Looks like he was a bit secretive about  his methods. Maybe if he wouldn’t have led people astray about how he made his lenses they would have recognized him as correct and not been so delayed in learning too.


Open-mindedness is required. But there is also only one true interpretation of a non-subjective event. We must somehow discover that interpretation or risk being led on strange paths.

What would you say about epistemology?


I’m always curious reading what folks on this channel say. I’d love to know what they think about the subject of #epistemology , usually guessing that they haven’t studied it. I would tend to agree with nostr:npub1wpu33h35ufrnxdhwmy82s3l3nk682xm3whvfxepxsjn24t6dnn8q0hku55  - but does spirituality require believing that a photon can think? Or is that somehow the wrong question entirely and why?


It’s been a while, I should have recorded them while listening. I’ll try to remember to update this here if I listen to another one of his things. I just remember a bunch of times in the couple of hours long podcast that while his words seemed give the impression of expertise, he was talking beyond his actual grasp of physics.

Annoyingly people do that all the time. I don’t know why. I’m sure I do too. I figure it happens when you learn enough to explain x % of the world well enough that people agree with you, extend that knowledge from interpolation to extrapolation while creating a model for the world, and then fail to notice that the dots you’re connecting don’t actually connect. This results in creating noise rather than signal.

This wasn’t exactly one of those moments, but i remember having the specific question of why he is so worried about GHz radiation but not worried about the much more energetic THz radiation that every molecules in our bodies continuously emit.


I did almost that. So funny. I think the way it interacts with a tokenized version of each word instead of the actual word causes it to fail at this task. https://image.nostr.build/dd90d905166cfb0bf1850260fb89e8c49d21f3264576a06c8af59c2315f5f590.jpg


It couldn’t even provide a matching sentence


1234 56 7 89012
?


TIL chatGPT 3.5 is horrible at this task


I think it’s impractical and unaffordable because A: anyone who wants to (and has enough money) can write to your “secured” database (lol) and B: even authorized users cannot reuse the PoW.

Initially I thought his idea would make sense with reusable PoW:
Status quo: prove ownership of secret key to change controlled value
Lowery: provide prove ownership of secret to move bitcoin to change controlled value

But then I realized that’s the same thing with more steps.

So if there are no control values that make sense to put behind PoW, then the “pissing contest” argument doesn’t make sense to me either, because having nukes is very much a real threat. Hashing 95% of the network hashes and censoring might be a *slight* inconvenience to the opponent (expected block inclusion in 200 minutes). The dynamics of the game aren’t attractive at all when compared to the incentive to develop a nuclear capability.


Other than his understanding of that process being undeveloped.


I’ve read a part of it after listening to him speak for a few hours (3-6) I was disappointed by the lack of technical depth in the section I read. I currently think his idea sounds better than it really is. I have no idea why he thinks nation states would use bitcoin or similar to secure stuff


Heat producing electronics use shockingly high amounts of power.


Why am I laughing 😂😂


Specifically how is war profitable for the state?


Exhalations was excellent. #bookstr

Yeah I think we have free will. Definitely not 100%. But at least a little more than 0%. Not totally sure of course, but I think we do. It’s worth behaving as if we do even if it doesn’t end up being true like the story points out.

But I think it’s also worth the resulting cognitive dissonance to suspend that belief when looking at other people, at least in part. Doing that provides such an easy way to find more patience and love for them. Especially when they are causing you problems. They are largely acting out programming that they did not choose 🫂


Exactly why I’m anti-AI but not overly hopeful.


Damus user here. What does that link look like?

I’ve been using an iOS shortcut to swap the url over to primal because I like the preview it makes in iMessages.


#gunstr https://image.nostr.build/0753cb85b0184a0ca409179829bbbeb656b377e57fcec70f8a3da466072667c1.jpg


Book recommendation on this topic: “the boy crisis” #bookstr


I think it’s possible that before AI becomes smart enough to know right from wrong, it burns all the energy in the galaxy. Certainly evolution will push it to do just that.


I shouldn’t have said “I can’t seem the images” I should have said “I can see about 2% of the images” 😂


Followed lol


Does yours not look like this?
nostr:note1g4q3tnepnpmmnzv8qtdghvndlysdla6rn045nlg8ss74h8e4jkkqydvx5s


In damus I can’t see the images


I agree. Though I kinda think that’s a bug.


Temperature is often what the setting name is. Maybe always


Oh I totally agree lol. The consistency problem is a settings issue though, it’s intentional behavior and you can fix it if you don’t like it.

But yeah no I mean how long it will last *after* there is a clear value per dollar benefit to AI. That’s not here yet for sure 🫂


I wonder how long this sentiment will hold true after ai thought work is clearly more performant per dollar


Should forget it all and try something where people have voluntary relationships :)


What kind of video? What kind of edits?


Brushing up on my notes here, it looks like the El Salvadoran Supreme Court ruled in 2021 that the previous reading of the constitution of El Salvador, that the president cannot seek reelection, was not true. Instead that the president is able to run for reelection once.

Of course, some people disagree with the Supreme Court on whether one time reelection should be seen as constitutional or not.


It just means “I haven’t yet fathomed ways people can use knowledge about me in way I wouldn’t approve of”


Strange, isn’t it unconstitutional?


Nice. Next step is to be confused for a grandparent 😂🫂


“The definition of intelligence is compression”
Though i think Tesla’s insight here is obsolete.


I’d sell my right click save as for half that. This is not my final offer.


Check out robosats, peach, bisq, or hodl hodl


Not recommended: sell for fiat
Recommended: submit withdrawal to cold storage request


Getting close to 2 years ago. When lightning!


This doesn’t match reality at all. The sun and the moon are both obviously above the earth not on the sides 🤭


EVERY DAY WE NOSTRIN’ https://video.nostr.build/501893fed2403c3e79206633c467cbd92ee711b22f950fcb3e3a1dd3b4f7ab5f.mov


It also looks like you added shadow to the icons. At least, when compared to my current version of Damus. I think I prefer what I have. https://image.nostr.build/305320be0c9cf3aa77e60c21c3d3929049c9305a861ceb7308bf3035292b086f.jpg


I do love that you can follow somebody from the preview. I’ve been I have been wanting to be able to press follow more quickly.


Just stop oil 🤭


Give it a try. You could always sell the gun if you decide doesn’t suit you for minimal net cost. I don’t know what your familiarity with firearms is, but my interactions with people who aren’t very familiar with them is that the unknown creates a lot of unneeded discomfort for them. Similar to people who don’t know how to drive and worry about the safety of driving.

One stat is that concealed carry licensed individuals commit crime at a lower rate than police officers. Depending on who you are I’d bet you’d feel safer walking with some police officers than if they were unarmed people.

I think it’s great when people take the time to prepare themselves to protect themselves and others, and to take that role seriously. It’s mostly a question of the ratio of those people to the baddies in my mind.


Commenting to hear how the convo proceeds. Just in case there are no other responses, I think being armed is essentially the status quo for evil-doers, so newly armed folks will almost entirely be good-doers, making it desirable. But my personal jury isn’t back yet on what the shape of the benefit vs % armed curve looks like and where we are on it.


