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High protein ... cricket powder? Not gonna eat the bugs.

AI is not actually intelligent. It's only a tool without its own goals and is fully dependent on humans. It can only live in a sandbox created by humans. There is already a kill switch. It's the power breaker. You can just flip it when you want to turn it off.

2017 vibes. Making me feel younger. Maybe we'll cycle through this every decade.

I can't believe that this is still a debate in 2026. Retro 2017 vibes.

Unfortunately, you can't just throw bodies at a project and make it better. Not sure if you've managed a large dev team. As you add people your team overhead in communication and coordination increases causing lower productivity. Amazon famously had their restriction that no team could be larger than the people that could eat two boxes of pizza. You also can't dismiss the tradeoffs between layers and decentralization. The smaller the base layer data requirements, the more nodes that can independently operate. It's a no-brainer for me. The best system is the one with the greatest ability to run local nodes at global scale while preserving created trust.

I'm sure the Liquid team thought they were being "aggressive" in their security too. We have no idea how much effort developers are putting into their projects. My point is that the uncertainty is the problem. You can't know, nobody can. The only thing you can trust is what you can audit. I can prove for myself there are only 21 million BTC.

That's not racism. It's the opposite. He's clearly expressing his concern for how govt intervention is harming black people. Lowering standards for a group will obviously have negative consequences. The govt is literally branding an entire race as not equally competent. It's pretty clear that govt intervention has harmed black people. As another example, you can either believe that black fathers just naturally abandon their children at far higher rates than everyone else, or you can believe that there is another systemic underlying cause at work. I would think that people who knowingly support a system that harms a group of people based on their race, are actually the racists.

It's one of the reasons I've been collecting passports and residencies. Long time believer in the Sovereign Individual thesis. The welfare nation states will need to go through the "great adjustment" where they slowly go bankrupt. They can't avoid it and will be dangerous places as it happens. Already, in places like Canada, the majority of voters in the country are financially dependent on the government. Direct welfare, employment, subsidies, etc. Once you're dependent on the govt, you'll likely continue to vote for more socialism until your physical safety is directly at risk. It took Argentina 80 years to reach that point. As the world transitions multi-polar, I'm hoping there will be safe havens in the world (but not guaranteed, of course). Another part of the SI thesis is the decentralizing effects of technology. YOu can see that playing out in open source AI models. Always getting cheaper and easier to run locally. World in transition, but many reasons to be optimistic.

By a boomer? I think the norm for Gen X and below is now to text first instead of just randomly calling someone. For a while, I couldn't handle the spam. I just sent all calls to VM and disabled VM so I never had to check it.

Sure, it might be finite, but you don't know how many more bugs are in there. It's the uncertainty that kills it. You can never know if you fixed all the bugs. When you have a choice between storing your life savings in one vs the other, you'll always choose the more certain one.

We've all just watched Liquid get burned because of confidential transactions. Nobody can tell if there is an inflation bug until it's too late. It's necessary for a globally trusted base money to be open and visible to be trustworthy. We need to add privacy in other ways (joins, L2, etc.)