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I wish people would gamble with something other than a proof-of-work coin. There are very similar alternatives now. When bitcoin rises, more money is spent on mining. Whoever holds bitcoin is in part responsible for this waste of energy.

I wish people would rather invest in companies, than parking their money in crypto.

Outside of the US it isn't that easy (to invest in individual shares - because there's not much that's attractive)

With the current US administration I haven't been that keen to be invested in US shares either.

And I attempt to be somewhat ethical in my investments - that really limits my options.

Why is that? If you invest in a company, you steal worker wages.

You're going to have to explain that one.

I'm not reading all that.

Absolutely. 1% of world electricity, with the waste approximately proportional to the Bitcoin price (due to medium term market forces) modulo halvings, of course.

"Strip club visit to onlyfans" is more apt

Nah in small enough venues you sit down and have a beer with the musicians :D

What is missing for you in Alovoa? Can you maybe contribute it?

Orange oil works wonders. It's explicitly not food safe, but you get that stuff on your hand every time you peel an orange and it's also present in juice. Just rinse them afterwards and wear gloves.

Sure if you are already airing every hour you don't need it. Then for me it was surprising how often I have to air and for how long (also depends on draft and temperature difference). Once you take into account the more harmful particulate matter coming in from outside, it's about finding a compromise, and without measuring you are tapping in the dark. But in the end people get old without all that stuff.

The professors I know are experts in their small domain (and most of them are really smart, but this is not my point here). They know all the nitty details, I am always amazed by their wide knowledge in discussions. I think for a society it is easily worth it to pay people to dig so deep into their field of interest and the market is not the right mechanism to enable that. I also think Youtube is nice to get started, but I found it insufficient for graduate level material.

Yeah, you only ever hear the naysayers. So second voice to combat that: I like the integration and use it with (admittedly few) selected friends to split bills. And I think it fits signals mission.

Would you expand a bit on the shortcomings? I'm under the impression artificial life was an attempt in the 90s and after some disappointments fizzled away. Why is simple copying with mutation not sufficient for real evolution? In my naivety I hoped it would lead to digital evolution finding exploits to proliferate across the internet.

One issue with 'evolving' digital life is the primary competition is human assisted digital applications as the primary competition, effectively intelligent design, which is far more powerful ran random chance.

Non-artificial life actually gets massive benefits from horizontal gene transfer which is natures way of letting someone else do all the homework for you.

The Wikipedia page links to some papers (if you can find them - they are online but paywalled sadly).

In practical terms I found Tierra and my system to be very interesting to observe.

(Since I can't edit the original comment above ...)

Here's the description I wrote of my artificial life system: http://oirase.annexia.org/dlife/machineref.html

And here's the "god cell", the initial hand-written cell, from which all other cells evolve: http://oirase.annexia.org/dlife/god.dla

"70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues" (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...)