Road sign in #Vietnam says: “Road Section - Accidents Happen” Zoom in, then see picture 2. This is a quiet backstreet a block from the main beach road to Hoi An where it’s mostly empty lots and it’s *still* a hotspot lol View quoted note →

Theft, stealing, seizure, confiscation - these all require someone taking control of another’s property. The Cat excises UTXOs from consensus; no one takes possession, no transfer occurs. Voiding UTXOs is not a crime.

Fully stand by this - AGI isnt happening. A single anecdote reinforced it for me: I’ve been using Claude a lot, it’s useful to bulk search things or find stuff in #Vietnam that I would struggle with. Translation is a real usecase. Recently I wanted to buy a digital picture frame which could be hacked to serve images off a home NAS. Worked out I needed something pre Android 11 - 11+ has an issue with data partitions. Claude found me suitable products but none of them listed the Android version of the frame, but they all listed the CPU though. Claude basically gave up trying to work out which frame would work because it doesn’t know “HOW” to think. I prompted it to search the CPUs listed and their Android compatibility and voila, I got my shortlist. Pattern matching is useful, but it’s not intelligence, nor is it a path to intelligence. Without knowing HOW to think, these things are only going to replace the lowest levels of work - it will be hugely disruptive no doubt, but we’re not going to see Digital Intelligence any time soon. View quoted note →