I've seen this worrying tendency (mostly among the Bitcoin community, but mainly because that's my crew) of overpromising and underdelivering. It reminds me of the ICO shitcoin craze of token for revolutionizing something completely and when you raise money, you don't have any incentive or will to actually deliver.

This is of course less worrying because they don't rise money from the public usually, but it's annoying nevertheless.

It's not only in technological projects. A "conference that will change your life", with all the same speakers saying all the same things as last year at a different conference. A hackathon that will improve the ecosystem, but mostly getting a bunch of people drunk. A second layer protocol on Bitcoin, that is not a second layer protocol (can't exit to L1) and it's not on Bitcoin (requires a fork -> Bitcoin is that one that is not forked yet).

I am not against having a clear vision and trying to achieve it. But all this "we are going to change the world today!" shows just how people don't understand how difficult it is to actually change or build things. I used to have a company with 100 employees and even changes within my own company (I had most "private keys" - control) took a long time.

Bitcoin and societal change is like a ship. You turn the wheel and you wait, wait, wait and the ship is not doing anything for a long time. If during waiting for the ship to turn, you change your mind and turn the wheel somewhere else, you are going the same way.

A lot of what is happening is inertia. It's not good or bad. What is annoying are people yelling their promises without understanding this reality.

They look at themselves like they are innovators. To me, they just have not experienced this yet.

European bureaucrat's hell.

This is how a tax haven looks like...

Let’s make it 6 👀

Bitcoin not discussed. We run a reticulum network on Lora with a few people, so that's fun.

Otherwise traditional German hacker leftie vibe 😀

Any nostriches at #37c3?

Meetup?

Dm please

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The treatment option is not painkillers, it’s a “I don’t know what to do with you please go away” option.

The doctors were first, they did not solve the problem, so going online is a better option. I have several examples of this over the past few years.

Unpopular opinion: bard and chatgpt are more useful than many medicine doctors for 99% use cases.

Doctors often figure out you're not dying, prescribe light pain killers and send you home.

Just last week experience: a doctor prescribed two medicines that should not be taken together.

Another doctor after hearing that the patient is allergic to ibuprofen prescribed ibuprofen two minutes later. It was literally two lines following each other in the report. Allergies: ibuprofen, recommendation: ibuprofen.

That's llama-7B level. Maybe even llama-7B wouldn't do it.

So self diagnosis and treatment again.

And then you come to the doctors office, tell that you googled or consulted with AI and they roll their eyes. That is quite fun, because the research is 9 times out of 10 better than what the doctor tells you.

No, I'm not saying that the AI is perfect. I'm saying that medical doctors, especially in ambulances are that bad. BTW the experience spanned two countries, definitely not a local problem.

I did not expect to see the day when intelligent people would applaud censorship and demand more of it.

Historically, there has always been a reason for it. Heresy, against the king/emperor, opinions against ruling commies, demands for more freedom, or protecting the cult of the great Kim.

Now we need to protect stupid people from dangerous ideas (misinformation). And then wonder why did they elect people they elect..

I'm amazed why this seems as a good idea to anyone.