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mark tyler
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Bitcoin & 🫂 Oh and dimly trying to think through interesting issues. I think that I don’t have a right to force you to do anything other than not harm me or others. Seems like most people I interact with in the real world disagree with this statement. To be fair.. the devil is in definition of “harm”.

Based on what I’m reading, not really. Though in principle I think it should be doable. Seems like the current state of ecash is that theoretically the mint has an eternal IOU. I mean eventually it rugs, but having a countdown timer to rug on the nut would be a nice way of communicating that to holders.

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To what degree? How many people believe January 6th was an “insurrection”? I consider trump entertainment and I’m not American, but that is clear as day nonsense, which most people I speak to seem to believe. Most people also believe climate change is a real problem, CO2 is a threat, and vaccines are safe and effective. Wouldn’t you agree?

What you get is the impression that it’s a minority, and I believe it’s a manufactured impression. FE is larger than you think. Go look up polls and stats, it’s growing and ranges from 10% to 35% of people depending where you look. It’s just most don’t mention it in polite company for fear of ridicule.

In the same way when I tell people vaccines are untested for safety, they have the same visceral reaction, yet they will never go look it up for themselves. It really is how I ended up here.

Instead of guessing why people would lie or trying to figure out how these things work at scale (indoctrination, repetitive propaganda from a young age, keeping people addicted to their TVs and trusting the so called experts, along with compartmentalised systems and largely bought off politicians world wide which made things like a global lockdown possible), its a lot easier to make sense of consistency in claims of observable science and things they claim “we know”.

If you ever find answers to any of those 6 questions alone, let me know. People will suggest “it doesn’t matter”, but if Im supposed to believe such insane claims, the only way is with good evidence, which I don’t believe they have. Instead we have fringe, twist ourselves in a knots experiments to prove imaginary forces with incredibly inconsistent and broken theories and logical issues that most people have never taken the time to consider, so it short circuits their brains.

"Most people" My neighbor's beliefs, and he has no first hand knowledge about the climate but has beliefs about it, rightly do not update my Bayesian math very much.

It's not surprising to me that x % believe anything. Truth is difficult to ascertain. So I 100% agree that most people see indoctrinated. Nearly everyone is working from someone else's first hand data. Most people just believe what other people believe. Some people just believe the opposite of what everyone believes.

I'm still curious if Snowden is a violation of your world view or expected as he is in mine.

And haha this is lame I know and I’m sorry idk what my problem is but my perception has been that when I opened those links they were not giving a list of questions. But maybe it was the continuing long period of time after the timestamp? Haha I'm falling.

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I have lost ecash due to custodial error. Have never lost monero.

The second one at least.. and probably the first, no way. What’s the source.

I dunno, I fully expect in a fully bitcoinized world there will still be financial advisors (how to manage your utxos, how to buy parts of companies if you want), bankers (L3), liquidity providers (LSPs), probably everything but fed chairman.

The much bigger factor in job extinction will be AI I think 🫂

Yeah, there are lots of potential threats of AGI that are silly and some of them are more realistic. Also, some are not very bad and some are really bad I would say.

To put what I’m thinking about more concretely, Elon Musk’s goal for Mars is that if the ships ever stop coming from earth, they will be fine. What does that require… Self-sufficiency. Independence from earth (and humans here) for power, data, raw materials, etc.

So the comparison to the Martian colony, I think should clarify that I’m not imagining a Godlike magical entity at all, obviously humans can do exactly the same thing: create a fully self sufficient hive that is separable from earth. If Musk gets his way that will be a reality this century.

AI will be a big part in making that happen, but if it gets to 100% then the hypothetical science fiction sounding threat becomes possible.

And that is to say nothing about one of these things, becoming smart enough to set up in the meantime a system like what Aldous Huxley described “The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping “

Wow. Yeah hard to know what exactly it is, but even pure yellowcake has “very low radioactivity” though it is dangerous if inhaled. Very cool.

Conscious intelligent replicators give the otherwise dead universe life and meaning. We give it eyes and wonder. Unconscious machine intelligent replicators are cancer.