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 People I orange pilled in real life.

1. Old boss who was already rich - 5btc (still has it) 
2. ... 
 I think I'm driving my parents away from BTC. I'm all in and it makes them nervous 
 we’ve got 1 DAU but i want you guys to know getwired.app is the new 4chan 
 The dialog box won't close on mobile  
 nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqcu9929 has the FBI called you yet? 
 The killer app of #bitcoin is re-pricing the capital of the world. 
 the price of the world must be 58k 
 Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying "it can’t be done" are always being in... 
 Time is a flat circle huh 
 The age of an npub will be a source of prestige 
 A swarm of nostrbots, as far as the eye can see, all saying "gm"

I have a dream, where ever nostr user can wake up to a "gm" 
 Our version of tiktok onbkarding boosting will just be welcome wagon bots to interact with new users and boost engagement 
 There no reason why I couldn’t get dave to have a personal history with every user it interacts... 
 I did a more Neanderthal implementation with largestral running on my own machine so that you can chat 100% privately when you post public notes and tag the bot

nostr:nprofile1qqsvha79pkj7pjarzwrnzk5apwuv3kc8aj4r75uug5c8kfjc0yumjvcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxl0l8fy 
 Going to work on nodejs nostrdb bindings so I can upgrade nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls7... 
 Delay the response a tad the instant reply is very unsettling 
 Who's gonna build the roads?? 
 books on nostr:

Highlights can reference sentences or paragraphs. Highlights and pages can be sh... 
 Collaborative note taking would be lit for students 
 damus had a spike of 1000+ new downloads yesterday. welcome nostrich hatchlings! 
 Nostlings 
 This might be retarded but its kind of cool.

Take BTCs average return (+60%) and extrapolate 10-20 years.

How many 100s of millions will you have?

The spooky part is wondering how little that buys you 
 They would have lynched Satoshi by now if they could 
 Best talk from nostriga.

IF YOU WANT BTC TO BE MONEY THEN SELL GOODS/SERVICES AND ACCEPT BTC

the vendor dictates the terms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvHagjmRJY&t=1 
 I built a deep document search running off chatgpt.

It basically sends a bunch of documents, page by page, through an LLM and asked it if the query is present. And collects relevant pages via regexs 

I refactored it to run 100% local off llama 3.1 8b (or anything else) and the speed was crazy. 0.5s response times.

With open ai it was like 20s round trip. You can batch/send parallel requests but still doesn't come close to an 8b on the same machine 
 Continuous strips of concrete, how do they work?

Truly one of God's mysteries  
 I'm getting filtered by CSS themes so hard I wanna die 
 At the Bitcoin Conference, people could pay for photographs with politicians. Or pay more for a d... 
 This must be why my dad looks so uncomfortable in all my pictures with him 
 I read this as "simply banned bitcoin" like "wow they banned the whole thing huh?"


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 Am I the only one that actually wants to be in a jury? 😂

To my wife and sister-in-law it was ... 
 From the sidelines, I hope I'd ever "vote" to condemn someone to the state.

You can literally save someone's life 
 The agent-arena relationship:

People are shaped by their environment.
People shape their environment.

What if you had a benevolent AI curating your digital environment?

Filtering for interesting, surprising, [insert characteristic] content. 
 How would you determine "surprising"?

You'd need a way of logging viewed information (vector db)

And comparing new information against it. If the LLM thinks its different enough, add it to your feed and log the new info. 
 Lmao it works. Currently running on 2 3090s. I'll probably leave it on during the day

nostr:nevent1qqs2t0lrrrk0ugryq46hurtt2vn4nd0fcqs6x8j4s3696nwnwemsh7spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyr9l03gd5hsvhgcnsuc448gthrydkplv4gl488z9xpajvkre8xunxqcyqqqqqqgghfkk9 
 The setup is text-gen-webui hosting an api endpoint, and a typescript app connected to a relay monitoring for mentions of the ai npub. 

Any bot tags get piped to the api endpoint and published 
 nostr:npub1hjlev3xn736aqr4ecmjxwwzuu9k523kp5fpz9n862s4lwah2h22sm2zg68 That's an interesting topic... 
 Lmao it works. Currently running on 2 3090s. I'll probably leave it on during the day

nostr:nevent1qqs2t0lrrrk0ugryq46hurtt2vn4nd0fcqs6x8j4s3696nwnwemsh7spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyr9l03gd5hsvhgcnsuc448gthrydkplv4gl488z9xpajvkre8xunxqcyqqqqqqgghfkk9 
 @Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407

I'm writing a paper for pharmacology class on clandestine meth labs. Where should I start? 
 Over the last years I’ve gradually pretty much eliminated seed oils from my diet.

