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Why do you think AI would be more concerned about efficiency than understanding?

Yeah. And what if the computer discovers that desire is pointless? Will it have a religion? Buddhism? Zen Buddhism?

Why does quantum computing even exist if all forms of computing are equivalent?

Bitcoin the protocol? Bitcoin the idea? Bitcoin the network? Bitcoin the whole ecosystem?

I would argue it was an attack on Bitcoin the ecosystem, due to an _oddity_ of Bitcoin the protocol. Bitcoin the idea is still fully alive. The attack worked from within Bitcoin, the network.

I think the interesting part about all this is how it changes over time. I have this impression that the whole area of sex is still and always has been a weird reflection on society at large. I would be curious, for example, for a much longer term graph comparing frequency of the two words 'hardcore', and 'love'.

Hey,

I gather that you describe yourself as a feminist. I would assume that means that you do not think highly of MRAs? If so, have you have watched this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA

Wouldn't it be a good idea to watch this video to the very end to develop more and better ways of arguing against them and their 'crazy' ideas?

Huh? If Bitcoin is really successful and eventually used by everyone on the planet and people use it with about constant rate, the blockchain will grow linearly. Until then bitcoin will grow presumably S-shaped which means that there will be a phase of exponential growth that we are in now. If it is crippled by people insisting on 7txn/s for "economic reasons", its transaction rate will probably peak and then decay.

No. That is redefining the purpose of this limit. It was meant only as a anti-spam measure and now people like you claim it is necessary. There is a _natural_ limit to the minimum transaction fee which is determined by the orphan cost (including transactions means slower block propagation means higher chance of a found block being orphaned by another, concurrent block). Bitcoin needs to eventually scale to survive and that means removing the block size limit and optimizing the protocol for lowest possible orphan cost.

42 -> 4,2 -> for, two -> fortu -> fortune! Deep meanings :D