Turns out people are just monkeys

And how do you know that humans are anything more than that?

IMO we’re all just chatbots.

ChatGPT has the same problems with astronomy data. Blame the marketing team not the technology.

I talked with someone inside Google who saw the unnerfed version. He said, “I have a CS degree and am pretty clever about asking the right questions to break the Turing Test… and I was very impressed.”

Google invented Transformers, and it’s naïve for people to think ChatGPT is so special that it’s a threat to Google.

The internet took 30 years to go from ARPANET to Facebook and it wasn’t trying to overthrow an entrenched global industry like banking. 11 years after TCP/IP was created, we didn’t even have the World Wide Web yet.

You are somewhat wrong about mistyping addresses. There are checksums which prevent simple errors.

Buyers and sellers absolutely do not need a third party unless there’s fiat involved.. This is a fiat problem not crypto.

Your problems seem to be with on- and off- ramps not with crypto to crypto transactions. I’ve sent large amounts of Bitcoin internationally as well and it was much better than using a bank wire, both in terms of time and cost.

Again, it sounds like mostly you have an issue with your Bhat on and off ramps and the local Thai Bitcoin exchange, not with crypto transfers themselves. Please never pay $40 to move Bitcoin. Lightning would be 1¢.

Complexities in crypto are getting easier all the time. Interfaces are improving.

True decentralization is only getting started. You are wrong that distributed exchanges have a third party. Many do not and are truly peer to peer.

And transaction fees for things like Lightning Network payments are minuscule. Far far less than using a credit/debit card. Far less than a wire. Far faster than ACH. Perhaps you have old information about transaction fees? I can’t understand why you’d argue that banks are cheaper.

The collapse of these many centralized institutions proves the need for crypto. The point has always been sound money and self-custody.

Putting money into the trust of third party exchanges was easy for new users but was never in the spirit of crypto.

DeFi solutions have existed for years that never have any possession of customer funds (“noncustodial”) No such FTX scam is possible on noncustodial exchanges (e.g. dydx) These solutions have not (yet) been popular due to less familiar user interfaces and higher fees.

Custodians like FTX, Celcius, BlockFi, (Chase, BoA, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns…) etc are the problem. Crypto already has the solution but people have to use the noncustodial tools instead of taking the old familiar paths.

“The” scientific process? I was not aware that philosophers of science had strong agreement on such a singular process. I could be wrong. Please enlighten me: what IS the scientific process?

IMO the fact that there are very few replication studies published, if any, due to “lack of originality” is in itself quite damning of whatever you want to call the modern publishing/gatekeeping process.

Do you think Einstein would get published in today’s environment? IMO no.

That is a selfish view of science. Some people just want to expand our knowledge available to everyone. It has nothing to do with fame or a career.

Most of the papers I read come from arxiv, and I find it annoying that anything in science should be paywalled. IMO we need more open review and less gatekeeping. I don’t care much about official paid peer review. I’ve found basic mistakes in source code in areas that weren’t even mentioned in the paper (e.g. preprocessing) Can’t trust peer review anyway.