r0sten

r0sten t1_j6hutrv wrote

> Also its very hard for someone to crack your bitcoin and find out what transaction you did.

Only the first part of this sentence is correct, the cryptography in bitcoin is designed to give you absolute ownership of the bitcoin you control by means of (Currently) unbreakable encryption. But the transactions themselves are totally public on the blockchain that anyone can look up anytime. Once they know you are the author of a transaction they can scan that wallet for other movements and figure out a lot of info about you. Monero is a cryptocurrency that actually encrypts the transactions as well as the wallets so this does not happen, but it and other privacy conscious cryptocurrencies are not as popular as the ones that reveal your movements by default such as ethereum and bitcoin.

Iirc this was sort of a strategic decision by Satoshi Nakamoto, who was balancing the threat bitcoin could pose to the traditional economy - greater obfuscation would've been possible to implement but he chose not to go that way. As is bitcoin is extremely transparent to authorities and so it's potential for disruption is lower than if it was really untraceable internet money.

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r0sten t1_j6htxyp wrote

Based on my travels I got a really strong intuition that we are already post-scarcity by production, but we still fail at distribution. As long as we still exist in a system where it's more profitable to pulp goods than give them away we will not ever reach it. Communism unfortunately has a number of severely undesirable failure states but I have some ideas as to how we can make capitalism better at distribution hopefully without having to murder large numbers of people because they wear glasses.

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r0sten t1_j28jepl wrote

You might want to read Charlie Stross' Saturn's Children series, it's about robots inhabiting a post-human world. At least one robot that shows up has a multiple womb setup in order to birth human babies. Somehow the robots are never able to keep them alive for long though.

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r0sten t1_iz9eo5g wrote

Imagine you are a dog. You look at your human master and you can predict a bit of what he will do. Feed you, take you out for a walk. Go out, come back. Outside of that, you have absolutely no idea. He's doing calculus homework. He's signing up for a mortgage. He's buying an airline ticket to Europe. You do not know what any of these things are and cannot meaningfully predict any of it.

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r0sten t1_it1kiu1 wrote

> A quality artists that's flexible enough to take on whatever the clients needs are, has a fundamentally deep understanding of the world, human beings, physics, anatomy, phycology, story telling (thus having a full deep understanding of reality), etc.

That's not the dude you're hiring on fiverrr though. I saw a very nice poster for a local even recently, looked very polished, very professional. Then I looked closer and I saw that all the character's heads had been lifted from various cartoons. An AI image generator might've done the same, but in seconds and for free or a nominal fee.

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