The Kindle version of Broken Money is now available:
https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Money-Financial-System-Failing-ebook/dp/B0CGNVNXK2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1
I’m on page 52 of the paperback (so far, so great), and I’m getting the overwhelming sense that Alfred Mitchell-Innes was a dick.
Thing is though, that doesn’t mean an ETF is guaranteed and imminent, does it? I thought I read something saying there will now be a review?
😮 I was wondering why Bitcoin was pumping, but I would never have guessed that would have been the answer!
It’s not bad as a piece of philosophy, but it could’ve been a lot better if he’d known more about IT (including the state of AI research at the time) and if he’d taken a trip down the Bitcoin rabbit hole (though to be fair, it was early days then).
🤡 🌎 courtesy of The Guardian…
It’s not that the spaces are too small, tHe CaRs ARe TOo bIG. 
Nick Bostrom’s book “Superintelligence” is woefully out of date. GPT4 has rendered much of it moot. Most of the key technologies had already been developed by the time he wrote the book.
Siri and Alexa should aspire to be like ChatGPT-4 when they grow up.
Ya know what? Chat-GPT4 can’t do that calculation. It got it wrong twice before I had to tell it the right answer.
Heist? I hope it doesn’t play into the tired old narrative about Bitcoin being for crooks.
Food for thought:
In the context of artificial intelligence, "The Singularity" refers to a hypothetical point in the future when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. This concept is primarily associated with the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, leading to an explosive, exponential growth in technological advancements as machines begin to improve themselves or create even more advanced machines without human intervention.
Several key ideas and themes are often associated with The Singularity:
1. **Exponential Growth**: Technologies, especially AI, improve at an exponential rate. As they become more advanced, they accelerate the pace of innovation, leading to rapid and perhaps exponential technological and societal changes.
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2. **Superintelligent AI**: At the heart of the concept is the idea that once AI reaches a certain level of capability, it can redesign itself or create even more advanced AI, leading to a rapid escalation in intelligence, far surpassing human capability.
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3. **Unpredictability**: After the Singularity, predicting the future becomes extremely challenging, as the post-Singularity world would be shaped by superintelligences that think in ways we can't fully comprehend.
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4. **Impact on Humanity**: The consequences of the Singularity for humanity are widely debated. Some envision utopian scenarios with the elimination of disease, poverty, and even mortality, while others warn of potential existential threats.
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The term "Singularity" in this context was popularized by mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge. Later, futurist Ray Kurzweil, in his book "The Singularity Is Near," expanded on the idea, predicting that the Singularity would occur around 2045, based on trends in technological growth.
Anyone stupid enough to sell their Bitcoin because Elon arguably “lost confidence” in it is a fool who deserves to have less Bitcoin. It’s the blind leading the blind. 
He was certainly a big fan once upon a time — one of the first writers in Bitcoin Magazine.
That’s not to say Hal was Satoshi, we’re just talking about the same time-frame.
Hypothesis: if Satoshi Nakamoto was one person in the first place, he’s dead, and has been since roughly when Hal Finney passed. Think about it — pretty much all the most serious Bitcoin aficionados actually use Bitcoin to live on as far as possible. Ya think the man who went to the bother of inventing better money wouldn’t want to use it? Why invent better money then stick with fiat? That wouldn’t make sense. Those coins are gone for good.
Anyone know why the Bitcoin price has (lately at least) been consistently higher on Binance than on Coinbase? CZ pumping or BA dumping? Huge arbitrage opportunity for someone with deep pockets. Someone with the means could buy 10K BTC on Coinbase, sell them on Binance and make $6M profit. In fact, anyone want to lend me $300M and I’ll repay with $3M interest a day later?
And again Elon demonstrates that he doesn’t understand what free speech is and isn’t.