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If the filter doesn't notice blood flow on a non-deepfaked subject, run.

Isn't the entire point of an NFT the fact that two users can't simultaneously possess it? I don't know if NFTs are the ideal approach but that seems like the one critique that doesn't apply.

Did they, though? If I were to describe the finance industry, "trustworthy" and "well-regulated" would probably not be the first words I'd reach for. (EDIT: To be fair, I'm a pretty typical layman, and I might just be throwing stones at a strawman. Maybe EVIL GREEDY BANKERS are a rarity in an otherwise idyllic system, but that's not what's in the zeitgeist)

To be clear, I don't strictly disagree with your outsider interpretation, but...if it's recapitulating the history of finance at 100x speed, at a thousandth of the cost, with the end result of removing an aspect (centralization) that could plausibly considered an irreconcilable technical debt, then...I mean, I'm personally not in that world at all, but I think that smart contracts have a lot of potential, in the abstract, and I'm all for early adopters who aren't me volunteering as guinea pigs.

I genuinely think there's something novel here; I just don't know what form it will take, or how many millions of dollars we'll burn on shitcoins finding it. Like the first internet bubble--we'll have to shovel through a lot of pets.coms to find our proverbial Amazons.

[Tangentially, I'm reminded of something I read yesterday about the nonexistent technological breakthrough, Write-Only Memory:

"write-only memory: A form of computer memory into which information can be stored but never, ever retrieved, developed under government contract in 1975 by Professor Homberg T. Farnsfarfle. Farnsfarfle's original prototype, approximately one inch on each side, has so far been used to store more than 100 trillion words of surplus federal information. Farnsfarfle's critics have denounced his project as a six-million-dollar boondoggle, but his defenders point out that this excess information would have cost more than 250 billion dollars to store in conventional media."]

I think that's a legitimate stance, but one way to put a silver lining on this writhing cesspool of dog-eat-dog bot-fuckery is to think of it as early-access alpha testing; ironing out exploits in the wild west before it's stable enough for the not-as-extremely-online to run something useful on.

can't speak for gruez, but a couple off the top of my head:

-set standards that all members abide by, potentially bypassing "tragedy of the commons'-style coordination problems

-share information which, in a more cutthroat environment, would be considered "trade secrets".

Not sure how these would apply to the dairy industry specifically; it just seems overly broad to say that price fixing is the only plausible form of cooperation.

My solution: Download DroidCam, use your phone's camera as a webcam. Night and day difference versus awful built-in laptop cameras, only takes a few minutes to pair the first time.

Granted, the positioning is a bit annoying. If I did it more often, I'd get a tripod.

Highly recommend HealthyGamerGG's videos "How to Deal with Your ADHD ft. Mizkif" and "Solving Laziness with Asmongold". (Her's a Harvard psychology professor who has surprisingly-wholesome live therapy sessions with famous streamers). The presentation is a tad corny in some areas--like awkwardly phrasing psychological phenomena in terms of RPG mechanics--but that doesn't make up the bulk of it, promise. I'd be lying if I claimed to be coming from a place of any more expertise than you, but I suspect that some of the framings he discusses will resonate.