goobergoo

5 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by goobergoo 3y ago

   This is how we know that mankind cannot be trusted to develop harness and maintain an all-powerful AGI : absolutely everybody who is working on the project is more interested in the value of their own stock options than what happens in the
2. 2.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   Bitcoin was bad enough. Decentralized, digital money! Networked computers with spare CPU cycles (think, SETI@Home project) cranking out something VALUABLE! A developer named Laszlo Hanyecz was the first person to use Bitcoin for a commerc
3. 3.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   In 2009 the TARP program was the US Government buying shares of high-finance companies that were about to go bankrupt --- using taxpayer dollars. So now the American taxpayers own Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG? No, it didn'
4. 4.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   I really wish he would keep riffing on the neuro-scientific fundamental principles that always assume "the future will continue to exist, of course it will" as a way to explain and describe religions and how and why they exist, he
5. 5.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   Boy, it's all about the wire-fraud, isn't it? The MONEY itself seems to have filed this lawsuit.
6. 6.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   Novi digital wallet, without the Diem cryptocurrency, was supposed to be the cornerstone of the enterprise.
7. 7.▲
   by goobergoo 5y ago

   Here's what Facebook META will do: Every person on Earth, using their country's Unique Identifier credentials (like Social Security Number, National Insurance Number) to identify themselves to Facebook, will be entitled to receive