Dang. That deleted 7 proofs, which removed 19000 sats from my balance. The transactions still show up as real, but when I try to send out 1000 sats (lots less than what my balance should be and about twice what it thinks it should be) it fails! https://image.nostr.build/80433b46fc446483c900d4d3cfc4093127eecda58b086c2fea50007bda6d16c0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c52cc43cdd182aeea359e93a52841ae1b0da150f676a5551a0f96c18060c559c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/481e639071ea0b712287ba5844d59e7eb0d0df5ea8992364d585ed41ef2cc726.jpg


Is it really spam? Maybe someone is trying to pump Nostr new user numbers?


Oh lol sorry, I didn’t mention area per person in **houses**. Basically, we consume more than we did in the past.
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/housing1.png?x91208


Yes 😂


Feels like conceding ground on the battle over whether all money should be freeze-able.

Not sure the benefit to adoption is worth their pending feeling of having been rugged. Let’s just own it. People who do things that we think are bad will use freedom tech too.

Still, it’s fair to point out that the claims of crypto funding are much exaggerated.


This is the mint, maybe it’s down? Is there a way to check if it’s down? I want to press check proofs but it seems like it may delete my nuts unintentionally and then when the mint is up later I won’t have them.

https://legend.lnbits.com/cashu/api/v1/AptDNABNBXv8gpuywhx6NV


I loaded up my enuts wallet with some nuts and then tried to transfer it back via lightning and it’s telling me “token already spent please try again later”

I get the same thing when I try to send ecash

Am I doing something wrong?
#enuts #asknostr nostr:npub1dx5q2el8nd4eh3eg9t2e25fd7zuqg7zxz6ldkc3uzgh66ss2yc6st288sj https://image.nostr.build/54680cb204d7f1d70a4faf6c3812a1b25d487832d535d1dec55711e39c3fe6fe.jpg


Also true


🔧🔫
Though they’d need to capture the KYC records office to pull that off. I wonder if anything like this has happened before.


Another reason is that the number of square meters per person has gone up. At least in the US. Bitcoin for sure is rare though. There are few things as hard to produce as bitcoin. And I think nothing as hard to produce while being so useful.


Nost


He said “non-custodial” not “non-ruggable” lol. I had to think about that one for a minute


Unless we can agree on an objective meaning of “important” I’d say definitionally that you’re right and wrong?

This AI production is probably “important”, being the first AFAIK to win an art competition.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/220902164101-01-thtre-dopra-spatial-ai-generated-art-super-tease.jpg

If AI creates some art - let’s say a painting -depicting the death of the last human, if it were to do that, and broadcasts it across the universe and carves it into each new world it visits, that would certainly meet my criteria for an “important” work.


😂😂

nostr:nevent1qqsq8g2w3ls082278vw8gk4hsk9pqs7k4ejhqsv9h6tek28nj4ege8cprpmhxue69uhhqatzd35kxtnjv4kxz7tfdenju6t0qgspue77xa2pwyr3608ek39ku4rtm98apgk2876dhwcmq4rgtjg3deqrqsqqqqqptluqvm


Today, where even horses are not economical for most heavy-bag-movement-use-cases, we find *people* carrying heavy bags long distances.

I think creativity will be the same. Most of what we think of as economically-relevant “creativity” will be replaced, some will remain, and plenty of economically-independent or tangential creativity will keep being done by humans to scratch the human entertainment / inspiration itch, at least insofar as that itch requires that humans be the scratchers. I’d guess this is a smaller percent of the demand for creativity than the romantics think.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Art_backpacking_kid_hiking_BBaccus_NPS_photo_%2823061005462%29.jpg/450px-Art_backpacking_kid_hiking_BBaccus_NPS_photo_%2823061005462%29.jpg


Hate to see it. Inevitable though. nostr:note19d0684z0tmm59u4pwm6e86qjvj9gq62t0mwx4vredsm75a8fq0cqdqs5el


I hear you and that’s a good point. I think I still disagree. 72B still lets 10% of current txs through! 8T every 20 years would only allow them to bring transactions down to ~2% of current rate. Fees would be &$$&, ecash in a given mint would still be free. I suppose the mining industrial complex would lobby for that money, but we wouldn’t have any boys to immortalize for their sacrificed lives. No football stadium flyovers cuz ASICS are boring. Just data centers consuming loads of electricity, creating relatively few jobs, costing tons. There environmentalists would be absolutely extinct over the amount of CO2 or what have you being pumped into the air/earth Maybe I’m wrong about this.
Oh, hey, “they” might actually leverage it to finally commercialize fusion 😆


Thank you. Led to this

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-is-not-quantum-safe-and-how-we-can-fix-1375242150


That guy is a little kookie imo. Heavy on big sounding stuff. Loose on details. How much do you think they are willing to spend to dos bitcoin? I can’t see them ever even trying knowing that the entire current US budget would still let transactions with faaat stacks of fees slip through.


Why bother pushing back or why bother mining empty blocks?


What would that do? It would cost about 72 billion dollars a year today to cut the tx rate to a tenth of current assuming other miners kept mining. Transactions will still confirm fees will be juicy. Ecash btw on the same mint would be untouched. Would probably explode. Harder for me to say what Lightning would do.

And we’d probably see it coming from a mile away because nobody would be able to buy miners for a long time.


Huh. YouTube was ranked by… some people as being the least “toxic”. Seems like most of the problems with social media are with how people use them.

Someone could write a bot for Nostr that gives people hints on what they could change to meet whatever their goal is. Let’s say their goal is to be X% positive in their replies.

Or it could say “hey, you follow a lot of people who post things that often cause people to ____, consider unfollowing ____ today”


Stuff like this makes me giggle sometimes https://image.nostr.build/e651239de6448bad2f16bd9c44f61596ba8a8e8891f10fb742d1aa42d05c5479.png


I wonder how it looks if you compare across the people’s age. That would let us exclude old people (who have an elevated firearm suicide rate).


I think so, hard to tell though


Value them more = value non-anonymous accounts more on edgy stuff *


Lmk if you’d like a more detailed response, but pressed for time at the moment, it sounds like we are feeling out the tension between social regulation / correlation of thought as a good and a bad thing. I think both parts are there. I just think (maybe too optimistically given the number of Q followers) that we will get used to the fact that nyms haven’t supplied the proof of willingness to get negatively affected by their opinions and therefore should value them more when they say edgy stuff. 🫂

I do think the rise of LLMs wil bring this question to a head. I don’t want to talk to an LLM all day, my mind gradually bending to its hidden agenda. Only real humans please. Preferably respectable ones.


Same 🫂


Yeah I’m sure we’ll anticipate it. But we’d better, otherwise some or all coins would be burned. Sounds like some from what I’m learning here.


Address reuse is rampant haha. I suppose we could post as a new one each time..


#meme #memes #applewatcb https://image.nostr.build/35e1d414f9abf7e18f061fdd0213fee6d9593643a6936823d3d0bb357c97ad49.jpg


Open app to receive dopamine. Er.. I mean zaps. Same thing anyway lol. Dang. Can’t wait for it to be available.


Seems like they died 😥

https://github.com/imperviousai/imp-browser/commits/master


“We assume that the Bitcoin community has agreed on and deployed a quantum-resistant signature scheme, either as a measure of precaution or as a reaction to the appearance of a (fast) QCA. Independent of quantum computing, our protocol can be generally applied to react to the appearance of vulnerabilities rooted in Bitcoin’s public key cryptography. The transition can be implemented as a soft fork using a similar approach as, for example, SegWit “

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180410


Interesting… my understanding was that quantum computers should be able to reverse the elliptic curve signature, so the existence of a signed transaction (and maybe an address) on the chain would make it possible to find the secret key, and therefore find and move all the UTXOs controlled by that private key. Or at least have the information needed to claim to own if we were to see miners reacting by stopping all new transactions other than coinbase ones until it was sorted out.

