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npub18lzl...ugm3 1 year ago
I'm experimenting with a new podcast where we discuss a host of intriguing ideas from the edge. Here's the first episode with satellite.earth founder @Stuart Bowman!
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Hivemind: Ideas from the Edge • Evolution and Nostr with Stu Bowman (Founder, Satellite.earth) • Listen on Fountain
Stu and Max jam on a wide range of topics including: Terence McKenna, the world of language, evolution, Web of Trust, and the future of Nostr. At l...
 We discuss a wide range of topics including: Terence McKenna, the world of language, evolution, Web of Trust, and the future of Nostr. At least two big ideas really clicked for me: 1) Nostr as the substrate for digital evolution (i.e. forking with checkpoints) and 2) Nostr as an API for market intelligence. This was a ton of fun to make! I hope to do this regularly with Stu and many other interesting folks. Feedback and ideas for future episodes welcome 🙏 ⚡

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david david@bitcoinpark.com 1 year ago
Language and Web of Trust 🧐 Sounds right up my alley! 😃 👉🏻 pgf.tech 👈🏻 using webs of trust to curate decentralized digital languages bc language can be modeled as a series of pseudo-arbitrary questions (what symbols do we use to represent things?), and WoT is the ideal tool to answer pseudo-arbitrary questions in a decentralized fashion (ask your trusted frens what symbol they use for something and calculate a weighted average to settle on an answer)
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aljaz aljaz@nostr.si 1 year ago
@npub18lzl...ugm3 and @Stuart Bowman touch privacy and radical honesty but I think they missed a crucial point - radical honesty requires anonymity and privacy. They are not the opposite sides of one coin - one requires the other, at least in this stage of human society. One could argue that assassination markets, or their product - assassination politics is the purest expression of radical honesty. View quoted note →
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Stuart Bowman _@satellite.earth 1 year ago
> radical honesty requires anonymity and privacy In a political context, yes. When dealing with strangers, security is a precondition for honesty. Maybe it's a bit more complex when considering the interpersonal or even "intra-personal" dimension.
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npub18lzl...ugm3 1 year ago
Yea these are both great points. Honesty with "others" requires a real choice, for which privacy seems a necessary precondition. Being honest with oneself is tougher. But that may also require the option of being private until someone is ready to confront "oneself"
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