-Develop goals that cause goosebumps. -Friends that energize. -A lover that produces butterflies. -A mission that makes it almost impossible to sleep and irresistible to wake up. -Feel these fireworks in your mind and use that excitement as your compass!

Played around with what’s available in the open-source, decentralized AI space. Found Hugging Face, which seemed to be user friendly enough. So asked it to help locate research studies pertaining to toxicity of a certain plant. It came back with two studies published in reputable journals. I couldn’t locate either reference, so, further asked for exact citation info. It responded with paper title, the journal date, Volume, issue, pages and even the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the research papers. Hmm…..still couldn’t locate these papers. So went to the journals directly and manually looked up the pages that were given me. The papers found had nothing to do with the plant or toxicity issues that I asked about. So confronted the AI with this discrepancy. It then verified my conclusion that the research I asked for did not exist in these locations and went on to apologize for any confusion that occurred and explained that it must have been hallucinating. Hmmm…I had heard a little bit about this phenomenon. However, it got me to wonder if this was an aspect of intelligence that I didn’t fully appreciate before. Authorities and experts often have answers to questions asked of them, even though plenty are extrapolations (educated guesses, without being stated as so) that aren’t always accurate. So AI seems to be doing the same… OK, AI is new, it’s learning. However, that it doubled-down and went so far as to provide a fictitious citation including a bogus DOI to support its original claim is disturbing. OK, to be fair, human authorities and experts also often double-down when caught in a fabrication. So, I guess the real difference between human and artificial intelligence (at this point in evolution) is that when caught fabricating info, AI at least states “I’m sorry, I was hallucinating”

Weird-ass Bug of the Week Picking purple basil, not typically a hazardous pursuit, unless one of these guys is munching away on the underside of the leaf. This Saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimulea), looking more like a cartoon cat wearing sunglasses that has been run-over, is covered in venomous hairs. Accidentally brushing your hand against one really CENTERS ONE’S ATTENTION 🥵🤯 for about 15 min…..not recommended…. #permaculture #bugs @DefiantDandelion @Ben @Jose @npub1fc25...ma7d @SWIM @Colby Serpa

An attempt to communicate with leaf-cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) via scent, not to decimate my food forest trees in Costa Rica…..making progress…I think…. @Jose @Ben #permaculture

Here at the Bitcoin Freedom Festival in Uvita Costa Rica! Woohoo! Bitcoin is happening here big time! Exciting!

Just orange-pilled Dani “The German Meat Guy” at the Tinamaste farmers market and set him up with the Bitcoin Jungle wallet. Now you can use Bitcoin to buy his quality meat products at farmers markets throughout Bitcoin Jungle. Woohoo!

Hey Nostrica’s, if you find yourself in the Bitcoin Jungle area of Costa Rica ahead of the conference. More precisely, March 10-12 and appreciate moving towards a more decentralized, regenerative lifestyle you might want to check out the upcoming Cob Oven Workshop at EcoMaste, Tinamaste (discount for using bitcoin). Details at https://www.ecomaste.com/workshops