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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 18 Jul \ parent \ on: A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem AI
Another way forward is meeting in meatspace. Cyberspace will become less useful for social cohesion and collective efforts.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.... and divide by 10 online. This is why (state-free) education will be critical as AI takes over more. Our bullshit detectors are going to be taxed.
Unfortunately these are all chock full of inscriptions.
Here's a consolidation of that retardom:
https://mempool.space/tx/302746867b35c97ebfb7997e1cea5da44d46d6ff2db3a92c1653c4173f158c40
Oh man, was this painful. Molly White is a broken clock: right all the time when it comes to crypto and the political opportunism regarding bitcoin, but always wrong on bitcoin. Sorry, I couldn't resist trying to make sense of her backdrop:
Dave on no cap gains for bitcoin: "why would anybody stick money into a mutual fund if they could stick money into bitcoin and have weird upsides and no taxes?"
I bet this guy has a coinjar he takes to his local supermarket every few months. He thinks that the government should get a cut of the "weird" appreciation from a money designed to undo all the bad things government has done to money! Or he's just simping for his tradfi sponsors. Either way, he hasn't spent six seconds considering the morality of double taxation.
There are so many moral gray areas that you almost need to think of it in terms of an efficient or Pareto frontier where high freedom and low responsibility are tradeoffs (with finance, this is high reward vs. low risk of an asset allocation). For every increase in individual sovereignty, a commensurate increase of personal responsibility is required. As long as participants can freely move along that curve (move to different jurisdictions) and thrive, there shouldn't be any conflicts. If they're far below the curve, that's when you get death, disease, societal collapse, etc.
- Just be you with everybody. When others show up, just go around and introduce them to everyone you just met to make them feel welcome and to help engrain their names into your noggin (sucks to be the last one!). Then just say a little about yourself and then ask what brought them to the meetup.
- I've never had any problems getting newcomers to get engaged in the convo. Most of us work regular jobs and have friends and family who never want to talk about bitcoin, so we're all just sponges for other perspectives and experiences. Sometimes it's hard to get people to talk about one specific thing though. Don't have any advice there except sending out an agenda before hand, but I'd just keep it very short.
- We struggle with this. Our plan is to start having separate technical meetups because when we all get together after work, people just want to have fun eating and drinking. But we haven't gotten very far there yet.
- Let things flow at first. Probably important to gauge the experience levels of everyone there so you can select interesting topics in subsequent meetings.
- Keep background questions to a minimum to avoid giving off a scammer or fed vibe. Don't wear anything with a bitcoin logo; bitcoin adjacent stuff is going to help ppl find you though.
Regarding the tab and paying in bitcoin, you or some other volunteer should offer to pay the whole tab in fiat (use something like fold or gemini card to get sats back) and use something like this app my friend made. You can scan the tab with your camera and then split the items for each attendee who wants to repay you in sats. It handles the tip as well. Very slick when the OCR works (~90%). Requires an LN address though. They get experience paying on LN and privacy from the fiat panopticon, you get their sats, and the network gets stronger.
No, they're protecting people, alright: them, their families and friends at our expense. The Social Contract™️ is just the spell they cast on the sheep around us to get away with it.
kissed it. Some ppl are saying we hit 112. Here's the replay from https://timechaincalendar.com/:
Looked like something I'd find on HN. Cool tool, but
Have you ever wondered what one million dollars looks like? You don’t have to wonder anymore because you can see it right in front of you!
Yeah, it's always stacks of $100 bills in a suitcase because no one would ever think to use singles, which will probably be phased out in another decade anyway.
Something tells me you didn't miss anything https://solochance.org/ With all mine, I have a 1/600 chance every year. So in the next 600 years, I might mine one!
Nice. I guess what I was really getting at (somewhat sarcastically, bc this is such a huge hill to climb) was when will I be able to watch the Hollywood version of this story, or some screenplay based on it? Or do more people need to experience hyperinflation before this tale is dramatized?