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Under the Invention Secrecy Act, the US Government would be incentivised to keep encryption breaking technology (quantum) a secret, so it could hold some intel advantage. Remember this act has produced over 5.500 orders from inception. Some will have access to this info and dump bitcoin. This could the be most probable (and worst) outcome because it would create even more confusion and inertia on a much needed upgrade. You would have the dump AND no upgrade urgency. Most people agree quantum is not very good for anything else yet, so it would be the perfect target for the Invention Secrecy Act.

You can: -Raise the consequences for someone doing Evil. -Eliminate the choice for doing Evil -Prepare for when Evil is done As an individual you can do 3, and a bit of 1. Institutionalised power loooves 2.

❌ Not having kids because the world is shit ✅ Having kids gives you greater purpose to act on changing the world* *even at a smaller scale, which is the only scale that matters 99% of the time)

Goodhart’s law on companies: when valuation is the most important metric, cash flow, profit, good products become secondary. The incentive changes to spike valuations, no matter what.

Financial literacy: “2-3% compound interest grows exponentially over time!” Central banks: “2-3% inflation stabilises prices over the long run”

People like to ignore that Luke has weird worldviews regarding power structures , religion, taxes etc.

It should be obvious AI can’t make Art. Because 99% of artists can’t make Art. But what *is* Art? The human experience is extremely lonely. From the day you are born, to the day you die, you can only live as yourself, inside your head, feeling your feelings. When you say you love, do others love like you do? When your soul aches, do others’ souls ache the same? Then comes Art. You listen to a song from someone who lived on another continent and died 30 years ago. And you realise *someone* gets you. You have proof. You are not alone.

The amount of hours I’ve spent trying to setup a node, fixing shit that just stops working. It’s unbelievable in 2025.

If you scroll the nostr firehose, you’ll find people hurting, posting into the void. Say hi, zap them. Show them someone is listening.

If you are not sure if you should become a parent, then you probably should. That’s it, you have permission, no one knows wtf they are doing. Understanding you don’t know is a great starting point, you are already ahead.