Censorship resistance is necessarily traded off with privacy? You cannot have both? This is the first I've heard of this.

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Guy's Roundtable_002 - Conbase, Control, The Nature of Privacy, and Decentralized Mining

Bitcoin Audible · Episode

On a Bitcoin standard, the volatility is always zero. One BTC is always valued at one BTC. That will never change.

The more times that I revisit my formulation of rights, the more confident I am in it. I truly believe I have added an essential component to this understanding, which was missing previously. That element is 'mutual recognition', a specialization of 'reciprocity'. The latter concept is also helpful in understanding the proper response to violation of rights.

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Revisiting the definition of rights - There is no box

My derivation of rights provides the most consistent definition when applied to abortion, self-defense, criminal justice, and the death penalty.

I use Signal to chat with some acquaintances. I don't really believe it is secure in terms of privacy. It may implement some form of encryption. It may offer some form of authentication and data integrity. These measures may be an improvement over other messaging technologies. However, I don't remember ever generating a private key to use in Signal. I don't have custody of a private key that I control and keep safe and private. Therefore, I can only assume, not my keys, not my privacy.

We have come to understand, chiefly through the teachings of government education, that 'science' means the expert opinions espoused by an authority with more clout than you. I wonder if the style of how science is taught plays a role. Every science course spends a lot of time on the history and the scientists credited with discoveries. This puts the focus on persons more so than the method and the substance of each discovery. Putting aside shoulders and giants that are disregarded by venerating specific individuals, this style of teaching conditions the mind to believe what is told by people anointed with special mystique. In this way, we train a society of non-player characters. To train scientific minds, we must not tell them to believe what they are told. It is not even enough to demonstrate and have students reproduce well-known experiments. When we teach Newton, we need to finish with an apology that although he got it mostly right, his understanding was incomplete, and thus ultimately not entirely correct. Same for Einstein. Same for Bohr. Same for Schrodinger. Same for everyone and everything we know today. Everything we think we know in science today is in fact incorrect at the extreme limits of our understanding. Observations disagree with our best theories, and our best scientists cannot yet explain them. The emphasis of our training must be to teach scientists to not be married to our incomplete and incorrect knowledge passed on to us by our predecessors and the current crop of experts. Science is about seeking the truth, not about being told the truth. One of the most valuable ideas I didn't fully appreciate until only a few years ago listening to Sean Carroll's "Biggest Ideas in the Universe" series of videos was the distinction between an "effective theory" and a "fundamental theory". Almost everything we know is an effective theory. This means the theory is only useful within some narrow range of conditions. To teach the theory without that caveat is to lie by omission. Almost everything science students are taught suffers from lying by omission. That's why I often quip that everything we know today is wrong or everything we know today is a lie. I'd like to take the formal definition of "effective theory" and dress it down to business casual. I am reminded of second and third year in engineering Skule™, where most students learn for the first time the real-world relationship between theory and practice. First year is occupied entirely by maths-and-sciences 101. Most students have not ever built anything of their own design (without someone telling them how) at that point in their life. Even during first year, students start to see a difference in mentality between professors from math and science faculties as compared to engineering faculties. It was my first exposure to the routine application of "first order approximation", whenever any calculation became difficult. Engineering profs literally did this at every turn, and the 'good enough' quality of this spun my head. It was quick and dirty, and yet presented with the same mathematical formalism and rigor. Most importantly it was effective. Engineering is all about applying theory, but knowing when and how to apply rules of thumb for practical work. Eye opening was digital circuits. One would imagine that logic gates that only compute based on 1 (5v) and 0 (ground) are pretty well-behaved. A student naively building circuits will quickly realize that this so-called digital world is a mess of analog madness. WTF are capacitance, resistance, and inductance doing in this binary world? What do you mean I have to put a capacitor across the ground and 5v pin? Madness! Holy shit did the theory ever lie by omission. Reality is 'complicated'.

This is an interesting perspective: "Is illegal Bitcoin a good thing?" Legitimization of Bitcoin allows tentacles of regulatory capture and state involvement to infiltrate the ecosystem. When BTC is illegal, state influence is excluded, and BTC participant are properly incentivized to build resilience and protect the network. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1knFLL9TPuLtGVdSRtDEF7?si=xPM_jnwIRUqZ4du4cWIdqQ&t=3839&pi=-VAnffLERDa94

Seeing a sudden surge of interest in Nostr as Twitter users are posting their npubs. Is the Telegram CEO arrest opening eyes to the vulnerability of centralized platforms?

@Guy Swann the point of disagreement with Rand on the topic of faith actually pertain to a concept called Benevolent Universe Premise. Rational optimism is BUP: the belief without needing proof that the universe is available to be understood by our reasoning minds; and beneficial to us to the extent that we are able to control it according to such understanding. https://open.spotify.com/episode/68Lu0Al64awfUNpXbpHu0p?si=E3Rk5O46Tx-RtjAr8I7X9A

I google-searched "holesail peer to peer" and it found nothing relevant. Using brave search found it as the first result along with holepunch-related pages. Looks like Google is down-ranking or censoring this.

Does keet have a directory of rooms for users to find interesting rooms to join?

When I do `pear run pear://keet` on windows, it just sits there forever making no progress. Is it supposed to do something??? https://docs.pears.com/guides/getting-started

I feel like I wrote the summary for this episode on personal AI in 2022, before @Guy Swann published this episode.

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Revisiting personal assistant - There is no box

In 2017, I wrote: I find myself being more diligent taking notes and then distilling knowledge from my notes into articles for others. I used to be...

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Bitcoiners want Bitcoin to become the new de facto money. They do NOT want the government to treat Bitcoin as money. Otherwise, financial regulations like KYC/AML and money transmitter licensing will be enforced, which no Bitcoiner should build technology to comply with. Florida appellate court rules that Bitcoin is money.

Trouble in Paradise: Florida Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin is Money Transmission

Summary and analysis of a Florida circuit court

@TheGuySwann the term you are looking for is "embedding" in AI Unchained for inserting a block of content into a context window so that you can submit a prompt to operate on that content.

Fuck that Ben guy. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fayedwePqCWpmIRt6ipH6?si=ElGxpDHWRjek8bVZYStxYA

My internal communication just now. «Following up on the topic of autonomous operations, AO roughly refers to a service running mostly without human intervention. [MyProduct] can push this envelope further by setting a more ambitious goal. By standardizing the patterns for SOPs and interfaces (workflows, observability), and by formalizing them toward machine precision, we can enable the next generation. It becomes trainable for an LLM. First, gen AI can assist SRE to answer questions. Then, it can do the SRE's job almost completely, once given sufficient agency. That should be our end-point to set a vision that can excite.»

Everyone on Nostr are excited about Blossom Drive. It's a minimalist in every way. Entirely different than what I envisioned as the basis for decentralized storage. Perhaps this basic building block is what we need at the base layer. Torrents above it?

Because of the friction of integrating digital services to fiat payment systems, including PCI-DSS and KYC/AML, the ease of integrating to Lightning might be what pushes Bitcoin into the mainstream. Unleashed.chat is the first service that only accepts Bitcoin/Lightning because of this ease of integration.

I asked Unleashed.chat about what topics I talk about. That is not me. Do I have a doppelganger?

Bookmarking this ep on executive function using the prefrontal cortex for how to evolve toward AGI.

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How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health | Dr. Mark D'Esposito

Huberman Lab · Episode