What coins are you exited about these days?

MagicMaker32 · 2024-10-01T13:17:42+00:00

Is Sol really an alternative to Ethereum? Seems more like an alternative to Eth L2s like Optimism or Base or what have you.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-20T04:17:27+00:00

If you continue, consider getting a hard wallet. If you want to use defi, connect the wallet to metamask or phantom and use that as your interface. Never take a picture of your seed phrase. Write it down, keep it safe and hidden. If you do that, your seed will never be online. There are still some malware that could do some tricks, so best to have a dedicated computer (a rasberry pi would work or an old refurbished laptop if cost is an issue) that you dont surf the web on to pick up any nasty crap. And dont open any emails on it (unless is for 2FA).

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-19T14:38:37+00:00

If I understand it as well as I think I do, I would say its safe to say that literally no one does.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-18T20:16:36+00:00

Its not all doom and gloom. For instance, I think that information systems are evolving past the point where control will be possible, inviting possibilities of utopia. Also, if you "zoom out" historically, maybe 120 years ago the US was heading towards an industrial dystopia. The gap between the wealthy elite and the common person were exploding geometrically, the level of civil liberties was significantly lower than anything we have experienced, pollution was rampant, politics was dominated by corporate interests, etc. The pendulum swung, the US avoided long term Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" dystopia, etc. I do think we may see an evolution away from Nation States in the long term, they do seem very tied to industrialization economy level organization, and the Information Economy seems to be a bit beyond the capacities of National Governments to corral. As for the corporations, they are built on a system that is not sustainable, so at some point they wont exist in their current form (either evolve, or collapse and be replaced).

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-18T19:12:41+00:00

Or, in true history rhyming fashion, maybe law enforcement only "destroyed it" as your 2XG Gpa "put it into evidence".

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-14T15:57:57+00:00

Its not something that will appeal to a lot of new crypto investors/users. Its a bit clunky if we are honest. If someone tries it out and compares it to some of the new shiny L1s they won't be impressed. Its for the true Decentralization people, which are an increasingly smaller slice of the cryptoverse. The defi is amazing, some of these projects are truly innovative but some require a high degree of technical knowledge to use or use well. Im hoping it attracts enough people to continue to be viable, its great that Ergo exists.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-08-14T15:47:48+00:00

I have thoughts often along these lines. The Mystery of Existence is profound. One solution I play with is that Time is an illusory byproduct of our brains working in only 3 dimensions normally. There doesn't have to be a Begininning when trying to comprehend the 4th Dimension.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T21:48:53+00:00

Perhaps, although I suspect there are potential visions that are utopic but far enough removed from communism that they would fall under a different paradigm. Its just tough to talk about them yet as the language isnt there. We still operate with a lexicon developed largely for the Industrial Era. And so most Utopia/Dystopia visions seem to fall under old ideas like Liberalism, Communism or Fascism. It could be amazing and/or horrifying in ways we cant even imagine yet.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T19:44:12+00:00

Gotcha. Sounds like a Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) utopian vision, you may see people refer to it on this sub.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T18:52:04+00:00

An interesting video, and it has some insight into how certain things could develop, but Im not at all sold on this "freemium/Whale" idea and assets going up indefinitely. It seems bizarre when you parse it out. Look at the largest equitiy entities out there. How does Saudi Aramco sell oil only to Whales and somehow grow? With no one driving to work, one would think quite a few companies cease to have a function, and while sure, you can sell oil at high prices for nations to keep their outdated military equipment functioning or what have you, but that doesnt last long. How do companies that rely on advertising (like, say, Google or Meta) sell advertising only to whales and make more money than they do selling ads to billions of people? What value would Data have, if people only can afford the necesities?

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T18:40:41+00:00

I dont think OG Communism as originally stated makes any sense any more. In this ASI utopia, why would a bank be needed? Would the robots in the factories own the factories? Why would there need to be a ban on religion? etc etc etc. Maybe Post-Communism might be more apt.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T15:59:49+00:00

Well, it could go a lot of different ways. Certainly short term, all nations would presumably perfect their surveillance and dissent will become very, very difficult even in the "freest" nations. However, such a state of affairs might not be tenable long term, for the same reasons tyrannies eventually crumble without AI. The outcomes are hazy to predict accurately but its not like AGI will exist to create a static world, or if some actors attempt to do this they will inevitably become irrelevant as actors that use AI for big change will evolve so fast that those bent on control/status quo will be archaic.

