The alternative to the European Union is not a Europe divided. It is a Europe with strength and confidence.

I wrote a bitcoin-pitch disguised as an article about technology.

Technology Makes You Ungovernable

By taking away tools of oppression and empowering individuals, technology forces people to adopt better norms. Moral progress is primarily caused b...

The most important misunderstanding about quantum computers IMO is the largely implicit idea that companies in 2025 are able to build sufficiently fault resistant systems. Google can’t build a non-racist image generator, or stop itself from ruining its own products, BUT they’ll build a 10 million qbit QC before 2035? Come on… If it were batteries, I might’ve been there with you. Better batteries will be incredibly profitable, there’s a real race there. But compare the hype and the results surrounding SS batteries since 2015, and ask yourself whether it makes sense to be more optimistic WRT a technology that is less useful, less profitable, more esoteric and edgy… I think not. Indeed, I don’t think Shor’s algorithm will be breaking anything in my lifetime, even though I think we’ll have fusion. It’s not pessimism, merely a proper respect for how hard it is to build quantum computers.

The absolute state of Euopean politics these days

Might as well start posting here right away. I mean who are we kidding… Europe’s totally gearing up to shut down X.

In Norway it is now faux pas not only to support Trump, but letting Trump-supporters go about their business. It’s taken on hysterical moralism in the blink of an eye.

I think there is no race. The internet is actually running laps around legacy institutions, and has been for years. It’s just not obvious to everyone because measurements are bad. It’s not about who makes the fewest errors, but who is learning fastest. It’s not about who is biggest, but who is growing fastest. It’s not about who is the most powerful, but who is most flexible. Bitcoin beats banks. Twitter beats universities. Youtube beats school. I think this will only get broad recognition after the fact, when people start sifting through the debree of collapsed fiat institutions. View quoted note →

I don’t care how nice you are, how otherwise ethical and productive and intelligent: If you support censorship, you’re my enemy.

There is nothing I hate more than having to deal with the condescending advice of academic supervisors, whose depthless confidense comes from a much honed ability to dissemble and confuse on basic questions of scientific inquiry. In reality, they’re merely enforcing faux rigour in a cargo cult that has nothing to do with truth seeking or genuine original argumentation. Being right, doing something new, or even just contributing to solving a problem, is frowned upon. You’re supposed to just do the thing, with no ambition at all, and prove that you’re a good boy - willing to spend endless hours doing something that’s pointless, boring and technical. Because that’s what employers like to see. Everyone knows that ideas can cause trouble.

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Challenge: Go to r/phd, read some posts and discussions, come back here and tell me these people are in it for the learning and their love of knowledge. Or even that it’s not all just a status game. You can’t do it, because academia is utterly corrupted, root and stem.

What are the advantages of centralization? We see centralization naturally in times of crisis. Animals have group behaviour protocols for fight/flight situations, as do humans. The defining feature of such situations is that any coordinated action is better than no action, and there are often very few options to choose from. Centralization is wasteful, and often dangerous, in all other situations. When options are many, when inaction may be wisest, when creativity and more knowledge is needed to make good choices. Then you want a proliferation of guessing, testing, criticizing, creation. Now ask yourself: is it a coincidence that everything is constantly framed as a crisis?

Had a 4 hour visit from Norway’s biggest newspaper today, to talk about my work/activism, unschooling and «following the dopamine». My mom wondered if we felt safe that they wouldn’t do a kind of hit piece, and it occurred to me that we’re privileged, even when compared to real celebrities, in that there is nothing they can do to hurt us. See, we both earn our money from our followers on social media, and they generally don’t care what the newspaper says. Indeed, if they do care, I don’t want them as clients, so a hit piece would be a useful filter for me. I think a lot of people don’t appreciate the absolute power that comes from owning a paying audience of actual fans. You become impervious to legacy institution fuckery. Think about it: Does Mr. Beast need youtube as much as youtube needs Mr. Beast? This flower has barely started budding. In 10 years, most legacy institutions will be obviously and ubiquitously seen as second rate. The cheap version. We’re already winning.

In Spain, kids start school the year they turn 3. In Norway, the year they turn 6. From the point of view of Spaniards, all Norwegians practice unschooling from 3-6.

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Had anyone thought about setting up a relay that hosts syllabus in pdf? Would that be yet another good use case for nostr?

Most people have their personal details stored on a bunch of servers, especially from KYC. In a later phase, could cathedral operatives start fucking with your identity? What would you do to stop them? Seems like yet another use case for nostr: verification of identity. Has someone written about this?