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> fake news to move dumb masses towards their objective, pretty similar to Trump in the US

How can you prove that you’re not a member of the “dumb masses” being fooled by the fake news?

All we know is this: They virtue signal that they want a product but don’t buy it because they’ve been conditioned to dislike the company’s CEO. It’s likely that their tribe has all been conditioned in this way so the virtue signaling would be well received and elicit social approval.

I don’t think that makes them good or bad people, per se. I’m not here to lay down a judgement. It is what it is.

That speaks volumes about your friends.

> according to every poll

Polls are now substitutes for voting booths?

Even worse, Reddit /politics and /news. Extremely far left anti-American energy.

All major nations interfere with each other’s elections and/or politics and political stability. That said, the narratives around election interference are political rather than objective.

> last decade

well over a century..

The thing is that it’s a Constant. It’s not a new or surprising thing like fake news presents it as.

> Just leave your key with your lawyer or a notary, and existing regulation about fiduciary duty handle everything just fine.

Would you really trust your lawyer with your bitcoin seed? If they stole everything from you, how would you even prove it?

Can you prove this?

I’m surprised to see this is Still a popular opinion. I could never imagine going back to wired headphones. That feeling of my head being tethered to a device is not something I’d want to revisit.

That said, they certainly make much more sense Financially. I’ve spent far more money on headphones since going wireless.

> Coffee shops don't accept gold bars either, yet gold has certainly been money (not so much these days).

This is true but it's largely because of the logistics. It's not that coffee shops don't want gold, it's just that it's too inconvenient to accept it. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is incredibly easy to accept. And unlike gold, Bitcoin can't be counterfeited. I know, in the USA at least, "digital gold" is the current narrative. But "daily currency" is just around the corner.

> Now it's just, an asset, that's worth money, for reasons?

Wrong. There are multiple narratives for Bitcoin. I'd argue the most popular narrative in the United States today is that it is digital gold. But if you follow closely, a LOT is happening on the currency front. The digital gold narrative will converge with the daily currency narrative in the next ~2 years, I'd estimate.

Same. Toy project and it’s not worth the risk of using netlify. What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app?

I agree. I could have expressed my thoughts better in this case. It wasn’t just OP I was considering. I was thinking of a common AI take that I’ve seen when I wrote my comment. Regardless, will do better to express my thoughts and agree that we shouldn’t profile each other here.

> Bitcoin is the epitome of monopoly money

I see it as the polar opposite, backed by math. A politically controlled money supply with no immutable math-based proof of its release schedule is Monopoly money. Cuck bucks. Look at the 100 year buying power chart.

On your second point, in spirit I agree. You need a stable society to enjoy wealth so it’s in the ruling classes best interest to keep things under control. HOW to keep things under control is the real debate.

Give them football, video games and cannabis.

Democracy is an ideal. There absolutely are bad implementations, democracies that get hijacked and are democracies in-name-only, dumb populaces, etc.

> there would never be war in Europe again

Lol

> will never go away

Nothing is forever. It’s unlikely unmodified Homo sapiens are dominant on earth 1,000 years from now.

We do have, at the very least, an idea about how human creativity works and it is an input output pattern.

> we need and will continue to need UBI for non-AI related reasons

This mentality is why bitcoin is going to cruise through 1 million dollars a bitcoin and on and on. Print Monopoly money and people who earn will keep seeking out sound money.

> I don't want much out of life, but I do want the ability to influence my own personal situation.

We are still animals in the animal kingdom. It’s survival of the fittest as long as resources are not infinite. You can never expect this luxury. You are predator or prey.

> The rate of change that AI forces upon us has never before been experienced.

On what timeline?

Reading your opinion on the subject, I believe you’re struggling to make sense of what is happening. I suspect there is a combination of factors here: you are reinforcing a bias, can’t wrap your head around it, don’t have much experience working with AI, haven’t deeply considered the evolution of the universe.

My recommendation: zoom out a little bit. Every step in history is so brief and nothing is normal for long. Even humanity is a blink.

Comments like: “how is using a machine to spit out a poem creative”. Really? How is using a digital camera creative compared to painting. How is a painting creative compared to etching? And on and on evolution goes..

What do you find “really weird”?

Dracula debuted in 1897 while Godzilla debuted in 1954.

Isn’t this the main reason one is public domain already and the other is not?

> I know this is difficult to digest, but compared to a lot of the rest of the world, almost every US politician is conservative.

Source? This reads like a Leftist talking point. I’d be interested in understanding who trained on you on this idea.

This reads like total denial. COVID was years ago. The city I’m in bounced back and was mostly normal late 2021. I also was interested in the outcome of Portland’s experiment. It has failed. The war on drugs is anti-liberty and I recognize its racist roots. But racism is no longer a big aspect of the war on drugs as of 2023. Again, denial and excuses. The war on drugs AND Portland’s experiment are BOTH failures. I welcome the next attempt at it.

Why Russia / Ukraine? There is nothing particularly notable about this conflict compared to others. War has always been war.

> even if he gets a huge sentence will just get eventually pardoned after 6-10 years

According to you? Because “trust me bro”? What are basing this on?

> It's safe to say 32 hours of work does not produce more than 40 hours.

This is too simple. 32 hours of huge output may produce more than 40 hours of light output. If the machine/human output is a constant, then sure you’re correct. But that’s not true. And that’s my point. It’s relative and fluid. It’s relative to the work, the individual, the health of the individual, the weather that day, and on and on.

> It's a non-sensical argument.

Your take is equally non-sensical. There is no magical constant unit of time that represents maximum productivity. It’s all relative and fluid. It’s based on many many variables. And even if such a time existed for one person in one company for one week, it wouldn’t be neatly packaged like “40 hours”. It would likely seem random like 34 hours 20 minutes and 25 seconds.

Arguing over such a universal time is as much a waste a time as arguing over the perfect diet. It’s relative.