Reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels. They were written in the 50s-60s and its pretty astounding how he seems to have predicted how empire decline comes with a loss of technical and scientific expertise and society falls into anarchy as no-one can think from first principles anymore. Everyone becomes obsessed with social and political discourse because they have nothing to inspire them and the institutions eventually break down due to in-fighting. Sounds familiar

Anyone have any advice on how to easily buy BTC peer-to-peer in the UK?

The UK FCA now requires you to state that you won't be allocating more than 10% of your net worth to crypto before buying from a UK-regulated exchange. Why does this feel like I'm in section 6102 of the library...

Sanity wins out in the end. Stay humble and stack sats.

John Vervaeke would like to work with Elon Musk at X AI to develop benevolent AGI. (See 1:38 - 7:33 in this video: For those who don't know, John is a cognitive scientist at the forefront of the study of wisdom, mysticism and transcendent experience. If this happens, it could greatly improve our chances of net getting annihilated by a paperclip maximiser. It could also mean the development of "Silicon Sages" that can help humanity gain the collective wisdom needed to solve some of our biggest civilizational problems.

#zapathon

What is the purpose of a #zapathon?

We have at our disposal the full freedom tech stack. Bitcoin, Lighting, Fedimint, Nostr. What a time to be alive

Hey I'm new here. Not sure why my posts and followers disappear after I log out and back in. Anyone know?