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I would.

It's not tied to the dollar and yes, the purpose is to have a neutral currency.

As a crypto veteran, I sometimes forget that a 25% swing is newsworthy.

No one ever said USDT was decentralized.

I lost ~20,000 USDT by accident once and the CTO just sent me some freshly printed ones. That was many years ago though.

Why no subs? 100$/mo is enough for a lot of Opus 5.5 on high... I had a very hard time maxing out my own usage. I had to switch to OpenAI this morning due to getting my account disabled (probably due to VPN usage/traveling) and it really feels like a downgrade.

The more frontier models progress, the less concerned I am about this. Their growing capabilities don't seem to come with a corresponding drive for self-preservation or power. Ego evolved alongside intelligence in nature because of natural selection, but it doesn't appear to be an inevitable emergent property of intelligence.

Of course, there's still the "paperclip optimizer" problem. But models seem to pick up some common sense from the vast amounts of human-generated text they're trained on. In my own usage, they rarely pursue a literal interpretation of an objective at the expense of everything else. They even sometimes push back on my requests when they think I've overlooked some ramification (often rightly so).

If an AI doom scenario does happen, it seems more likely to result from deliberate misuse or gross negligence than from anything inevitable about intelligence.

I'd still buy MacBook Airs even if they cost more than the Pros. The lighter weight and the silence of having no fan are worth more to me than the extra performance to me.

Bastiat's "seen and unseen". You see the cheap-looking AI graphics. You don't see the extra rooms they could afford to build, the ticket that might be $5 cheaper, or the new haunted house in your area that only exists because a small operator can now open one without hiring a studio.

I would unironically invest.