You've identified at least two problems (although there are more) that are likely to affect people's acceptance of Bitcoin as an investment, let alone as a currency. As you say, most people are still very cautious about Bitcoin because they think that something like that simply cannot last forever and that there must come a time when it will collapse - and even when they clearly see that such a scenario is increasingly difficult to achieve, they hold on to their old beliefs because it is difficult for them to admit that you, me and some others were right, and they were clearly wrong.

It may sound a little offensive to some, but if someone hasn't been able to understand what Bitcoin is in 15 years, will they ever be able to understand it? Somehow I don't believe that people in general are that unintelligent, but rather that most are heavily influenced by what politicians and media say, which tend to glorify centralist beliefs.

It's rare that ordinary people have the opportunity to be ahead of people with large capital, and Bitcoin was (and still is) just such an opportunity that was offered to them on a golden platter while people like Saylor and companies like BlackRock were publicly saying that Bitcoin was doomed and that it was something only used by criminals. Today, the story has completely turned around, and it is once again shown that those who have money can always turn the game in their favor, only the stakes are much higher today than they were 7-8 years ago.

For all those who invested in BTC 10+ years ago and still haven't sold (most of it), the greatest satisfaction may be that we outsmarted them and that we won't sell them everything they want even if they offer $1 million for BTC

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FYI.  Neither endorsing nor rejecting.

https://ashigaru.rs/news/announcement-whirlpool/

An amusing chat.

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I think currently the AI that we see or at least the public sees is not much more than a very compute hungry parlor trick.

Not saying it doesn't have uses or isn't interesting or won't be a tool that changes the way our world works in time.

Before I retired, one of the last projects I worked on was standing up an AI-based chatbot, both voice and text, for doing some fairly routine but complex scheduling things with our consumers.

It worked, but the places where it really worked were in the areas of the tech that already existed, like voice recognition and simple logic trees.

And when it would go off the rails, it would go off the rails so bad it was partially hilarious, but also a user experience that was basically the worst possible case scenario.

That above sentence is basically a mirror of almost everything that's wrong with AI. Like Hueristic's post up there or nine fingered people or chairs that look like they were designed by MC Escher in a picture that looked real for a split second.

Basically, I think the question is, will AI actually ever be able to cross the chasm that is the uncanny valley? Or will it be stuck in that forever? Because it has no soul. ( I'm expanding the concept of the uncanny valley to include things that aren't humanoid like song lyrics or music or pictures or so many other things, even just narrative texts.) ( And I believe the soul is something that's firewalled by God Himself. We won't be inventing those. But we might be finding out how important they are to what we like to call intelligence.)

At this moment in time, our human brains are getting better at spotting AI produced content faster than AI is getting better at fooling us. Until that flips...

Looking into this further, it seems to me that the Ashigaru team has changed some things about the way this works, and that could be good, but I would tread with an abundance of caution into this one.

also found this thread.  https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5547639.0

Our AI can train it about IQ and also EQ as a humanoid form but they will not inherit SQ, that is something they cannot touch.

That is because what is in our bodies is a creation of God, the quality will be different from human creation, no matter how great humans make their own replicas, they will definitely not resemble humans themselves and have many shortcomings that we can recognize.