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JUST IN: 🇭🇰 Standard Chartered officially launches tokenized bank deposits in Hong Kong.
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NASA's Dragonfly recently completed its first simulated test flight! 🚁
This "flight" was performed on a computer testbed at the Johns Hopkins APL, and incorporated many systems and maneuvers the rotorcraft will employ when it arrives at Titan.
🔗 go.nasa.gov/4sCVCJo
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The US was corrupted by its funding model through reserve banks, who act on behalf of their interests as framed by the global financial network.
It can't be voted out. Amenability is foundational in party selection.
He could be the first President the US has elected since JFK
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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I consider myself a Neoplatonist, although textual apocalypses are not mutually exclusive between Abrahamic religions.
Most would agree that humanity will require a new understanding of doctrine at the end of history, & AI advancements will show that we're likely in a simulation
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She’s got her whole career ahead of her and she risked it all to stand on principle. You’re in the twilight of your career with nothing to lose and you’re so desperate to hang on to power that you’re caving to the Islamo-Marxist antisemites. You’re an embarrassment.
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Kinda remarkable how much further into the cosmos we've reached with radio waves vs hardware
Happy November! This month Voyager 1 will become the first spacecraft to reach 1 light day from Earth. 🔭 #astro
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To enrich the public's symbolic understanding of an interfaith agreement, they could use tokenized assets.
Blockchain's structure resembles emanation models in Islamic & Jewish scholarship. This may also reinforce religious authority over AI & sim theory
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- Early Neoplatonic models have previously been integrated into mainstream Semitic religions, like Judaism, Christianity, & Islam.
- Simulation theories may provide a context for emanation theories (Neoplatonism, Spinoza, etc.), & vice versa.
Grokchain:
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Endure it is:
Οἱ ἄνθρωποι γεγόνασιν ἀλλήλων ἕνεκεν· ἢ δίδασκε οὖν ἢ φέρε.
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Humans are born for each other, either teach or endure them.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.59
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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I believe I've clarified this before, but I'm not "Arian". Personally, I believe "God" to be a way to understand a sentient universe, even if the experiential substrate of consciousness differs from the body.
Therefore, all of creation is "homoousios" or "of the same substance"
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Holiness is not a privilege reserved for a few, but a universal vocation that speaks to each of us where we live. This is the hope-filled message of today’s feast: God sees the good that we do not see, knows stories that we do not know, and reaches hearts to which we have no access.
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IMO a cryptographic complexity paradigm based on quantum computing may be possible to maintain using the same speculated architecture.
If true, it may allow the internet to continue as a communication method & auditable record of our history, while providing AI w/ training data
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Shared this elsewhere a few years ago, IYKYK. Just seems like a probable advancement of this part of the tech tree.
Unclear if it's compatible w/ blockchain: cryptography & quantum computing speeds may form a GAN-like relationship, or money as consensus could be effectively DOA