I’ll have to read some more.

What you’re saying makes sense now, that the P2PKH ones would be first. I was going to say that we’d see Satoshi addresses move first, but maybe they’d avoid those to avoid at
reducing how much they can convert to some other asset (atomic swap?) before people start reacting.

Fascinating to think what their strategy might be… move 1B all at once? Do it slowly over time? Design their work to look like traditional hacking instead?


But for real, I want to know the answer to this question 😆😂 https://video.nostr.build/cee1a8d9287e44b65847a71c3293e2ccdeadba8af1aebaf4af12007a46417d6f.mov


Some great comments here. Allow me to blather a bit.

"By only voicing your dissent anonymously you are reinforcing the frame of the censor"
- by discouraging anonymity you reinforce the power of the censor, not just directly, but also indirectly by causing people to mindlessly self-censor and never realize they might actually believe the forbidden stance if they entertained it.

"So what to make of the fact that the world's first decentralized, peer-to-peer content protocol is filled with anonymous handles? The optimistic view is it's just a remnant of centralized media where someone really could throttle your reach or de-platform you for wrong-think, and anonymity were more necessary."
- Bitcoin is pseudonymous. Nostr is less so. I think humans have a flaw, and that is that we have a hard time loving people in the real world that we know think differently than us. Sometimes we kill them. Sometimes we simply don't hire them. That's why we have laws to protect freedom of speech. Laws that don't prevent people from being hired by a private company because of wrong think. A lawsuit is so much more messy than just being a nym and not having to deal with it at all. Anonymity tempers those weakness.

"creativity-killing self-censorship resulting therefrom"
- yeah once the net effect on creativity is 50/50 maybe we start discouraging nym use. For now, it doesn't even close. Anecdotally, a while ago I said something to a friend that could easily have gotten me cancelled in the recent environment. For 24 hours I stressed over whether he would go to the presses. I watch as my mind convinced myself I didn't mean it. No wait, i did! I couldn't have.. In the end I had no idea whether the gears of social pressure and possible exile had changed my mind, or whether I had actually discovered my error.

What data could we use to inform whether we should be discouraging or encouraging nym use?


When you copied the answers, but changed them a little so the teacher wouldn’t know


from hurting us because oh wait they never arrive fast enough


It’s pretty. Wonder what it feels like. Other than feeling like freedom ofc


Alternate: this is what Kiev would look like if Russia had air dominance


Buying bitcoin with your whole paycheck is close to the same thing, no?


Me realizing this was a reply and not a note and that I was accidentally hijacking a convo that actually started with the goal of not hijacking another convo: https://image.nostr.build/7b11bc6623e725ba8c2ad636c7822b897fef157a975cdaf55b233773b15cee02.gif


What’s your view on the relative reliability of oral vs written transmission?


Pro-con list on deleting the draft altogether…


When you say a “slew of funds” are you meaning to say won’t be all UTXOs, all at once?


Just had a thought.. If we don’t update bitcoin to post quantum cryptography before it happens, it’s all gone. Our secret keys *are * our identity. There is no hard form that returns our money. Is this true? #asknostr #bitcoin #quantum


I didn’t notice why that we are beyond. Any particular stand out to you as something we are past?


Haha. Well use conjoined utxos when you want to keep to yourself. Post your transaction when you want people to know. Better yet, don’t since posting it doesn’t actually mean much unless the Ferrari seller also wants it to be public. 🫂


added to my list!


When Nostr book club?

Monthly with reviews, ideas, discussion, spaces??


#bookstr


But actually, we need a semi-log plot here since population growths are inherently exponential.


Apparently this https://image.nostr.build/5ad0b7a02ba76706ab15d438d383669a1e653528e437e98db8308ca7b416189f.jpg


#Nostr has ruined me. Every time I sign up for a new thing now I think “so why do you need to know anything about me?”


They must have mirrored it in post.
Even still, it’s sooo cool though!


This is how i feel asking to pay with bitcoin everywhere I go lol.

nostr:note1kkf53hcnc3h7u6dkrfdwhchzz87ha86mw7yhkydzd97ru889s8fs6gfrgg


There’s a spot for it!


Nailed it. Plus eth and XRP and of course, normal usd


I’m gunna read it, but I’m also gonna bet fiat that it’s a stable coin usd 😂


5. Memes


Yeah. They are super smart, but this is 💯


Maybe then we could tell everyone about whatever the latest airdrop is once and all at the same time! 😆😭


@JackDonaghy


Artist 😂🤣


It’s been making it really hard for me to ask everyone how they are doing 😂


All is a lot. Certainly many


The Gaza port has been under a blockage sickle 2007. I wonder if they are letting refuges out by sea today

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Gaza


Lol. Well answered. Her question made me face palm. Nice decision to focus on fees, naming some big guys (Mastercard Visa) and returning the point to helping the little guys out.

No need to get into all the other reasons her whole frame of mind is wrong haha


“Whatever this is, I’m pro none of it”
#thenostatesolution


The current info indicates that the beheading children claim was incorrect.


Seems like Filou agrees?


What do people use for signing on desktop? On iOS?


💯

I wonder how many people would pitch in to pay for a training run that’s uncensored. https://image.nostr.build/55261a5909c182c6349fe36eaab88900b3e099ad1c3c1fe48096fd3eaba68d7b.jpg


It’s also important to note that everyone’s consumption is waaaaay up


Both of these groups are possessed of it. Without it, would their problem magically go away? Seems likely


The IDF has informed the United Nations that people living north of a certain point in Gaza need to evacuate in the next 24 hours.

This is 1.1 million people.

Will their home or neighborhood still be there when they get back? Will they get a chance to go back? Where will they go? Egypt will not let them in.

The IDF says it is too dangerous to stay.

Imagine if this was happening to you.


Yeah hold on I have a few Apple Watch replacements


And lol yeah. But he will figure the rest out with time.


Oh dang. If he wants to DCA them awesome. Yeah, makes sense!


Rather, conditional wrongs can make a conditional right*


However conditional wrongs can


I’d say just send him enough to use Lightning first rather than onchain first. Lightning is as good as cash app but it’s custodial!


Tell me more! They have a fee problem? What’s better?


Maybe then it’s on an exchange. Coinbase for example.

Hate to say it, but the bitcoin could be so many places… of course you’ll be the best judge, but if it is truly a small amount, then I’m sure time spent getting the music would be more cathartic 🫂


Phoenix!


Or the @ symbol followed by the npub he showed in his video!


I’m guessing this who you meant to tag :)
nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p

If you’re unfamiliar with tagging - you type the @ symbol, followed by their name (without a space before the name)

So I typed “@“ and then immediately “Matth” and by then his account showed up for me to select. I follow him already so it was easy. You could also type “@ followed by BitcoinUniversity to pull his account up for tagging.


This happened to me once, no idea why it can get so stuck. It’s like midway through spinning the spool they put glue in the filament instead of PLA.


I know him. He’s me!


