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Jeff Booth | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Not a propaganda piece in my opinion but because the author is looking through the lens of a system he believes is a free market, he makes some bad assumptions. More importantly, he misses that #Bitcoin is repricing the entire system his probabilities are based on - which significantly change those probabilities. That being said, it is well worth a read because AI’s rate of progress imo is accurate and the implications (like bitcoin) touch everything.
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LukeWarmwater | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not implying that just because a piece is propaganda the claims are necessarily false. I'm not talking about the what (description of the rate of AI progress) but the why. He's started a company presumably, based on his 'marketing and communications', aimed to save Americans. But who will save Americans from him and his company?

But I take your point, that you posted it for the description of the impact of AI, and as such, worth the read.

That aside. If the predicted rate of AI development is accurate, should we not presume that AI will be used to coop bitcoin to the ruling classes' benefit. Recoded by involuntary updates to all nodes? Nodes blocked. De-decentralized? And so,  Bitcoin repricing is averted unless, I suppose, AI deems bitcoin a good thing. But isn't the point of his company to make sure AI doesn't do that - you know - to protect American's abundant freedom and democracy (ie, the ruling class)?