MorbidCuriosity

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   by MorbidCuriosity 3y ago

   I think the last hurdles will be sentience and a theory of the mind. Theory of the mind is probably something that a LM could predict given enough data, but sentience? I don't think we understand enough about our own sentience for us t
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   by MorbidCuriosity 3y ago

   That's a good point, I hadn't considered the limits of GPT's memory.
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   by MorbidCuriosity 3y ago

   Yes. Infinity is weird.
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   by MorbidCuriosity 8y ago

   The problem is a catch 22, you cannot be stable until you gain volume and you cannot gain volume until you are stable. Simply using a smart contract between two parties doesn't give the underlying coin stability, and it introduces the
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   by MorbidCuriosity 8y ago

   Their value is so volatile because they have no intrinsic value, no government (that I am aware of) is demanding tax paid in a cryptocoin. There is also no mechanism for increasing the value of the coin, through a central bank interest rate
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   by MorbidCuriosity 8y ago

   No cryptocurrency is a monetary system, they aren't even a functioning currency. For that to happen they would need to fulfill three functions that currently none do. Namely: A means of exchange A unit of account A store of value They