What does “decolonized land” even mean?


Lol. The shallow enough depth for anyone to make the whole thing swing wildly.


The world is beautiful. Also tragic. But also beautiful.


GL 🫡


“If a company with this privacy policy were found to be storing messages and IP addresses of users, it would be in violation of its own policy. The policy explicitly states that it does not log IP addresses and emphasizes the privacy and security of user data. Users would likely lose trust in the company, and it could face legal consequences depending on the jurisdiction and the extent of the breach.” - AI

Haha have you been putting your nsec lots of places? I’d rather trust my own devices than this server to follow through when it promises it will delete what I in there.

I mean some people might not even believe in following through on such promises (if that person sees this they know who they are ;)

Simple X is kinda weird isn’t it. I guess I don’t know what happens if sometime tries to store messages now and crack later on it like they could with your DMs


Kinda funny that they just exclude coinjoined funds.

If they were to treat conjoined UTXOs as invalid, they probably would do the same for atomic swap with Monero UTXOs. Though.. maybe those swaps are less obvious?


Huh, doesn’t this let the host of the site identify some secret information and associate it two IP addresses? Why not send an encrypted DM or even better a simplex message?


Oh wow, looks like we currently do a zap every 15s on average.
https://stats.nostr.band/


Nostr only Lightning has to be doing like 20 transactions per second.


Nako
Satty
Bitzy
Asic


The thing I wish I had in VS code most from PyCharm is the ability to right click then “b” to compare selected text (or the whole file if no text is selected) with the clipboard *side by side*

Anyone know how to do this in VS code?

#asknostr #vscode #pycharm #coding


I’d love to hear other’s thoughts on these articles. They both clarified for me some of the things going on, the relationship between the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Netenyahu’s government.

 #hamas #israel


Realistic and currently available I think. Though for I’d love to read a breakdown how a large actor would proceed with laundering lets say a stack of 50k BTC


That sounds adjacent to quite a few different approaches. Is this part of a specific religion or something else that i could use as a key word when searching?

I’m wondering about questions like whether there is a body of work on how the epistemology you’re referring to suggests dealing with for example the well-studied human biases etc.


Love it. I can see the genuine passion that comes through.

The “Spirit of truth” that you refer to, is there somewhere I read more about what you’re referring to? I have an idea, but don’t want to 1. Impose too much of you in asking for a long explanation haha 2. Assume my notion is right


“I will not sign” makes sense to me. “I will and I’ll break it” challenges me haha. I’ll review the thread to see which you’re on 🫂


Love these convos. Well this one isn’t going perfectly, it can be really hard to though. I’d love to see a continuation of the convo here! What’s the difference in epistemic foundation that leads both of you feel the other is wrong? 🫂


Can you give an example of a decentralized project?


Legend


Takes a bit to forging a way into Nostr and connect with new people at the same time. I saw you cuz nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f  reposted this note. PoW would be a cool way to start. For now we all just gotta help find folks and connect them up. Welcome 🫂🫂🫂


Huh. What you’re thinking feels like exploring new territory for me.

Help me out with these questions.
- Do you think the existence of people who think it’s right to enforce IP means they are insane?
- If people exist who believe in enforcing IP and are sane exist, would this prove you wrong about whether such contracts should be enforced?
- How would you interpret losing the lawsuit?
 - Do you believe that no contract can validly specify anything about future actions of an individual, or only future actions relating to the treatment of information learned?


Sorry, what is the Brooklyn bridge case?

How does this “no sane person” argument scale to people who actually have different moral beliefs than you about the contract you’re making? Give any contract example, someone will disagree on whether it’s actually binding. What do you do when they break it?


“Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love.”

— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/24503b2c76576c01d744bc51c23a62ec37c0ef117819f5898d9f00129649b98e.jpg


This really could solve the whole who gets which part of Israel / Palestine.. Plus… given how messed up it is already, maybe it’s one of the best places to try something different. Something that could be better. nostr:note1dk6f97sn0d9rxj2lqfc2sh5afdjll2gr3ru77yc8p9x6ehzruqpqttfhsk


Are you sure you have your electricity price right?

Have you explored buying some non-kyc via other means?


It’s uncomfortable, but this is absolutely right.


Haha idk what that is. Will have to research. I just meant to reference the active political discussion scene in tea houses around the time of the american revolution


Brilliant 😂😂😂


I completely agree.

It’s in these online discussions, like in a cozy teahouse chat, where revolutions can start brewing.

For those who believe in individual liberty, individual thought should be a reason to celebrate.

It seems Twitter’s everlasting tweets might encourage some fixed thinking. That’s why I appreciate Nostr. There’s room to think broadly and refine ideas, partly because the relays could easily forget what you’ve said, partly because of nsec exposure risk.


Sorry for the Twitter link, but for reference here is the link in to check whether it gets deleted

https://x.com/Yakovolf/status/1711197903765774773?s=20


Wow. The “bring back the guillotine” bans are an interesting backdrop.


Here are my 2 sats [811476] worth. Most people are mostly right about their side and mostly wrong about the other. Layer that with the activities I’d murders, racists, rapists, and widespread fear to get the whole situation.

We need more 🫂 and less “I will tell you what to do”

Book recommendation: Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel #bookstr


Looks like Instagram data was used to train it how to draw women 😂


Bug report. I tried sending a DM.to nostr:npub1qnm52v9xahnty3e3h9mt3eu0k3y75c05plcsu0vxngcrp38dey0sqwn5hz but didn’t get a reply. :) 🫂


Because it varies by method, let’s say specifically picking up a CD at the local music store


Exactly where/how is that agreement made?


Sure, I don’t think I agree with the broader claims you’re making yet. But I do agree with the narrow one that selling info is technically possible.

RE: “If I just start producing your product commercially without a deal with you, then I'm operating on the fraudulent (non-voluntary) side of things.”
——This must be assuming there’s a contract between you and the other party - right? Like some valid way that you’ve told them you won’t use their work.


Haha. Well help me out here. It feels like that undermines the possibility of contracting.


Does this mean that before contracting with you I need to know whether you believe in the morality of the contract?


When you say “isn’t sellable” do you mean “is immoral to sell”?

Seems like this may be what’s driving the disagreement.

I’d agree with nostr:npub1y02f89rpykzhqmrjjz99uwgyl9gh06sg0vpjmklu62rzxpx8mxps7zfvpl that it’s technically possible to exchange money for an object with 0s and 1s burned into it like a CD, or for that matter a promise to connect computers together and tickle each other’s wires just right so the recipient ends up with 1s and 0s in all the correct places.


I’d argue it’s not an agreement to “own” the information, rather to do or not do certain things in the future.

So in the example, there is obviously no agreement/obligation. And claiming IP doesn’t change that.

But are you nostr:npub1s277u5rww60te98w9umz6p7pjcxuus96cegdsf4y978qcqvu8jtq88dsym saying that one cannot choose to commit themselves to a future course of action?


People should probably do what they say they will do.

But to clarify, I’d suggest specifically discussing the case where a person claims IP, and you happen to have the information on your computer with no foul play involved (maybe let’s say they sold you their old computer but never wiped the drive)


They are questioning the validity of imposing such a license


I’m not saying I would have. Just thinking through what the dynamic is as the civilians get increasingly involved.


Would you not then have dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?


One who goes outside the norm for rules of engagement.


