The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
β Hal Finney
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RIP Hal, and thank you.
Amen!
You can also extrapolate it to AI. Funny that itβs Chinaβs models facilitating open source keeping up though. π
Great quote. Where did he say it?
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switch to linux
we need to bring the word of halfin to the brazilian crowd. all they want is to get rich, protect their cronies, and leave women out so they can bargain spouses later on from their bitcoin wealth
This guy was a real OG and is a legend.
I frequently have to use Hal's quote for people that believe technology is evil and is only good for controlling us.
Many have known this fact for about the past 20 years ... because that's is exactly the feeling we ACTUALLY had back during the1996 thru to 2003 period ... which in retrospect was a VERY liberating period (online).
Many of the websites available back then (most of which were static) were awful to navigate, but we somehow still managed to extract great value from each visit.
What destroyed (probably by design) that sense of total online freedom and liberation was:
1) The False Flag called "9/11" followed by the establishment of America's Department of Homeland Security.
2) The London Tube 'bombings' of 7 July 2005; otherwise know as "7/7".
Don't lie to yourself. It sucks life out of people. Our young are totally defenseless.
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I think about this quote often
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Hal Finney and Nick Szabo both are creators of bitcoin.
