Reduce carbon emissions, increase energy usage.

It was yesterday. Groceries, at my mom's organic grocery store

if there is a way to predict the cost of "affording your own utxo"

That's at the crux of the problem I think when people propose solutions, they're implying they've been able to make this prediction, which is impossible.

And without an accurate prediction, it's impossible to evaluate trade-offs of any alleged solution, or if it's even a solution at all.

This is not a new conversation, it's how BCashers misinterpreted "Peer 2 Peer" to such an extreme that they ended up with "Poor 2 Poor".

There is an emotional trigger here, the same that has been used in class-warfare since the beginning of mankind. The urge to signal ones own virtues about equality and equity makes people willing to believe the impossible.

These feels based narratives are why the questioning of fork use-cases trigger proponents so. It's a threat to their fragile reality, as illustrated by the many angry and denalist responses as seen elsewhere* in that thread.

• not implicating @super_testnet, I know that he is thoughtful and truly seeks understanding

It's also a bit of the weak men create hard times meme. There's no reason to believe that owning of real Bitcoin will be any less attainable than owning a home, so a hyperfixation on that just shows that you didn't understand what you had, which always leads to ruin.

BCashers were created to serve as a warning to others.

TBH it's a little too complex for my tastes, and I think it might cater a little too much to the hard-core users that area already addicted to this place.

I miss the dopamine fix of the daily rewards rather than waiting a full month, and I worry new users might not stick because they aren't seeing any of the rewards like before.

Thinking about how to use AI to create a mind-exoskeleton for knowledge workers, designers, artists, engineers, etc. but wondering what that would look like for different industries.

Also in the end if AI can be used to generate content / answers along some calibrated "tracks" we still have the final decision of who decides? For example, in design / architecture / logistics / whatever field you still need to have someone or a group who decides.

So AI can workers in a variety of fields but the real crux is what range of activities / decisions are we comfortable with it making. We're still all thinking of it as a kind of conversation partner / recommender but in order for it to "replace" people in whatever arena, the results would have to be "good enough" as compared to some guy who has the current job, without weird glitched out edge cases where everything goes wrong. And we'd have to be comfortable "just letting it run" in that setting. I feel like an "AI babysitter" is going to be a big component of future jobs