As I told you, it is not about *stopping* you. I used to think that, but they won't try to stop you. At all. Unless you piss them off, and then they will simply OBSERVE you, and come after you. I'm only talking about market manipulation, giving favours (inside knowledge) to their allies, and pumping value out of you (make you buy high, and sell low).
Let's don't get into an ego battle here where to admit being wrong is to lose one's manhood.
Market manipulation doesn't stop Bitcoin from being used as the onramp that I described is its critical function in this revolution.
I think that the singularity is unavoidable. Simply because the random algorithm of evolution is less efficient in improving systems than intelligent design.
Re-read my post. I added the text necessary to make you see your stance in implausible. That is if you understand what I have been writing else where about why the speed-of-light must be quantifiable. I am not going to re-explain all that in this thread. We are going off-topic.
For machines to become more important than humans from an evolutionary standpoint (which is all that matters actually in terms of species extinction), then they must become alive and that means they must have a bell curve of attributes and have failure. Because without failure, there isn't existence of life (the past and future will collapse into undifferentiated without friction and imperfection).
Of course, and there's nothing inherently impossible to that. On the contrary. What makes you think that machines won't "come alive", have bell curve distributed attributes and have failure (I'd say that if there's one thing they already have, is exactly that !) ?
So then you can't predict the future of human interaction with machines. Absolutism doomsday predictions requires a total ordering perspective, which can't exist.
For example, humans may incorporate the machines into themselves. We become partially Cyborgs.
We're just an intermediate species. Machines are better.
Better must be quantified with the unknown future. Resiliency is better. It can't be predicted. Learn about Taleb's antifragility.
Since when did you become the omniscient God who has a total order perspective on the universe?