Nostr enjoys talking about Aaron Swartz, which is good.

How might nostr bring Alexandra Elbakyan AKA “Science’s Pirate Queen” AKA founder of Sci-Hub to nostr?

Imagine adding a nostr social component to the millions upon millions of papers of human knowledge that happen to be hosted by Sci-Hub.

Imagine adding zaps, and highlights to scientific papers and sorting the wheat from the chaff.

The Library of Alexandra is destined for nostr, and nostr is destined as the social layer of humanity’s knowledge.

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We're quite literally trying to build nostr's Alexandria 📖

https://github.com/ShadowySupercode/gc-alexandria

🔥how might we apply nostrs alexandria to sci-hub’s millions of papers?

How might we apply Nostr's Alexandria to the US Patent and Trademark Office records? Or the European Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office, Korean Intellectual Property office, National Intellectual Property Administration, etc?

Knowledge's purpose is to help us understand the world so that we can act in it, but "knowledge itself" is trapped within our minds. We need to formalize and transcribe knowledge into a medium so that it can be ingested by others. This process is noisy and will always be different from "knowledge itself", there will always be a loss of information. So as technology changes, so should knowledge bases, to more accurately capture the representation that is held in our minds.

1) don't use pdfs.

2) Not everything in a paper is relevant to a reader, but you can imagine a paper or work that might be 90% irrelevant, but the other is 10% diamond to a specific reader. How do you find the gold in something like a full textbook? You create atomic units -> turn the sections of a paper into individual events and chain them together. The chain provides context within the larger work if you care to dive in, the individual events help isolate the diamonds and enable not just remixing, but literal stand in's for a section. Why rewrite a full introduction justifying your work if someone else stated it way better than you can articulate? Just slot in their section, maybe fork it and add it to whatever your working with. This modularization of long form text has been formalized as NIP-62 Curated Publications https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1600

Want to automatically parse content as events? identify sections and then upload them.

want to automatically convert videos into articles with images?

https://habla.news/u/liminal@gitcitadel.com/1729213258345

https://github.com/IllDepence/unarXive

unarXiv has an open subset of papers that could be used.

Regarding his recent claims on Rogan’s show, what if Mel Gibson would have an easy way to present evidence of his 3 friends’ cancer cure protocol and its results anonymously right here on Nostr? Publish the final report on the bitcoin blockchain maybe. Who can help him if not us?

Corrupt the incentives, corrupt the world. Fix the incentives, fix the world.

Perhaps we need an alternative evidence-gathering body or bot (like the academy or Sci-Hub only decentralized and verifiable) which would be able to offer certification services to visionaries and theorists like Mel and Alex Jones and Joe Rogan.

A kind of evidence-based and uncensorable community notes with the ability to offer grants/bounties/zaps and logistic support for the research, composition, and publication of anonymous but evidence-supported hypotheses. Maybe AI can help streamline this uploading and spreading. Meme lords too.

A Wikipedia + Wikileaks.

Start with evidence for alternative cancer cures but don’t forget about the aliens. What could be a better use of the scientific method + the hash function?

And then imagine scientists creating their own uncensorable journals, with transparent peer review kicking Elsevier's ass.

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