I was intrigued to see Vitalik Buterin talk about wealth taxes in a post today. He favors "diffusing not dollars, but the means of production." So he favors somehow distributing capital and investment more broadly? At any rate, I think its a sign of strength in the Ethereum community that Vitalik is engaging with these ideas.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power...
The original topic was whether we can trust anything they say, and we absolutely can’t. No one is wishing it fails, only either predicting it could, or assuming the goals are made in bad faith.
It's very clearly proven that murder is dangerous, yet people still commit it. You still have not explained how laws stop things from happening, as if by magic.
> And I am not even going to respond to your idiotic "leftist" statement.
I would say notifications of investigations are almost never given after the crime is committed, is vaccously true because literally nobody other than the ICC does the notice thing.
In almost every other system, investigations are kept secret. The complementary thing is pretty exclusive to the ICC.
I would also say that this is a matter of politics not justice, since such investigation notices are not addressed to the accused and in general it is expected that the accused is not told that they are the subject of an investigation. As such even if the notice was handled incorrectly, it wouldn't impinge on any of the accused rights and hence not be an issue of "justice"
random internet users are not promising salvation, nor or they taking profit.
they are saying: i made this and it worked for me in my specific case. you can look at it (or have a trusted knowledgable friend look at it), and use it, for zero payment; if you want to, if the paid solutions offered on the market are insufficient for your specific case.
they would never need to come up with 1.1 billion dollars because they're not making 10x that from selling things that still harm people despite the resources that that profit makes available.
The current administration has proven you can cry wolf or lie 19 times a day and their support barely wavers. I take their stated goals as far as I can throw them, remember when they had a stated goal to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it? lol. Don’t give them any respect they don’t deserve.
I don't have a concrete example, but I think you can invent plenty of iterated prisoner's dilemmas with whatever modified rules and variables and find 'tit-for-tat' isn't the end-all-be-all. Like it changes things if there's an infinite or an unknown number of rounds, some of the defects are 'noise', etc.,.
There are other avenues of income. You can invade other industries which are slow on AI uptake and build an AI-from-ground competitor with large advantages over peers. There are hints of this (not AI-from-ground but with more AI) with deepmind's drug research labs. But this can be a huge source of income. You can kill entire industries which inevitably cannot incorporate AI as fast as AI companies can internally.
