There is a better 4D chess explanation of why Alon bought twitter and i hate to bring it.
When he bought it, right wing publications all over world got excited because twitter was the global / official communications channel for alot of entities and largely considered left leaning. When your plan is to disrupt that bubble and amplify right leaning narratives (he helped trump1 getting elected with it), you better cover your tracks and make that purchase look like an accident.
Your entire point of humans being clumsy and stoopid and not inherently evil is generally true but for this benign incompetence is why all the discrimination layers, from scool grades to referals, etc. exist.
Whould you give a physician making life-or-death decisions and opsi-budget before you walk away? No. Then where do you draw the line until this irresponsible behavior becomes evil? Evil is defined here not by the individuals intentions but by the outcome.
Would you agree with me, that all the decision makers and elites sabotaging renewable energies and sustainability are evil? Keep in mind, they all might have their clumsy excuses.
What triggered me was the proposed Arc<dyn TRAIT> as a quick fix. I was highlevel rustin along the learning curve as the article describes until i stumbled uppon dyn-compatible types and object safety.
It is too easy to trap yourself in by sprinkling in Sized and derive(Hash) ontop of your neat little type hierarchy and then realize, that this tight abstraction is tainted and you cant use dyn anymore. As a follow up trigger: This was when i learned derive macros :)
I didnt like this documentary a single bit. There was nothing to learn, no red thead, just people telling anecdodes from start to finish. When there is not even a trace of critical reflection, it starts to smells like marketing.
Marketing being dishonest wouldnt be such a problem when people would expect it to be so. Unfortunately, when you look at the investments and thus the economic alignment, alot of powerful decisionmakers take that same marketing at face value. Framing this as a scam or delusional isnt that far fetched imo.
The primary function of money is its trade value, to "lubricate" the real economy to let goods and services flow. When the value is unstable, people are inclined to not spend or not accept that currency, which contradicts the free flow of it and in severe cases harms the economy.
Crypto'currencies' have the same problem. By nature, they are no currency but investment for which instability is required. No crypto bro would hype their 'currency' because there would be no pumping. Arbitrage trades are considered being for fools or insiders.
Bitcoin has the same problem. There is no inherent reason you can't have a cryptocurrency where there is no maximum number of coins to ever be mined and instead the limit is that mining them requires a fixed amount of computation.
That would give you the characteristics you want from a medium of exchange, because there is a rate limit on how much can be created (doing so requires e.g. electricity). Then the value is relatively stable, if you accept it as payment on Monday it would still be worth around the same amount on Friday, but the long-term result is a slow reduction in value on multi-year timescales as compute gets cheaper, so you don't get the speculation that results in high volatility and it doesn't strongly compete with real economic activity for investment resources.
The argument you'll get from goldbugs and whatever is that nobody would want a currency which is inherently inflationary like that, but that's clearly contrary to evidence. Most government currencies are inflationary, even on purpose, and it doesn't matter as long as the rate of inflation isn't so high that people holding it transiently for use as a medium of exchange are losing a significant amount in that short period of time. Especially when the rate of inflation is predictable (the rate at which computers get faster is reasonably consistent) so that anyone entering into a long-term contract denominated in that currency can reasonably predict its future value on the delivery date. Or people could just use it as a medium of exchange and denominate their contracts in something else.
You are right, the harm of unstable currencies is a matter of public perception but boiling the frogs slowly still does harm. Inflation is a significant, longterm, bottom-up wealth pump and simply pointing to empirical evidence is a point against unstable currencies, not for them.
How cryptocurrencies are mined is secondary in that regard too because their values is also purely based on perception, since there is no large authoriry backing that currency by eg. demanding , spending and regulating it.
Figure this: You could plaster a page with the most obtrusive ads imaginable without ever showing a cookie banner, when they collect no private info.
Most people, including folks on here, think cookie banners are a problem, but they are just an annoying attempt to phish your agreement. As long as these privacy loopholes exist, we will keep hearing such stories even from large corporations with much to loose, which means the current privacy regulations do not go far enough.
But why should i explain when your mind is occupied with africa when mentioned in a side note and that it comes with an article opening like this
> To understand what’s at stake regarding the Mediterranean
... occupied with africa and implying harmful migration without ever basing it.
But a cheap 100 year projection expressed _in a single graph_ in a way does fit into a conversation about overconfident stupid people.
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