Haha, I wrote the same thing once. Because both lead back to the same principles. If you're just a fiat Bitcoiner and only see it as an investment, you're just waiting for 'price go up'. But if you see Bitcoin for what it was actually invented for (freedom from banks and their self-inflicted crises, medium of exchange, self-sovereignty, etc.) then those same values should also lead you to Nostr. View quoted note →

AI today is still in a state comparable to MS-DOS in operating systems back in the early 90s. And just like I fully utilized MS-DOS back then (with batch programming for example), we should also push AI to its limits. You can already see a certain potential, but it's still very tedious to put together something that actually helps artists instead of demanding extra resources like time and effort in other forms. It took about 30 years for operating systems (whether Linux or Mac - Windows isn't an OS to me, more like a gaming terminal connected to a central computer in Redmond) to reach a level of comfort that didn't require additional maintenance effort from users beyond updating the system and installed programs. But with AI, it won't take 30 years. AI is literally developing itself exponentially. I don't know exactly what stage research or industry is at, but they'll get agents that take over training the core. These in turn will get another type of agents that train the agents that train the core. This creates an exponential increase. That's why I advise anyone who wants to keep up in the coming years (which is hard enough already) to start working seriously with it now, in this MS-DOS phase, and pay the extra effort it demands today. That's extremely important and necessary.

Okay, looks like I finally got a solid definition of SAIF. And I can tell you, my trilogy is so SAIF. By the way, I'm still reviewing, polishing, smoothing things out. You know what the most time-consuming part of writing a dystopian science fiction novel is? Supporting the mentioned scientific advances and future facts with knowledge that exists today. Making them somewhat believable. That's what Gene Roddenberry did with Star Trek. While George Lucas just made stuff up. (That's why Star Trek is better than Star Wars) Anyway, that's taking up a lot of my time right now. But I want the nerds who read it to think, "Yeah, that makes sense" instead of it being complete fantasy. View quoted note →

Nostr's biggest selling point is that it's ownerless. Not the decentralization, not the Zaps, not even being open source, those are just nice-to-haves. The ownerlessness is its most important feature. What happens on most major platforms? Take X for example. Someone says something against a person, and that person or the people backing them don't like it and want it gone. What do they do? They go to the platform owner, the one who controls all aspects of the platform. And if they push the right buttons, the owner does what they want. Or even voluntarily, makes no difference. Who can you go to if you want something deleted from Nostr? Who exactly? Who can you ask, blackmail or threaten? And then these accounts with huge follower counts whine: "Waah, the owner of this platform deleted all my posts about this or that topic," even tagging him, using his AI to check if it's true ... making a huge drama out of it. Dude, you're one person and the owner is another person. He has house rules, you're just his guest. He can do whatever he wants with his expensive private toy. He's not fulfilling some public service funded by tax dollars. He owes you nothing, you have zero claim to anything from him. People somehow think that once something becomes popular and used by many people, it magically becomes a public good. No, it doesn't. It's still privately owned. Your fault for all flying to him like flies to shit. But that changes nothing, except proving how dumb you are. And if he decides not to be completely fair, he might have to answer to his Creator later, but here on Earth, he can play the despot all he wants. Free will. Your mistake is thinking you're entitled to anything. Here, in this network, you might have a smaller circle, not millions of followers, but also no entitlement issues or systemic injustice. And that's only because there's no owner.

Lol, wired straight into one LN wallet via a Chrome extension. Let's see how long that lasts before X starts the whole cat-and-mouse game and keeps breaking the Zap icon with their updates. View quoted note →

No, akhi. 🤦 You're not just 'paying with your face', you're paying with your right to financial privacy.

Okay, Akhis, the trilogy's all done. All three volumes. It goes by the name "The 313". Muslims know what that means. I went through and reviewed everything one more time, now I'm sending it to three family members to beta-read it and give their feedback. I'll probably incorporate their feedback too, make it even better. Then comes the whole cover and artwork, I'll let @npub1y3zt...qt9r do that. Then translate it to English (I wrote it in German originally), and then it'll go out bilingual, inshallah. #SAIFProject View quoted note →

Okay, that's creative. And useful. Where can I order? View quoted note →

The good and bad about getting some real work done? - You stay out of the loop on all the social media stuff.

So yeah, everyone's talking about ChatGPT-5 and how amazing it's supposed to be... yeah, that's true, but only at the start of a session. I'm in the middle of writing a book (or three) right now, and I use GPT-5 to help me weave plot threads, map them out in bullet points, and tag them with key highlights that can't be forgotten or glossed over. And sometimes this damn AI still hallucinates. Even though it's supposed to be specialized for exactly these kinds of projects. It just invents random bullshit. And the longer the session drags on, the more often it happens. Then I have to keep pulling it back down to earth. It also has these nasty habits you just can't train out of it. Like, it repeats narrative phrases over and over, such as "the humming of the machines" or "it smelled like metal." If I let it, something's humming 40 times across three volumes (a drone, machine, or vehicle) or it smells like metal 50 times. Seriously, I've been trying for three days to break it of using "humming" and "metal smell." And then, when you're building your story bible (that's what you call a book's guideline), you're not just laying out the plot thread, but also locking in stylistic stuff like tone, tense shifts, or rules for male/female narration styles. At the beginning, it handles all that complex info super well. But by the end, it forgets more and more and just starts spewing crap. Although you can do something about this "forgetting" by uploading that story bible to it over and over again. But eventually, even that stops helping. For real, try pushing a tool like this to its limits professionally, and you'll see the hype isn't justified.

Hey @PayPerQ , what's this? This is one of my first prompts at ppq.ai. Deleted a long time ago. Yesterday they showed up about 50 times again in my history. Shouldn't something that's deleted actually stay deleted in a privacy-friendly service?

But not in Islam. We have Ayahs (signs, proof) for those who can think. View quoted note →