This Harari guy might seem evil at first, but he's just an autistic pragmatist who has been coopted by the dark side. Now, who in here actually thinks every single human on earth is a beautiful snowflake that's fine just as is? It is true that a lot of people will be effectively replaced by AI with a 1000x productivity increase, it is inevitable and also healthy I would argue. The flaw in his argument is the premise that "someone has to do something with those people". In a free society, people who are not useful in any way are naturally removed from the gene pool, because they usually don't manage to reproduce, no violence involved. With the state, they become an extremely precious source of votes for the left, and an excuse to extort an increasing portion of wealth from actually productive people.

Must be a nightmare to clean up

He recently also said that bitcoin will become the future currency of the world reaching a ginormous market cap... now this ties it all together:

Every time I have made an analogy on nostr and someone contested it, the reply was a variation of "this is not relevant". Not once it has happened that the one replying to my analogy would make a clear argument to explain why it was such. By extension, I will say that the argument made in OP is not useful, no further elaboration is needed.

Theft of garden gnomes is just a political excuse to keep strange people out of your lawn and limit free circulation of individuals, and is currently being used by dangerous nazis as a pathetic excuse to propose many other liberticide rules: - DISABLE ingress of strange people in your garden through a fence - LIMIT offensive capability of thieves by keeping guns on the premises - REJECT taxation by removing arbitrary central authorities that always screw things up - INVALIDATE any claim to "inclusiveness" by defending the sovereignty of people to decide who can enter their territory - DISABLE state ability to spy on people by introducing privacy enhancing technologies

I'd be curious to hear what the missus has to say, still as long as it works more power to you (like, literally)

Amen. Bitcoin will go on though, a little dirty but still. Maybe drivechans will save the day, and there will be one just for sociopaths and deviants.

You say you see god as the ubiquitous nous that governs reality, that's an interpretation I have seen elsewhere. But then also hint to something that to me, sounds like "everything that exists must come from somewhere... hence god" Finally, you attribute godly characteristics to the way bitcoin works. I can like your idea, yet I cannot share it. The rules of physics that we know have been mathematically described, no need to layer god between them, those that we don't know will be mathematically described one day, and we cannot layer god in there either or we would be associating it to our ignorance. I maintain that god is methodologically unneeded. It could be psychologically felt as needed though, and I will not debate that. It is in conclusion a mental construct that ignores the lack of evidence of the senses, and as this, I maintain that anyone can give any theological explanation and always be right, because there is no way whatsoever to prove it or disprove it.

you're probably the luckier one here, who knows

That is a false dichotomy. Education and prior selection avoids ending up with someone who is not compatible with you, negotiation fixes surprises along the way. Do you think that any woman would ever accept the role of "do whatever I say because I am the man"? I think that did not happen even 100 years ago.

sure, lies and deception.

You meant to say "why would you need negotiation"? Well negotiation is what avoids violence or depression when a conflict arises, and conflicts always arise.

Moot argument, converting fiat into bitcoin is hard(er) work when you avoid KYC, spending fiat instead of bitcoin saves you the cost of re-converting more fiat into bitcoin.

Supposing what you say is true about spammers preferring rarity tied to higher expenses, even offering them a cleaner and cheaper way to spam will not convince them to forfeit the luxurious way of doing it, that is, with fake pubkeys. So if that premise is valid, it contradicts your conclusion. And if it is not valid, it does validate my point of only leaving the most expensive loopholes accessible. No, people are not angels, people are a gross sum of praxeological individuals that work by profits and incentives. More options to send spam inevitably means more spam.

where would one go to peruse more of such a kind of silly videos?

You have some unusual definitions, but you are at least giving definitions 😉 Physics is rather the way the universe behaves, translated into mathematical formulas for our own understanding. Whatever we (still) don't understand of physics, is not god, is rather a failure of our intellect. You could say that god is "whatever we cannot understand of the universe", but then remember that once humans thought that rain, thunder, earthquakes and volcanoes were god. Nowadays all those things are not god. This makes the definition of god flaky at best. Let's consequently say that unless we want to dismissively call god whatever it is that we still don't get of the universe, god just doesn't exist. Let's define a common ethics and let's stick to that, god is unneeded. Bitcoin is still based on math, that any practical application of math requires time and energy is a given, no?

that's not a S curve... the S curve is... like... an S 😛 Slow start with early adopters, fast increase in adoption in the middle, slow plateauing at the end when reaching maturity. The one above is rather a S that has been mirrored and then tilted 90°, but more appropriately a double S curve with a plateau in the middle. In any case, I don't believe it 😉

Yes, fake pubkeys increase the utxo set, which means that other than taking space in the blockchain, they also increase the space needed in the utxo DB. Not in RAM, as they will be pretty soon placed in disk cache never to be fetched again, since they cannot be spent, but still. Storing the same amount of data in fake pubkeys costs (depending on feerate) up to 30 times (if you consider 1sat/vB as feerate floor, even more for lower feerates) the cost of OP_RETURN, and way more than that compared to witness if you consider the 75% discount. So yes, fake pubkeys increase the space requirement for full nodes, but are much more expensive than that for spammers. Game theory says that if you do not give the possibility to store garbage in huge multiple OP_RETURNs, and maybe patch the possibility to do that in witness, spammers will have a much harder time spamming.

I have to be blunt, this sounds like word salad, no doubt I wouldn't have been able to produce such heights of elaborate sentencing in my high school years when I liked to meddle with word salads, but nonetheless it doesn't make sense, I hope you see that. Physics is not the physics of god, it's just physics. And if a god indeed created it, it's an unnecessary ingredient, since we seem to understand it without having to place god in the equation. Bitcoin is math, and math is probably the most universally acknowledgeable and verifiable truth.

I am not educated enough about this situation in particular, but what you enunciated up there is a good principle to judge people by. If someone has to gain a lot of he's right, and doesn't lose much if he's wrong, that person should not be given credit. Likewise the opposite is true.