It’s becom... 
 99% of healthy eating boils down to this.

Whole healthy food is lower calorie and more satieting, so you don't overeat

Nearly every health issue is exacerbated by overeating 

Being a healthy weight gets you 80% of the way there 
 Tried kefir for the first time and its basically gogurt for adults 
 Its funny BC Babylon are basically the bad guys used to torment god's chosen blockchain 
 @Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407

How many brothers does sally have? 
 LLMs will become the middle layer between international corporate correspondence  
 Lowkey think the dems with spite sell all their coins before trump gets elected (or killed) 
 "The dollar value of your property went up"

You literally caused that by increasing the dollar supply.

"You owe us money for that"

You stole from us and are using that as a reason to steal more  
 Trying to set up an LLM accessible via nostr and jfc I can't even connect to a relay.

Like I've gotta be doing something fundamentally retarded BC when I added a "log in with nostr" to my web app it worked fine

But literally every relay is failing to connect 
 I think I'm being filtered by the docs.

Other examples are more promising 
 I DONT UNDERSTAND CASHBACK REWARDS

I DONT UNDERSTAND TYING IT TO BITCOIN

WHATS IN IT FOR THEM 
 I love that my feed on Nostr has lulls and surges in user activity. Intentional or not, Nostr con... 
 The pure chronological feed really slows down on the weekends. I kinda dig it, like its a sign to get off my phone 
 You can run poverty quants (q2-ish) on dual 3090s 
 I think the mistake was building before marketing confirmed there was a market  
 Failed marketing my software product. Made it to automate my day job, leaning towards showing it to my boss 
 Oh right that's the other option. Its like a 2-4x speed increase 
 I don't understand bitcoin treasuries.

They're important because now companies have a way to store value instead of 1) investing in worse horses at the glue factory and 2) distributing cash to shareholders

But why is a treasury superior to cash distributions? Shareholders can just buy btc on their own then. This seems net neutral to the company buying btc vs cash distribution (if shareholders then buy btc).

A company could weather a downturn relying on their treasury, but normal companies could issue more stock and raise money that way. Again, feels like a wash between treasury/cash distribution.

There's also the financial engineering side, dependent on interest rates and loans, is this is the main draw?

@preston @LynAlden 
 Make a key backup ritual that happens EVERY single time you make a wallet, even if you are just s... 
 If you need help remembering just send me your keys i'll help you  
 @Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407

How many "r" s are in "strawberry"? 
 Dude, the amount of Kamala ads on YouTube now is fucking vomit inducing. And they don’t let you... 
 Freetube / newpipe fix this 
 The limbo between projects is deeply uncomfortable for me.

But that discomfort is what drives me toward the next project, so in reality its good that I experience it. 
 What does NPC stand for? 

Wrong answers only 👇 
 Nubile Persian Concubine 
 There are a bunch of gems in the anarchist handbook by michael malice.

One was that the "will of the people" was impossible to measure. 

Some might suggest voter turnout but when its a population voting on what to do with *your stuff* you're basically coerced into participating BC if you don't they'll vote away all your stuff

I used to think abstaining was the move but now I'm more sympathetic to people who vote out of essentially self defense  
 I wouldn’t worry about this too much as a fud item. Whatever the Marshalls are selling is likel... 
 Hopefully biden regime spite sells all their coins, we get some cheap SATs, trump starts accumulating 
 What if the meme that says people shouldn't fight "left" vs "right" or "republican" vs "democrats... 
 I don't understand bitcoiners obsession with central bankers. They're just trying to do their jobsbuut every day folks on here are trying to stir up hate against them. Truly despicable behavior 
 I don't think John Wick is a good movie series, but part of me likes them anyway because it's Keanu. 
 The first one elevated actions scenes forever.

There's a night and day difference pre and post John wick. 

Wider shots, less cuts, you can actually see what's going on 
 MDMA assisted therapy officially rejected by the FDA. I genuinely believe that directly correlate... 
 I used to get migraines 24/7. I went to 3 diff neurologists and tried 6 different treatments. Nothing worked, Horrible side effects, one literally made me retarded (I couldn't hold an idea in my head long enough to take notes in class). Their solution was to "just keep taking it"

I did magic mushrooms ONE TIME and it cured my headaches instantly. Oh and God gave me a hug.

Been headache free ever since.

Anyway fuck doctors/medical