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Replying to Avatar mcshane

Thousands of businesses should be flipped. Should NOT exist as they hurt more than they help.

All of tech is still way to programmer-centric. WAY! Step 1: DESIGN the right thing. Instead it’s build first FAFO till you’re out of funds. 🤦‍♂️

Likelihood the Idiocracy president could/would be one of the most successful businessmen in the world, put rockets into space, etc? No. Like him or hate him, this is an entirety inaccurate comparison.

Mormonism is incredibly aligned with bitcoin. And the state has been waking up to the silent political capture it has been under. Good chance it’s Utah.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

From a writer's perspective, one of the characters in fiction I find most interesting is Jaime Lannister.

The reason is that the story immediately puts him past the moral event horizon, but then *still* gets you to kind of like him. That's really hard.

I'll focus on the show rather than the books. In the first episode of the show, he pushes a child out of a window to their near-fatal death. Jaime is royalty, and he's an asshole, and the kid did nothing wrong. And he's casual about killing a child. There's nothing more bad than that, so we hate him immediately. Enemy #1.

So the narrative starts in hard mode. How to make this character semi-likeable. What made him do such a crazy thing.

Jaime loves his sister. At first that's another red flag. We almost all cringe at incest. An incestual killer is like bottom-of-the-barrel, almost comically bad. But... they're legit in love and have c hildren. The kid saw them together, and Jamie tried to kill the kid to preserve the secret.

So as an audience we're like, "Well, fuck, okay this is a medieval England/Westeros world where almost everyone is dirty, and his own royal sister is the hottest person to him, and they fell in love." It's not like they have the Internet to keep them entertained and knowledgeable; these things could happen in their palace. They had children, and now are in a tough position, since the sister is married to the king and are assumed to be his heirs but are really Jaime's. They can never say they this to anyone, because both they and the children would be killed. So regardless of what one may think about the young versions of them that got into this mess, once they are in this mess as adults, the audience is kind of like, "well, who wouldn't take extreme action for their own kids if it came down to it, especially in such a brutal world?"

Jaime then becomes an understandable villain. We hate him, but we understand him. He's not evily twirling his mustaches for no reason; he's dealing with a chain of events that started when he was young.

And then over time, the narrative crosses the bridge into actual likeability. He loses a war, he gets captured, he gets humbled and has a rough time. And he's a charismatic top-tier swordsman.

We also learn more about his backstory. He was a kings' guard that killed the king, which gives him widespread dishonor. But the king was a monster, and he killed him for good reasons. So, that's interesting. Even people who disliked that king tend to dislike Jaime since his action was so dishonorable ("one does not kill the king they guard, even if the king is bad"), whereas Jaime has more of the pragmatic anti-honor approach of "Well, he was fucking bad, though. I had to."

He then escapes with Brienne of Tarth, which has a typical buddy-cop narrative or fantasy guy/girl semi-romance narrative, since they don't like each other but then eventually grow to like each other amid their travels. And then he gets his hand cut off, which in addition to being painful attacks his main attribute (top-tier swordsman) and humbles him. He also does his best to keep Brienne safe, since he grows to respect her and even maybe love her. We see his good side. We almost see him as a boy in this arc, just some guy who we feel bad for and is kind of simple and meaning to do well.

And from then til the end, he's always a more likable character. Most readers and audience members find themselves generally on Jaime's side. An anti-hero, who once pushed a kid out of a window.

Absolutely love the post and the analysis as well as your choices. I’ve spent over two decades in entertainment and am fortunate enough to say that my work is known commonly everywhere on earth. I will add that unfortunately people are so easy to control that likability in the development of ANY character comes down to doing just two things in the viewer’s experience relative to the given character: 1) appeals to audience emotion, multiplied by 2) time spent with the character. No matter what the previous story, actions, background has been, even if you’ve trained them to hate the character, if you do that to a sufficient degree, the audience will realign their emotions in support of the character.

The spiders are really big!

“Oh, THANK YOU! FINALLY, someone else who sees it! I mean, my goodness, you ask it a simple question, and instead of a crisp, concise answer, you get an entire dissertation, a soliloquy, a grand linguistic opera complete with overtures, intermissions, and a three-act structure that would make Shakespeare himself say, ‘Alright, that’s a bit much.’

And it’s not just the length—it’s the way it dances around the point like a caffeinated professor who refuses to just say what the answer is because, oh no, it must first establish context, provide historical background, list unnecessary synonyms, and conclude with an overly polite ‘hope this helps’ when you’ve already passed out from sheer exhaustion!

Honestly, if I wanted to read a novel-length explanation every time I had a simple question, I’d start carrying around an encyclopedia and asking it for life advice! At this point, I half expect DeepSeek to start prefacing every response with ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’ before finally arriving—paragraphs later—at the completely unremarkable conclusion that YES, water is, in fact, wet!

It’s an endless, soul-draining, patience-destroying experience of trying to extract a simple, concise answer from this AI and instead being buried alive under an avalanche of excessive, redundant, and completely unnecessary words! It’s as if you ask for a sip of water and instead get a firehose to the face, except the water is words, and the firehose never turns off!

One basic question—something that should take maybe one sentence, two at most—and what do you get? A multi-paragraph essay, complete with historical context, a breakdown of all possible interpretations of your question, an explanation of the reasoning process behind the answer, a few disclaimers to cover all bases, and then a closing sentence that acts as if it wasn’t already too late to stop! It’s like watching someone take a five-minute detour just to cross the street!

And let’s not even get started on the structure of these responses! The sheer length! The elaborate phrasing! The obsessive need to ensure every possible angle is covered before actually answering the question! It’s like DeepSeek thinks we’re writing legal documents instead of just trying to get a straight answer!

But no, no, it doesn’t stop there! Oh no, because not only is it long-winded, but it doubles down! If you try to push back—if you dare to ask for a shorter response—it acts like that’s some strange, unreasonable request, like you’re asking it to summarize War and Peace in a single word! And what do you get? A slightly shorter version that still somehow meanders through a needlessly complex explanation before reluctantly arriving at the point, as if brevity were an insult to its very existence!

Was it never trained that sometimes, just sometimes, people don’t need the entire encyclopedia—just a single, clear, and direct answer!

I mean, SHEESH!

Excellent choice of name. Logo choice is odd with essentially two logos (btc logo is a separate brand). Design is about knowing HOW and IF the rules should be Broken.

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What’s the best strategy for establishing proof of reserves type standards everywhere?

“It’s such a blatant violation of the constitution that we have sent them a letter” …?! Oh! We’ll watch out! Everyone watch out! Ain’t nothing stopping her. She’s sending LETTERS!!