I feel stupider for googling whether carbon fiber is an insulator or a conductor

learning on #cornychat

Fun fact: while traveling with firearms is difficult if not impossible, traveling with body armor is frictionless.

I've traveled to dozens of countries with soft body armor and nondescript armor like bulletproof clipboards. Never been stopped a single time. I suspect you can get away with pretty much anything that's not a steel plate.

I would build a personal budget app which tracks the prices of everything in dollars and allows a switch to sats to unmask that saving in sats drives personal costs down. I would give it away for free.

Telling people that #bitcoin is an IQ test is a great way to consolidate your social network.

The same could be said about calculators. Do (did) they both compete with and enhance human performance? Sure! Did the mechanical cash register people, slide rule manufacturers, et al, get buried by them? Yup.

My antipathy toward the use of the teerm"intelligent" has nothing to do with its worth. A drainpipe solves a problem, but we don't call them "intelligent". The use of "intelligence" is used, I feel intentionally so, to convey some sort of superiority over human intelligence, and I feel that those promoting it are planning to (if they haven't already) create some kind of "awe" around a computer program that will encourage the iditos amongst us to kneel in deference to it.

It's a tool. Created by humans. Can be used for good or evil. That's all it is.

Agreed. But that's the idea. These "word processors" are great for speeding up tasks. Just as calculators are for performing mathematical functions. But that's all they are. They don't "think". They are not "intelligent". They follow the rules given to them, use those rules to provide an output at very fast speed. That's it. They are no more "intelligent" than a calculator or a drainpipe.

Bitcoin, who wants to be rich in fiat money in this fiat money world.

Monero, who wants to change this world.

Indeed. Hence why I detest the term "artificial intelligence", at least as it applies to what is being promulgated as such today. These "AI" bots are nothing more than a megaphone for those who program it - the bot doesn't "think", instead it simply arranges the information given to it in a readable fashion, much like an electronic calculator performs mathematical calculations. Both "AI" and the calculator provide output only under very strict rules. The difference of course is that calculators use widely accepted mathematical rules to provide the output, while "AI" uses whatever whimsical notions are provided to it as "rules" by its programmers. The "Gemini" embarrassment underscroes this truth.

"AI" can be useful, as a calculator is. It performs its duties far faster than any human can, but it does not perform any duty that could not be performed by a human, given infinite amounts of time and energy.

My own belief is that "AI" has been given its moniker intentionally to provide it some sort of respect from those foolish enough to believe the Wizard from Oz. It will be used to disseminate unpopular edicts ("well, that's what the "AI" says we have to do") and to take blame for unpopular events ("we only did what the "AI" told us to do). Now that those in power have, interntionally or not, given up media control to brqainwash the masses (well, some of the masses), "AI" will be presented as the next "unbiased deliverer of the truth", which is the exact opposite of what it is.

Shit man, I haven't even gottent to that bit yet.

My first impression from the first page is that there seems to be a lot of technobabble ( 'electro-cyber' for instance ).

Right so the threat is other people NOT mining transactions linked to you. Okay right, so one nation state, if they control a sizable portion of the hashrate can 'nerf' the other nation states transactions? Is that the thesis yeah?

Confused by Softwar on page one.

Jason says (paraphrasing) , 'I've come up with this new framework for thinking about Bitcoin, theres this thing called power projection, very scary, it allows people to secure data more better, this is a threat somehow, I call this softwar' , right , or something along those lines, you can correct me if I'm way off the mark. Here's what I don't get:

How is securing data a 'threat' and why refer to it as 'war'?

#AskNostr

#Softwar

#JasonLowrey

#Bookstr

#Bitcoin

Speculate if you must, but save in #Bitcoin.

Got my dog walker and cleaners taking bitcoin

Funny how I've been bugging them to accept it for a year

Now suddenly they'll accept it 😄

Give me a wild yet realistic target for Bitcoin this cycle

"This opt-in arrangement has allowed Próspera to expand from five acres to 58, and then, during the height of the pandemic, the project expanded to more than 1,000 acres of a nearby resort and villa called Pristine Bay. The hotel at the center of that development remains outside Próspera's jurisdiction, and individual homeowners in the villas will be able to opt in or out."

burger? not sure what you mean

wallet of satoshi or alby work just fine for collateral post, among others.they have pretty good docs showing which wallets work or dont work.

its my go to, i found bisq too hard to use. if you need help or have questions, happy to discuss ive used robosats a lot 🤙

I’m too ferocious to be gas lit 😂