Great report. Brushes with scammers are always unsettling. Pretty cool though that there's a link to SN.

I look forward to hearing your critiques!

There was this idea of stablenuts and then I thought Boardwalk Cash was a stable coin on ecash. Here's the github for Boardwalk Cash.

On lightning there is the idea of stablesats.

I believe the internet decided he is a fascist and memory-holed him. I have a feeling this sort of experience will become more common in the years ahead.

Megazap wasn't me.

I think I will also say true. Credit card networks reach a large portion of the world, but why can't they offer as cheap a service to as wide a population? I assume it's mostly regulation, but it may also possibly be that they are using crappy infrastructure (a credit instrument and banking rails) rather than a wifi connection and a database. In such a case, stablecoin innovation is better payment infrastructure? Regulatory arbitrage seems like the more reasonable answer, though.

I take this to mean you do not believe a machine can like something.

But humans, too, must go on data provided by other humans. I've often been off-put by a certain form of art or type of food, only to develop an appreciation for it when guided by someone who has spent time on it. Our culture, at times, feels like one large machine by which we teach (or brainwash) ourselves with what is valuable...except for when we just like something. In those cases, whether others may call it art or not, we, in the secret chambers of our hearts, feel something because we just happen to like it -- not always knowing why.

Liking a thing, seems to me, to be the core of what makes it art. And thus far, I don't think I believe AI can like a thing. although, if I introspect what liking actually is very deeply, I find a boggy surface upon which I tread with unsure footing.

If we could discover that machines liked something, then, perhaps we still wouldn't want them to judge our art because they simply wouldn't get it. In the same way that sometimes humans don't get the art from cultures that are foreign to them.

There may have been a world where having grok judge the contest was fun and interesting, even if grok was nothing more than a stand-in for "random" with some excuses glued on to it in tasteful places. At least it might have provided some uncertainty and tension to contest.

But that becomes an exercise in whether or not grok is a good alarm clock. And probably it is not as interesting as a competition that has a human judge.

While I do agree with this, I'm curious on what basis the statement is made. Do you believe this comes down to a fundamental difference between humans and machines or is it a function of degree (machines aren't there yet...)?

I'll admit that I don't get at over to BM very often, but this back and forth made me click. Nice work!

Yes. I know of this first hand.

Stablecoins are going to the moon!!!!

Sorry, I'm awful at picking up sarcasm via text.

So utreexo light nodes could receive blocks from regular bitcoin nodes and use that information to learn about newly created outputs?

Howdy!

but what are they liable for? I don't think the Oct 7 attacks happened because of Facebook. I don't understand why the platform should be liable any more than the cell phone service used to coordinate the attacks or even the food growers who produced food that was eaten during the attacks.

Howdy!

Weird how different the chart looks before and after 1933.

well crap. it seems like my moral compass isn't suited to modernity.

I think the accidental six-finger images may have understood six-finger biology a little better. The left hand isn't bad, though.

But don't you think you'll end up paying the costs of those legal settlements because the system as a whole is degraded by such an attitude?

They are suing them in Israel. Don't know if they have some kind of section 230 reciprocity.

But, yes, I'm sure I'd also jump at the money...or maybe not. It's kinda like with car accidents. If someone rear-ends you and they're insurance pays for the fixes to your car, do you also sue them just cause you can probably get some pain and suffering bonus damages from their insurance company? I think the current attitude is yes, that's exactly what you do. "Because insurance companies have tons of money." (I've actually heard this from people) How do people not see that this just drives up the costs for insurers and we all end up paying it?

I was rear-ended several years ago. They paid for the damage to my car and we left it at that.

I like to think if someone did something horrible to me or my family, I'd go hunt them down and do something horrible to them. I also like to think I wouldn't waste time thinking about Facebook on my way.