So i’ve been listening to Bitcoin podcasts for quite some time…

And I’ve been thinking about AI long before “it was cool”….

Not in a particularly deep or technical way, but idiosyncratically rooted in the perspective of philosopher Daniel Dennett.

His work really primed me to appreciate the power of decentralization in a non-bitcoin context.

As I’ve gone down the rabbit hole, I kept finding a lot of resonance between Dennett’s ideas and frameworks, and understanding different aspects of Bitcoin, AI, and how they intersect.

I’m a blue-collar working-poor layman, my day job keeps my hands occupied and ears free.

So I already had years of thinking about how the human mind works and how aspects of it could be studied, simulated, recreated, etc….

Now I’m folding bitcoin into that, and I ***think*** i may have some novel synthesis, or at least a useful arrangement of pre-existing ideas.

To that end, I’ve been “vibe-writing” some books (yes with heavy assistance from ChatGPT)….

I’ve got four books planned with some precision (well, VERY high precision on three, more of a clear-vision-loose-structure-but-copious-notes on the fourth).

They overlap and intersect quite bit, which is part of why I’ve been working them in parallel, so I can keep them as distinct (but complimentary) as possible.

It’s basically 2 books “about bitcoin”, and two books “about AI”.

The first one to ship will be:

Title:

21 Memes

Subtitle:

Bitcoin’s Memetic Scaffolding and the Ontological Power of Shitposting

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Chapter 19 is the intellectual climax:

“Bitcoin + AI” - exploring the intersection of these two forces, and making the case that bitcoin can serve as both accelerant of an emerging machine-human economy, but ***also*** serve as a real governor against runaway superintelligence.

But it has a necessary prerequisite chapter 18:

“FreedomTech”, where bitcoin gets contextualizes with the larger stack of permissionless infrastructure being built on and around bitcoin, with a particular emphasis on NOSTR, but also looking at cashu, fedimint, bitchat, the pear stack, and FOSS AI.

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I think i may be on to something, inasmuch as I’m hearing more and more podcasts brush up against some of the things I’ll end up writing about across these four works.

Not that people are getting things “wrong”, as much as maybe missing some connective tissue that comes from an evolutionary/memetic perspective - my thinking is VERY heavily influenced by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins.

But holy shit it’s a pretty big knot of ideas. And it’s virtually impossible for me to find people IRL that are interested enough in either bitcoin OR artificial intelligence, let alone anyone who has really thought about BOTH.

I’m super stoked about nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qythwumn8ghj7unnwdkxz7fwdehhxarj9ehx2ap0sv6w06 ‘s new direction on the show.

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I’m currently in the middle of a manual granular edit of the “21 Memes” book.

If you’re at all interested, I’d love to share some notes or drafts of the chapter 18-19 arc. The intersection of Bitcoin and Freedom tech.

As a true pleb (blue collar working poor), i don’t have resources or connections. As an intelligent generalist, I think I might have some unique insights or made interesting connections.

I am very much open to being shown why I am deluded, or get some outside confirmation that there are actually some interesting threads I’m pulling here…

I’m non-technical enough to assume I’ve got ***some*** details wrong or missing, but i think my frameworks will hold.

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TL, DR;

I’m a random guy, writing about the intersection of Bitcoin, AI, and FreedomTech. Can anyone help me find out whether or not I’m full of shit?

I don’t have much to offer in return beyond happily mentioning you in acknowledgments.

I’d love to include a zappable link to your npub, and/or set up a lightning prism that sits on the back cover and gets split amongst contributors.