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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Krv 11 Apr \ on: CD124: Mutiny wallet with Tony, Ben and Paul bitcoin
On the topic of shared payments at a restaurant that was discussed, imagine a feature where you can split a payment among multiple people. Set the price, maybe add tip % option, then select the people in your contacts who are there, then it can create invoices for each person automatically.
See my other comment. If humans manipulate their genes, en masse, to have a lot more intelligence and the above mention cycle is mitigated, perhaps humans can be smart enough to create different outcomes. But we can't be sure. We have no idea the effects of humans choosing their own traits.
Unfortunately, human intelligence is steadily declining. It continues in cycles, upward and downward. See Edward Dutton, At Our Wits End for the case for that.
To the main point, humans have now started to manipulate their genes. Thus, they will inevitably begin to select them. Since genes are massively complicated and contain an overwhelming amount of information, humans will begin to use computers help them make these selections. Over many generations of a sort of genetic 'arms race' will ensue. Those who use computers will outpace those who don't.
Then it's a matter of who has the best computers / algorithms, which will, as a result, continuously improve. Eventually, humans will depend upon the computers to select their genes. The long path of this dangerous trend, is the computers become very advanced and there will be a kind tango between 'humans' and computers. The arms race will lead to the situation where computers that control humans the best will be the most powerful. On and on until neither of them look the same as they did before.
Then it's a matter of who has the best computers / algorithms, which will, as a result, continuously improve. Eventually, humans will depend upon the computers to select their genes. The long path of this dangerous trend, is the computers become very advanced and there will be a kind tango between 'humans' and computers. The arms race will lead to the situation where computers that control humans the best will be the most powerful. On and on until neither of them look the same as they did before.
That's the danger humans have over the next many millennia. Not sure it can be avoided. The temptation to edit genes will be not easy to avoid en masse.
Human species will convert into another that is intertwined with some sort of 'artificial intelligence', which may or may not seem alive, but are like some kind of decision makers. It will look as though humans are 'in sevice' of these 'beings', if you could call them that.
Be humble. Since there's only one asked for, it's the only one that encompasses many things and can apply to everyone.
It's only not absurd if you believe violence is a legit method to claim to ownership land. If I had some kind of alien technology that allowed me to subdue a particular region by force, would you consider it a legit nation? All current nations are the results of various conquests, subsequent stalemates, power struggles, etc. Then a bunch of politicians/military/etc claim the right to control everything in that geographical area. Mafias have the same policy. They claim the right to control businesses and extort people in a particular area, whether or not the people there agree.
Nations' rulers claim some sort of 'collective' land ownership of very large geographical areas, as if everyone owned it, yet these rulers are usually the only ones that have rights to decide what happens to the land. There are various property rights structures, with more or less consistency, but ultimately these individuals can violate these rules, because after all, it is maintained by violence, not by consent.
The only model that could possible be consistent and voluntary, would be something akin to the homesteading principle at small community levels, where individuals or groups can claim the use of small areas of unclaimed land, or trade/buy land from others. If there were many thousands of such communities, people can opt in to whichever community they find and participate voluntarily in the land use, or opt out to some other place. A suppose this is sort of like anarchism but with community governance.
Country borders are an absurd concept. As absurd as gangsters who think they 'own' a particular geographical area.
Such areas are controlled by violence, threats, and intimidation.
Perhaps some kind of nostr to email bridge with zaps per email is part of the solution in the short term.
Perfect is the enemy of the good. To an anarcho capitalist, it's easy to see Saylor is a statist. He believes many state related things are necessary. As troubling as that is to an antistatist, we are many generations away from the end of statism. You can put that aside and accept what he's saying as a description of how the world works in this statist world we are in, and will be in for a long time yet. Rejection anyone who doesn't have a pure anarchocapitalist perspective is a fools game and will be at most futile, and, at worst, detrimental to progress.
Investigate government regulations. The need for safety is always used to cripple industries, mainly for preventing competition against the incumbents.
If you are talking about the random bits, or entropy, you can use the bip39 tool above to get the words.
If you are talking about the xprv, yprv, or zprv that results from the mnemonic phrase, that is not possible. The entropy stored in mnemonic pharse is put through a hashing algorithm to generate the private key. It is one way only. (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki#from-mnemonic-to-seed)
Similarily, for any of the private keys of the addresses generated by the seeds, there's no way to get the seed from any of them.