BTC all time high in absolute value, not corrected for USD inflation?
I would like to hear from someone who has a solid understanding of bitcoin but still is an opponent of it.
Any pointers?
Phileas enters the world stage.
Bitcoin price in USD over last 12 months: +38%
CPI Inflation over last 12 months: +10% (min?)
Interesting how the narrative in media has switched from: bitcoin mining is an ecocide, to: it might store energy and reduce waste. All that quite correlated with the BlackRock Spot ETF application.
We outsourced memory to the internet.
Now we are outsourcing thinking to AI.
Are we really empowering human beings? Is the goal to flourish inconspicuously while AI takes care of the heavy thinking for us? How independent and autonomous will we become?
New meta study on nutrition/diet and type 2 diabete:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02278-8
Check the ethic declaration section:
"Competing interests:
M. OHearn reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health and Vail Innovative Global Research and employment with Food Systems for the Future, outside of the submitted work. L. Lara-Castor reports research funding from the Gate Foundation, as well as the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT), Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the American Heart Association, outside of the submitted work. V. Miller reports research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the American Heart Association, outside of the submitted work. F. Cudhea, J. Zhang, and P. Shi report research funding form the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, outside of the submitted work. J. Reedy reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, Nestlé, Rockefeller Foundation, and Kaiser Permanent Fund at East Bay Community Foundation, outside of the submitted work. J. Wong reports research funding from the National Institutes of Health and membership in the US Preventative Services Task Force (unpaid) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 (unpaid), outside the submitted work. C. Economos reports research funding from the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the JPB Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation. She also reports her position as vice chair to the National Academies of Science Roundtable on Obesity Solutions (unpaid) and her prior advisory board position at Care/Of Scientific. None of the above relate to this paper. R. Micha reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, Nestlé and Danone, outside the submitted work. She also reports consulting fees as IEG chair of the Global Nutrition Report, outside the submitted work. D. Mozaffarian reports funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Vail Innovative Global Research and the Kaiser Permanente Fund at East Bay Community Foundation; personal fees from Acasti Pharma, Barilla, Danone and Motif FoodWorks; is on the scientific advisory board for Beren Therapeutics, Brightseed, Calibrate, DiscernDx, Elysium Health, Filtricine, HumanCo, January, Perfect Day, Tiny Organics and (ended) Day Two and Season Health; has stock ownership in Calibrate and HumanCo; and receives chapter royalties from UpToDate.Competing interestsM. OHearn reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health and Vail Innovative Global Research and employment with Food Systems for the Future, outside of the submitted work. L. Lara-Castor reports research funding from the Gate Foundation, as well as the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT), Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the American Heart Association, outside of the submitted work. V. Miller reports research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the American Heart Association, outside of the submitted work. F. Cudhea, J. Zhang, and P. Shi report research funding form the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, outside of the submitted work. J. Reedy reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, Nestlé, Rockefeller Foundation, and Kaiser Permanent Fund at East Bay Community Foundation, outside of the submitted work. J. Wong reports research funding from the National Institutes of Health and membership in the US Preventative Services Task Force (unpaid) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 (unpaid), outside the submitted work. C. Economos reports research funding from the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the JPB Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation. She also reports her position as vice chair to the National Academies of Science Roundtable on Obesity Solutions (unpaid) and her prior advisory board position at Care/Of Scientific. None of the above relate to this paper. R. Micha reports research funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health, Nestlé and Danone, outside the submitted work. She also reports consulting fees as IEG chair of the Global Nutrition Report, outside the submitted work. D. Mozaffarian reports funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Vail Innovative Global Research and the Kaiser Permanente Fund at East Bay Community Foundation; personal fees from Acasti Pharma, Barilla, Danone and Motif FoodWorks; is on the scientific advisory board for Beren Therapeutics, Brightseed, Calibrate, DiscernDx, Elysium Health, Filtricine, HumanCo, January, Perfect Day, Tiny Organics and (ended) Day Two and Season Health; has stock ownership in Calibrate and HumanCo; and receives chapter royalties from UpToDate."
Cyrus is supposedly the one who mentioned it first, cited by Herodotus
"Soft lands breeds soft men, wondrous fruits and valiant soldiers do not grow from the same soil"
- Herodotus
The worry that AI might enslave or wipe out humanity is not new. But what about the corporations that already exist and prioritize profit over human values? These "profit robots" are largely autonomous from the human community and engage in intense lobbying and marketing to manipulate consumers. They actively work to bend human laws in their favor and often cause significant risks. The reasonable worry about AI is not that it takes control of the world, but that it provides even more powerful means for the misaligned robots that already exist.
http://romainbrette.fr/on-the-existential-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/
Doesn't it seem that the jobs most threatened by current AI advancements are not low to mid-level positions, but rather high-level ones? Advanced AI models are now highly skilled at synthesizing vast and complex information sources. Shouldn't managers, thinkers, and professors be more concerned about the unique value they offer?I mean, some individuals, primarily intellectuals, were mainly fascinating due to their ability to combine extensive knowledge with the capacity to connect various pieces of that knowledge into original ideas. Don't LLM now provide this ability to almost anyone? I used to think this was something I could do well (the usual above average), and I fell I have lost that.
Next, or survivors, would be those who can best take advantages of these models (in ways yet to be explored perhaps).
Generative AI models have significantly democratized access to previously exclusive experiences. Now, anyone can obtain a personalized portrait created by an artificial artist, commission a unique piece of art, or engage in analytical discussions with experts, thinkers, academics, and investors.
Central banks bailouts of banks such as SVB and credit suisse do not cause inflation do they?
Letting these banks fold without making their depositors whole would be highly deflationary, so that bailing them has quite a neutral impact.
Was the recent increase in BTC price and volume mostly bitcoiners repatriating the last fiat savings they had? Meaning there was only a marginal increase in the number of people holding bitcoin? Or was there a significant portion of people who knew the properties of bitcoin (self sovereignty) but had never bought in before?
first baby steps on nostr