He won’t see any real inmates he has the special Epstein suicide suite waiting for him 
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literally true. They are apparently going to be keeping him in the same prison where Epstein supposedly bought the farm. Looking at him, I’m betting SBF has been wanting some plastic surgery anyway.
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I feel that prices long term per GByte will drop a lot more. Right now we have abnormally high inflation worldwide that is dampening the reduction in price as well as dampening company investment into new technology.
We could be waiting a decade or so though for all of the current mess to resolve itself, so I’m expecting little change in prices for pretty long while. Of course some new tech could pop out and surprise. Can’t predict the future really.
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So I understand where you are coming from, but I would actually challenge this premise. (just for fun!)
This goes to the age old debate of the vitalists vs materialists. We presently live in a materialist age, but vitalism is making headway.
Materialists believe that matter is everything. Vitalists believe that there is a force that animates and drives matter, a life force if you will. I hypothesize that motion of the infinite fractal ether is that force, and our perceived “matter” is just a vibration or condensation of that more basic substrate.
So in this hypothesis, the notion is that the infinitely divisible ether creates the soul/spirit/qi/reiki/mind/self (or it has always existed?) which is what animates and directs lifeless matter to organize (via structured/crystalline water). This is what holds the “blueprint” of an organism at all stages of development and directs cells to differentiate into organs, tissues, etc. When the soul/spirit/qi/reiki/self leaves the matter, it begins to disintegrate, normally helped along by other small life forms (bacteria, etc), themselves animated by the infinite ether. (See work of Antoine Bechamp et al)
As for the “human neural net” aka brain, in this view it is an analogue to a laptop computer. When we use a laptop, we interact with google, or video chat with friends, or chat with chatGPT, or view websites, etc. Do those things exist inside our laptop? Of course not… it is just a gateway. Likewise, the human brain may be a bridge between the etheric mind/soul and the material world. If one damages one’s laptop it can cause video chat to not function well, but it still doesn’t mean the person we are chatting with exists inside the laptop. The analogy is not perfect, but I think it conveys a different way of thinking about the “body/mind connection”.
And if this view is correct, it means there will never be a conscious AI because one can study and replicate the brain forever but that accomplishes nothing in terms of achieving conciousness, in the same way that disassembling a laptop does not enable one to recreate “the internet” or even google.
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Great for new websites on SAFE:
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$250 million bail 
, but he walked out posting none of that.
I guess when you finance both parties in government you are untouchable.
I’ll remember this if I ever become a criminal.
“Yes, you read that right. Bankman-Fried walked out of court essentially a free man by signing a piece of paper where he promised to pay the court $250 million if he decides to flee to another country with no extradition. This, of course, is totally absurd.”
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Yes and no.
“Neither Bankman-Fried nor his parents were required to put up the full amount of the bond. It is sufficient to secure a bond with assets amounting to 10% of the total bond amount. The sky-high personal recognizance bond is meant to reflect the gravity of Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes and deter the former FTX CEO from jumping bail. Still, Bankman-Fried will have to secure the signatures of at least two additional individuals with “considerable means,” one of whom cannot be a family member, according to the case’s judge. Whether Bankman-Fried has identified two additional signatories remains unclear, but he must do so before a Jan. 5 deadline.”
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Fair enough his parents put a 4 million dollar home up (what are their new Bahamian homes worth). 4 mil still nowhere near 25%.
The $250 million seems very much a show much like Alex Jones and his 1 Billion.
Its all just theater.
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A few more details and “expert” commentary:
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Damn.
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And the SSD drive to lower prices has yet to get into full swing.
Real SSD development is still in its infancy with only the last 2 to 3 years seeing real development research occurring. 3D chip manufacturing is only just in proving it can be done stage.
Also as in the past the pricing curve was claimed to be flattening out until R&D that was kept confidential ended up being turned into production line units rolling out with the price per MB/GB/TB dropping again. There has been something like 3 such occurrences in the past. So I’d take that article with a grain of salt, even though we know its going to be flattening out longer term since SSD will be overtaking hard drives in the next decade. Also optical cube storage will make using hard drives for long term backup unfavourable due to cost and storage considerations.
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Did you read it?
Where Is the Bottom?
When we published our 2017 report on this topic, we proclaimed the race to the bottom was over, implying that the cost per gigabyte could not go much (if any) lower. We were wrong.
So where is the bottom? There’s an expression that goes something like, “We have done so much for so long with so little that we can now do practically anything with nothing.” There are probably folks at the drive manufacturers mumbling that expression to themselves on a daily basis as they try to cram more bits in less space on increasingly thin sheets of coated glass racing by at 5,400/7,200/15,000 revolutions per minute.
Getting back to reality, the next milestone we can see is $0.01 per gigabyte for a hard drive—that’s not a sale price, but a stable street price. Let’s go out on a limb and say that we will reach that in mid-2025 with 22TB or 24TB drives. That would mean you could buy a 22TB drive at Costco or on Amazon for about $220, or a 24TB for $240.
Is $0.01 per gigabyte the bottom? At the risk of having boomers shout “How low can you go?” and throw their backs out doing the limbo, we’ll ask: How low can the cost per gigabyte go?
I had to replace a 18TB drive and the price was 100$ less than a year ago. No sale pricing involved.
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Merry Chrimbo everyone. Hope those celebrating have a nice time with the fam
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Not about m+t… but the idea that the world needs a place where voices can be heard and differences can be challenged reasonably…
Too little too late?..
Where today could we challenge fallacies put forward from those with power and invalid mandates?..
Noting today propaganda is another nonsense begging for a counterpoint… noting Russia did not put NATO on its own doorstep… and other failures of judgement…
A forum where fallacies are called out rather than indulged then would be novel but why limit that to science?
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