Theft, stealing, seizure, confiscation - these all require someone taking control of another’s property. The Cat excises UTXOs from consensus; no one takes possession, no transfer occurs. Voiding UTXOs is not a crime.

I don’t disagree with any of the empire stuff, nor Palestine and the Zionists. I want them out too. You stay in your lands and deal with your own. Youve NOT done that plenty throughtout history, so I accept the Spanish telling you to fuck off because it’s not just Christians you’ve tried to convert - Muslims succeeded in parts of Asia and had to be slaughtered in others to get them to fuck off. Islam needs a reformation but that can happen in already Muslim countries - we don’t need to see it or be part of it.

No. Stay in your Muslim country and deal with your own. We don’t need proof, we don’t need to negotiate, and we don’t need to tolerate. We’ve got history books and we see how Muslims govern themselves today - we don’t want it. Keep it to yourself.

Yes if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s way better than you. Navigating Vietnamese it is incredibly helpful, anything where I know what I’m doing it is equivalent to having a 5 year old assist.

My career was built on looking at what tech was actually going to work versus what just sounded good but wouldn’t succeed. I’m more confident in my AI call than any I’ve ever made by way of how much exposure I’ve had and knowing how the world really works. I also call bullshit on Quantum as a threat to #Bitcoin. Should probably write that up at some point.

I never said organised religion creates social cohesion. I only mentioned practiced religion in my OP and followed up with how Islam in practice, like other religions, does so. Read this book if you want to know more:

Fully stand by this - AGI isnt happening. A single anecdote reinforced it for me: I’ve been using Claude a lot, it’s useful to bulk search things or find stuff in #Vietnam that I would struggle with. Translation is a real usecase. Recently I wanted to buy a digital picture frame which could be hacked to serve images off a home NAS. Worked out I needed something pre Android 11 - 11+ has an issue with data partitions. Claude found me suitable products but none of them listed the Android version of the frame, but they all listed the CPU though. Claude basically gave up trying to work out which frame would work because it doesn’t know “HOW” to think. I prompted it to search the CPUs listed and their Android compatibility and voila, I got my shortlist. Pattern matching is useful, but it’s not intelligence, nor is it a path to intelligence. Without knowing HOW to think, these things are only going to replace the lowest levels of work - it will be hugely disruptive no doubt, but we’re not going to see Digital Intelligence any time soon.

Learning about deferred assets blew my mind. It’s so fucking retarded that if you had a 5 minute TV broadcast describing it (back when people actually watched TV) the system would have collapsed the next day.

Disagree re Islam. It contributes to its adherents. Whether you like its practices or not, it is a socially cohesive glue for the people in Muslim countries. I would completely agree that it has no place being practiced in non-Muslim countries; it is a religion without tolerance, poorly adapted to deal with outsiders, and like Christianity relentlessly seeks to convert others even when it doesn’t suit those people (Christianity just does it very differently). I have no problem with Muslims practicing their religion in Muslim countries. But I don’t want them being subsidised to come into Christian countries, live off welfare, and then effect their politics and demographics towards their own religious ends. That however is specifically a problem with the Christian countries enabling it in the name of tolerance because its leaders haven’t read the New Testament.

This kind of plasticity has no end and literally doesn’t work in reality - it’s the crux of men pretending to be women and white people claiming aboriginality. As Allen said, you can argue about what morals to prioritise, but trying to be neutral on such questions is ridiculous. You’re not in fact neutral, because there is no neutral. By attempting to be neutral you’re actually choosing the side of men being women and Bitcoin being 1s and 0s for arbitrary data storage; you just don’t realise that’s what you’re doing because you’ve not thought enough about morality.