his peers in silicon valley, which tends to favor the crypto pluralistic ethos over the bitcoin-only ethos.
He comes from a typical silicon valley mindset with all its pros and cons, I think his views on bitcoin is more or less mirroring the average silicon valley take on bitcoin
He has a history with the SEC from his years at Tesla, it likely plays a part of him being less vocal about it
The moment one major country starts printing money to buy Bitcoin, the others will have to do the same— or face hyperinflation in their own currency. A slippery slope that have only one possible outcome.
Centralization without decentralization is tyranny, and decentralization without centralization is chaos.
Bitcoiners must understand that AI will never be decentralized. It operates on economies of scale, and its entire foundation is to scale and consolidate massive amounts of information. We will inevitably get just a few, or even more likely, just one single global AI supercluster. Like a global brain. But just like the brain in our body is counterweighted by the decentralized network of cells, so will (and must) this future AI supercluster be counterweighted by physical robotics.
Layer 3 of bitcoin must be one of the physical domain — one of robotics, everything from nano to micro and macro sized robots. It is the only way of providing a healthy and resilient relationship between AI and individual human beings.
Spoken language is essentially multidimensional text from our brains converted into unidimensional audio = it is a proto ”text to speech” technology
nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf
https://v.nostr.build/9yvmJusmOeEF3Xrb.mp4 nostr:note1jqh4jalzxl4lvwx8w4ge69azzpyh8wt0p3c4jy4ql47l5r8wc28st4vmlt
Hosting *truly* difficult debates may perhaps even be necessary for nostr for it to become relevant in the public eye
Everyone getting slashed in all directions
This might actually tell something about the future of book publishing 🤔
There is a point of getting skin in the game though. It forces you to learn more, or at least it brings an incentive to do so.
