The World Bank said on Tuesday it would halt new lending to the Ugandan government after concluding that its anti-LGBTQ law, which has been condemned by many countries and the United Nations, contradicts the bank's values.
Convenience is the art of the devil. Perhaps without currency you might, for example, work to grow your own food. If you have a surplus, and there is someone who needs it, the trade is organic not the result of gambling collectible units.
But even if you didn't/couldn't grow food - lets say you prefer tech - couldn't we apply the same dynamics of Bitcoin (transaction broadcasts, open ledger, network to connect buyers and sellers) to barter? Nothing is stopping us from having a great modern technical solution to an age-old problem.
Probably a moot point anyhow since super ai will be here in 2 years and if they control it, they'll kill us all instantly.
Well they are doing a good job of letting high IQ developers run wild with it for now - I suppose they can scoop up alll the good source code this way. Useful idiots perhaps. That or like most things they fumble out the implementation and fuck up left & right; the cat gets out of the bag and they are back to square one.
reptillian 0 points 1.7 years ago
Convenience is the art of the devil. Perhaps without currency you might, for example, work to grow your own food. If you have a surplus, and there is someone who needs it, the trade is organic not the result of gambling collectible units.
But even if you didn't/couldn't grow food - lets say you prefer tech - couldn't we apply the same dynamics of Bitcoin (transaction broadcasts, open ledger, network to connect buyers and sellers) to barter? Nothing is stopping us from having a great modern technical solution to an age-old problem.
Well they are doing a good job of letting high IQ developers run wild with it for now - I suppose they can scoop up alll the good source code this way. Useful idiots perhaps. That or like most things they fumble out the implementation and fuck up left & right; the cat gets out of the bag and they are back to square one.