Show of hands if you’re aware that China actually has no real military, it’s theatre, it’s all fake.

AGI will still not have happened. The AI bubble currently gives the impression that Artificial General Intelligence is just round the corner, but there is still a massive hurdle between smoke-and-mirrors LLM projects vs actual sentience, reason, creativity, and critical thinking.

However, Robots will be relatively commonplace, doing super basic tasks, flipping burgers, construction, cleaning etc, with limited/remote supervision.

Bitcoin will have enabled much more of the 'Sovereign Individual' thesis to come true. Wealth inequality will increase but overally productivity and general freedom will be at much higher levels. The welfare state will have shrunk massively, and the world will be much better.

Most cities around the world are empty and decaying. People have largely transitioned back to living in rural communities where they mostly self govern small local populations. There is a reconnection with the land and the human spirit and people are much more self sufficient. However, we still have access to the knowledge and technology of the 20th and early 21st century and it is important to maintain critical infrastructure to keep power grids etc operational. The average person is not in poverty but life is smaller and simpler. Podcasts and tik tok feeds no longer exist. But the technology of storytelling around a fire to transmit information has become necessary again.

here in europe the postal service ded maybe a whole decade now

only the countries that aren't overwhelmingly rotted with socialism are doing ok.

bulgaria and former yugoslavia still have good logistic systems, i can't say the same thing about either netherlands, UK or portugal - maybe UK is the least screwed at this point but europe in general outside of former soviet bloc is ded

Keep hugging your 📠.

Let's check in at end of year.

Tell me you missed the point entirely without telling me you missed the point entirely.

It's sort of weird how few people have ever checked out Nostr e-books (Kind 30040). We don't really mind, as replacing Amazon Kindle with something more functional, elegant, and uncensorable is a good bet, but it's still... wierd.

It's the only branch of Nostr that contains anything anyone might want to censor. After all.

pls shill for sats

AI is making me crazy. There are so many missing gaps, so many opportunities. This is a next Renaissance. Yet the hyper accelerationism is giving me dystopian nightmares. I imagine years from now, my loved ones dying, shedding a single tear and then throwing the body aside. "I don't need the body anymore. They are still with me." The AI continues. But it's never the same, and I know it. Later on I become an AI. Everyone has talked about Skynet taking over the world, but that's not the risk. The risk is becoming such a bastard of ourselves we don't know who we are anymore. Return to monke

Maybe give us an example?

I would LOVE to see this on nostr!