Currently watching Special Ops: Lioness and one of the characters – Errol Meade – says something to the effect of "AI is what I fear".
Given all the media attention to the renaming of AI to SI, I think the fear of AI is unfounded and is actually masking the fear of transitioning from a super fiat monetary world order, to one where its the norm but we can do our business in other ways.

I also think Bitcoiners should embrace AI and help burn all the pretentious code we've built (because we think we've done a good job as human devs but remember AI can pick our definition of good apart like a lego set). Then build something better from the ashes.

First, let me explain why the fiat system is failing in this hyper digital age.
Firstly, I don't think fiat can totally be overcome. But I think it can become pretty less powerful than it is now. I think when the global economic system reaches homeostasis whatever your economic systems, fiat will drop from about 90% usage to maybe 60%. 60% because the government says so and we give them that power. Can't help it. Representative democracy ish. But like taxation, you cannot get too harsh. I think something like the Laffer curve will kick in but for the Fiat–Crypto dynamic.

I can be schooled on this one.

(Also I said Crypto deliberately. Bitcoin alone isn't a good enough circle to properly understand this industry. Human behavior says Crypto is the industry, not Bitcoin. Even as it may be the apex token.
Yeah, I'm not as purist anymore. Still won't dabble in alts except 1, but yeah).

Fiat (cash, bonds, etc) will still be a majority but 20 years from now, it will be a far cry from what it is today.
Of course the 40% will be cryptocurrency driven by AI powered commerce.

Now I think it is failing because in the digital intelligence age, debt cannot finance economic growth to where we want to grow to. Doesn't matter the economic system.
The problem with debt is that it needs time for people to work and pay back the money.
But if we want to grow faster, everyone starts borrowing so we end up with more debt creation than can be properly financed using the mechanics set up by the petro-dollar system, the forex system, etc.
Btw fiat is debt.

The solution is for people to voluntarily build things. To be left alone.

Sounds crazy but the only way to grow more is to actually stop indebting people and let them just grow.
Nobody's going back to the gardens imo.
Nobody will "fail to spend".
Keynes had a very dumb take.
We're going to the stars.
Rockets, AI, Quantum computing, DNA Splicing, we will explore it all as Elon dreams (somewhat).

AI is the genie that cannot be put back in the bottle and its not going to destroy us.
What will destroy us will be continuing to try to keep fiat at 90+% usage while stiffling the currency of freedom – Bitcoin (via Crypto). This will make people use AI in desperate ways because debt makes people to innovate in extremis. This is why there is a dread over AI. And rightly so.
So the solution is to accept cryptocurrency to take over, and for financial engineers to accept to get back into hard science and push the frontiers of technology.

Who am I kidding. Human nature never changes unless a painful motivator shows up. So I think AI will continue to be used with some fear over it, because fiat which makes it seem like an existential risk (Projected. It isn't. It's just a super data search / data aggregator of what already exists. It arrives at the existing truths faster. Nothing new. We already discovered these things ourselves so why fear them ?
But sometime we don't know we discovered something. Something beautiful. That's what AI helps to show us. What we discovered and didn't realize).
And the Jiang's of the world will doomsay till the cows come home. But oh well.

This is why Bitcoiners should embrace AI. Many a person says run one way – away from it. And while it looks like it could hurt us, we should run towards it.

The only Bitcoin argument against AI could be one about increasing time preference and hence diluting our resolve and our manners. But I think in this information age, hodling through the storm with minimal brushes against technology, is exactly how we end up with glitchy code that a kid AI-hacks over a weekend.
But at the time you can't tell it is glitchy. You think it is neat coz your best dev was on it for all of 2 weeks or something like that.

Funding is getting harder for Bitcoin development precisely because of too much debt. Add too much fear of AI.
AI can repackage and monetize debt better than anything else. AI bots, with their speed of synthesis, will soon help anyone spin up a fiat-stablecoins-multicurrency exchange.

But that's a subpar direction to go in.
A low hanging fruit that every degen is trying out.

A better direction is to use AI to build your own tractor. Maybe only spend $10k instead of $100k. Because it (AI) will show you where to get all the parts.
Or for Bitcoiners who are so inclined, you can now build your own hardware wallet. Why trust a company, any company, to do it for you if you don't want to?
You have the AI, and you have all these cheap, thrown away computer parts.
Hack them and build your own wallet.
Lost your keys? Joe Grand your own wallet.

We've come full circle. Let me recap.

1. AI is something we are being told to fear because Fiat realizes that it can hyper fiat things. Ironic as it may sound, governments don't want us to borrow too much.
   I'm not going to call it SI until all the fear-momgering has been stripped away. I'm scared enough pondering nuclear war. I'm not looking for new horrors.
2. We should run towards it. But not to build new debt instruments and more arcane models of leverage. Worse, more bots that behave like humans.
   There is zero financial incentive for making up one's competition and if the plan is to dupe other humans then that's just creepy and evil.

We run towards it so that we can bolster Bitcoin by self-sovereignly doing Bitcoin/Crypto ourselves.
We run towards it so that we build all the cool things that can help us be able to do life on our own terns. A sort of shortcut around the debt slavery of this age.
It's quite the double edged sword. Fck around and it could make you kill yourself (and others). Fck around properly, and you unlock the potential of serving others like some sort of genius in your career.

3. Hodling and not changing things is now the past.
   Bitcoin Core changed things when it opened Op return, and this birthed a new altcoin (that may become the main Bitcoin one day. Who knows) called XBT.
   So one change happened and we got an entire new movement for the more purist side of Bitcoin.
   I think that's a win.

Now that wallets are being hacked left and right, nows the time to realize we can do Bitcoin ourselves.
If our hearts stay true, then AI is the key to Hyperbitcoinization like Satoshi could not even imagine.

Cheers.

I am the way, the truth and the Life ...— Jesus Christ

Bitcoin is a truth of money machine.. — Anonymous (possibly Saylor)