Me, my mom, and my newly married brother. Didn’t talk about bitcoin once during event, new record for me. 
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I need someone with a straight face to explain to me how in a world with AI moving exponentially the banking system survives.
1) the money in the bank is not real. Legally it’s the banks.
2)Your Wells Fargo or Chase passwords won’t mean anything in that world.
The internet has changed every business but one, money the final frontier. It was the dream of cyberpunks who created the internet to be open source and not controlled by ibm for us to have an internet native currency.
The world needs money AI can’t break cryptographically. Lucky for us that exists.
Everywhere I go I’m reminded of something in the macro world now because of learning about bitcoin.
I passed a QT and instead of Quicktrip I think of Quantitative Tightening.
I see a sign in a store that says beverages and I see leverages.
This must be what it feels like to see the matrix code lol
I see my non bitcoin friends bending on Bitcoin.
The way bitcoiners speak in absolutes sometimes can feel very frustrating, especially about non bitcoin related topics.
There is a painful transition society will go through here between economic downfalls and the rise of AI, just because we own bitcoin doesn’t mean we won’t witness many around us in turmoil.
I’ve taken the approach of thinking everyone is plugged into a matrix, instead of making everyone that doesn’t understand our point of view our enemy. Just because we are unplugged doesn’t mean we can’t show some human decency.
When @Lyn Alden talks I listen
Ben Goertzel one of the leading minds in AI constantly uses the term decentralized with blockchain itself. He wants to combine AI and blockchain thinking it’s decentralized as well as having AI on the Ethereum blockchain. I wish someone in the circle of engineers would talk to him about whether this is possible or not. Maybe I’m wrong on this and a way to decentralize AI on a blockchain is possible. If so educate me. Lately I feel like people in the bitcoin space really need to pay attention to AI, bitcoin and AI feel like two perfect storm events.
@preston @Jeff Booth @npub1wqlz...rnrp @jimmysong @Michael Saylor @Michael Dunworth
We need more non bitcoiners here
Today I had a CT scan and had my Bitcoin shirt on. Tech says to me, “it’s an insane rabbit hole isn’t it”
We talked for 15 mins, he asked me if everyone around me thinks I’m nuts. Lol
I said “most likely they just would never tell me”
We spoke about how it’s like leaving the matrix and finding someone else unplugged.
The more I learn about AI the more fascinated I’ve become. I suspect that what bitcoiners think takes twenty years to do will happen much quicker due to exponential nature of AI. Two exponential growth patterns, this the perfect storm of events
Down the Ray Kursweil rabbit hole now.
@Jeff Booth proof of your thesis. Bitcoin repricing the world. 
https://pca.st/episode/d2f16a6f-8fd2-4669-9f36-6af475414015
A fantastic debate.
George seems to fail to understand that while he makes the “humans will be humans” argument, humans have to adjust to mathematical truths. We had to understand certain math to get to moon, we didn’t change the rules of math we adapted to it. The same will happen with Bitcoin.
This is why most everything George says is measuring the system from the system. I too made the same mistakes, it’s why the future is so hard to predict and 99.9 percent of us get it wrong.
Think about it like pac man. Pac man only knows his boxed world of dots and ghosts, if something comes from outside of that box to challenge his world view he wouldn’t comprehend it.
What I learned watching the General Magic Documentary.
1) The best ideas mean nothing without network effects
2) You can be too early to an industry
3) That many people work really hard on great ideas that go nowhere.
Thanks @Jeff Booth for the recommendation
Hahaha I love the internet 
A friend of mine went to a restaurant/bar in Phoenix recently and was given two bills. One if he paid with a card and one if he paid in cash. The one in cash cheaper. A conversation about bitcoin came up between my friend and waiter.
This is where we are in this process. I recently heard @Peter McCormack say he saw this in Argentina, well it has happened in the states.
Breedlove someone I disagree with on a lot of things, but I can extract enough out of him.
Daniel Batten thank you, I can use this as a reference to all my friends who think bitcoin is bad for environment.