I don't believe this is a speculative burst. This is capital flowing out of bitcoin and ethereum.

No Wikipedia page found. Just link to it my dude. I don't know who this guy is lol but this discussion is saucy and I'm intrigued.

That was a mistake though. The placebo group would've been, best case scenario assuming the vaccine didn't work, equally likely to contract the disease and so the disparity in all cause mortality cannot be caused by the disease.

"Believing a certain thing inevitably leads to violence" say the people who believe violence is warranted against someone for believing a thing. I wonder if they realize the paradox of tolerance applies to them too.

Yeah ive read the diamond age and snow crash, been meaning to start on cryptonomicon and then move on to his other stuff. Also reading dune as well as a bunch of other (supposedly) non fiction books.

While I think the connections to nostr and bitcoin drawn in this write up are somewhat tenuous, the idea that agency separates mindless automatons from minds, the implication that this means a mind cannot be created with computation, and many of the points directly derived from the principle about freedom from algorithmic entrapment are compelling, and the concept very much vibes with my ideas about what minds are and is a good framework to explore. I'd love to read the source article about the agency hypothesis presented here.

This guy knows his history.

I mean its not all I do. Now I'm mostly just engaging in discussions I like having. But I did make a point to do it for a few years, I understand myself better for it.

Different people have different ideas about what's right. Any political movement is a coalition. Your philosophical statement is a hell of an insight. I'd love for you to expound on that. I feel like I'd learn something profound.

I wonder what the response would be if a publishing house wiped Anna's archive.

I use these things primarily to determine what's going on in the world, where capital flows and therefore sentiment in the crypto world is. Price moves themselves matter little to me.

A dating site, strictly limited in its capacity, is simply people choosing who to date based on their own personal criteria. You say you support that. It doesnt appear that you do. Here's a question you might want to answer: what's wrong with thinking others are inferior? When one asks this question, automatically it is assumed that they are sympathetic or defending those ideas, so I feel the need to point out that I am not doing that, I genuinely hold no love for white supremacy or any racial supremacy. But its a valid question to explore. What exactly is wrong with someone thinking they're better than others based on some immutable criteria? I can see how acting violently towards others is, but just thinking they're better, choosing who they associate with etc, what do you think is morally wrong with that?

You can use any action against anyone you dislike, and without a government to arbitrate, if you can defend yourself, you get away with it. Someone disagreeing with what I just said appeals to a government by your logic. Destruction of property is violent.

monero is hitting ATH well into the beginning of a bear, which is unusual. It usually hits close to the end of a bull. This tells me that capital is moving into monero rather than just through it. Not that it won't go down, it will, but going forward I expect that in the next year or two long uptrend monero hits a new ATH and bitcoin doesnt.

Well, think about it. It goes without saying that intelligence services and a multitude of other groups have an interest in the outcome of elections worldwide. And to think they wouldn't do nefarious things to serve their ends is also naive. All I know about this company is that they formed in Venezuela in 2004 and helped the regime their secure their elections, and then they moved out into the western world. I think its pretty obvious the likely answer to all this.

OK... Most people just use whatever is default. They don't have the time or expertise to dive into the guts and hand tailor their algo. Default parameters define networks. What's the default and does it lead to what ive described for most people?

Lol this guy. You invoke a snopes bot, you label anyone who disagrees with you as a quack, you appeal to external authority, and you think *I'm* the one that can't think for myself. Note, in this discussion, ive told you nothing about my opinion on this matter. Thats because I don't want this back and forth to be about whether thats true or not. I wanted to determine if you think for yourself. Thats all I want. I don't actually care what you think about it one way or another, I just wanted to understand your reasoning on it. Your thoughts, musings, why you think what you think... All I got was "qanon substantiated court rulings". So I got the answer I was looking for: you outsource your thinking.

Okay, maybe I'm misunderstanding WoT. I thought it was distinct from user algos? So if an account with no followers at all, that hasn't had the opportunity to form a network of friends, replies to your post and youre using a client that implements WoT, will that show up in the thread for you?

You dont feel like youre missing meeting potentially new people? Is there a way to quantify how many people you just won't know exist?