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Leo Fernevak
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Bitcoin - Art - Liberty

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That's not my point. Candidates will increasingly have to compete regarding who is most pro Bitcoin. That process has started.

If RFK is the most liberty-oriented Democrat candidate then a Republican candidate will need to match him on the pro-Bitcoin stance.

A race between RFK and a better Republican candidate would be ideal.

Consistency to foundational values is important.

Consistency in work schedule can be both a benefit and a drawback. If my performance drops too low compared with my peak then I probably don't want to work on tasks that require full focus. Switching work tasks to those that are most suitable to our current performance is a good habit.

As for angle of approach, some degree of chaos, change and creativity is useful.

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This has been my thesis all along, with caveats.

BTC will not totally destroy and replace the current elite. It will prune the tree of the most inept and closeminded among them.

Soon we will see the incumbent elite suddenly shift and go full throttle after bitcoin to coopt it as much as possible.

What BTC does is give a bunch of nobody plebs outsiders like us the opportunity to take a lift and make it to the top, unwelcomed.

The cooptation is already happening in part, here and there, but the fact that a powerful faction still insists on "dealing with the problem" by trying to destroy it (e.g., most of the US political elite) makes the rest be overtly cautious.

In my opinion, they have given themselves a very clear deadline: Jan 1, 2025. That's the date the Bank of International Settlements has set for central banks to "legally" start to put BTC (and likely ETH) on their balance sheets, up to a 2% (and no limits on stablecoins). After that, the cat is out of the bag.

And as an aside: if you're a hodler, stop telling people they're not late. This is clearly it. I think even now it's already to late for normal people to accumulate enough BTC quickly enough to be life-changing. After central banks come in, forget about ever being able to even buy BTC anymore.

They also clearly bank on "dealing with the problem" that current bitcoin hodlers are later on.

I wouldn't put it past them to try and pull another gold confiscation act on us. It may be impossible in practical terms to confiscate our bitcoin, but it seems to me quite easy to prevent us from using it without permission.

For instance, they may make it impossible for a private individual to get BTC-collateralized loans from fiat banks. Or they may make you pay your BTC-related taxes in BTC, to slowly but surely syphon your BTC to their hands.

This is a potential reality that I see hardcore botcoiners refuse to acknowledge. They smugly dismiss the idea, like religious people tend to do with things they don't like to hear: "it's just impossible", without really giving any arguments, or giving stupid ones like "you can always move to [insert remote country with either horrible living conditions, or a millionaire playground]".

We're unwelcome to the 1% party. There is a big bad bouncer at the door and we're gonna have to either beat the fuck out of him and his friends (unlikely), or sneak in through the back door until we're found and kicked out, or just hope that one of the insiders finds us funny enough to invite us in and slowly, little by little, meld into the crowd of crooks, cons and thieves, and be smart enough to prevent them from stealing everything we've got and kick us back out. nostr:note1gaj7zum2m4lkyrl6krrqcx7p8twue5j9gqc6g9h7j0dzwzwgzj6srz6095

So you are calling other people's arguments stupid, and this is supposed to be the quality standard. Next time just argue your points and people will argue back.

The language models obviously have some learning data that hardcode, or approximately hardcode, political narratives.

How that hardcoding is done isn't as important as who is able to hardcode it. Who pulls the strings? Judging from the answers it gives; Governments and government alignment narratives.

English have incorporated a plethora of words from Greek, Latin, French, Germanic and Scandinavian.

I believe that there is no perfect solution to reduce bots. Whatever a filter defines as undesirable, bots can be tweaked to avoid triggering those characteristics.

However, if we assume that price or 'trading advice' bots are deployed to impact the market or in some way generate revenue, then filters can be designed to reduce that type of activity. I think that's a category specific enough to be separated linguistically from normal conversations. How bots will be tweaked to respond to such a filter remains to be seen.

No, AI art is not digital painting.

Digital painting is when an artist paints with digital brushes that attempt to mimic how real brushes work.

AI art is when a person commissions a program to do the work, without doing the work themselves.

Correct.

There is zero actual work involved when someone commissions a program to generate something.

I would make a general distinction:

Artists create art whereas people who write a prompt are commissioning an AI to make something for them. The person who commission a piece doesn't create it.

Detailed AI art is not appreciated among artists since the algorithms steal art and details from artists without consent. No artists have been asked for their agreement. Some algorithms are also trained to remove watermarks, to hide how the art is embedded as a collage in the final result.

In human-created art there is a person with experiences inside the artwork. There is a soul in there. In every design-decision there is a result of creativity and personality. Our decisions inherit our unique outlook.

Generated art: you didn't create that. That's not your voice. That is not your personality speaking.

If there is no person behind the artwork it doesn't mean anything for me. There is nobody there to connect with.

Absolutely.

We should evaluate all ideas with a critical mind.

While I respect Aristotle in many areas, he was also wrong on a number of positions from a liberty perspective. Like most other Greeks of his time he supported slavery. This was likely a result of the contemporary culture. In wars, prisoners of war were often captured as slaves rather than killed. The silver mines of Athens were operated by slave labor.