I never understood the argument against automation. Why would anyone want a paid job if there are tools that can take care of it? Are people really so desperately helpless that they won't be able to lead a happy life without some superior telling them what to do with 70% of their wake time?

You also seem to forget the fact that production costs slowly but surely converge towards zero. And since money is unlikely to disappear even in a world of virtual abundance you won't see masses of people being broke and homeless, because they would otherwise riot and go to war against those that have.

There will either be a UBI (which could be pulled off today since fiat is a joke anyways and merely an illusion given the levels of production going on nowadays as opposed to the old times of hyperinflation and scarcity), or people will be "paid" for their data.

As the data will be more valuable to those with significant resources than the production of smart phones and food would cost them there'll be an incentive to just spoon-feed those who don't really want anything more from life than being a consumer drone (the majority of people).

Can't make any predictions on the health care side of things since I don't know jackshit about medicine, but that seems to be progressing remarkably well too.



Sure, the world won't be perfect and there'll be many potential problems. But as always, you will have a choice. Will you play along as a mindless zombie the same way corporate slaves do today? Will you go "offshore"? Will you go creative (research, art, music, business)? Play the usual power games?

Plenty of options, and certainly more accessible than ever before. This trend has been going on for as long as humans exist and it's not going to stop anytime soon, bar rogue asteroid impacts.

I don't think a person that could successfully offend me exists, so no worries about that.

But alas, while there's a lot of empty hype on the tech (and every other) front it's patently false to classify it as just hype and bullshit. We literally went from being fucking monkeys in pretty houses to having everything that we have today in just about one generation. If you showed even 0,01% of what we have today to people from 100 years ago they'd burn you at the stake for witchcraft, and people from roughly one generation ago would put you in an asylum for making any such claims.

And progress does without a doubt accelerate as everything new can be combined with everything old to create new things, of which some will be further new things that can be mixed and matched with other innovations.

Hence, a snowballing process is not just simply observable, but objectively undeniable.

Thus I predict that you will be the one looking back to this day, years from now, no longer recognizing the world that you live in.

At least IBM seems fairly confident in quantum computing hitting the mainstream industry within 5ish years. So we're not too far off from actually interesting new tech developments.

Still excited, but impatient as hell. Need a fast forward button for life (one that doesn't drain your life span).

I would say that too after such a colossal failure. Initially he was inviting people to hack him, then he "got hacked briefly and regained access" and now it's him never having done any calls? How convenient after nothing took off.

I'm not sure what is really going with him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was just far too doused in bath salts.


How does one go about this without fucking their OpSec though?

I was thinking of a fenced off property with walls by courtesy of Mexico. But a cloaking device would be much better. Still have to figure that out. Not sure how to best ensure safety without having to get too involved with it myself.
Right now I'm mostly interested in stuff like those "full glass" solar panels that are currently too expensive to be viable (they reflect certain wavelengths of light within a double wall and eventually turn it into electricity). How pretty would a fully transparent green house be that lights itself?

Perhaps a solar panel pavilion in the middle of the lake, through the floor of which you could see your home raised sushi still swimming around. Of course it would light up during night too, after all it's just a bunch of solar panels, surely plastering them with LEDs wouldn't be that much of a jump at that point.

But yeah, quite curious to see how absurd of a property one can build with thorough self-planning as opposed to just buying a random house or paying an architect for "ready made" solutions.

Always open for more suggestions, be it regarding security, practicability, fun or aesthetics.

I'm thinking of planning out my own home/property that is entirely self-sustained for everything relevant.

Salmon pond/lake, perhaps shrimps if you can raise them "at home" somehow to feed the salmon (and myself). Have the water somehow create a cycle that cools the Bitcorn farm that is powered by state of the art solar panels with the excess heat warming a greenhouse with herbs and "herbs" all of which get watered by the lake-water cycle. Perhaps have some animals dicking around for eggs and meat (especially if private labs become a possibility). Then the obvious spa/pool/sauna, a gym, a home arcade, theatre, music room, a racing track(?) and other frivolous luxuries that are available and viable. Turns out private live-in chefs are relatively cheap too at 20 to 40k a year. And then just occasionally leave the property for travel.

Yeah I was watching his calls to see if there were any predictable patterns. But I ended up too lazy to accumulate random shit just to short his calls and sticked with my usual strategy instead. Still waiting to see how the ICOs he endorses turn out in the future. As far as I'm aware he takes a ~30% cut of the raised funds plus another 30% of the tokens for his shilling, and with those numbers I wouldn't expect too much due diligence on his part.

Well, he technically paid some dude a few grand (lol) for the murder. And the murdered guy poisoned his dogs so I don't feel bad for him either and think that he deserved what he got. If you fuck with helpless animals you deserve the worst the universe can throw at you.

Also, he somehow managed to go from >100m to 4m during the financial crisis, which makes his calls... questionable. Not that I'd be in the least surprised if we got anywhere close to or past 1m by the end of 2020 (with another 60-90% retrace).

Makes you wonder why no mAd ScIeNtIsT has figured out how to delay our aging process yet by just copy/pasting the Asians.

There is no source. In the last Q&A Kris mentioned it would take "a few weeks" and people interpreted this as 2-3 weeks by virtue of it being less than a month (and thus not a few months). Given the track record of Kris' remarks I wouldn't bet on the 2-3 week estimate.

He did however also mention that the rollout wouldn't leak into Q3, so if not 2-3 weeks at least it shouldn't take longer than 2-3 months to crack the ATH.

I love how this post reads like a contradiction while screaming truth at the same time.

Japanese drink a lot too. But they eat half as much wheat as we do and make it up with rice instead. They also eat a lot of fermented foods (miso soup and pickled vegetables with just about every dish) and it's generally very easy to eat healthy and well over there. And their healthy food doesn't taste like ass either.

I never enjoyed eating plain rice or vegetables as much as in Japan, they really know how to prepare that shit. And there's always meat and/or fish as a main course as well. Really want to retire there for the food, but fuck their drug laws.
I might consider it if we get to fly Elon's rockets across the globe within sub 60 minutes, then I can just fly over to Amsterdam or the US for some leaf every other day while enjoying the foods and game centres of Japan during my daily life.
You also don't have to pay taxes on any income that you don't remit into Japan, so you could technically use a Bitcorn Visa to expenses without getting taxed into oblivion.

Sell high, buy higher, ???, profit.

Syria airstrikes announced by the US, UK and France. Bitcorn jumps. Coincidence or confirminati illumed?

If the IRS had to go after the recipient in such a case, the recipient wouldn't get fucked by tax evasion laws for not walking up to the IRS himself would he? Since the sender is supposed to do that part and the recipient couldn't possibly know if the sender neglected his duty?

Who would be liable for tax payments on such a transaction (given that it was above the "gifting" limits)? And who would be required to report it? The recipient or the sender?

I guess it's not possible to just simply return the transaction if it would indeed cause any unwanted trouble.

With that kind of name it seems like a troll having fun more than anything else.

Not obesity. Fat shaming is an integral part of their culture. I have seen less fat people in two years while in Japan than I see in a single day in the west (when I actually bother leaving my house).

The hordes of 30-40 year olds that look like teens to twenties would have me disagree with you on this one. They hold up better than their western counterparts when it comes to aging. At least in the more affluent countries as somebody else pointed out.