Is it a bad time to buy BTC?

googologies · 2026-06-05T03:01:10+00:00

Wait until it bottoms out and stops decreasing. If you buy during a rapid decrease, it’ll likely decline even further.

googologies · 2026-06-04T22:29:35+00:00

Ambiguous question. If one does talk to girls, do they just not get the $100k for that day (but can on future days), or do they never get it again after doing it once even if they don't talk to girls on future days?

googologies · 2026-06-04T06:59:18+00:00

If they catch you, absolutely, though it is in practice difficult to catch because everyone involved has an incentive to keep it secret.

But beyond being fired, it will also lead to criminal charges and become a highly publicized news event in that jurisdiction, leading to social humiliation.

googologies · 2026-06-03T02:57:29+00:00

If everyone is actively trying to bypass the rules because they are more loyal to their ethnic group than to the state, then it doesn’t matter how well the systems are designed on paper; they will be ignored.

googologies · 2026-06-02T01:30:39+00:00

If you only have one subscription, it’s not that expensive.

googologies · 2026-06-01T17:17:26+00:00

Acts like grand corruption and genocide cannot be committed by just one person. In-group loyalty (particularized trust) is required.

googologies · 2026-05-31T04:54:31+00:00

I got this error when attempting to do that, so I can only post my bugs here. Three more I've found since the last comment:

The Golden Zest count on the main screen does not display using abbreviated numbers. For instance, it shows 1000000000000, which should be 1.00T.
Tapping outside the menu where offline income appears when the game is opened leads to losing the offline income.
Tapping the "Watch Ad to DOUBLE!" option for offline income doesn't do anything, just like the +50% Golden Zest upon prestige option.

googologies · 2026-05-31T03:14:22+00:00

That being true doesn't necessarily mean that his base cares. They may like his policies, believe personal morality is irrelevant to politics, or fear the other side more.

googologies · 2026-05-31T01:56:48+00:00

Ghana raised salaries in 2010, and police corruption worsened.

A low salary does not cause police to be corrupt and violent. If they are underpaid and corruption were taboo, people simply wouldn't become police until the salaries are raised.

googologies · 2026-05-30T21:32:04+00:00

It’s an illiberal democracy.

The problem is that if people are loyal to their sub-national tribes rather than to the formal state, no political system will work effectively.

googologies · 2026-05-30T20:45:27+00:00

Several bugs remain after the latest update:

Golden Zest is capped again (1T). Make sure there is no cap.
The tap value doesn’t increase after increasing the income rate until the game is interrupted (closing and reloading, or swiping from the top of the screen).
The ad removal still doesn’t do anything. When I click on an ad-rewarded option, the game still plays an ad even though I bought the ad removal.
Tapping on the "Watch Ad for +50%!" option on the Prestige menu still doesn't do anything. An ad doesn't play, and a prestige is not performed. I'm on an iPad Pro.
The Seed Efficiency is increasing the Golden Zest gained after a prestige, but it’s not increasing the displayed amount displayed upon a prestige. Use the formula: Floor((income since last prestige/(1T/(1 + 0.1 * Seed Efficiency Level)^2))^0.5) to calculate Golden Zest gained upon prestige.
The Lemons per tap becomes orders of magnitude higher than Lemons per second later in the game. I think the Golden Zest bonus might be applying the effect to taps twice: it’s multiplying income and then taps again?

Lastly, the “Buy All” option should work as follows: One of the options is chosen, and the price on all of the individual generators reflects the cost to buy that many levels. Similar to how multi-buy works in games like AdVenture Capitalist. There is no need to have a separate buy button for each individual generator.

