This is horrifying. From your perspective, what's the hook that gets a person to hand over the money? Is it to make return on investment, or is it because they think the scammer loves them, or some other reason?
> type in anything, and somehow it will read your mind
I think we can go back to the way things were, which had nothing to do with mind reading. In the past, you could type in word, and google would offer 10 million results, and you could page through each of them. That was very powerful, and google does not do that today.
I'm very curious to see how this investigation plays out, especially considering the debt situation here in the US. It appears (according to tether's audit reports) that tether went from about 64 billion in treasuries mid-2023 to about 92 billion mid-2024. That's 27 billion in demand for treasuries over that one year period which (if my math and research is correct) is about 3% of all treasury demand for roughly that time period.
It does appear that tether holds short-term maturity treasuries, and I don't know how that fits into the larger demand picture.
But taking drugs also affects physiological things such as breathing, heart rate, salivation, sweat, etc. All of those things are tied to physical material that starts outside the body that our physical bodies manage thanks to evolutionary selection. We manage oxygen with breathing/heart rate, water for salivation and sweat, etc. The fact that the physical body and evolution also manage consciousness should probably be evidence that consciousness exists outside the body just like oxygen and water.
The other side of this argument is that the world is not getting off oil. We will need the oil if we want to get every nation up to a Euro/US standard of living.
If you are worried about users holding the DAO hostage by not signing cooperatively, you might want to check out ROAST which is basically FROST done in rounds in such a way that you can withstand some malicious participants.
Your repo is very helpful. Really great comments. It's too bad that I'm so busy. The Nix sirens are certainly calling, but I'll have to plug my ears for now.
Since you are evangelizing a little bit, I have a question about nix. I'm a debian user, and I see debian as a base layer. It takes care of security updates and miscellaneous system configurations so I don't have to. In a way, it shifts under my feet, and I like that because those shifts are necessary for security and progress. How are you able to use nix in a way that allows those shifts to silently occur while at the same time maintain full control over your system's configuration? I imagine there must be some kind of tension between fully specifying what you want vs allowing experts to take care of configurations as they see fit.