Donation sent http://blockchain.info/tx/d20f411888b05b05db6a7b4a5771ce73ba935b270156e125274e4d38f81c8266

I sent the donation before checking whether their bitcoin donation page has a link from their main page. I can't find one. My mistake. I contacted Brock and asked him to fix that. I'm confident he will.

Hi. Since Phinneas seems to be busy, I went ahead and checked out your charity. Everything seems fine, so $1,000 donation has been sent
http://blockchain.info/tx/d19a935c6d78fe19e2aa9e6ebbc488b371920f20480b29a9bb49ade3733463f5

I really don't like altcoins, and think all of them so far, including Litecoin, are useless, but I agree with FT, this is the only one, besides Bitcoin, I would acquire and support. I've known about this for a while, and have read the whitepaper, but didn't realize the secret was out already...

Is this one of those examples of how a coin's value depends on the developers backing it, and not on features it promises?

I don't know if you were in on this discussion, but a long time ago in another thread we were talking about self-learning AI, genetic algorithms, "ghosts in machine" scenarios, and computers that are actually taught, bit by bit, as opposed to having their knowledge written as is with algorithms. There is research underway where such robots are taught to recognize things and interract with their environment, from scratch, where the AI is composed of the sum if its experiences, as opposed to a predetermined algorithm. This makes each AI unique, but is in a way like raising a child, where the process of training is long and tedious. There are also more recent developments in processor design, where instead of logic gates being switched on and off like in current CPUs, they are treated like networks and the on/off "connections" are "hardened" as they are more frequently used, just like the neuron networks in out brains are "hardened" with more permanent connections as we memorize things to long-term memory.

I think at some point the discussion devolved into the threat of those learning-by-experience AI's being abused in the way they were not intended to be, and the possible fallout from, say, an accounting AI being sexually molested or introduced to porn to screw with its programming (I may have been the instigator of that somewhat-derailment, but I plead the 5th )

I think you missed my point somewhat. Right now, I trust the reasoning of my Excel calculated financial spreadsheet way more than I would trust the reasoning of someone doing calculations and projections with paper and pencil. I can get reliable results instantly, and in many more forms, without having to think about it, or even do any math in my head. So the position of accountant and mathematician is replaced with a position of someone who is able to analyze great amounts of data that were simply not available before, and make informed decisions based on learned skills and past experience. My thinking and reasoning skills are the same, but technology has augmented them to allow me to do vastly more complex things, rather than simply replacing me.

Makes me think of tightly government-controlled nuclear reactor generators, and what happens to them and their messes once the government collapsses (looking at you, USSR)

Curious: can these wallets have any image carved onto them, and would the artist mind carving on something that is copyrighted?

If that's the case, then wouldn't they also move their businesses out of the governments that want to plan economies? There won't be any economy for those governments to plan with. And if the businesses that move out are also the type that provide life essential things, like food, then this planned economy government would have to buy its food from those other countries, while having no economy, and thus no money, to buy it with. (and if you're proposing that farming gets collectivised, too, we all saw how well that worked in USSR and China)

Two concerns stood out for me...


If labor value has collapsed, that implies low income and high unemployment. Corporate profits come from sales. How will those profits increase to very high levels, if there's no one with money to buy the products?



History proves otherwise. If class C dividends are guaranteed, class C owners would still have the incentive to give themselves as much as they can now at the expense of the future population (especially older people), even to the detriment of A and B holders, and the future survival of the company. Replace "Class C Dividends" with "Tax/Debt supported social programs," and you'll see that the same thing is happening now: people are voting themselves more and more money through social funding, without caring about the associated future debt.

How much garbage, spilled gas and oil, carbon dioxide, lead, and uranium has been threwn all over Iraq in the last 10 years?

That sounds very Russian.

High entropy in this case means a password consisting of your first name, your birthday, AND your last name, as opposed to just the first two.

Extremely, bro 

Atheism isn't a believe in the non-existence of god, it is saying "I don't believe you when you claim that god exists, because you don't have any evidence."

That's all.

You guys are fucking morons. The Illuminati was a group of scientists, luminaries, and personal freedom advocates, who's agenda and purpose was to "illuminate" or enlighten people's mind with science and reason, and bring down churches and monarchies (governments). They were about as far from "shadow government" as Bitcoin is from the Federal Reserve. But, of course, the powers that be could have none of that, so they convinced idiot dupes like yourselves that the Illuminati is exactly the opposite of what they stood for (They couldn't be satanic, because they were atheists, not believing in god or satan).

Yes I was. My intent was not conspiracy or to imply anything, as I have no proof of anything one way or the other. It was only to solicit a response from you, which in itself would tell me more. Thank you. (I am now 55% sure you are not Terrahasher. Suggest you abandon this thread to build up your identity separately elsewhere.)

Theymos has 2,200 bitcoins, so I doubt you could have.

Yeah, you're right, it's worth way more than a house.

There's a kids' pizza restaurant in America, called Chuck-E-Cheese, that has arcades, various games, a ball pit pool, a guy in a giant mouse costume, and a robot band that plays music. It's typically where kids go to have their birthday parties and such. The band consists on animals playing various instruments. Some guy bought the entire stage of robots, and has been programming them to play songs on request, synchronizing their movements, eyes, mouths, etc to the music. He's pretty good at it, but it's still trippy to watch gorrilas and bears rap or sing 80's trip music.