To be fair 80% drawdown in wealth can take a toll on a marriage. However, if you have tested the "for poorer" part of your vows, you'll probably be able to handle the "for richer" part too.
If my family said this to me, I would reference the gospel. "Fear not him who has the power to punish only the body." Then, "If what I do becomes illegal, God willing I would remove myself from this jurisdiction until you get better laws."
We had plenty of guns 50-70 years ago and effectively no mass shootings. 95% of "gun violence" takes place in a handful of zip codes few people who don't live there ever visit. Erik hasn't checked the stats on Fentanyl or the "died suddenly" phenom.
If you knew 50% or 60% of what was required to make bitcoin back in 2008, and held the appropriate views that would motivate you to do so, you have a reasonably good model of the type of person who could actually do it. Most obviously do not fit.
It matters less in other countries but in America, yes. In general I imagine these kyc OGs are people who sold a lot of bitcoin and want to make it back “in business”. The tug is real. See Michael Goldstein’s essay everyone’s a scammer.
General intelligence, yes, at least the part that hallucinates answers to queries or prompts. It does not appear that any higher order stuff has been achieved. For example, after you say something to it and it completes its response, does it continue "wondering" about what you said? No. Can it correct itself autonomously? Does it free associate and come up with new ideas? Does it decide to do anything on its own? No. Can you give it a high level task or goal and have it pursue it on your behalf? Not as currently offered. Some tooling attempts to support this through memory and repeated interactions via API but it was primitive as of a few months back. Does it know when to give up on a particular avenue or when it has become stuck? No. Can it anticipate your needs and offer to do something for you? No. It doesn't have a lot of higher order functions. But the generative thing alone is still impressive and likely even better internally over there. This is where I think words will deceive. People will look at the words coming out of the thing, and attribute too much to it. "Amazing, such wisdom!" Interesting to see how well both language and image generation developed at the same time.
I have been a forced seller twice and a reluctant seller more often than I would like to admit. To avoid this situation, be debt free, do not encumber your coin, have multiple fiat income sources, live well below your means, and replace any lost income quickly. Living well below your means requires active cooperation and support of your family if you have one.
All things being equal, is far better for humans and lots of plant and animal life for Earth to be getting warmer than it would be if we were getting colder. Warmer is even likely better than present. The idea that we can hold Earth in stasis is silly. What is the "right" temperature? CO2 is a factor but in my estimation somewhere between the 6th and 20th most significant driver. To focus on it in exclusion is irrational. This all said, yes, I tend to leave nuance aside because no one cares. Joke about global government socialism -- ha ha only serious -- it gets to the point and makes the story human. Yes the only proposed "solutions" to this "problem" involve massive coordinated policies that in just 20 years have gone from "let's recycle and be more efficient" to "you must emit zero carbon by 2030/50/whatever". Yes, you are the carbon they want to reduce.
I call them Text or Token Calculators further de-anthropomorphize them. Just as your calculator has sources of error and degrees of precision (GIGO, errors often multiply) these do too.
What you are talking about is a service economy which I analogize to everyone giving each other back rubs. Why do we disparage root production? Energy, food, materials, manufactures?
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