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Sounds like an avoidant attachment style. Learning about this changed my dating life so much for the better!

Yeah I'm pro PoS in general, but I don't think we should forbid people from running PoW on their own computers. Seems like a step too far.

Side note, what's wrong with Ethereum's PoS in your opinion?

I think the best solution would be to properly tax carbon. That way Bitcoin miners would either become unprofitable or move to greener energy.

I don't think it's a good idea to establish the precedent that gov't can decide what you can and cannot do with your energy. You may think it's a waste of energy, but if the externality is properly taxed, I don't see the problem with letting it continue

And what about the open source models? Or the AI companies in countries that have more lax copyright laws? (Japan for example)

This technology exists now. We can't put the genie back in the bottle. Copyright came out of the printing press, which allowed cheap copies to be made. Now a new technology has emerged so we likely need a new set of rules to replace the role that copyright performed, which was incentivizing artistic creation

Yes, but it's not Sybil resistant. Anyone can make as many PGP Keys as they want.

What is really needed is the ability to sign messages proving:

• that I am a specific person ("I am John Smith")
• that I am a unique person without revealing my ID ("I only have one account here")
• attributes about me without revealing my ID ("I am 18+", "I am a French Citizen", etc)

This is all possible with ZK cryptography today if you have a trusted data source for the key storage. Governments might be able to set something like this up, but that comes with a lot of privacy concerns. There are other projects like WorldCoin, Idena, and Proof of Humanity that attempt to do this in a decentralized way, but they've all had issues with adoption

PGP isn't tied to a specific person though.

I'm starting to come around to the idea of gov't backed crypto ID, but I am very worried about the potential abuse of that system

I agree! There's a campaign pushing to avoid giving kids phones until 8th grade, but I think even that seems a bit too young

I said "smartphones" not all phones. If I had a kid, I'd get them a flip phone so they could call or text me, but one without internet capabilities

I was at the right age to see the transition happen. When I started high school it was all flip phones and some kids didn't have a phone, but by the time I graduated basically everyone had a smartphone and the school added wifi. I remember feeling like the school had a less social feel in my senior year and everyone was just on their phones in the cafeteria

I think a good middle ground might be to ban smartphones but not phones entirely. If you want your kid to be able to call you, buy them a nokia or something without internet capabilities

Why not just ban smartphones in school? There's ample research now that they're harmful to teen mental health

Name 5 societies in all of history, that are as diverse as the western world today and have the levels of opportunity for minorities