Coming back around to this, I admit I had to fall back on the same "step away till I can give it the time it deserves" response.

Because I tend to give interesting discussions/propositions some genuine in-depth thought, I often miss out in a world that typically emphasizes (and rewards!) the quick answer rather that the optimal answer.

Casting randomly about, a bit...

One of my earliest hopes on the old chain, in 2017, was the hope of making money with crypto, but in the sense that I wanted to use crypto to trade and make money within a global crypto-based marketplacer that was close to trustless, costless and borderless... like a cross between early eBay and Craigslist and Fiverr, but denominated in crypto as a true peer-to-peer marketplace.

Of course, that never came about, due to the instability caused by aforesaid Wall Street Greed. After all, it's hard to sell a T-shirt or a piece of handcraft when the fiat-equivalent price fluctuates 50% from day to day, and we're FAR to early in the game that people aren't still converting to fiat, at least in their heads. My hope in the Steemit/Hive context was that the conjoined token/stable(ish)coin pair would make it possible... but, alas, folks were far to focused on "number go up" and who wants to actually work for money if you can get it free, through capital appreciation?

You're exactly right: people don't like to admit they were wrong or made mistakes... in fact, more often it strikes me they double down and dig in their heels, typically to everyone's detriment, not just their own!

"Something I love to discuss about AI is how it has happened the totally opposite way most people thought it would."

Like the meme-ish truism of wondering why we have AI to create our writing and music, but there's no AI to wash my dishes and do my laundry?

I don't believe in the whole "AI is evil" doomsayer reality; I believe some people are (perhaps inadvertently?) evil by profiting from the purveyance of fear and loathing from looking at eternal least-desirable outcomes and treating them like reality.

I have several friends whose lives have actually been saved, thanks to AI medical diagnostics: AI has the capacity to access and aggregate truly vast amounts of medical data, records, white papers and more in a matter of seconds, and deliver plausible outcomes it would take an MD or PA years to sift through. It's one thing to go to a specialist, but AI gives you a whole room full of specialists at your fingertips.

Of course, the ancient GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out) principle applies to AI, as much as to anything. And the more weight we give garbage quality input, the more garbage AI will likely return to us.

Finally, if we don't connect before, a Happy New Year to you!