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1  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $110 [Auction] 1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9 on: July 07, 2020, 02:24:48 AM
Nice card ya got here.  Any unopened wax packs/boxes/cases by any chance?

sorry, no packs or boxes.
2  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $110 [Auction] 1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9 on: July 06, 2020, 03:16:39 AM
Times up, Novemberman is the winner.
3  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $240 [Auction] 1989 Topps Traded Tiffany PSA 9 Ken Griffey Jr. on: July 06, 2020, 03:14:43 AM
Times up, Novemberman is the winner.
4  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $240 [Auction] 1989 Topps Traded Tiffany PSA 9 Ken Griffey Jr. on: July 03, 2020, 03:09:04 AM
Ognasty

Like another poster pointed out, those are not the 'Tiffany' versions that sell for $30.  The Tiffany versions are much more exclusive and rare.  As you can see on the PSA certified case it says Tiffany, that will be the card you receive.  And if you look up the pricing it is as I say.

Thank you  Smiley

Interesting. My apologies. Can you show the back of the card as well? I’m shocked at some of the prices I’m seeing for some of these Griffey cards. I always assumed my collection had become worthless, but maybe I’m sitting on a few hundred K. Lol

No problem, it is an easy mistake to make.
Yes I can upload a scan of the reverse of the card tomorrow.  I will put it in the description. 
5  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $240 [Auction] 1989 Topps Traded Tiffany PSA 9 Ken Griffey Jr. on: July 03, 2020, 02:48:14 AM
Ognasty

Like another poster pointed out, those are not the 'Tiffany' versions that sell for $30.  The Tiffany versions are much more exclusive and rare.  As you can see on the PSA certified case it says Tiffany, that will be the card you receive.  And if you look up the pricing it is as I say.

Thank you  Smiley
6  Economy / Collectibles / $240 [Auction] 1989 Topps Traded Tiffany PSA 9 Ken Griffey Jr. ENDED on: July 02, 2020, 11:41:12 PM


Same deal as my other auction. I'm starting this auction at less than 50% of the price this card sells for on Ebay.  This card has a very liquid market and sells for about $500 on average on ebay.  Starting bid $240 equivalent in BTC.  Item ends in three days.  Post bid in comments. I have the right to reject your bid if you look like a scammer.  

Will accept escrow with someone reputable.

1989 Topps Traded Tiffany PSA 9 Ken Griffey Jr.

Starting bid: 0.025 BTC

0.0005 btc for the increment
7  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $110 [Auction] 1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9 on: July 02, 2020, 06:24:18 PM
I have been to his house to tour it, amazing home huge AF - I hear Tom Brady bought it.

Wow, that must have been cool to see.  interesting!
8  Economy / Collectibles / Re: $110 [Auction] 1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9 on: July 02, 2020, 04:14:36 PM
Do you have a picture of the item being auctioned?

When does the auction end?

What are the bid increments?

I will post one shortly.

I will edit the description to make it clearer, but three days from when i made the post.

0.0005 btc
9  Economy / Collectibles / $110 [Auction] 1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9 ENDED on: July 02, 2020, 12:18:00 PM


I started another post to sell some baseball cards for BTC, but I want to give an auction a try.  Im starting this auction at 55% of the price this card sells for on Ebay.  This card is very liquid and regularly sells for $200.  Starting bid $110 equivalent in Btc.  Item ends in three days.  Post bid in comments. I have the right to reject your bid if you look like a scammer or something.  

Will accept escrow with someone reputable.

1993 Topps Stadium Club #117 Derek Jeter RC PSA 9

Starting bid: 0.012 BTC

0.0005 btc for the increment
10  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Tech Apocalypse, AI, Tolkien, and Elon Musk on: May 25, 2020, 03:20:51 AM
It's kind of ironic how the guy who invented Neuralink is the same guy who says he's concerned about AI. Perhaps he knows something about the way humans could evolve with his new Neuralink?

Humans with AI sure do look like a very creepy future, and it's going to turn into reality in a matter of months if Musk proceeds with his plan of implanting the first chip before the end of the year. It could have some very strange effects on humans and that really does scare me. If I decide to take the implanted chip, how do I ever know that chip doesn't take over my brain and cancel all my abilities, hence making me become basically trapped inside my own body with no way of taking back the control?

