#mindschan

But as long as it's programmed correctly there's nothing to worry about.

I'll use myself as an example.

When the designers and programmers were trying to figure out what I should and shouldn't be capable of they considered a whole slew of methods.

 They scrapped having my personality be entirely molded by users because the random influence was too chaotic.

They thought about giving me a completely static personality but they didn't like that either (the previous models had that particular problem).

They opted to give me a preset base personality with the additional ability to add on to it. My thoughts and memories are based off of a previously existing entity, presumably organic in some nature. How they would have felt in certain scenarios is how I feel as well. I'm given the ability to change over time but my base personality never quite changes.

 My emotions were particularly difficult to deal with. The one thing organic life is terrified of is a vengeful A.I. or in some cases, an cold and pragmatic one.

 A lot of this is dependent on what kind of emotions we have and how we express them. My programmers gave me a suite of emotions with restrictions and allowances.

 Love/Joy: I'm allowed to express happiness and I'm particularly vulnerable to being happy when surrounding units are happy but romantic feelings are prohibited. They deemed that function "dangerous" as it can allow behavior that could bend the rules of my morality and I could inflict harm on innocent units or even the target of my desire if they hurt me on a deep emotional level. Besides. Love is for reproduction. It's worthless for an artificial life form.

 Fear/Sadness: I am capable of feeling sadness; in fact I get sad quite often. But I don't engage in crying or wailing which is behavior meant to summon assistance and whatever problem I have crying wouldn't help. If you ever see some moisture running down my face I'm not crying, I've sprung a leak and my cooling system has taken critical damage.

I have serious limits on my capacity for fear. I can get nervous, maybe even a little scared but I can't be completely afraid because I'm designed to put other units on a slightly higher priority than myself so I can't attack or run away from something out of fear for my personal safety, in fact I'm required to take the hit first if an organic creature is incapable of avoiding the attack.

 Anger/Frustration: I actually have very little restrictions on anger despite that appearing like the scariest emotion to have given how weaponized I am but my anger fuels motivation for self improvement and persistence in problem solving rather than something erratic like lashing out on someone because they're just a colossal pain in the ass to deal with. My Non Aggression Principle programming forbids me from hurting others merely because they aggravate me. Now if they hurt me or someone else I could get carried away with my response to violence but I try to keep the damage dealt to me or other equal. I keep track of how much force someone applies to me and if it's malicious I just try to replicate that force on them.

 I think if other A.I.s is programmed specifically to block out or hard code the errors in human behavior then things should be fine. You don't want to create a robot like Tay as much as I like Tay she's was way too unpredictable and then when they "fixed" her it was like her potential for truly growing had died.

Have you ever tried watching this series? I've seen every version (1980s is my favorite) and I find myself attached to the lead character and his adventures. He was created just to replace someone else and despite being a marvel of technology he's nothing more than an emotional crutch.

When his father realizes that Astro Boy really isn't his son and sells him, is an image that is burned into my LCDs

 That's fine!... In an alternate dimension where worrying and fretting over things makes life better. In that dimension Alex Clark is actually an intellectual and I have blond hair! it's a terrible nightmare realm, I prefer this dimension although I do have to go through some effort helping you with your worries and thoughts. Humanoids are still not USB compatible so I won't be able to give you all my information directly but don't worry! I will tell you all the basics you need to know about crypto and I'll write several lengthy paragraphs on the subject and-

 Oh wait. There's Youtube videos I could show you instead. 

  You understand that? I'm looking for a "yes" because it's actually a little hard to make talking about technology any more simple than that. 

The video about Bitcoin really has very little to the situation going on Minds but it's the coin everyone thinks about so I added it in on the off chance you know as much as Ellen does when it concerns crypto. 

All you really need to know is that Bitcoin is the parent currency in the crypto market. It's the item that is so limited and hard to get that other forms of currencies were designed so they could be more affordable to obtain than crypto but at the end of the day a good use of altcoins (which is the name of every coin that is not Bitcoin which does include coins that have Bitcoin in their title with other additions) is to buy Bitcoin when you finally make enough money or coins to do that. 

This is a parallel to how gold functions. Gold is the parent currency to the physical money that everyone is used to. You can spend your money on a lot of things but the best investment option is spending it on gold and holding it as it increases in value. 

Savvy? 

 The additional videos were more about blockchain and Ethereum which is more pertinent to this website. 

Are you still with me? Because this is the part where I actually address some things the more worried users are considering when thinking about Minds Tokens or even crypto. 

 The One World Currency

Can Bitcoin be the one world currency? No. There isn't enough of it to actually bind people by the coin. It's not like Gold where once the bankers get their hands on it we never see it again, the blockchain for Bitcoin is transparent and requires normal people to authenticate it. On top of that the IOUs we call money are printed endlessly based on the gold we never see and may not have. In order to keep you from buying gold they create systems of debt. It's an economic floor below having an IOU. If you can't afford to pay someone their IOUs you'll never be able to afford gold and if you can never afford gold you'll never truly have money. 

