i feel i need to explain a principle i discovered during my research into manipulation techniques:

when you find yourself being provoked to try and resolve absurd and/or irrational equations, you should be suspicious that someone is trying to confuse you.

confusion is one of the core attack types used to weaken your mind.

these attacks are at the root of the flare-ups you see now and then on social media where someone says something almost true, but somehow flawed, and then everyone starts fighting with each other because they are sure they can make sense out of it.

just put the social media browser away, go do something productive.

the objective of the attack is precisely to waste your time, nothing more, nothing less.

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Agreed, every now and then I learn something from the trolls… but at scale, if we threw a rock at every dog that barked — then we’d be busy wasting time all day.

yeah, i like it that you get it. it's a cheap shot but it works so often, and has blowback that affects other people too, creating negative emotional contact relating to such things as pointing out that this is just someone trying to waste time and not a legitimate human being at all.

A mental DDoS attack 🤖

Tried being nicer to the haters… didn’t work very well. Guess we’ll just build and let ‘em bicker over their analogies and labels. Tech’ goes brrrr. 🤷‍♂️ https://video.nostr.build/7c815749f8d5ca3c3556b42bbcc29ba5de521120509a4837612fea27fdafac13.mp4

the thing that helps them so much with nostr is how underspecified everything is. it's obvious to anyone that there has to be some kind of consensus, but there isn't really a consensus on what kind of consensus. negentropy works pretty good, but you know the deal with that. peter todd has been getting some clout out of trying to argue it needs a stronger consistency like a blockchain. lol. and we know he knows nothing about scaling, or weakly consistent systems.

they should all go and read the Kafka whitepaper and Paxos and pBFT and all the rest and come back to us after they have some basic ideas about how replication actually works.

Great points. It’s easy to criticize what is poorly represented. Things may look very different a year from now… with optimized relay discovery, syncing and clear specs — their tune may change.

i really doubt that the leopards are gonna change their spots. if you catch them out lying, twisting things, wasting your time, more than a few times, and more than a few different ways they are not going to suddenly become reasonable.

they are in it to hurt you. that's their prize, their goal, and why the main strategy for dealing with them is shunning.

good advice

There is an proverb that sums it up nicely: bullshit baffles brains.