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We will never achieve AGI

No, and I suspect many miners will do this because they anticipate the same thing I do: PoS will be a catastrophic failure with myriad exploits, vulnerabilities, and philosophical paradoxes that arise with popularity.

"Decentralization" in crypto is a myth.

No it didn't, you'll notice I had very precise descriptors in each comment. I'm glad you accept that your perspective that Western colonials were uniquely bad is blatantly false.

>It's hard not to economically progress when one robs and sabotages all the largest economies in the world.

You mean what literally every society and culture was doing for all of human history? Native tribes across the globe were in perpetual war. Why do you think it was called the Aztec Empire as just one example? Every primitive culture would have done the same thing if they had the technology. Deception is a recurring theme in The Art of War and similar strategic works across time. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, China, Persia, Islamic empires, etc.

>You are pointing out rituals in the rest of the world but these were occassional ceremonies.

lol no they weren't, human sacrifice happened dozens of times a day every day in Mayan and Aztec civilization. Cannibalism was a regular staple in many native American and African tribes.

All your comments on cannibalism are complete bullshit. The mummy eating stuff was basically over by the 17th century, except in rare instances.

Eating mummies is also completely different from literally killing someone for the purpose of eating them, or decapitating/ripping the heart out of someone for human sacrifice.

For someone claiming objective facts you certainly don't have any.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_canniba...

I have repeatedly, your inability to observe data from the CBO and BLS is not my problem

Weird how the West progressed but many cultures hadn't even invented the wheel by the time of colonialism. Nice try with the pre-enlightenment & pre-colonialism whataboutism though.

Instances of cannibalism for reasons other than desperation or individual criminality are basically non existent in western culture after the 15th century, and were certainly not a staple of culture. This is even more true for things like human sacrifice. It's also completely false that cannibalism was more rampant in Europe than anywhere else. That's laughable. It was prolific in Africa, the Americas, Australia & New Zealand pre-colonialism, some parts of East Asia.

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of human sacrifice annually were taking place among native Americans. Cannibalism was and is a regular part of many African cultures, and also was widespread among native Americans.

Some cultures are better than others. That's just a fact. And it's not just Nazis that are bad.

>What he is not is a primary source or a good source of unbiased anything.

Oops I guess the Senate finance committee fucked up then

https://medium.com/beyond-pen-and-paper/the-poor-arent-getti...

Sounds like something the Englishman would follow up with except about 1914s geopolitical state vs 1939s

This feels like something an Englishman that was pro appeasement would have stated to a Pole right before it was invaded.

First, Dan Mitchell is a primary source. Second, many of the pieces source BLS data or similar entities.

lol at thinking Daniel Mitchell is just a "guy"

>How is this relevant to median income/wealth measured over time?

Because the age and dominant generation of the population massively affects the median household wealth. It's why the median wealth of Japanese Americans is significantly higher than Hispanic Americans. The median age of the Japanese American population is almost double that of Hispanic Americans.

Gonna be interesting to see this same exact article and reasoning applied to non-eradicating vaccines in the future.

There's these things called citations, there's tons of them throughout the piece, those pieces further cite primary sources for the data.

Learn these things before you try to engage in conversations about this topic:

The difference between income and total compensation.

The difference between income and wealth.

The dynamic nature of economic mobility over the course of someone's life. (Older people have more human capital and therefore more wealth).

Fun fact Denmark is one of the most wealth unequal countries.

>represent guides

According to the sculptor.

What may they represent guides for? Perhaps some prominent expeditions Roosevelt was famous for that were critical in establishing the museum?

I'm sure I am, with your unrealistic perspective of human progress and development and the uncomfortable truths of history you refuse to acknowledge.

I, for one, am glad we decided cultures like Nazism are not valid or worth preserving.

It's unfortunate that only Western cultures are allowed to be viewed with a critical eye.

Yeah man, all cultures are valid and deserve to exist, even if they sacrifice thousands of children annually, regularly participate in cannibalism, etc.

Westerners should have just ignored this stuff when they encountered it. The world would definitely be a better, more equitable place.

Not according to the data.

https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-poor-get-poorer-w...

I wonder if you've ever looked at a graph of wealth accumulation of every economic strata in the US, or just inequality. There's nothing wrong with inequality if the poor are getting richer, have more access to resources, and a higher quality of life with time.

>which does not in fact depict Roosevelt's Amazon expedition

Prove it

Prediction: Former Activision workers attempted to form a union, but were quickly replaced with a more productive workforce

The gamedev labor market is way too competitive with way too many competent professionals chomping at the bit to work for a big name company for this to result in anything but turnover in my estimation.

>>You can have a smart contract that writes reversible transactions to the blockchain

No you can't. Once a smart contract is included in a block, it has finished executing and is irreversible. The transaction is irreversible, again, by definition.

>>Even when you lose some of the benefits of blockchains

So you're no longer using a blockchain.

I'm not interested in endless goalpost shifting.

A transaction is definitionally something that has been written to the blockchain, so no it isn't.

In the case of layered solutions, you're no longer using blockchain. If we want to count uncomitted transactions on a second layer as "reversible", that comes with a host of its own issues, and points out another intrinsic flaw of blockchain: incapable of fulfilling its philosophical purpose, and requires secondary solutions that violate the very core philosophy of the data structure in hopes of overcoming just one of its many issues.

https://cryptowhale.medium.com/why-the-bitcoin-lightning-net...

https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network

If you write the software the mining pool uses to mine, you own the hash power.

Irreversible transactions

>a solution that does not involve moving away from autonomous ledgers that use cryptoeconomics to maintain consensus.

What are your proposed solutions to identified problems then?

>blockchain on principle - as opposed to problematic elements within the contemporary blockchain space

The problems are impossible to decouple from "blockchain on principle" because the problems are intrinsic to the data structure itself, not "contemporary" approaches to the data structure implementation.

I am probably aligned with you politically (if not more radical in my libertarian sentiments), and I can sympathize with the stated goals of the crypto space/bitcoin whitepaper. The problem is that the technology and computer science behind it fails completely to deliver on these goals from both an abstract and practical perspective.

More excess deaths have occurred post-vaccine and vaccine adoption is not correlated with a reduction in excess death at the national level.

https://www.usmortality.com/excess-absolute

>Articles like this want a return to serfdom, under the control of officialdom

Ironic thing to state given the reality of hash power distribution and supply of bitcoin that actually moves compared to the total

>in a form more useful than physical cash.

Something that is never used equivalently to physical cash cannot be more useful than it. Basically nothing is priced in bitcoin or crypto

Missiles and 20mm are a lil bigger than than your thumb, but your point still stands lol

They have been neither used nor studied in humans prior to COVID-19, save for once, for rabies, with 101 participants, and that study was concluded in 2018.