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Neal
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Author of “Modern Chains.” Catholic. Husband. Father of two. Former Army Officer, AH-64 Pilot. BS in Art, Literature and Philosophy from the US Military Academy. MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary.
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
What’s the inverse of the Turing Test? Where a human is no rationally impotent they are indistinguishable from a bot? #asknostr
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
The most terrifying truth is that your life does matter, immensly. What you choose to do, how you act, impacts you, impacts us all. Stop shitting in pool. Wake the fuck up. If fiat has hollowed you out, get some #bitcoin and get back in the game of building civilization.
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
Yeah, the word being twisted about in the entire Knots Core debate is really “money” “Money” is purposed, directed, teleological. Pretending a monetary protocol is really a “neutral protocol” is absurd at best and malicious at worst. I wrote about how Aristotle recognized money cannot be amoral in my book. What was true then remains true today.
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
If you’re training your core without some rotation, you’re not training your core. #mobility #6pack #Proof-of-work
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
These are especially relevant questions to me too, and one of the reasons I am on nostr. It seems like you are pulling on the strings, teasing out the differences between protocol vs platform. With that distinction in our minds, I think we are using “the internet” to mean both when it is only a protocol. “Why publish on a platform?” is the current situation on X or meta etc. And I can’t think of a principled reason why anyone should, other than that’s where people are. Nostr gives us the ability to act, to publish, to speak without constraints, but the only way people can connect with each other is by building the relationships organically: no algo. Which is a different set of obstacles, but i think what we build here in nostr will last. We have to meet people where they are if we are to carry messages to them. So “why publish on a platform?” the question is “to what end?”
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hylomorphic 3 months ago
If I don’t consciously priortize posting, I just won’t. Hard to tell if that’s something I should lean into or back away from 🤣
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hylomorphic 4 months ago
Money is an emergent property of immutable human nature. That is the reason ethics is to economics, what physics is to engineering. #bitcoin #nostr
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hylomorphic 4 months ago
On this labor day, remember that when the government spends dollars printed by the Fed, that act extracts the productive fruit of your labor. That is formal slavery. Unless you have bitcoin, you are a slave. That’s not poetic liscence. Just the cold hard truth. Happy Labor Day!! 🤣 #bitcoin #nostr #ModernChains
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hylomorphic 4 months ago
The question that will define this era: can we sacrafice our egos to seize victory? #bitcoin #nostr
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hylomorphic 4 months ago
When two individuals trade, they each have to bring value they created in reality to the table. They persuade the other with the value they offer and consent to trade When the government takes freshly printed money and trades, all they bring to the table is coercion and threat of force. There is no value inside freshly printed money. #bitcoin #nostr
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hylomorphic 4 months ago
We all had latent human potential before #bitcoin. Bitcoin is not purpose. It’s just a tool, a means to help actualize you as a dignified human being. #nostr