Why would he work against his goal of creating a digital currency then? Bitcoin is useless for that with transactions that can be left pending for hours because of the block size limit, which Back supported keeping as is.

It’s one of the theories, that it was done by a collective with one person writing on the forum

There’s tons of circumstantial evidence for a bunch of people, but Adam Back keeps talking about the value of Bitcoin (Satoshi would be one of the richest person on earth right now, he wouldn’t care about its value anymore) and was against the changes necessary to make Bitcoin useful as a digital currency (leading to the 2017 fork).

Why did Satoshi create Bitcoin? Because he felt there was a need for a digital currency, not because he wanted to get rich. It’s in the whitepaper.

All the claims of who it might potentially be have been debunked one way or another. Someone was sure it was a Canadian guy not too long ago and he started getting harassed…

People aren’t satisfied with only their basic needs met though.

Dude, you’re the one saying it’s ok to replace paid artists with AI, you’re the one saying it’s able to do their job, you’re the one saying that it can take people’s job, you just don’t feel concerned because you can’t imagine you’ll be the one being affected, you’re the one sounding like a Trumpist “It’s ok, it will only affect others and they’re the people who I believe done deserve to make a living off their work!”

I’m done, this is idiotic.

Again, until your boss feels he doesn’t need you and can just rely on good enough shit regurgitated by AI.

You’ll keep saying that until you end up jobless because a computer can accomplish your tasks in a good enough way, not as well as you, just well enough, then because it suddenly affects you you’ll be angry about it.

It is relevant, free development/services is nice and all, but when you’re spending all your time doing it at some point you still need to eat and that requires money so what do you do? You either give up on the free stuff or reduce the amount of time you spend doing it so you can find a job meaning you lose practice and aren’t at good at it.

I’m sorry to tell you but the people who are the best at what they do don’t do it for free, the reason they’re the best is that they can afford to do it full time because they make a living off it.

And that’s the problem right there

“The best art is the one created by people who get no recognition for it”

Do you also believe the best houses are built by people who have no training in how to build them?

“Stop paying artists and people will keep creating”

They will, they won’t be able to spend the time required to become masters at it unless they’re already rich enough not to have to spend time working. It’s also the same thing here, let’s stop paying plumbers, people who like doing plumbing will just continue doing it. Let’s stop paying garbage people, someone will keep doing it because they like it… Oh wait, no they won’t.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

People deserve a form of compensation for their work if we want to live in functioning societies. If we go back to living in small tribes then sure, people will just do what they must without compensation because it’s required to survive, but then human population would be in the millions instead of billions and we wouldn’t be here to talk about it because the technology wouldn’t exist anymore.

Bull fucking shit, you know as well as I do that your point doesn’t make sense.

So the best books are the ones that never get published? The Best music is free on Soundcloud? The best movies are freely available on Peertube?

Your realize that in order to achieve greatness in a field it takes time, if artists can’t live from their art because anyone is free to just make copy of it and to sell it and keep the profit to themselves then instead of making art they’ll have to find another job instead.

You might believe that AI will replace them, but AI doesn’t understand what it’s doing it just regurgitates stuff until the person asking for it finds it good enough. It lacks the will to generate emotions in the viewer or listener.

Scale Lemmy to the size of Reddit and we’ll see if good Samaritans are still willing to host it for free.

Which province has the worse teeth? Quebec

Which province has the worst access to water with fluoride? Quebec

But it might also be the maple syrup…

Or will they simply wait four years because they figure that it won’t keep going on…

Who was the ex member of his team that said he was in the room when people tried to explain tariffs to Trump and he clearly didn’t understand them, he just likes them based on his misunderstanding of them…

I’m sure he believes that other countries are paying the tariffs and it’s money going to the US federal coffers…

Well, that’s one take I guess… Not a good one, but one none the less…

I said without, I wouldn’t believe they got his approval…

So was it trained on his work without his approval?