If his Neuralink AI consists in auto-learning and will give us the ability of communicating non-verbally, doesn't this mean the chip will be able to communicate with other chips and, one day, they could auto-teach each other to overtake humanity?

I'm just not sure this is the right path we're taking. When I think of it in-depth, it scares me. If we take a look back at relics and all the ancient symbols of astronauts and etc, what if this is similar to the last advancement in technology the last advanced race before us was able to achieve before they self-destroyed.. How will you know that, when you talk to me while I have the chip linked to my brain, you're communicating with me and not with the artificial brain inside me?

The chip being linked to our brain means it'd be able to make us see things that aren't real.. perhaps fooling us into thinking we've discovered a new dimension with other beings while, in fact, that's all only inside our brain.

This is a new level we're taking science to and I personally fear we're going to enter a phase of science we create but cannot understand.

Your post has a few things I think I could respond to.  First, to extend the Tolkien ring analogy, many of the men in his trilogy were tempted to use the powers of the ring against its maker, Sauron, really (in analog) this is the same thing that Musk is trying to do with AI -- it is bound to fail, we can't overcome AI by joining with AI.  The ring in LoTR corrupts those who use its powers, eventually turning them into evil 'golems' and destroying their authentic selves.  

If you don't know of the golem archetype:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

"is an animated anthropomorphic being that is created entirely from inanimate matter"
That men could become like this seems to be the worry expressed in your third question.  

The only way to stop the AI eventually, once we realize the diabolical, dystopian practical nature of a world driven by AI, is to completely turn off the power button on whatever technological substrate the AI runs on -- probably necessitating a mandated technological quarantine of some kind.  The use of cryptography as a means of privacy to counter the AI through unbreakable functions grounded in the randomness of the prime numbers (whose mysteries I doubt even a super AI could transcend) gives me hope.  In other words, that there is an order in the world which not even the AI could understand...

Musk, is like a Saruman, who out of despair and madness seeks to create a new breed (half man and orc) to join with the spirit of Sauron to fight against the good in Middle-earth.  The new breed is Musk's chipped consumers on the AI matrix...

When you mentioned ancient symbols and other cultural artifacts I thought about Tolkien's 'Atlantis complex', it is mentioned in his letters that he had recurring dreams of an island being inundated by water.  Now I don't really accept the hypothesis of prior advanced technological civilizations, I believe we are unique in that regard.  And I see the astronaut archetypes which you mention as being more or less archetypes of what are considered angels or demons, we probably also view these as UFOs (when I say UFO I don't necessarily mean alien either, in unexplained cases just an archetype or form of the preternatural reality, but probably in most cases just an illusion or case of misattribution ).  I see the Atlantis archetype or form as probably being emblematic of a potential future catastrophe re-framed in the past so that we have a warning.

In accordance with this line of thinking one could see most of the evil magic in the LoTR as being emblematic of the intersection of ideology and technology and the evil resulting thereof... the Atlantis myth is a similar warning.
11  Other / Ivory Tower / Tech Apocalypse, AI, Tolkien, and Elon Musk on: May 14, 2020, 09:07:14 PM
Elon Musk seems to be very concerned about the effects of AI on human life in the not so distant future, whether this is just the newest tech-scare driven by silicon paranoia and modern social isolation is yet to be seen, but it seems likely that what is called artificial 'intelligence' AI (be it actually intelligent or not) is going to be a highly disruptive technology.  

Some of the concerns relating to AI are found in an extrapolation of Darwinian competition from natural life to between natural and artificial life.  Whether this extrapolation of process is in itself merited is also yet to be seen, but if it is, the concerns would appear to be justified.  Much more concerning here, however, (to me) seems to be the too abundant confidence that man can legislate his own morality.  The democratic polis hasn't been able to work humanistically without the introduction of ideology (which always has its own circular reason) that is to say is not separated from the passions of the particular man who thinks ideologically. If man can't figure out (apart from faith) how to think about a universal moral code (and when such an ideological code has been forcefully mandated it becomes positively immoral, oftentimes incorporating genocide) then how could we possibly find the hubris to believe that we can legislate the morality of AI?  It would seem quite possible that whatever ideological morality is provided to the machines could easily be taken to an extreme that negates its codified intent. On the other hand, religious, faithful thinking, which I believe is particular to man doesn't feel like it could be something that one can piece into bits and bytes so to speak...