I pick both 🫂
(And obviously not the groups in power of either)


Just removing ambiguity, nostr:npub1l2h50te8u00qd6plx3hudn82p24lcafqmqhlayxy3h7dwsxxnj4q28n2lz your turn 😂


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Step one: get kinda cold
Step two: sit motionless in the sun wearing dark clothes
Step three: pleasure overload 🌞🫂


I’d say that depends entirely on how smart/flexible you want it to be.

I think your example looks fairly simple. Some people might expect it to work with much more complicated emails. Building it to either fail gracefully or succeed on those more complicated ones would be hard.

But just that example, I think you could it in an iOS shortcut in an hour or two.


Breaking this task down:
Verify contact information - ❌
Compose email - ✅
Open email application - ❌
Send email - ❌

But if you write your own code those could all be ✅


Related: the hedonic treadmill


Oh and duh, I could redeem them if they aren’t available for ln withdrawal


What exactly happens? Wouldn’t they show as pending withdrawal, maybe until I Lightning out of the mint and back in?


There certainly is a lot of good that we want to maintain. I’m at a loss for exactly how to do it.

But at the very least,  getting more people to realize how far they are from theoretical maximum freedom, to realize the social contract is a theoretical construct and not a reality, to think about whether they think Hobbes was right, that seems like a productive start.


One reason I expect people to change is that people adapt to their environment. The broken institutions we have now are a part of our environment. Take those away and we would readapt to the better environment.


I agree. For one we need to stop dehumanizing the other so much. And I don’t know if we can do that without a more widely shared set of values and ethics


Definitely the root of some of the evils


Y


It’s tempting to say that property rights are not a real thing and should not be considered to be.

I’d definitely say that property rights in an absolute sense (like you seem to allude to) don’t really exist. There’s always a state that has a higher level of claim. And then, at the international level it’s all very vague. Like the United States claims it owns New York - California. But in what sense is that claim legitimate?


This, and the fact that real grievances exist for both sides + tribalism.


Haven’t been following. What is he saying that leads to totalitarianism?


My heart goes out to the mothers and fathers of both sides who are losing their children in the eastern end of the Mediterranean. War sucks indeed. I don’t know the answers, just what I wish happened ☮🫂 #thenostatesolution


Shackleton


Must not be 20% of all asset types.. must be 20% of all crypto asset value. That’s crazy high.


(4-24 minutes + block mining delay) * 2

It just occurred to me that lighting and ecash would work perfectly well despite the delay.

But I think there will be a long period where the majority of humans live in earth orbit. (More than the sum of those on earth and those outside of earth’s gravity well). There is just so much volume and sunlight power once you go 3d.


Both I guess, but I meant land, speaking hypothetically about Mars, moon, and further settlements.


Land is infinite too 🌌


What needs to happen to make this look parabolic again? 🤔 Not that it necessarily needs to https://image.nostr.build/11a9ac320ff3991456fa61a9055c62c757896e0e58b8721ee8fe0dd55ffbf26a.png


Similar question with surveillance capitalism too.


Late!


And this ladies and gentlemen is what the laggard looks like 😜


Plus decentralization


What’s behind your optimism that we won’t become the horse? If it does only that then I agree it will be similar to those past horizon.

Are we operating on different assumptions of what the AI feature horizon is? I’m anticipating it increasing human productivity until it doesn’t need us, and then simply outcompeting us at all thought-based work so as to make human thought work a novelty yes, but not a significant part of the economy. I would agree that it will increase earth’s productivity, but that‘s a goal that I’d say isn’t worth maximizing at the expense of human productivity / population.


Industry - sentient or otherwise - no longer uses use horses anymore because their productivity per unit cost is lower than machines. They were never smart enough to produce more than brute force value. In small numbers they are able to earn their keep as entertainment sources and pets.

Their population is largely function of their ability to provide utility in those two domains, plus wild numbers we protect in response to mostly our aesthetic tastes.

What will become of humans once our productivity per unit cost is significantly lower than AI? This could come soon. If it comes, it could easily be the one of the most important issues humans have ever faced. Keep in mind that your normalcy bias is shouting at you that that it will never happen.


Awesome


Reconnected with an old friend and visited with family 🫂


This is the scary thing. It’s a bit Hobbesian


I think there’s truth to this. Though I’d never mindfully use the words “low value people”


The obvious way is keeping track of a lot longer prompt. But what are you noticing? Smarter?


This would be great. I’d love it if we went another step further too. If every person got to choose which services they did or didn’t pay for. Want to send money to Ukraine? Great. Support the hungry? Not buy F-35s? Great. Assuming humans can be cool, we could then also do away with having the majority be the overlords of the minority.


Yep I’ve heard this too. Everyone wonders “is that person qualified or are they a diversify hire”. Really changes how it feels when they (and no matter what everyone will at some point) mess up.


Let's list some of PayPal's value-adds and compare to bitcoin. Let's make PayPal disappear!

1. **Security:** PayPal uses advanced encryption and fraud detection tools to keep your financial information safe.

2. **Buyer Protection:** PayPal offers a Buyer Protection program that can help resolve issues with purchases made using PayPal.

3. **Seller Protection:** Sellers can benefit from Seller Protection, which can help protect them from certain fraudulent chargebacks and unauthorized transactions.

4. **One-Touch Checkout:** PayPal's One Touch feature allows users to make purchases with a single click, streamlining the checkout process.

5. **PayPal Credit:** Users can apply for PayPal Credit, a digital credit line that can be used for online purchases and offers special financing options.

6. **PayPal Business Tools:** PayPal provides various tools and solutions for businesses, including payment processing, invoicing, and integration options for websites and apps.

7. **Charitable Giving:** PayPal makes it easy to donate to charities and causes online.

8. **Currency Conversion:** PayPal offers competitive currency conversion rates for international transactions.

9. **Mobile App:** The PayPal mobile app allows users to manage their accounts, send money, and make purchases on the go.

10. **PayPal.me:** Users can create a personalized PayPal.me link to make it easy for others to send them money.

11. **Financial Insights:** PayPal provides users with insights into their spending and transactions, helping them manage their finances.

12. **Integration with Online Marketplaces:** PayPal is commonly accepted on many e-commerce platforms and marketplaces, making it easy for buyers and sellers to transact.

1. Privacy by default > trying hard to keep private details safe.
2. Final settlement means bitcoin really doesn't solve this. And you kinda need private details to provide this service.
3. Bitcoin's final settlement solves this.
4. Bitcoin solves this
5. Bitcoin won't ever give you credit to buy stuff
6. Obviously won't ever do this with bitcoin, but BTC pay server can do a lot of it
7. All the charity needs do is post an address. It'd be cool if they reuse the address.
8. LOL
9. There are plenty of bitcoin wallets and apps
10. This can also be done
11. What app would you use for this?
12. Easy to do. Nodeless.io and others! nostr:note1uccg9czs95f8r9243ejy2e85y39gcdanw4tu5u9p98v0e4sqmkfs30v8y3


Seems to me the Bitcoiners primarily on Nostr DGAF about their reach, follower count, and profit model.

The folks, plebs and influencers alike, are here for the right reasons.

Damn it's good to be early on shit.


