Haven’t they already been rewarded for it? The magic Internet money is worth more than 20k USD, whereas it started out at 0.

They have and they deserve it. As bitcoin continues it's journey higher, all bitcoiners will be well rewarded (new or old).

I too think the unfairness is the problem here with the acceptability of Bitcoin as reserve currency. But not in the way the parent proposes. Bitcoin as reserve currency is such a zero sum outcome, unlike stock market investment gains, because the no coiners loose everything and the maxis gain everything that the others lost.

People who held google stock early actually provided a lot of value to society. By either investing in or working for a company that radically transformed how people use the Internet. You can argue early investors into Bitcoin are the same but in a much lesser way than if you aren’t Satoshi and didn’t contribute to the core development or advocacy of Bitcoin. Most hodlers just bought it and held on and did nothing.

The unfairness of this is so rankling that it’s hard to imagine that Bitcoin as reserve currency settles into an accepted equilibrium without significant violence on a global scale.

What a pile of garbage… True intelligence is moral?! Morality is a by product of society. Ants have morality. Morality doesn’t develop in a vacuum without any necessity for it. I never expect something sensible from an obtuse lunatic like Chompsky anyway.

Stupid people will overuse that tool and call everything AI generated, just like they overuse AI content generation.

Tldr, Chompsky says “them grapes are sour”.

Probably the latter. Must have bought a fancy house, kids go to the best schools in the city etc. I’m not saying this in a disparaging way, but the fact is that cost of living in India is still pretty low if you settle for 2nd or 3rd best.

OP here. Not true.

[Saying anything further will probably lead to a tangential debate. Will digress from root Ask HN]

I'm interested in your answer, not because I'm looking for a debate, I'm just curious about the situation in general.

But I also understand if you don't want to go into it. In any case, I wish you the best.

So it’s like cloudflared or localtunnel?

Similar yes. Open source and self hostable are notable differences, but yep.

Maybe this is why Google will lobby the government to restrict the distribution of open source AI models.

https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1618705267801325568?s=6...

Computing is slowly transforming into something out of fantasy or sci-fi. It’s no longer an exact piece of logic but more like “the force”. Something that’s capable of wildly unexpected miracles but only kinda sorta by the chosen one. Maybe.

yeah all it takes is all the open source software on earth that humans spent years developing and debugging.. I wonder how would we be able to evolve that thing with whatever research will yield, or will it be eternal stagnation with the same model pooping out the same "backends".. Probably people are celebrating too early.

I think if you have a sufficient number of staff for a particular project, it makes sense to rewrite parts of it now and then to gain a better understanding and also the chance to do things without making the mistakes of the past.