@ChristianHeiens We're never going to win via voting, but voting is essential to not lose. We're never going to vote in a savior, but the vote can bring in our destroyer. That's the reality.
I’m never going to seek “compromise and common ground” with people who hate me. Sorry. Those days are long over.
The Right has been trying to extend an hand to the Left for decades now and all we have to show for those efforts are:
1) Systematic attempts to discriminate against White men in both the public and private sector
2) Endless dehumanizing attacks about how we deserve to lose our country because we’re evil
3) Blatant attempts to overthrow America’s history, culture, social norms, ways of life, and our cherished traditions and rights in the name of some eternal Progressive omnicause that’s always seeking to institute Year Zero
4) Actual physical violence perpetuated against Conservatives, as evidenced by the Left’s murder of Charlie Kirk and their reaction to one of their own shooting him on a college campus.
Fuck the Left. They are my enemy, and I do not care what I’m called for rejecting any fake sentimental “common ground” with a political faction that has done its absolute best to signal for the last 12+ years how it wants nothing less than my total dispossession from the nation my ancestors helped found.
America doesn’t belong to them. They aren’t even worthy of being called “traitors” because they have no country of their own.
@ChristianHeiens@LutherEnjoyer Voting will not be enough because it costs money to run, and the real power has infinite dollars due to central control over the issuance and uses it to filter candidates. Unless that breaks, real power is at Blackrock not DC.
@BumpMeBro@_brinxinx Back when things were less insane, men paid on the date, but women knew they should use the man's spend as her cue for hers. $40 when he got $40 is fine. More is not.
@ItIsHoeMath@ottothegrey The kind of conversations that need to happen can't happen online. The few who would organize and act are so few the feds can actually trap most of them. Those who go for solo martyr will catalyze nothing unless insanely effective. People must lose everything to fix anything.
@callebtc Gone back and forth, but Kruze pointing out the entropy threat from non-monetary data has me convinced that something needs doing. Plus the receipts strongly point to Core devs being infiltrated. Calling those of us who want Bitcoin to be money only a mob should be beneath you.
@DaveShapi You obviously transfer the capital itself. Tongue-in-cheek, as its still a hard problem to balance that with not breaking things elsewhere, but that's the core of it: the capital shares themselves must be partially distributed.
@AshtonWard01@RupertLowe10@grok Grok isn't a bad summarizer, but definitely don't use it or any other AI model for advice on what to do in response. All, Grok included, are willing to lie about how Churchill would recommend responding, and when I can check CoT, it's because they can't recommend violence.
MARC ANDREESSEN JUST WENT ON ROGAN AND DROPPED THE MOST IMPORTANT AI ALPHA OF THE YEAR.
3 hours and 20 minutes of podcast.
Here are the 17 things worth your attention.
1. AGI is already here. Marc thinks the line was crossed 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3. Nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.
2. For almost any topic the top AI models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call on the phone. And he can call basically anyone.
3. Every doctor is secretly using ChatGPT in the exam room. They turn around the second you stop talking and type your symptoms in. Some do it while you are still sitting there. His quote: "At that point you are asking what do I need you for."
4. When AI refuses to answer something he wants to know he tells it he is writing a novel. "Walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." It explains almost anything if it thinks it is helping you write fiction.
5. When something is too complex he says "explain it like I am 10." Then "like I am 5." Then "like I am 2." He keeps going until it actually clicks.
6. When he wants to understand a tough topic he does not ask what the right answer is. He asks the AI to steelman one side then steelman the other. Then he decides for himself.
7. For big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "Be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." Then he reads the debate.
8. Pay attention to the exact moment you think "I do not know how to figure this out." Most people give up there. That is the moment you should open the AI.
9. The only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask. The models can do almost anything you can describe in plain English. The bottleneck lives in your own head.
10. You can send AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. Skin rashes. Blood test results. The new models read images not just text. A free 24/7 second opinion on anything.
11. The one type of therapy clinically proven to work is cognitive behavioral therapy. It is also something an AI can fully do on its own. Every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free anytime they want.
12. AI is solving math problems open for 100 years that no human mathematician could crack. Same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. Expect cancer cures and weird new physics breakthroughs in the next few years.
13. The best AI coders in Silicon Valley now make $50 million a year. One person. That number tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.
14. One friend paid $200 to decode his entire DNA. Then gave the AI his DNA, blood test results, and Apple Watch data. The AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.
15. Another friend put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI watches him spar and gives him technique notes after every round. A world-class coach at every practice for free.
16. The best programmers in Silicon Valley now run 20 AI coding bots simultaneously. Each bot writes code while they review the others. They call themselves AI vampires because going to bed means 20 workers stop and you lose money every hour you sleep.
17. The obvious next step: the bots will run their own bots. One human running 20 bots each running 20 more. One person. One laptop. 1,000 AI workers. This is months away not years.
Bookmark this before you watch the full podcast.
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@SunWeatherMan It would cause a Valley of Despair as the economy underwent a rewrite, then push the prices of everything toward zero as robotics and intelligence become the new soil: Plant cool idea, watch it be made. Except, you know, Sol ain't having it.
Even Heaven, the most perfect example of absolute truth, morality, and divinity to ever exist, still experienced conflict when Satan declared “I will not serve”.
If not even Heaven itself could be free of conflict, what possibly makes us believe we can avoid it with the right technical or procedural framework here on Earth?
@lightcoin@callebtc@AsyncN8@fedimint It's technically identical to cashu, but with the mint being a federation. We really need to standardize between the two. Significantly different use case than a sidechain.
@lightcoin@callebtc@AsyncN8 I don't know of them. It's also more thought experiment than useful unless you can get a federation on board with enough reputation to do it.
@callebtc@AsyncN8@grok Does make me wonder whether the Liquid side-chain would be better as a monero fork. As long as the parties involved per trade can confirm it, and the exits work, Liquid is quite useful.
@callebtc If Core, or a fork of Core, were made that enabled miners to apply filters to arbitrary data they mine, would you also push against that? Are miners who wish to exert control over their blocks a threat? You said you welcome uncompetitive miners. Did you mean that?
@callebtc@fixingmoneybtc You cannot prevent the unintended use of bitcoin *on blocks you don't mine*. That's no excuse for miners not to exert control of what they mine with their energy, especially arbitrary data. They aren't hapless victims who must process the data that pays most.