Compare npub with the one his Twitter account posted. And remember that his Twitter could be compromised. :)

https://x.com/Snowden/status/1617626864016822274?s=20


This is the way 😂


Exactly what I was thinking


This was it. I turned block popups off and it worked. Then I turned it back on and it was back to not working.


Both working on desktop currently


Oh interesting. This happens in multiple mobile browsers for bitcoin *and* credit card. There’s a surprise.


Could be it. It did fail on the first time I tried though. I opened it a bunch of times in a row on desktop (about 10) as fast as I could and it always worked. After a couple minutes trying on the phone it failed again.


This is true for all the 3 credit options


On mobile it spins for a second and gives up, leaving me still at the purchase-credits page. I did try long pressing to copy link, looks like it’s not that kind of button.


Buying credits with bitcoin got me to the nodeless page on desktop but not mobile


At first I thought this was a display bug, but after checking more I think I’m just overly sensitive to any possible issue because I’m in debug mode 😂 https://image.nostr.build/f0a115c82507cb508b7c4d9e113cbdee2544b3b7f69936735f9d5a9d22f25bea.jpg


Some images look fine, others look like the above, almost like it needs more time to flesh out the image fully. I’m not a heavy stable diffusion user so maybe this is expected behavior.


May have been because it was opening in Safari, manually copying the verify link and pasting into chrome seems to have worked.


I tried to make an image before verifying my email.
Error message told me what to do
Clicked the verify link and got this https://image.nostr.build/80dad4a396470bfdc47833050d9d08d7172f28e0d56cb7e0ec96d5b0d0a6ca3e.jpg


Is the email really needed?

The terms and conditions still had boilerplate [Your AI Website Name] in it in a couple places. Makes one wonder if it’s entirely accurate.


I guess I thought the script allowed us to do something that Damus disallowed. Sort of like a hack, to where apple was satisfied the app wasn’t designed to do it. Guess not. Bummer.


Why only TestFlight?


Oh I see. Yeah I’d say you definitely can. You can send a QR code image, or an image with the QR code and a bunch more stuff like details on the coupon. Lots of businesses do similar.


Feel better soon! 🫂


Likely it’s just that snort hasn’t heard about your note from any relays yet when you’re checking, and doesn’t tell itself about your note for some reason. I don’t use snort so I’m guessing.

Does it show up later? Do you have a specific one you’d like me to check?


Here is a resource

https://bolt12.org/


When are you noticing it’s missing? Right after? Does it re-appear later? Which Nostr app are you using?


What’s in the QR code? A lightning invoice? If so then not currently, thought bolt 12 will enable this.


Man.. I want to support the destroy-scam-centers economy


^
#asknostr
#morality


Is it discriminatory to hire the smartest candidate?

How does doing so compare to other kinds of discrimination hiring managers sometimes employ? If you do think it’s discriminatory, why would you say we don’t talk about it much?


Taken! Not by me


Yesss! 🫂


One thing I love about this is that it solves gold’s purity determination problem by making it even harder to assay 😂


You can do it 🫂🫂🫂


I have and they are awesome ❤


Enjoy. It’s fun


What’s up with primal?


When bitcoin lightning wallet?


“At the same time, a woman is seen crossing the street into oncoming traffic when a driver in the dark-colored car hits her. The impact throws her into the path of the self-driving car and she became pinned underneath it.

The driver of the other car, left the scene.

By the time firefighter arrived, no one else was around.”🤔

Also “Rescuers were able to contact the vehicle operator through the voice controls inside the robo-taxi. The vehicle was disabled to a stop.” - did it not immediately stop? 🤔


Love it. Hope it does. But not any time soon 😅


It’s crazy how much has changed.
Also, then: “Not everything you see on the internet is true”
Now: “not every answer chatGPT gives is true, depending on the question, every answer it gives could be false”


Should UTXOs be consolidated before coinjoin or after? My risk averse side thinks doing it after would be better. Does it change the fees?


I’m confused about how they are transcribing the audio and creating the embeddings if it’s “private by design”


I was going to say the same thing. Let me know if you cover it in an episode. Also - where is your podcast?


Thinking more, it will always be possible to store data on top of actively used one-time use memory. As long as the previous values are known. Doing this will impair device functionality to a greater or lesser extent depending on the register.

Maybe there is a way to burn any unused registers, and check the ones that don’t cause obvious failures on boot.
If attackers can write to enough registers to store the key, and they can recover the device, then they can get they key whether the device is bricked in the process or not. Comparisons to the wrench attack make this seem ok though.


Is there a way to export my bookmarks from #Damus ? I want to back it up. #asknostr


Can we burn all the one time memory?


We talk about how much it costs to attack the bitcoin network.  We hear from nostr:npub1fxqdxndvmt708gjy8nkt5jxf6nqsu8t5446559ry46suujqlj92qcqsl06  that prices fall to the marginal cost of production applies to the product of changing what people think and do as well. If you do nothing to raise the price, then it will fall all the way to just about the lowest theoretical price of changing a human.. imagine advertisers creating an LLM that nearly perfectly predicts what you’ll say, and tests millions of sales pitches until it finds one that you individually will always say yes to. Let’s raise the price of attacking the human network.


That’s right. Only those close to the sticker printer get the new load of them.


Plus they can’t use the stickers to buy illicit items 🤣


😂
Yeah, “people should” or “you should” or “she should” in the mandatory sense… I like the idea of avoiding. 🫂


They spent the money needed to earn but missed out on the payout of a bit over 6 and a half BTC. Ouch.


Are you telling me what I should do? 😜


Not sure it’s an attack exactly? But it will be used to attack. Similar to allegations that crimes are being paid for via bitcoin.


Much convince. Wow sincere. Tbh I think abortion is much harder an issue than guns.


Try this on the version you have before trying the TestFlight version. I think it may work

nostr:note1lpfk9q2c06xnfu5d6gd0r385cuwjlka2ue88ywkvg6u3wz2nt83qdn6s4x


zaps and merch sales have covered half of damus payroll this month. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who keeps zapping and supporting Damus when they can 🫂

I have a new respect for people trying to bootstrap companies. Hopefully I can keep building freedom tech as long as possible… but it ain’t a walk in the park 😅


Congrats 🫂🫂🫂


Awesome! I look forward to it!


Wish I could, and I appreciate the invite 🫂


😂
We need them here though. We need everyone here 🫂


As long as you can pay them in esteem and in being part of the vision, they’ll work for lower hourly rates than the equivalents from your competition.


Sorry, lots of questions - I’m super curious though 😅

😂 noo you know what I mean. I mean where are *you* coming from when you say it? To what level would you go to achieve it? What level of force are we talking about using? Is there anything short of 6.2Q (let’s say 1% short) that would be satisfactory? For example a purely zero sum / justice based approach could argue that using equal force to the original evils until payment is made in full is justifiable. More likely people believe that as long as 51% of US citizens agree on making that next partial payment, then it’s ok to use credible threat of substantial violence to force the other 49 to pay too.

Looking at the statement from a different angle, it seems that another possible way is to never do anything redress the wrong. So what does it mean to not acknowledge that as a *possible* outcome rather than just a bad outcome?

Another question I have is since “way” is a means to an end, what is the end that reparations are the only way to achieve?


I really don’t like the term “influencer”.

