We agree this is bad: Both bitcoiners who are “End the Fed” and people like myself who idealistically want the Fed ended and our monetary system completely upended and remade to “fix” the dollar by having the dollar backed by real economic productivity.

Also the comparison is flawed because usually the nicest stuff lasts longer and serves as a distorted reference point.

Apple throwing in the towel on AI seems like big news.

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It’s not a function of money as much as the fact that post industrialization people live busier lives now and want spaces that calm them or are more functional. When people live calmer lives they have a lot more time to dedicate to ornamentation.

If they are physically capable of performing any minor surgery with slightly better precision, accuracy and speed than any human surgeon in 4 years, that’s probably an easy box to check. Yet, there will also be specialized non humanoid robots purpose built for surgery. For humanoid robots to be worth it, they will have to fit into the existing medical profession in a very seamless way and offer far more versatility than the specialized surgeon robots. If a surgeon has to stand next to the humanoid robot and babysit it in case it malfunctions during a surgery, then the surgeon will think they are better off doing it themselves. I think that slow adoption phase where the robots build trust and surgeons in the operating room adapt to working with them will take much longer.

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Thanks!

Thank you, how kind.

Thanks!

yea I just figured it out, thanks.

I know that Bluesky had a core user base that kept the site alive and it became the go-to alternative when there were big changes made to Xitter such as when it was temporarily banned in Brazil. It also benefited from being the default social media alternative not owned by billionaires which is why many chose it over threads. Many people value moderation and being able to quickly subscribe to block lists made curation easy from the beginning. It created a bunch of silos which people had control over. Mastodon’s interface of different timelines was way clunkier than curated block lists and feeds. People don’t even know about Nostr so you have to get into cultural conversation somehow.

I think it’s a good idea if there are zaps worth 0 sats to replace it because no one likes the idea of pressing “like” on a post that has really bad news for example. Likes are a mechanism to increase post visibility and it seems overly complex to have two different forms of the same thing. Another approach is I think if you are giving someone $ then you are proving you like the post so maybe the icons should be switched and then the total for both would be counted as zaps.

Thank you!

May I ask why?

Hi I’m just here to explore.

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