AI does not need to become Skynet or AGI to be harmful or catastrophic to humanity. As a powerful tool in the wrong hands it’s already enough. And even without those bad intend how it deprives our human ability to use our own mind and abilities.
Super cool. My wife and me recently analyzed a small bagel shop that was open for sale in Berlin. Unfortunately it didn’t work out for us.
But such a software would have been incredibly useful. Former owner did everything in .xls.
.. just listening to the audio book. It supports the articles headline with substantial insights. I can recommend it.
Earlier discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984800
... like your classification. My version of that is in short:
Blockchain is a technical protocol ( crypto signed list over a P2P network with consensus).
DLT is a higher level function on top of a blockchain which adds social / legal / economic status to the data in a blockchain.
Blockchain coordinates databases over different legal entities. That's the magic. It's still your DB in your Datacenter when you run your own node. You have autonomy over your own records with your keys. And you have visibility of all other records. A big central DB is under the control of a central body. With a blockchain the central control is / could be limited.
Definitely, but this is a feature that a centralized authority like the fed would prefer to do without. Whatever technology is behind any sort of "FedCoin" would certainly not be blockchain. They will not relinquish control of their currency, doing so would make themselves obsolete.
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