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Ok people, I need help. What brand of washer and dryer do you hate, and which do you like/has worked for you. I’m avoiding anything with digital screens because I’ve literally only ever heard and experienced them to be unreliable, unfixable without a “certified technician,” and annoying AF. If anyone has any useful info or experiences with washer/dryer combo feel free to dump your advice below. #asknostr #homestr

It actually makes perfect sense because we are literally BUILDING #Nostr while using #Nostr to organize and find the community to build with. It would be like an early version of GitHub being used to track updates and version history *for GitHub,* because a good tool was finally built to accomplish the task. You are looking at something that necessarily begins with the people who are building and exploring what this protocol can be used for. #Nostr is a beta level startup, not a finished project. It’s just like the earliest people on the internet only talking about the internet and what they could do with it. Of course that’s what they would talk about, literally EVERYTHING is still left to build. It’s not at all as strange as it sounds, it’s just weird *for a corporate product,* but that’s not at all what #nostr is. View quoted note →

Holy crap, I discovered today that people are literally scared of — and wearing masks to protect from — the “Monkey Pox Epidemic.” They are legit scared and believe the media is telling them about something important and relevant to their lives. It’s weird how totally disconnected I am from that dumb shit now. I legit thought it was nothing but memes.

It’s finally fucking happening… 🎉🥳🍻 This has been some shit 😂

Banker: “So what do you need this cash for?” Me: “Money is used to pay for things or store value.”

Free countries don't have central banks.

There are people who claim to support free markets but defend a central bank that price fixes most important price in the economy: -- the price of borrowing and using resources up today at the expense of tomorrow. They then casually dismiss both our astronomical overconsumption & debt problems...

"’Caution you can only sell your soul once — no refunds, no do-overs." — From Knut's new book, Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World

Why I think the idea of “superintelligence” and “AGI” is HEAVILY exaggerated or misunderstood: Assuming we have Ai much smarter than the average human, smarter than the typical PhD (granted smart and “PhD” are not at all equal but for the sake of simplicity). If (or when) this occurs, this will not mean Ai will just be able to invent whatever we need or make all decisions better than anyone else. And I think all we have to do is look at humans to make this simple assessment — • If we asked a physicist and a biologist what was the most important thing to focus our time and resources on, do you suspect the physicist would find something related to physics and the biologist would find something biological? This points to the question of speciality. What an Ai is trained on will determine what and how it values things, and there is no amount of information that will make it perfect and forever aligned with the truth at all times. It will always have a weight toward something, because the question of WHAT to value for training and for dedicating resources is present at all stages. It presupposes that we already have the answer if we assume Ai will just magically come up with it. • in addition, the answer to “where should we devote resources” isn’t static. It changes year to year, month to month, even minute to minute sometimes. It is a question of value and judgement. The only way to sort out this relationship is through trade and competition, denoting the **necessity** of Ai that compete and exchange data and resources. • General intelligence is useful, but extremely inefficient. Generalists are great to have for combining and relating ideas, but specialists still down into the true details and do the dirty work of real building and fine tuning of the world. Specialization isn’t just an economic phenomenon, it’s a physical reality of the universe. It will be the same with Ai, because Ai doesn’t defy universal laws, it’s just a computer program. — A giant, trillion dollar cluster AGI will not be as valuable or produce nearly as good results or decision making capability as 10,000 much smaller and specialized AI’s focused on their own corner and trading resources with others to accomplish their task or test the ideas or paths of progress apparent from their vantage point. Nothing in nature resembles the former. • Intelligence isn’t an omnipotent, unrestricted power. Mental intelligence isn’t the only kind of intelligence. I think as humans we have become deeply arrogant about the fact that we are “so smart” and we have begun to worship our own intelligence in such a way that if we ever imagine something smarter, then it MUST be God and it must be without any limits or flaws at all. Yet there is nothing to suggest this. The “smartest” people today often have the greatest blinders on, and everyone is only as good as the information they have and the values lens through which they see everything. While the intelligence explosion will be shockingly disruptive and revolutionary in many ways, and while I do see it as an extremely likely outcome in the rather near future, I think the vision of a giant, all powerful AGI dropped on the world like a nuclear bomb is increasingly a projection of our own ignorance and arrogance. It simply doesn’t hold water, imo. Covered a lot of these ideas in the 31st episode of Ai Unchained: https://fountain.fm/episode/98UjiXJsa1b2VusbQQur

Humanity is like a lush moss that grows around water. View quoted note →

This is why you have a ritual. And you ALWAYS perform it. YOU, by an order of magnitude, are your greatest threat to losing your BTC. The overwhelming majority of the people who will lose BTC will do so because of lost keys. I have personally dealt with this and trust me, you don’t want this burned into your process by the pain of losing a huge amount of wealth. Do it because Guy told you to. Make a simple, repeatable backup ritual, and DO IT EVERY FUCKING TIME. If your storage method is across the house, if it’s outside in the rain, get off your ass and go get it, and BACKUP YOUR SEED. You’re welcome 😁 View quoted note →

Thought of something today… People like to compare Bluesky and Nostr because they are built around a similar idea. But it’s claimed Bluesky has more users, a few million apparently. But Nostr supposedly only has 100k or so active users. Yet today I went searching for real world events and groups around each. What did I find? Couldn’t find a single event about Bluesky. Yet the first search found numerous conferences, meetups, and other gatherings for #Nostr I think this is actually a decent litmus for telling the difference between an app with some users, and a movement. One is cheap, the other lasts. #Nostr is a movement. We aren’t going anywhere. 🫡

I can’t believe I forgot about these guys again. Even had them on the show to talk about CoinOS and it was the first wallet I ever used that integrated Liquid, Lightning, and Onchain. In fact, it’s how I got my very first L-BTC. It has Lightning address and even Nostr pubkey by default. Pretty dope. Just registered to see the whole flow. If you save it to home screen as a web app it’s super simple flow. This is how simple a wallet should always be, love the extremely minimal design. View quoted note →

Make a key backup ritual that happens EVERY single time you make a wallet, even if you are just screwing around. Do it because it’s simply the rule for when you make a wallet. Every time. If you have to, Imagine you are role playing as a meticulous OCD cypherpunk spy with 5 secret passports and money hidden in the slab under your house. That guy would *always* have a backup, and it would be highly organized. Whatever you need, just DO it. View quoted note →