One of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. You could pay me to build something like Windsurf, or many of us could, for less than what they paid.

Who says we don't know how to do it? Technology has advanced since the 1970s.

"We do not."

We do. Look into how Cyc works, and the work of Doug Lenat. Look into how Palantir works. Just because you don't know how to do it, or you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean it hasn't been done or isn't a lot easier to do now that CPUs, ram, and other technologies exist which didn't exist back then. The same reason people thought neural nets couldn't scale, until the technology got to this point where it could be scaled using GPUs. That is what changes things, the ability to have broadband, faster chips, so now it's just a matter of putting them to use.

Specifically, neurosymbolic AI. In the centralized approach that means something like Google's Alphafold/Alphaproof which uses reinforcement learning combined with the LLM. For the decentralized approach it means something like Tau.net which is logical AI at the foundation layer and machine learning as an extension. The combination of logic GOFAI allows for common sense mechanical reasoning. The addition of machine learning, allows for the pattern recognition, prediction, probability based methods.

An assumption is that robots will not have sophisticated AI and will always need a human to manage it. What happens when the AI is able to manage it and has no need for human managers or a corporation?

Suppose the self driving car is able to act as a self contained corporation, earn it's own profit, pay for it's own repairs, hire or pay for it's own new designs based on data it and it's clones collected from passengers?

The problem is either going to be "who owns the robots" or "who pays the taxes". Human beings don't want to pay taxes but don't want robots to pay taxes because a very small group of humans expect to own in concentrated fashion the robots which they don't want taxes.

But there is no technical reason why robots require human owners. An autonomous agent which can take on all the functions of those humans need not even be very smart or sophisticated to have the ability to interact as a self contained business or individual economic unit.

They are investigating how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies can be abused. Isn't that exactly what they should be investigating?

Bitcoin is not illegal, they aren't banning or criminalizing it. Terrorist finance doesn't benefit any of us.

This is what they are paid ot do. They should study stuff like this and find ways to prevent terrorism.

There are always going to be users of anything good whether it be Bitcoin or the Internet, who will try to exploit or abuse the tool.

There are cults and terrorists out there. There are sex traffickers out there. These sorts of tools may empower them so what is wrong with studying that?

I'm sure other governments are studying how to use Bitcoin for cyberwarfare or for state sponsored terrorism so of course the United States should be looking at how to defend itself.

So I agree that the US government along with many others should be studying exactly this sorta thing.

Studying it is better than banning it. They have a certain mission and their job is to deal with warfare. The rest of us don't have to be concerned with war and terrorism 24/7.

But let's not pretend like there wont someday be a gang of terrorists who try to use Bitcoin because that is bound to happen someday. The better it is studied the more likely terrorism can be stopped.

Because I can't see these kinds of shoes being the type we could wear on airplanes.

Bitcoin is already divisible so there are more Bitcoins than dollars. Mining will cause more to generate far into the future so what are you talking about?

The NSA puts too much trust in it's employees obviously.

And that will eventually replace everything else.

Well it could be BTC Guild anyway.

All it would do is result in a new proof of work for Bitcoin which is probably a good thing anyway.
The real question is whether or not it will effect Mastercoin?

Because that is what matters most.

Or bugs in the random number generator.