"How did China get so far ahead?"

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The tech world is waking up to China

This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that "AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance". Attracting technical talent and building computational power are now official national security priorities. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gb6j9v/this_morning_the_white_house_issued_a_national/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/10/24/memorandum-on-advancing-the-united-states-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence-harnessing-artificial-intelligence-to-fulfill-national-security-objectives-and-fostering-the-safety-security/

I'm applying for a loan to buy my first house. After they went line by line through my bank account, they sent me an e-mail and said "We need you to provide some more information on these transactions..." Just the fact that occurs was enough to immediately stress me out, because my view is totally different on these kind of things now after I have been spending more time studying economics and Bitcoin this year. Then I looked down at the short list and saw this among the items: "River Financial" I immediately started overthinking, all kinds of stuff like how they're going to deny my loan just because I tell them I bought some Bitcoin, how there's still a massive stigma against it from most of society, how it's associated with criminal activity in most peoples minds (and I'd be willing to bet this is even more true for a lender). But then I realized, I can provide proof that I've never spent any of it because of the blockchain. I don't know how this is going to go for me, how much they actually will make a big deal of this, but I did feel much more relieved knowing the proof is right there for all to see and check on their own. At least in my mind that seems like it would mitigate the likelihood of them viewing that single purchase as a lending risk. Also it was a pretty small one-time purchase. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'd be interested to hear about it if so. #Bitcoin

I like to view the global feed on noStrudel sometimes, mostly because it's pure unfiltered chaos. Kinda a mix of like... millions of ridiculous spam bots, lots of vague/esoteric posts such as random strings of numbers with no readily apparent meaning, memes, people advertising/shilling one thing or another, people making pithy quotes feeling more important than they are, some people actually posting newsworthy/useful information, and then a very, very small amount of normal people just posting stuff like pictures of their garden or pets or food or something. I have seen a lot of discussion from the people I follow lately about the increased amount of spam and it is absolutely getting weird. I really just wanted to ask this: I am a programmer but my background is purely in C++ and not related to web dev in any way. I've never had a need or interest in trying to work with bots that interact with the internet. But I can't for the life of me figure out the potential gain, the use case, or the reason to create bots that do shit like this. Global feed is infested with these type of posts, they happen hundreds of times per minute and ReplyGuy is on every single one of them. Does anyone have an idea of why anyone would waste time creating something like this, if not specifically for trying to make things worse? Appears to be just random fragments of words and phrases that make no sense.

This shit is so funny to me.

I think this would be an excellent documentary to send to friends and family who need more financial education, or who need to gain awareness of the current state of the world economy. It focuses on the most important points of why the currency system is breaking down, but all information is presented in an easily digestible way, and it ends on a positive note.