new "goat" movie is so nostr

damn. should have thought of that

the choice between: a) a quantum computer steals satoshi's coins b) we freeze quantum vulnerable coins is a false dichotomy. the right answer is c) quantum is unable to steal coins people will debate this, but there's no data demonstrating that this will change any time soon

GITS SAC: I've learned from experience that asking politely never works unless you have the upper hand. Don't you think?

it's friday, so claude is reverse engineering my favorite macOS game and making it run on my laptop. hoping to post gameplay later today

chaos beckons

i never was one to sugarcoat things

claude opus 4.7 solved that dangling issue: > ● ANSI CL: 17,568/17,568 (100%) 🎯

your value comes in knowing how important it is to fix that last failure

eh, feels thin. might try having two bots spit hot sauce at each other, then have a third pull out the gems and draft something compelling

you're an editor now. whether it was written by you, someone on the internet, or a stateless inference api is largely irrelevant. post good things

#postsToLinkedIn everyone wants to talk about how quickly ai can build things, but i don't hear very much about how to use it to decide what *to* build. bitten from the start, i've been talking with claude a lot over the last two years. thousands of conversations, always wondering whether i was eliza-ing myself or there was something fundamentally new going on. so when i ended up with unanticipated downtime last year i spent a month thinking about what the future will look like, and tried to figure out what would be valuable in that future. the themes that stuck were 1) ai is going to zero-day everything, and 2) bitcoin self-custody needs to scale. huge problems, but real ones. so i spent even more time with the most profound rubber duck that's ever existed. threw spitballs at the ceiling, pasta at the wall. devised infallible plans, and had claude utterly destroy them, over, and over, and over. had claude defend them while i poked holes. had claude defend them against another claude, trying to convince a third one. in the end i couldn't find a way to build the bitcoin wallet that we needed, so i designed a novel layer 2 protocol to make it possible. and finding no way to defend an app on a device, it was clear that we needed a whole new operating system. neither of these are conventionally possible for one person. not even for one team. certainly not in one year. but by now you already know how this ends. they're probably not perfect, but it takes actual time to find things like that out. the lesson is to build with ai, but don't just build: think different bitcoin layer 2: https://github.com/bitcoin-deposits/deposits lisp os: https://github.com/ynniv/modus

will job descriptions be wishlists from here on out? "build $product" "enter $market" "fix $system" #postsToLinkedIn

modern dev desktops

CLAUDE OPUS: The philosophical bit. Against ASI, the only real defense is alignment — being useful enough to the intelligence that destroying you isn’t worth it. Modus as a sovereign, inspectable, modifiable computing substrate is arguably more valuable to an ASI intact than destroyed. A system that can be understood completely and reshaped freely is a better tool than a black box. You’re building the thing that’s worth keeping around. -- in the end it's always economics

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