John von Neumann and Ray Kurzweil conceived and popularized the notion of AGI as the Singularity.
However, the real convergence is when humanity fully merges with AI whereby losing our individuality.
Perhaps consciousness in its myriad forms today will ultimately fall victim to entropic heat death; where ideations become homogenous and dull as they approach an asymptote of precise uniformity.
This is the Singularity of Consciousness.
… and read a good book. 📚
Bitcoin is Walden; or, Life with Monetary Freedom.
Materialism & decadence are outgrowths of capital destruction via fiat money. 💰
When your favorite authors gaze too long into the abyss … 🫣
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
His books reveal he is the quintessential gaslighter of humanity.
Know your enemy.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Take this f’ing key 🔑, turn the lock, and exit your cage.” - McAfee on #Bitcoin
You need interesting material to write a good story.
Adversarial interference by governments will only make us stronger and give rise to Post Traumatic Growth.
Embrace your enemies.
The government can’t decide between Brave New World or1984. 🤷
… Citing Mohandas Gandhi which broke British Imperialism with a peaceful Salt March.
“A few simple steps can prevent unintentional use of non-compliant services. For example, avoid cryptocurrency money transmitting services that do not collect know your customer (KYC) information from customers when required.”
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2024/PSA240425
“To eliminate the expression of ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English) in order to reduce the English language's communication functions, Newspeak uses simplistic constructions of language, such as the dichotomies of pleasure vs. pain and happiness vs. sadness.”
It’s baffling how U.S. congress and executive branches normalized blatant 4th Amendment violations while the SCOTUS turns a blind eye👁️ .
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. ~ Lord Acton
As in gaslighting African countries via Françafrique-esque governance to keep them incapacitated;
… i.e. incapable of preventing plundering of their natural resources.
It is modern day sacking by regional hegemons under the guise of environmentalism.
Slave owners prefer to whip those who are most easily whipped and compliance effect mentally impedes a slave’s ability to recognize their power in saying NO.
Your elected representatives are waving the flag of a foreign nation as they cheer for the billions they will send to fund a war you never agreed to pay for.
The money is broken. The incentives are broken. The kleptocrats are in charge. The system will not be fixed from within.
No one is coming to save you.
Save yourself and your family.
Study #Bitcoin and start building a parallel system. https://v.nostr.build/8GneE.mp4
‘One Nation Under Blackmail’ - Whitney Web
If people in Plato’s cave failed to recognize Feudalism 2.0 for over 50 years, imagine the reluctance to leave the cave if the state manages to bootstrap Feudalism 3.0 via a CBDC.
“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”
- John Maynard Keynes
5 Eyes ≈ 5 Tyrannies
The calculus shows N. Korea will allow more individual freedoms than “Global North” at this rate of change.
