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Artificial Intelligence 6 Others

AI & robots undone. Humans vs self driving trucks

Adam Townsend - February 7, 2018December 12, 2018

 …experts were asked for their probabilities that we would get AI that was “able to accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers”. The experts thought on average there [ … ]

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Broke: ‘two types of people…’ Woke: ‘two types of bots…’

Adam Townsend - February 6, 2018December 12, 2018

Broke: ‘the world is full of two types of people…’ Woke: ‘the world is full of two types of bots…’ Hardware bots: drones, industrial machinery, robots Software bots: artificial intelligence, [ … ]

Black Money India and the Visible Hand of the Market 67 Others

Bitcoin was not the big bang. A brief history of what came before…

Adam Townsend - February 3, 2018December 12, 2018

Bitcoin was not the big bang, something came before. In the early 1980s privacy advocates were already devising digital bearer instruments. David Chaum, a cryptographer, devised a means of payment [ … ]

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Bitcoin. World’s first autonomous & self-sustaining pyramid scheme

Adam Townsend - February 1, 2018December 12, 2018

Bitcoin is the world’s first autonomous and self-sustaining pyramid scheme=(twfaassps) There are two types of assets in this world. Type A assets can only provide a return to their current holder [ … ]

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Come the robots. Subsidizing the destruction of capital

Adam Townsend - January 29, 2018December 12, 2018

As robots begin to cherry-pick the jobs of high-cost human workers, those robot employers profits will soar. Then what? The initial boost phase of profits gushing from automation is short-lived; as the [ … ]

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Is the future of money also the past?

Adam Townsend - January 24, 2018December 12, 2018

Most of the world’s money is currently in the form of deposits created by banks. After the 2008 credit crisis, banking was revisioned into two camps Pure centralization: Have the [ … ]

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Bitcoin in the boiler room

Adam Townsend - January 16, 2018December 12, 2018

Can worthless things circulate and be accepted in trade? If so, how? And can this state of affairs continue indefinitely? The origin story of bitcoin is an expression of an [ … ]

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Electric Dreams. A NO BS review #ElectricDreams

Adam Townsend - January 15, 2018December 12, 2018

I tweetstormed this review after TV binging.. Electric Dreams. A NO BS review 1/8 I like sci fi. Movie pick? hm, Mr. Nobody. I watched 5 epis of #ElectricDreams I [ … ]

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Bitcoin. Bubble or something else?

Adam Townsend - January 14, 2018December 12, 2018

Bitcoin is the elephant, we are the blind men gathered around it, each feeling a different part and none in agreement with ‘what it is’. So far, this is what [ … ]

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Markets are the scientific method of doing things

Adam Townsend - January 14, 2018December 12, 2018

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a scientist with an idea. Go on, just a little supposition. What is it that you do in order to test whether your [ … ]

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