We are all sleepwalking into a terminator scenario or dangerous surveillance state at least. Not just Israel. This kind of tech is eventually turned inwards.
Once you figure out what your issues are, you might however find yourself going to therapists with the questions “what are we to do or what am I to do about it?” And finding they have no answer. Just, “yea it’s a process…”
Believing that misallocation of capital means that we are living in a post scarcity society is a very techno optimist way of looking at things.
HN is unbelievably apolitical, apart from it's baseline tendency towards the left and whatever silicon valley demands people believe.
If you were anywhere near a post scarcity society (applies to USA) you wouldn't be hurtling towards national sovereign debt default at a rate of knots, and you wouldn't have the most expensive healthcare in the world.
As it happens, what appears to be a "post scarcity society" is just pathological misallocation of capital due to a political failure (that shaln't be spoken of here) that has the entire west circling the bowl at the moment.
Sure. Millions of people in the third world use crypto for payments. There's also Polymarket, very much recognized within the mainstream. And generally, crypto will continue to spawn new digital infrastructures in a sovereign space.
Massive thanks for this! I’m already using my own version of analytical antialiasing but there were some bits I couldn’t get quite right so this is perfect!