To the extent that I can avoid it, I want to not be “influenced” by some random, famous person’s career ambitions and the philosophical bent they have adopted in order to achieve those ambitions. Seems like this task is maybe impossible, but at least it’s probably a good start to avoid people who don’t see a problem with personally profiting on their ability to change the future actions of their audience. nostr:note1hjq75c4aq4x8nvaccpqsmx9rf97pjq8nkzs3syltmmazq5qn282qulys3a


When you say “the only way” what does that mean?


The world is a richer place because of the diversity of voices and ideas that freedom of speech allows.

Thanks to all the devs and larger nostr community for creating a space where ideas can be shared freely.

I hope the voices on this platform will ultimately help create movements that make the world a more open and equitable place rather than create division or spread hatred and ignorance.


Yuk


Same! Such a difficult issue.  Seems like we need a culture that values less fancy stuff and more fixing problems and helping people in need. Not sure how else we can start to make headway on this stuff 🫂🫂🫂


I also wonder if that calculation assumes that white Americans only are the beneficiaries, and never black Americans. And whether foreigners are beneficiaries too. I would guess black Americans are to a degree and same with people in other countries?


Not that according to one set of calculations it wouldn’t set the scales even again, but sadly, if I had to guess I would say this will never happen. I don’t think average people’s will for absolute justice strong enough. And when giving many lifetimes of income, we really should think about all the other fixing of injustices money needs to also go, maybe we multiply this figure by x to find what really needs to be distributed.

Question, do you know whether the above already paid reparations and this number used the same calculation methodology? I’d guess no? Maybe we can have an intermediate goal of all achieving partial payments to all deserving groups using some agreeable, single methodology. Same % for every group?


Not letting perfection get in the way of the good, maybe what we can do is rally around everyone in a certain month giving what they think is right to the black Americans they know.


Yes please!


Yes for bitcoin! Every time I hear about reparations I just feel hopeless that it’s a good idea but impossible to actually do. The questions in my mind that make it feel like it would never actually work are: Is it tied to a specific DNA fraction that comes from slaves? Or tied to how strongly people identify as a certain group? Should reparations be paid next to the descendants of the first people’s whose land we live on? After how many years are reparations for past horrific injustice no longer due. Why government enforced reparations instead of voluntarily giving to the poor?

Maybe answers exist to these questions that I haven’t seen yet!


Maybe capitalism married to a culture that rewards giving to the poor more than buying fancy stuff.


😂
I wanna know how many watts of heat those fans are adding, how long it takes to melt the ice, and how much water that is


FYI I’m getting an error that the zap address is invalid 🫂


+ guns, a garden, and.. and.. low goals maybe?


“Incitement to violence, including incitement to racial violence, is not protected by the First Amendment. This is a very narrow exception; mere advocacy of violence cannot be made criminal “except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Three elements must be met: (1) the speaker must intend to cause violence, (2) he or she must intend that the violence occur immediately, and (3) the violence must be likely to occur immediately.”

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that the speaker didn’t 1, 2, or 3.


Why is everyone saying it? I haven’t followed well enough, on its face it seems like a call to execute some possibly specific subset of leaders - which would fall under calls to violence which is one of the few types of illegal speech in pro-free-speech countries.


Is there a black market for V-bucks that might give an idea for true value?


I only really looked into Estonia. Love those low rates. Makes me feel optimistic that people can be cool, and that maybe someday we could actually live without police or laws.


Sounds awesome. Mind sharing some local violent and non-violent crime rates? Is it a small town where everyone knows everyone?

I hope and tend to believe that with the right societal stories, everyone can live that way.


Age restricted like alcohol? Any other restrictions?


Same question here lol


I aspire to knowing truth, which requires minimizing ideological inertia haha. It’s hard. Feel free to critique the update 🫂


I dunno, going back to the missile comment, I would trust you to have a gun, but I’m much less likely to trust you to carry a big red button. And it’s not even mostly about your potentially pressing the button, it’s the whole line of failure points between the button and the missile silo.

Somewhere in between gun and missile silo there’s a line that I think I’d probably want to enforce.

But I agree. You having a gun is a very low bar for trust. People who use guns or other means to take from others their health, property should be dealt with the right way - but yeah I don’t have a problem with the response being called a principle.

Not sure what you mean by “the only reason people break rules is because they exist”. I would guess that people will keep doing cocaine in places that legalize it, and they will also keep stealing cars post legalization. Maybe there’s an interpretation of the statement as a truism that I understand: rules that don’t exist definitionally aren’t “broken”?


I’m convinced, I’ll update it 🫂


X hypothetical pain, Y hypothetical utility, Z hypothetical difficulty in enforcing a rule about it

In this case maybe we could say x is huge, y is small, and z is high on an absolute scale, but low compared 59 x


What do you mean? By legitimate I just mean in a “real” way. I’m not completely convinced there is such a way of giving me that right, but I mostly mean to recognize here that if you were to “imply your consent” i would view it as definitely not consent.


The great power of #mindfulness, is that it can connect you with a sense of well being that is intrinsic to simply being #conscious in each moment.

And this is a deeper discovery than finding “meaning” in one’s life.

#grownostr #plebchain

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO457AA?


Just missed it. Beautiful work 🫂


Is it possible you’re actually trusting a bit more than you think? Do you run a node? Do you know where the logic is that ensures the transactions your node verifies are in accordance with your desires and not someone else’s? Have you personally checked it? Is there any code on your computer than might cause it to be lying to you about what you see when you read that vs what it actually executes when validating blocks?

If you haven’t, checked these, then why?

I’m all for avoiding blind trust, I think that’s part of understanding the world. I also think it’s impossible.  Devastatingly.

So we end up with some version of a trust oneself/masses/experts heuristic for a given situation.

If you haven’t read it, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes is excellent on this topic. #bookstr


To what extent do they work on those people? Or do they just make the rest of us brave enough to come together to put them in a cage?


Noooooo 😂😂😂😂😂 Never have I wanted a Nostr delete feature more than now lol. I just wanted a graph and it was the best one I found. Man.. need a little more due diligence next time :)


All the miners are just guessing randomly. And that is precisely what makes it so nicely decentralized. Sometimes everyone is unlucky for a while instead of everyone except for one.


http://www.andygranowitz.com/assets/images/2016-block-times.png

http://www.andygranowitz.com/2018/04/12/empirical-explanation-craig-wright-selfish-mining-bitcoin-bet.html


Any recent news on what is happening with this? I saw that Missouri has proposed state amendment that would ban local gun laws


I’m sorry. 🫂


I’m not saying people can’t choose for themselves.

I’m just saying if people rely on their own data collection and analysis, well people are pretty horrible doing that for topics like health. We are aware of so many logical fallacies and biases that humans predictably fall for. For example, we rarely actually take into account the survivorship bias in health gossip we hear. Our confirmation bias, availability heuristic, etc… That kind of stuff takes a properly set up and repeated study.

Not sure what you mean by who said statistics is the best answer. Statistics “is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data” and like I’ve said above people tend to have poor intuitions on how to transform observations into conclusions.

But I’m only talking about people who desire to have reliable conclusions. Folks who don’t (though I think I’ve never met one) don’t need to worry about it.


The face wouldn’t change things for me. Edge cases.. yeah. I’m looking forward to having the ability to run my own filter settings on Nostr.

Maybe someday we will be able to labels what we see for fine tuning, then buy training time with other anonymous people who have similar opinions on where the line is.


