It’s all about whether Binance lets them cash out or not, but mixing within BRICS is sure to make it clean enough, as Binance getting/keeping sovereign clients is good for Binance, and not worth appeasing US BS to turn it away.

Preferred crypto payment is USDT (Thether) stable coin. Which is the least US regulated, and most popular, US $ equivalent/backed stable coin. They are unlikely to refuse bitcoin, though.

First Skynet only model. Claude does have more censorship in its (Opus, Sonnet) models than others. Refusals for many scientific fields.

You can sell your vote, but change it back after paid. You can cause revote from outrage that something passed with consequences that were unknown to most. There can/should be constitutional protections against certain laws.

Liquid democracy is implemented through blockchains, 1 vote per account, and means to ensure 1 account per real citizen. If a corrupt policy steals $150m from society, then $1 to 150m voters may get it to pass the first time. Bribed make a net 50c. Corrupt gains 0. A trace of those payments, may be cause for a/many revotes, where the corrupt must keep the bribery program. Representatives who take the corrupts bribe will lose delegates, and have other delegates demand their share of the bribe.

These are better checks on corruption than any existing rulership system.

Just worse than direct/liquid democracy.

People would just vote on race, gender, and apparent ethnicity of last name? Even with random people put in charge, say with university degrees and low debt to asset ratios, I think they’d get surrounded by people with Epstein-sized expense accounts inviting them to entertainment-themed seminars.

While both are subject to propaganda/fraud, Sortition is more subject to bribery after being in office.

There definitely needs to be limits on speech to protect against fanatical religious supremacism (Zionism) hate speech, and economic fraud supporting oligarchist/corporatist supremacy. In other countries, blantant CIA/Atlanticist propaganda fraud needs to be exterminated. Disposession of media violating treasonous/fraudulent speech is necessary for democracy to work.

At same time, with direct democracy it is easier to counteract propaganda and demonize those who use their delegate power for evil. Sortition would be subject to more closed information/perspectives capture. Well funded lobbyists will continue to sell lies, and seeking out the truth takes effort.

None of these should be goals.

Direct/liquid democracy where you have the individual right to vote on everything, and so be your own representative, in addition to the right to transfer your vote to a representative, and transfer it back to yourself or someone else at any time, is the only democracy.

Instead of a cabinet, direct recallable functional administrators are elected until they piss off the people. Liquid/direct democracy can create subdivisions of functional silos with administrator in charge of single task/project, so you don’t have to think of a single cabinet official of a full department, even if there is some coordination/offices in same building.

In waterworld, there was an old man in a row boat floating inside an oil tanker. Us is he.

As Trump says, the total annihilation of global economy will make America (actually just the oil companies) a lot of money! Some trickle down to rich shareholders (if they only own oil companies).

Not sure if a dig against capitalism, or just STFU slaves!

so much lottery tickets!!!

dammit… I was hoping for ad infested AI girlfriends running skynet would save us from skynet effectiveness at genocide.

then install linux on it.

China has self driving taxis. They have sleek lidar integrated EVs that are under $50k. Even at 100% tariff that would seem a better platform than Waymo. US Oligarchy tax is at play in making it a $250k only option. Same will apply to Optimus.

This is not credible. A self promoting stock pump and dump PR. Vision AI models are smaller than text models. They do need fast/faster GPUs, but less memory. Very narrow purposed AI/Neural Network models need less memory because the memory is more about storing facts than logic/reasoning capability. LLM breakthroughs in benchmark score/GB are currently having more gains by smaller models than frontier largest models. 32gb is a reasonable ceiling for memory requirement. Robots can swap in task specific AI models as well.

A big, stupid magic trick: As these companies get desperate, expect someone — especially OpenAI — to try and show something “new and crazy” as a means of trying to turn the narrative. When or if this happens, look very carefully at what they say about the product’s availability, or what it can do, or who they show it to.

Alternative scenario — Sora launches: If OpenAI gets desperate, it may move up the public launch of Sora, its generative video product. Doing so will only cause more problems — there isn’t a chance in hell that Sora is profitable, and I’m fairly sure it’s even more expensive to run than ChatGPT, and I imagine its visual inconsistencies and hallucinations would make for some entertaining content for YouTubers and tech reporters.

It was a horseman, just not the part where they cancel it a few months later.

To be fair to OpenAI, they are now saying “just use ChatGPT for video too”. Good chance that Disney cancelled them before they cancelled Sora

See, @CodeBlooded@programming.dev 's goofing off with free version is what destroyed the AI bubble. Of course, he wasn’t going to convert to paid service.

The market for professional video is fairly small, and most of the cost is in sales. ie. the advertising agency, or movie/show pitch that demands the producers get rich independent of production costs.

Sora 2 was massive lost leader for OpenAI, and a massive basis for its compute demand. Images and video use expensive compute time, and its ambition level was high before Seadance 2, and small open models. With its falling behind in coding/office LLMs as well, only Skynet/Government can pay for its roadmap.