I'm finding it an interesting thought experiment to try to encapsulate worldviews according to the smallest possible set of books that encompasses those views. If I could sum up the overall sentiment of my favorite profiles on Nostr, it would probably best be represented by The Sovereign Individual. I've never read it though. The book I've read that is most closely emulated by what I'm seeing on Nostr is "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson. Superintelligence is the next book on my to-read list that I believe speaks directly to the big questions about the implications of what we're building on Nostr by combining humans, cryptography, AI, and digital currency. In subtle ways, the Bible itself and related apocryphal works seem to me to be increasingly relevant to the current times and understanding the process that got us here, the development of morality, law, and economy.

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If I could summarize sovereign individual down to a single comment it might be ‘nation states are in their twilight and are doomed to die..individual humans who utilize technology to their advantage will not only win, they’ll lead, and they’ll inevitably flourish’

Which to me, is #bitcoin

Which to me, is#nostr

I appreciate that! PV

I have a few Stephenson titles in my library but have finished none of them yet lol:

Snow crash

Reamde

Diamond age

Too much good material

Let's not leave out Cryptonomicon! I want to read Seveneves and Termination Shock too

Such a prolific writer 💜

He's a shitcoiner though

lol isn’t most people I suppose!!

INCLUDING ELON MUSK FFS

Seveneves is brilliant, esp part one. TBF, have enjoyed every one of his books that I have read

This is the most beautiful thing I've read this week.

PV Tanuki, appreciate u

I sincerely have hope for the future but damn the world is turning dark very quickly

#bitcoin #nostr

It is. But my fellow plebs and places like these give me hope that not all is lost. We can chance the world with persistency.

Agree with your statement very much

#nostr is an incredibly incredibly powerful protocol enabling decentralized social networks

FOSS, p2p, users own and control their data and reputation with public key cryptography

It’s nothing short of revolutionary