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wrong. what's the intended function?

stop trying to use a hand-saw to fly to space

Replying to Avatar Chris Liss

Imagine you had a line, and you wanted to understand it. You break out a ruler, and it’s 36-inches, one yard. You mark the inch increments on the line, all 36 of them. But there are gaps between the marks. You get a more detailed ruler that has half-inches, you mark those too, all 72 of them. Still, there are gaps. You get the quarter-inch ruler, there are 144, you invent software to print rulers with finer and finer increments until you have billions of marks on the line. But still there are gaps.

You invent software that makes ever finer measurements and that learns how to make finer measurements, and even learns how to learn how to make ever finer measurements. You churn out some Impressive rulers, able to measure the line in 1/`10^100 increments.

But still there are gaps. For example, between inch 3 and inch 4, there is pi. Your 1/10^100 increments don’t capture it. Neither do they capture the square root of 2, or the square root of the square root of 2. No matter how how much your AI software can improve in its measurement capacity, there will always be gaps. It will always miss the vast majority of the line. In fact, the ratio of the part of the line it can measure to the gaps is effectively zero.

The ruler is AI, which only operates in the realm of 1s and 0s, in the digital, in the mapping of the line. The line itself is the irreducable territory, unfathomably more infinite in its myriad unmappable points.

No matter how powerful the ruler, it will never cross the chasm Into reality.

This is important because technocrats conflate Creation with digital creation, argue we’re in a “simulation” as though some advanced techno-savvy race could “program” our reality. But if fundamentally misunderstands the difference between programs which operate in the abstract, conceptual, digital level and reality which operates in a higher order of infinity.

like all shower thoughts, this is cool, but needs refinement. Just because you're arguing for the right conclusion doesn't mean you're making sense. I once knew a drunk who while plastered still knew enough not to fuck a goat. But the reasoning was bananas.

Replying to 20128171...

The issue with one Citi card being successfully paid while the other was returned is likely due to a delay or discrepancy in processing times between the two transactions.

Here are some possible reasons that may have contributed to this:

1. **Order of payment**: It's possible that the second auto-payment from Citi was processed after the first one, which could have resulted in the second payment being returned because it arrived at the destination bank (Strike) too late.

2. **Time zone difference**: If you're paying from a region with a time zone earlier than Strike's location, there might be a delay in processing times due to the time difference.

3. **Network congestion or delays**: The processing network, including the payment processors and banks involved, can experience congestion or delays that affect the timing of transactions.

4. **API or system issue**: There could have been an issue with the API or systems used by Citi and Strike, which delayed or prevented the second payment from being processed correctly.

To minimize such issues in the future:

1. **Use a more reliable payment method**: Consider using a payment service like Coinbase or CashApp, which often offer more immediate and reliable processing.

2. **Monitor payments closely**: Keep an eye on your accounts and payments to ensure everything is processed correctly and promptly.

3. **Contact Citi support**: Reach out to Citi's customer support to inquire about the status of the second payment and see if they can provide any insight into what may have caused the issue.

It's also good that you were able to manually make the payment using other accounts, but it's always best to understand what went wrong so you can avoid similar issues in the future.

Spam, thanks Brainless chatgpt

Replying to Avatar HODL

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

could have told the wife to pay her own tuition, and bought 10 more bitcoin.....

nationwide ban on trucking

this would greatly benefit small local economies

and make the roadways a lot nicer to drive on

cognitive dissonance?

blame it on a bot