Eron

Interesting that everything dropped with BTC but XMR spiked up (while ZEC also dropped).

> The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. - Nikola Tesla

Nothing popular is true, and nothing true is popular.

Excellent interview. I think Doctorow's reliance on legislation for solutions, while possibly necessary, is somewhat naive. Regardless, it's an important front of the battle and I'm glad someone as sharp as him is working on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpW853rQWo

He clearly wants to seize the current power structure rather than to disrupt its foundations.

E = 3/2 * mc^2 Oliver Heaviside (not Einstein)

AI is cool and useful, but it's so far from what it's hyped up to be.

Total surveillance is "going to happen" but "doesn't sit well" with Altman. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I can't believe a word this guy says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYn8VKW6vXA