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Neuralink. Removing the latency between human thought and computation will be a absolute game changer. However people have (warranted) fears of how it'll be used for evil. If built correctly it will probably be one of the greatest inventions for humans, however people say they'd never get one, they'll be left in the dust unable to compete in the market.
Really interesting... I watched a tv show about this years ago where the host profiled some blind people who were really good at the maze navigation using little handheld clickers to make a sound. Then the host learned to do it himself in a surprisingly short amount of time, though not nearly as good as them. It always stuck with me.
I suspect there are real cognitive benefits to developing unused parts of your brain like this. I've heard yoga teachers and similar use the term "the body is the mind", and I think they're on to something there.
There are a bunch of studies about how balance training could rapidly grow certain parts of the brain and it has impacts on memory and cognition.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5515881/
Also reminds me of the Guugu Yimidhirr people or Tzeltal Maya people who have an impossibly precise internal compass developed through their language. The human brain is capable of what seems like superhuman shit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guugu_Yimithirr_people
The system of spatial coordination inscribed in the language is totally different from that in Western languages, where the reference system is relative with respect to the subject. In Guugu Yimidhirr, as in Kayardild space is rendered in absolute terms,[28] like the cardinal points, north, south, east, west, independent of whether something is in front of, behind, to the left or right of a person. The language thus provides them with a mental map, allowing quite a precise dead-reckoning of all points around them wherever they are.[29] For example, if your Guugu Yimidhirr guest, on leaving your house, had to inform you he or she had left her tobacco behind, they would be required to state grammatically in their native language something like: I left it on the southern table in the western side of your house.[30]
First, I discovered Ron Paul, then through him Ayn Rand and Objectivism, then Bitcoin. So by the time I discovered Bitcoin, I was primed. In fact, I had been stacking gold from 2010-2015. I become obsessed with Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy. I have read everything she ever wrote, including fiction, non-fiction, even her personal journal. I think she is one of the most misunderstood figures in modern history and will (eventually) be remembered as providing the philosophic cornerstone for the next and most prosperous era of humanity's history.
I don't know which country has the most energy but that's likely the answer to that question. The United States has a good shot depending on whether the politicians try to mess up our industry or not.
I was previously an equities research analyst and a lot of my creative process mirrors my equities research process. Collect data and write a narrative around it. I start off with "what is the most important message the world needs to hear right now?" For DAWN, the message is, it will get better. We need to go through all the bad times and face our problems and try everything in order to arrive at the right solution.
Personally, poetry has always been emotional for me. I grew up in a different country to my dad so everytime I left him I'd write him poetry to express how I felt. I wanted him to know that I love him a lot. And so I guess being able to put together the narrative / evidence from equities research and the emotional aspects of poetry, you get this! No AI involved, AI is soulless.
This isn't dumb, the concerted efforts (by the NY times and co) to smear mining, and now this, is a concerted effort to stop bitcoin adoption in the us. This isn't a move from a senile man, this is a move likely backed and funded by banking and other interests
Completely unsuccessful at being unsuccessful maybe.
I would love an econ sub. If there is one thing I have worse hot takes on than sports, it's macroeconomics.
The barbarians are at the gate @k00b
I'm watching the distressed investing panel, and I realize that my own biases prevent me from getting as much out of a discussion as I might otherwise. Every time one of these Wall Street guys uses the word "crypto" I automatically discard anything they say.