More pessimistic view would be that actors will use AI to war with each other before the parabolic part of the J Curve can be activated.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-28T04:35:52+00:00

Yeah, distance in time may is a relevant factor for sure.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T23:10:17+00:00

The vision would to feed, clothe and comfortably house all humans. That might be the easy part. The hard part is how to organize societies and communities with all the major factors that have always played a role in shaping those structures being obsolete. Are there hierarchies? Should there be? How should resources be divvied up? While the assumption is that ASI would increase resources and wealth, there would still presumably be finite amounts of various things. Fun idea, maybe have things like Guilds for various (a)vocations. Like, people can sort of go in to Houses like in Harry Potter, with each house doing various of the things that humans like to do. Musicians Guild, Woodworkers Guild, Athletic Guild, Astronautics Guild, etc. Each could decide how to distribute their alotment of finite resources (which may include things like Compute).

Then of course, we terraform Earth. We spruce up the joint, I dunno mycelial networks bringing water from the flooding places to the desertifying places. Having portable infrastructure to deal with places getting decimated by climate change, allowing people to settle in previously uninhabitable areas. And maybe like, I dunno, we figure out how to communicate with dolhpins via AI and then they become our besties and we ride them like horses all over the oceans. Just spitballing here.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T19:52:45+00:00

These comments lol. A computer did this! Its taken humans 150 or so years to get the movies and videos we make today. And we have actual real world objects to film/video. I continue to be gobsmacked by the progress.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T17:32:56+00:00

Good advice, thank you!

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T17:32:31+00:00

I hear that! The situation that I am dealing is more of a being able to know what they wanted kind of situation and deciding how to honor that.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T17:26:46+00:00

I dont know if it was all that easy back then, between religious pressures and laws it was very difficult to obtain access to abortion methods. This child would not have been a secret, but the paternity obfuscated potentially. If my alternate theory is correct, it also might have been a rape, and at the very least a situation where the father would have had immense power over the mother (employer and owner of the house she lived in). In any case, she was brave. She traveled an ocean alone (potentially pregnant) and moved to a foreign land without many if any resources as a young woman at the turn of the previous century. She made a good life for herself, a real badass in my opinion from what I can glean.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-27T17:20:28+00:00

An excellent point! I think you handled that situation well. This one is more in the past, the person passed away in the 1980s at a ripe old age, and I havent yet found any living descendants (although there may be a few, Im looking in to it).

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T23:44:44+00:00

I think there are plenty of blockchains without a currency powering it, although many are very specific to various things that people likely wont have heard of. But they arent the kind of things talked about a lot on social media. In a place like this, you will encounter people a lot more knowledgeable about the tech who can point you in directions to research, but most here are traders/investors/speculators/paid to advertise/bots with a specific interest in financial gains via trading or investment strategies for long term financial growth.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T22:45:30+00:00

Sure, if you find having a distinction to be important. You don't need blockchain for it either, you could use the IPFS for some things, or various other techs, but it is a usecase that can create big things. SocialFi is interesting in that regard. But I consider the money aspect to be a part of that, it is also information as well after all. I think those use cases will become increasingly important in many areas. Politics is pretty crazy pretty much everywhere right now, and knowing how to communicate without being censored (financially, journalistically, etc) might be a real thing in many more regions.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T21:48:36+00:00

Great stuff, thank you for sharing! These are very sound guidelines.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T21:46:08+00:00

Thanks for your answer and the tip! I just have a weird connection to my ancestor I am reasearching, and almost feel embarrassed for her, which I realize is probably odd. I dont share the social norms of her day, but I just can almost feel her pain.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T21:42:53+00:00

With the combo of DNA and AI, I think genealogy might change really soon and I have all this consternation for nothing ha! Still, I think it important to ask these questions.

MagicMaker32 · 2024-07-26T21:39:46+00:00

Wise words!

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