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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 05:18
RT toshi (@lamed2025)That is why it is very critical to protect the bitcoin node decentralization status by maintaining its affordability for the average users - that anyone in the world can opt to do so. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 04:46
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)And we'd likely see the hammering -- the higher energies the ecosystems or civilizations have access to, the higher energies the fights, the more visible the fights are to other observing entities. That on top of the many motivations many entities have to display rather than hide. That on top of the waste heat that entities must inevitably give off no matter how hard they try to hide.So a "predator universe" wouldn't be a full-time full-space "dark forest" -- it would be a dim for ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:51
RT AF Post (@AFpost)DHS has announced a full suspension of immigration and naturalization from 19 countries.The affected nations are: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.Follow: @AFpost ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:36
RT JustV23 (@VitkusJustinas)New painting from a recent suggestion.In 1997 a fissure near Pillan Mons erupted on #Jupiter's moon #Io. It Produced huge amounts of lava that reached a nearby caldera Called Pillan Patera creating massive lava falls almost 3 km high.I tried to depict this event here. https://t.co/wBIpH9nMMy ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:20
RT Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio says it was one big LIE that we could just "vet" 3rd world migrants"You can only vet information that exists...You can't vet what people might do in the FUTURE!""They don't assimilate well, they [get] radicalized. That is a threat!"MARCO IS RIGHT 💯 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:19
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The point is, a significant fraction of entities won't be fanatically trying to hide the way you expect all entities to be doing. You are constructing an unfalsifable fantasy universe where, like elves and hobbits and dwarves, everybody lives underground or is good at hiding, explaining why we never see the little fellows.That's the way many fantasy races work; it's not the way real ecosystems or civilizations work. Both ecosystems and civilizations have significant fractions of e ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:17
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Corporatism vs. socialism: an awful dichotomy, like Odysseus having to choose between having his ships destroyed by rocks if he steered them a bit too far north, and being sucked in by a whirlpool if they went a bit too far south.Innovations at large social scales -- and I daresay I helped a bit with that myself -- have often been a great economic boon for mankind. Innovations in contract law, property law, financial markets, and related areas have, after maturation, often turned ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:16
RT Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)At Miriam Adelson's Israel Hayom summit in New York, two entrepreneurs pitched their macabre "VR October 7th experience" to Jewish investors."The conversion rate of this VR is something like we haven't seen before!"Never heard anyone so excited to share footage of a massacre. https://t.co/FfxUUJk4We ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:10
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The point is, a significant fraction of entities won't be fanatically trying to hide the way you expect all entities to be doing. You are constructing an unfalsifable fantasy universe where, like elves and hobbits and dwarves, everybody lives underground or is good at hiding, explaining why we never see the little fellows.That's the way many fantasy races work; it's not the way real ecosystems or civilizations work. Both ecosystems and civilizations have significant fractions of e ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-03 03:01
RT Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba)Notice how she doesn’t actually name anyone specific on the left compared to repeatedly naming two specific people on the right. Say you want, but Hillary Clinton and the left more broadly understand the friend enemy distinction. They do not attack their own. They have no enemies to their left. There’s a lesson to be learned here. ...