Especially now that a court has ordered OpenAI to keep records of it all.

https://www.adweek.com/media/a-federal-judge-ordered-openai-...

So your suggestion is that they build a new system that makes USD transfers faster. Isn't that what they're doing?

If they want, then they can make banks the only entities who can hold their stablecoin, and the whole thing would be invisible to everyone else.

If they allow other people to hold the stablecoin directly, then they could still have the invisible system with banks holding it, plus there'd be extra capabilities on top, like letting people use the coin in smart contracts.

That's equivalent to just fining the corporation itself, which we do all the time.

Frequent problems are that the fines are too small to function as deterrents, or that there's a principal-agent problem, where the directors don't act in the best interest of the shareholders.

It can have a sensible conversation with you, follow your instructions, do math and physics, and write code that performs the task you described in English. Some models can create pictures and videos matching the description you gave them, or write descriptions of a video from you.

In 2023, Microsoft released a paper saying GPT4 could do things like tell you how to stack a random collection of unrelated variously-shaped objects so they don't fall over. Things have come a long way since then.

Try out one of the advanced models, and see whether you think it understands concepts.

To some extent. Wire fraud happens pretty often, and after a day or so the money's usually unrecoverable after going through several foreign countries. Home real estate and B2B transactions have been particular targets.

That's ok, the recipient can use an LLM to summarize it.

In the end, we'll all read and write tight little bullet points, with the LLM text on the wire functioning as the world's least efficient communication protocol.

Maybe don't do crimes?

If the technology provides a major boost in productivity to ethical teams, and is useless for unethical teams, that kinda seems like a good thing.

I guarantee you that every company you have ever worked for has committed crimes and incurred various forms of potential civil liability.

I doubt that, but even if you're right it doesn't change my point: if you're not willing to stop doing that, you'll be less productive than the firms that are willing to operate legally and ethically.

And if in some industry it's really not possible to do business without committing crimes, then let's reform the criminal code to something reasonable.

I've read Attia's book, and all he said there about diet was that it was really hard to study, but the best study he knew of made the Mediterranean diet look pretty good.

He went into quite a bit of detail on exercise though, focusing on the predictable ways you'll lose capability as you age, if you don't work really hard on avoiding that.

This is why some crypto people have most of their coin in multisig wallets. They can only transfer small amounts without getting m-of-n friends to sign their transaction. If your friends know not to do that without hearing a code word, then the alarm will be raised.

Another option is to keep your cold storage in a safe deposit box or private vault, so you have to physically go someplace where there are other people. An advantage of the multisig is that the criminals can verify the situation, possibly before they show up at your house.

People always say "with crypto, you are your own bank" like it's (only) a good thing and not realizing how hard it is to do right.

If people thought being their own bank was a good thing, we wouldn't have fucking banks

Outsourcing also led to the Ledger leak of customer data. You'd think Coinbase would have learned a lesson from that.