Value is determined when an asset is sold. At a price negotiated between buyer and seller. There is no such thing as unrealized profit or unrealized gain. How can you pass a law that is a logical contradiction? And can the public be expected to obey such laws?

Seriously? You expect me to show up at the local townhall to verify my age so that I can access certain websites. But nothing you have said is novel, it is already in practice. Alright.

Look, there is no way the government will be able to keep up with which websites or platforms are the most risky for minors. The curious ones will look for ways around the system and end up on those non-mainstream sites. The predators will look for ways around the system too. It is much better if the responsibility is taken by the parents. And I highly doubt the government would stop at only checking the age. There would soon be special licenses for special websites. Imagine the eightteen year olds lining up at the local townhall to apply for a license to watch porn. Or, less comically, unless you are vaccine verified you cannot access any websites except the government healthcare one. Enforced at the ISP level, for your own protection.

If there is a technical solution, I would be genuinely interested. Maybe something with zero knowledge proofs. But you would have to enforce it on every website and platform. It would have to be at the protocol level, rebuilding the whole internet around age verification. Which is just not going to happen.

Of course. The strange part was about not already recognizing the importance of privacy in tech. So what is your proposed solution?

What a strange comment.

This is important. Unfortunately, homomorphic encryption is not going to be standard any time soon.

Ironically, it is making this shift that will their power back to them. Self-custody of the mind.

This community knows very well the concept of exponential growth of technology. Bitcoin is the ultimate yardstick against which to measure it. Thinking in terms of fiat is like trying to do engineering without ever specifying which units you are working in.

FWIW I do suspect holography has something to do with the cosmological constant problem. I think one clue comes from an old paper by Cohen, Kaplan, Nelson (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803132). You might find it interesting. The idea is that effective field theory put in a box breaks down when you put in enough energy to form a black hole as large as the box. Which gives a link between the box size (IR scale) and the maximum, cutoff energy (UV scale). Apply this to the size of the universe and you get a connection to the cosmological constant…

Interesting, thanks

Exactly. No need for assumptions about dynamics or locality. It really makes it very sharp.