What if I told you that AI built stuff *is* pirating? It's trained on a massive corpus of pirated books, pirated code, pirated images, pirated text. The companies that trained it are pirates, ignoring licenses, pirating, to create output that's a big old pirate mashup.

The existence of [automatic captcha solving plugins](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/) ought to just end the use of captchas on the entire web overnight really. But it won't, because the point of those things hasn't been to identify robots since almost the start. The point is the surveillance, and the capturing of free labour for robot training purposes. #captcha #ai #survelienceCapitalism

Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist. It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics. He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people. He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it. But this is his website. The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple. It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all. It has a embed for a substack. That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam. Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site. There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram. There is no RSS feed embedded in the page. I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely. This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.

Hard to understand why a space ship manufacturing company would need to own like the 3rd best AI programming interface, but then I never really understood why the space-ship company needed to own a troll shitposting website either so perhaps I just don't understand the space space. Or maybe it's all just hype to pump the IPO.

So, let probably the US government take Satoshi's coins plus likely another million or so? I can see why Americans might favor that if they trusted their government I guess. As a not-American I ain't so keen.

[BIP 361](https://bips.dev/361/) is a proposal on what to do with bitcoin if Quantum Computers are buildable. Interesting abstract question even if you dislike bitcoin or prefer the US controlled Breton-woods petrodollar or using bank-debt charged at interest for money or whatever. The problem at hand is that coins are unlocked by cryptography which a big enough quantum computer could break. Sure, you can invent a quantum-proof key type, but all the existing coins have to be unlocked and moved into those types of addresses before that quantum computer is invented. There is enough space on the blockchain to do that over a few years, but a lot of keys are lost. Maybe millions of bitcoins in addition to the original million or so coins mined by Satoshi which have never moved with keys presumed burned or owner dead. That means handing maybe 10% or more of the total coins to Quantum Hackers with presumed evil intent. Can the node-runners and miners who make up the network do anything about that? BIP 361 suggests forever locking any coins not moved into quantum-proof addresses within five years. If you've been in a coma or in jail with the seed-phrase memorized you're going to get released and find your bitcoin frozen by the Bip-361 cabal. But then if bip 361 and similar fails, you're just going to wake up and find a quantum hacker has taken them instead. You ain't gonna recover your coins from your memorized seed-phrase either way. Some bitcoins are literally time-locked, prevented from moving for ten years. They are stuffed either way and can't move into safe addresses even if they still have the keys. Remember that "Some quantum hacker" isn't a furry kid in a bedroom or the organized crime syndicates. It's Google or the US Government or a university or Cern or something. Do you want to lock the coins, or give them to a random state or state sized corporate actor? It's all very well being sad after your timelocked coins are taken by a protocol change, but its just as sad to have them taken by the US Government. What would the US government do if they took Satoshi's coins? Probably use them to back a new satoshi dollar? It becomes that Bitcoin Strategic Reserve by default.