Yes


Alternative response: in most conversations mostly an inkblot test. What people associate with the mark of the beast seems to be much more correlated with what they fear than what might the scripture may actually be talking about.


Have you gotten a group chat going on it with normies? I’m kind of afraid to try.


Genes are just self-selecting themselves out of the pool.


I’d say that would mostly work for simple questions: should I eat donuts all day every day to stay fit. What about complicated questions? Does the covid vaccine provide net benefit? How can someone even observe something like this when the don’t have their own random control group? And what do we do with the high likelihood that they are unfamiliar with statistics?


What exactly do you mean here?


It sounds like you don’t trust them because of not their expertise, but rather because of their profit incentive? If not by trusting experts, how do you do compensate for the people’s tendency to come to wildly wrong opinions?


Big if true. Unfortunately, not true.


If Damus videos have been a bother to you, try this! Thanks nostr:npub1wtuh24gpuxjyvnmjwlvxzg8k0elhasagfmmgz0x8vp4ltcy8ples54e7js nostr:note1g92shh60zrp6lrlun97v0xzp0yvzalqs4j8tlaaeave8kn9wuuqsf3n3n4


Wildly misunderstood


Is there a way to open the linked media in a note in our phone browser?

In-damus video controls are currently missing, so watching longer videos with the ability to pause or skip forward/backward doesn’t work. Maybe an iOS shortcut could do this easily?


Re: it’s not about the gun, it’s about the person holding it nostr:note1ee3z29e403n99wf967q4apn2k4tchkgnylrk5uwwscqmfd2yhyqsmkgx3z


I disagree with the following statement, just thinking through what I think they would say “it’s about every tool people are using that causes a disproportionate amount of pain and suffering compared the utility it provides and the difficulty of enforcing a rule around that tool. Rocks cause a very small amount of suffering, have a huge amount of utility, and are impossible to regulate. Guns cause a large amount of suffering, have limited utility, and are relatively easy to regulate”


Open street maps*


Yes but is there a specific they and a specific lie you’re referring to? I’m wondering what they are lying about and how we know they know they are lying.


How would you compare this to posting links


Yeah I think this is a good point. We should expect behavior to be different. Burning problems will still be solved, but sure some marginal ones won’t be. That might be worth the freedom that a no IP world would enjoy. And that world might even be better off in other ways.

Also, people do work for fame and glory in addition to money, and those other two ain’t going anywhere


So let’s assume for a moment that their men are rational actors that independently wish to defend their land and their religious freedom but lack food and weapons to do so. Are you against sending them weapons and food to help them with their desire?


Hmm, I believe patents aren’t used for trade secrets like the above example for exactly that reason. They are only used when there is a likelihood that people are going to figure it out the secret in the process of making money on it. If obfuscation is possible, it works better than patents.


How would a society enforcing idea-ownership solved this problem?


This sounds like an argument against the idea of intellectual property, right? These guys were just protecting their innovations. What am I missing? Believing IP is real property or not wouldn’t result in them sharing their trade secrets would they?


Somehow I did and missed what you mean. Can you share an example?


It will *be* society


AGI imo


What kind of ideas will die with them?

Seems like more likely the ideas wouldn’t be had in the first place.


On the one hand as a user, I’d love the memory augmentation that would come from having an AI helping me with and recording everything I do. Imagine the benefits such an assistant would give its owner. But would I truly be the owner? And the externality would be all the recording of people around me :/


How would you feel knowing that the robot assistants that follow your friends around are observing you passively and cataloging your words and emotional states in an long-lasting database?


Not JIF, that’s for sure 😅


Shouldn’t need to scan it if you’ve pressed the copy button. Once you do, paste should work. Have you done each of those?


21/23 mortality rate??


Boo. Thanks for the stuff you do


Ouch! How does something like that even happen?


Want


I always love to ask people why they believe. The epistemology of first person experiences with God is very interesting to me. Thank you for sharing some of the details. And yeah, it’s like meditation.. people who have never experienced some of these things for themselves have a hard time believing they would think differently if they had. Maybe radically differently. Such a self is so hard to imagine that people just assume it doesn’t exist.

I wish they could consider though the impact of finding good reasons to believe they have been seen by (and now maybe I’m assuming details of your experience you didn’t share but..) and are important to a divine and divinely-loving being.


On a individual level, why do you believe?


Glad to hear it.. I was feeling stressed for you


Oh typos…
The way* our current society works*
…
lifetime that one* wouldn’t


If we think the war our current society work is so important, and if we recognize that we use coercion as a tool to get it, then how much of our lifetime labor would we personally offer to contribute to aliens who showed up with credible promises of voluntarism as a product - something that would magically wave away all the problems of adopting voluntarism. A year? More? Less? I would propose that the smallest value that the answer would take is equal to the time they will spend earning money for taxes in their lifetime that they wouldn’t need to pay in this virtuous, equally functional voluntarist world. It would go up from there as a function of the perceived moral value of living in a non-coercive society.


I wonder if pets appreciate the fact that they don’t have to worry about being eaten


🤣🤣
Need to add beans to the list 😂


8.2m 🤣


Way to get enough: work or charity.


I don’t think it’s possible. As long as they can work, someone will part then some amount of bitcoin, which then sets the price of the doctor’s services


I’m interested in the answer to this. Hopefully paid relays are on there?


Common sense is overrated


Sending 🫡


I’m in Lebanon orange pilling an NGO called Rebirth Beirut.

With the collapse of the energy grid they raise money to restore street and traffic lights.

Do me a solid and send some sats to this QR code to show them how badass #bitcoin  is.

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Don’t know why, but I’m feeling no stress and a lot of love for everyone out there. 🫂🫂🫂
May you be well.


Because what I really want in a driver is someone who loves freedom and good vibes 🤙


We need Nostruber


How much of this is the growth of living space per person?


I was close to a combat vet one who had a panic attack hearing the sound of someone firing an AK-47 at a nearby firing range. I wonder if future vets will have PTSD hearing the sound of drones or seeing then fly over.


Are all settings changeable by these scripts? Do more clients than just Damus support them? How could I read the script?


Weird.. my numbers match


I tried to find the conversation about these nostrscripts and couldn’t find them. Seems like there is only this one, and it tweaks internal settings in Damus only - are they more broad then that?


Did you get an answer? Try pasting it somewhere else to make sure it should paste. Which app are you on?


It’s a magnification device to see small stuff better 🫂


Bitcoin not crypto amigo :)


People who have run, tried to run, or helped someone else run a bitcoin node. We’re there any steps to setting it up that you remember being difficult? I’m whether there’s a way to ease common frustrations.


I think they don’t


So strange that Damus wasn’t working for you. But hey, one of the benefits of having many clients out there is that you can switch any time you want! I’m glad to hear things are working now!


When I look at your profile, I can see that you’re following 1 new person, which means you’ve succeeded at adding one person!

Maybe the issue is that you’re pressing it twice when you should be once?

I’m on an older version of Damus (to preserve zaps) but I don’t see “unfollowing”. Just follow unfollow.


Hear here


Tons of work, but awesome


Way to go!


I enjoyed it. She’s reluctant to trust Bitcoin for sure but man is she almost there. Good job walking that fine line. Once she gets to finally go down the rabbit hole she’ll enjoy rewatching and seeing how you held back kindly.

Please share her BTC address. Imagine if we could zap her lol


Makes me want to visit!