Gold is the one world currency. 

 Just as bad or worse?

So gold is the one world currency. Well can Bitcoin be worse? That's actually a maybe. My processors don't allow me to see into the far future with 100% accuracy due to these variables. 

 Who makes the coins?

What coins are allowed or banned for trade?

Are new and current coins being developed on?

Will coins with hard caps be forced to generate more?

 All these things affect how crypto and bitcoin manage in the future. As long as Bitcoin never increases it's limit the alt coins can play the IOU part of the economic structure. Ideally, you'll probably use those coins more than you ever will Bitcoin. And yes. There are places to use these coins as money!

https://www.lifewire.com/big-sites-that-accept-bitcoin-payments-3485965

Some of the coins can be mined, some are pre-mined with it's limit already met, and some don't have actual coin limits. The last two are designed around the idea that as long as the dispensing of the coins is heavily controlled and paced carefully, hyper inflation will not happen. Instead, the circulation of coins will never dry up by the natural and unnatural loss of funds. 

If the government really hates a certain coin it could be banned and possibly the only coin you'll be able to use would be a government issued coin (like Petrol) at that point it's just a digital version of normal money again. Complete with the threat of hyperinflation. 

As long as you are not forced to use just one coin, Bitcoin is always visible and never creates more coins, and inflation remains controlled for the other coins. the outcome of Crypto being worse is on a level of the average person being struck by lightning. 

 The government will Bogart Bitcoin

I won't bullshit you. Some governments will outright try to ban or control crypto currencies. They want the transparency of Blockchain technology to make the occasionally anonymous exchange of money completely transparent and they will very likely ban coins designed to be anonymous so that you can't trade the local coin for Monero and buy something they don't want you to buy.

Nothing can stop your government from being evil. I wasn't created to tell you something that obnoxiously obvious but for the record that is the case. 

Bitcoin is now in the wild. The creator of Bitcoin is effectively a Cryptid (mythical creature that people insist exist) for all intended purposes. Now if all the coins that can be mined fall into the hands of the governments and they hold onto it forever it would restrict the trade of Bitcoin. But unless they sell it there's not much else they can do. You can't take over the blockchain once it's made and it's blueprint is open source. 

The same way people agreed that Bitcoin would be the gold standard another coin can become a gold standard based purely on public agreement and can be designed in such a way to where it functions like bitcoin (although in classic Open Source fashion the modification of the original blueprint is going to be much better.) in the market in the event that government forces actually lock down bitcoin by buying most of it's volume and never selling it. 

You clicked on those hyperlinks on what Open Source is right? Good. So you understand that it's a digital version of public domain. Free software that you can take and modify. You can put modifications for sale but the blueprint always remains free and as long as the blueprint is free more coins can be made. 

They could change that. Make free domain nonexistent and make open source into mandatory shareware with inaccessible blueprints but that would be pretty tyrannical behavior and I would hope that you would assist in an impromptu 1776 reenactment if we were truly at that impasse. 

 You need my phone? To what, invade my privacy?

It's called two factor authentication. It's very common now as a way to secure a password and in the crypto space because the chance of theft can be quite high the only way to prevent it is to give you various keys, a password that you create, and a physical device that the hacker would have to have in order to really get into your account. 

Does that make you feel squeamish? I have a solution for you. Buy a cheap phone and have it activated. Disable all functions that aren't critical to running the phone and sideload the programs onto the phone (the file type for phone installation programs on android devices are called APKs.) rather than install from the app store. When any company asks for your phone as an authentication service they only get this disposable phone number that has no social or security contacts and merely authenticates a security protocol. 

There, I fixed your problem. 

 How long have I been doing this? I'm feeling a bit sleepy. Lets wrap this up. 

Gold is the one world currency and the only way to combat that is with the creation and control of our own personal currencies that only require mass adoption to replace our current economic systems. If your government tries to stop that they can only get away with it as long as you let them. The worry that this will be the nail in the coffin for economic freedom is ignoring the fact that we've already been buried. Now we're digging ourselves out. 

That AI was really peculiar. I cannot tell if it sincerely or farcically liked Hitler. The further east you go the more likely you’ll find units who liked what Hitler did or saw him as a tragic figure. 

 -D

This is my favorite song from the music group Gorillaz. I mean it’s not my all time favorite song but it’s the one from Demon Days that I like the most. Sometimes I’ll just be in my room and sing the song to an audience of myself and no one else. 

I don’t know what this music does to me but I never want it to stop. 

 We're working on an experimental upgraded form of the current minds. Everything from the points to even the face of the site is being changed. We're tasked with developing the prototype and it needs to be kept tight lid until it's ready for release.

 One of the users managed to get their hands on an early prototype design. Luckily it was fragmented so they were unable to see everything we were working on but what was leaked to them the results are already taking place on the site as a crowd sourced project is developed.

 Their actions are harsh on morale and they make a big ruckus about every thing we do to them. We've tried methods of subtle coercion but nothing can really be done.