Trendy Reflections

- Natural Stupidity remains a larger problen than Artificial Intelligence will ever be

- if Prompt Engineer becomes a profession, well then, we figured out what to do with the English majors

Euphemism of the day : Unnecessary

Nearly all consciousness appears to be unnecessary. However, given the popular predisposition to think of pleasure as "necessary", it has come to pass that "unnecessary" is an ironic reference to pain, or offensive behaviour.

Crypto TED Talk

Crypto concepts many people haven't brained :

- the cryptocurrency revolution is fundamentally a "governance technology" revolution; it just happens to attack incumbent financial structures

- most cryptocurrencies are "fiat"; they're just not nation-state-issued/regulated fiat

- decentralised finance "de-fi" is not "a sector of the crypto industry"; it's the fundamental gov-tech approach driving the entire sector

- cryptocurrency issuers are basically voluntary organisations using a self-issued currency; old laws for managing religious bodies and other non-profits, and any related issuances of currency, may be sufficient to govern new activities

- one of the incumbent design-patterns in gov/fin-tech is the "fractional reserve bank" and related systems; the silver lining the entire industry is driving towards is simply the question of what design-patterns can improve on, supplement, or replace fractional-reserve banks

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