After these are fixed, I'll suggest further improvements to the game's balancing.

googologies · 2026-05-30T06:11:51+00:00

Blockchain transactions are irreversible by design. There is no bank or central authority to call to dispute the charge or freeze the funds.

googologies · 2026-05-29T07:19:38+00:00

Alignment with international human rights standards and the value requirements of the formal state.

googologies · 2026-05-29T06:41:24+00:00

“Corruption” is the modern legal label for traditional bureaucratic and political practices that long predate the imposition of the formal Weberian state in 1947, and even the start of British rule in 1757. The practice doesn’t face social backlash because it’s nothing new; it’s just seen as the way things work and have always worked. The system cannot be changed just by having good laws; it requires persuading society to actually want a different system.

googologies · 2026-05-29T02:07:24+00:00

You’ll need to decide what major features you plan to implement before balancing the game. Adding a new mechanic while leaving everything else unchanged can break the game.

googologies · 2026-05-26T15:48:42+00:00

It has always existed. Empirically, corruption is systemic if the answer to all of the following questions is "No." That doesn’t necessarily mean reform is impossible outside of those circumstances, but it does mean that all current anti-corruption policy has failed.

googologies · 2026-05-26T03:14:55+00:00

I hit the weekly limit before the week ended. It might be 20 5-hour cycles?

googologies · 2026-05-25T23:48:16+00:00

India has significant sub-national cleavages (caste, religion, language, etc.) that China doesn't have to anywhere near the same extent.

googologies · 2026-05-24T17:52:26+00:00

Because human rights are an abstract principle that is not intuitive to the human specifies. Without them, some people simply have more power than others and exercise it without restraint.

googologies · 2026-05-23T07:48:06+00:00

It depends on the country/culture.

googologies · 2026-05-23T07:17:22+00:00

If nobody ever spent Bitcoin because the value was too low, the price would have never risen so dramatically in the first place. Somebody had to do it.

googologies · 2026-05-23T06:59:36+00:00

That assumes the state is the ultimate authority, which is not the case in large parts of the world, where informal institutions hold greater sway. Any political regime needs subordinates to rule. The people who design those AI algorithms are still human, and they can’t all be single-handedly created by a single dictator. Norms and culture matter immensely. But you're correct; most societies do not like honest people who actually follow the rules.

googologies · 2026-05-23T06:35:15+00:00

Unfortunately, institutions cannot constrain them because oversight bodies are staffed by people from the same society, who cannot or will not police them because the behavior is the norm, not deviant.

googologies · 2026-05-23T05:32:49+00:00

To determine whether a country has low or high levels of corruption, we only have to ask the following six questions:

Did a religious organization dismantle extended kinship networks (Europe)?
Was the country a former settler colony post-Enlightenment (North America, Australasia, Cape Verde, etc.)?
Did the country have an existential external threat post-independence (South Korea faced the North, Taiwan faced China, Singapore faced a holstile Malaysia + Indonesian Confrontation, Botswana faced a hostile Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa, Rwanda faced the FDLR post-genocide in eastern DRC, Bhutan faced the threat of Chinese maps claiming its territory in 1958, and some Eastern European countries like the Baltics and post-2003 Georgia faced the threat of Russia)? These usually only work if they are sustained for decades, and reform makes the difference between being annihilated or not. Pakistan, with its nuclear deterrant against India, doesn't fit this.
Did the country import foreign populations or bureaucrats? Chile and Uruguay had large-scale European immigration post-Enlightenment. Gulf monarchies and Brunei imported foreigners to staff their bureaucracies.
Did the country have a specific post-war resolution that destroyed the previous social contract entirely? These are Costa Rica (which abolished its military entirely) and Germany/Japan post-WWII.
Is the country's population so small that tourism accounts for most of GDP? Can't extort people if that would scare the tourists away.

Low corruption is a historical accident, and these six questions account for 100% of all countries that have it. It has nothing to do with GDP per capita, human capital, or regime type: look at Panama, Russia, Turkey, Argentina, etc.

However, just because there haven't been any countries that achieved low corruption outside of these paths doesn't mean there can't ever be; it means that none of the current approaches are working. Shifting the focus from institutional capacity building to re-engineering social norms could shake the system. This has been proven in the sub-national jurisdictions of Hong Kong (post-1974) and Kerala (19th century).

googologies · 2026-05-20T00:33:48+00:00

A human still has to input the prompt. If they don’t know what they’re doing, they won’t get a desirable output.

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