As long as you don't actually want to interact with civilization, or the people who live in it, avoiding filthy fiat and using btc to buy everything is straightforward.

How can your existing mortgage be paid with bitcoin?

Hell is other people.

However, you said supposed owner. Is he the owner? Is that private property? Doesn't make it right, but an important gloss to the story. (And on the nature of private property.)

My thoughts: if AI art is good enough (by whatever standard) that people get something out of it, then it's good.

If that reveals something about the people, or about People, or about art, then so much the better.

This looks amazing. I scanned through parts but didn't see if this is the Chaincode, that does dev education, etc.? If so, very cool use of their platform. I love seeing amnascent ecosystem where complex issues are summarized and presented. Such important work.

It's interesting to think about the whole El Zonte -> El Salvador thing wrt its ultimate effects on the fate of btc. Even if everything gets walked back, and the economic impact of btc in ES is negligible, the series of events, from the original people in El Zonte > Bukele's sovereign adoption > the "sovereign adoption" narrative > MSTR activities > Jack Mallers subsequent career w/ this new company > whatever comes next -

taken together, it seems like giant things were set in motion as a result of what happened in ES, and what happened in ES was set in motion by a very small number of actors.

Be the change you want to see in the world, I guess is the lesson.

Agreed, great exercise. Eye opening. What did you learn?

Truth.

There's a weird local minimum where high quality becomes uneconomical bc low quality is so ubiquitous that scale precludes it. I would pay $100 for a toaster that would last 20 years but I can't, it cannot be had.

The btc version of hypernormalization.

I've seen you make similar claims before and I have trouble believing it. Are you literally claiming you only spend bitcoin in the course of day-to-day life? You buy food w/ bitcoin, pay your rent w/ bitcoin, your health insurance co-pays, car payment, gas, etc etc?

Meta: Carla's post was a brilliant and hugely valuable contribution to the ecosystem -- the summary and exploration and talking about the implications of relevant elements is so important. Wish we had 10x more of that. What a better footing for discussion of complex issues.

Death in my family is grinding away, so that you wind up as some kind of impaired animal at the end, rotting in your rocking chair wearing diapers. As medicine gets "better" this seems to be an increasingly common outcome. Not planning to stick around for that.

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We can agree that the government encouraging a person to commit suicide is bad.

I don't know anything about this particular case, but I'll front-run the likely other comments and say that this is a service I would value, or at least, the unlocking of this service so that it could be legally provided.

I have loose plans to kill myself when life gets to the point where it's burdensome; I don't love the idea of heading into the woods and shooting myself in the head, which is my best current option. It's a more reliable one than trying to OD on something, and I lack the strength of character to jump off a bridge. But I can imagine fucking it up, whatever the method, and a botched attempt will be an even shittier outcome, for me and everyone around me.

This need, which we'll all encounter, seems like the kind of thing a sensible medical establishment should be able to help you with. The idea is not insane, to me. What's your plan?

It seems a crucial skill. I wonder if there are related skills that are less obvious? But also maybe less generalizeable.

I should get "Don't drink the piss water" as another tattoo. Would enjoy explaining that one at the bar, maybe :)

That's an important distinction -- online tools to expand the bandwidth / way of relating to 'real life' offline loved ones is still mostly 'pure' and free of the grossness I mentioned.

Although the 'accessing information instantly' part is not without cost, at least for me (#988236).

I would like to have what you have. On some occasions I feel that way, too; but even me self-selecting into sources that I like starts to make me feel washed out and ghostly (#988236).

I think there's a kind of curation I need that most don't. Or at least, most here don't. Selection effects, perhaps -- people like me disappear after a while (like I did, last year around this time.)

I wonder how such a thing might be designed for.

I can't tell how much of this is you actually saying a real thing, but yeah, you're touching on it -- the embodied aspect, and the elements you get from that high-bandwidth being-in-the-world, is something. It gives you something meaningful. And online seems to take something. But perhaps not the same something.