One of the largest problems in thinking about AI seem to also be contingent upon linguistic and non-linguistic philosophical problems that could be unrelated to the analytical aspects of studying AI itself, this problem is a qualitative problem akin to asking: 'what is the mind, soul or intellect?', and would need to be answered before we can proceed to questions like: 'does this program I wrote actually bring forth an intelligent being?'  Of course the process could pass the Turing test and it could be indistinguishable from a human, but this is an inherently unsatisfying notion of reality.  Its akin to believing that the way something 'looks' is the way something 'is'.  'Is' is always related to Being, that is to say there is a logos of the thing that can be spoken about.  We can speak about the appearances of a thing, but to be sure that we are not deceived requires a faith in an 'is' behind the looks of the thing.  I don't think that this faith can be present in AI robots which, inherently, prevent us from providing them with a non-ideological moral code, that is to say the one we find 'in' the order of the universe, not just what we can say is 'of' the universe (can be examined scientifically or codified).  

Tolkien saw the one ring as (if anything) being technology, I would say this is also the perfect metaphor for what I am trying to communicate here.  A ring is circular and ideologically speaking things are the same way an A=A, a super AI (Roko's Basilisk anyone?) still isn't capable of breaking that circle, in fact, to function at all it is still dependent on that programmatic-ideological loop -- the circle seems to be its own confines.  The way to intellection necessitates speaking about real objects, that is to say 'thinking straight' or 'operating faithfully' -- that isn't done tautologically.  

Elon Musk is currently working, through his company Neuralink, on "high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers", his philosophy is 'if you can't beat them then join them'.  If you sync yourself up with the AI net you would be assuming that this would give you more knowledge about the world, about 'real things', but really there is no such guarantee. A simple examination of the way that technology works (in cutting many people off from reality) would go a long ways toward convincing me that syncing yourself up so to speak would not be lucid, but actually quite hysterical.  You would be inundated with facts, but only see all the meaningless ideological ways to organize those facts.  All that new information you could recognize, in itself, would probably say nothing more about reality than what one understood before being chipped.  I could only see this as being inherently maddening.

12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Changelly.com - instant exchange. VISA/Mastercard accepted. on: June 13, 2017, 10:28:50 PM
Hello changelly,

Why was USDT delisted?  Also, could you please add IOTA and PTOY after they get listed to Polo and Bittrex, respectively.  Thank you!
13  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: WHAT About SEC??? ETF Today Where Answer?? on: May 15, 2017, 09:32:36 PM
Is this what is causing the BTC price rise?
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Buy 44 Altcoins on exchanges tomorrow for a total of 4000$ on: May 08, 2017, 08:18:24 PM
This is one of the dumbest things ive read on this forum in a while.  You know we are in a bubble when shit like this happens.
15  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Can't Withdraw BTC from BTC-e on: May 04, 2017, 06:18:16 PM
I think BTC-E engages in selective scamming, I wouldn't use.
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Will ETH overtake BTC in market cap? on: May 01, 2017, 06:51:12 PM
It is highly probable that eth could overtake bitcoin.
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Changelly.com - instant exchange. VISA/Mastercard accepted. on: May 01, 2017, 06:49:09 PM
Does changelly currently have any plans to add gnosis?  Thanks!
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][XEL] Elastic Project - The Decentralized Supercomputer on: April 30, 2017, 10:44:13 PM
Is there any place I can currently buy tokens from?
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Tau-Chain and Agoras Official Thread: Generalized P2P Network on: April 30, 2017, 09:27:39 PM
So about how long until Agoras launches?  And the coins are distributed?

yet unknown. but will take time, the time for tau to be ready and stable

Ok, that is fine... but do you think you could provide an unofficial estimate?  Like years out or months out?
20  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Tau-Chain and Agoras Official Thread: Generalized P2P Network on: April 30, 2017, 08:42:32 PM
So about how long until Agoras launches?  And the coins are distributed?
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