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vinney...axkl 1mo ago 💬 12

Thanks to the nostr:npub1kypar542k67a5gg45zx027cw633fys9f0r7cdlzlppmk30n800yqja7u72 guys ( nostr:npub1marcan0laywmjprf4m8d34dr8m724a6jxxa56a5wwygcgj23q7nskfwmfg , nostr:npub1vppdwqmhlzhftstq5exturmry4u0pdfm93mqj4zfuuznhclxygfsdatk8w ) for having me on! I had a lot of fun and I'm really grateful to have had a chance to psychobabble about all the topics that are currently important to me, including but not limited to:

- Hopes, dreams and slightly unrealistic expectations for #catallax

- The existential importance of Subjective, Contextualized Webs of Trust (h/t nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3 and nostr:npub1healthsx3swcgtknff7zwpg8aj2q7h49zecul5rz490f6z2zp59qnfvp8p )

- Planting seeds for anarchocapitalist private contract and arbitration systems

- Why and how I'm attempting to build a Bitcoin-only, general interest print bookstore with nostr:npub1c74n52sngtmceu96gxms7lsfcdz3gqsfla9swcdgt7wc0qw684zqfe2cj2

- Half-assed musings on the connection between Darwinian natural selection, Austrian economics, voluntarist anarchism, open protocols and human flourishing

- Peer to peer personal servers

- Assassination markets; and how you definitely shouldn't make one..

https://fountain.fm/show/QGEMm7FxXz5a4553Jhqr

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key pair pod 1mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qqsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9nhwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny9uu3n06h was such a great guest. He even marketed himself so we didn’t have to!

Listen. It’s a good one!

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b0b 1mo ago

really enjoyed talking to you. would have loved to ask you many more questions about grapheneos, your way to stoicism and approach to note organization. maybe one for a follow up episode.

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vinney...axkl 1mo ago

For sure! I'd love that. I probably have as many questions as answers on those fronts, so I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn from peers on those topics

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Globe99 1mo ago

Interesting talk, didn't realize you worked on Urbit! Ever participate in Curtfishing parties?😅 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/sources-say-bay-area-house-party

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vinney...axkl 1mo ago

no fuck no. curtis has some very interesting analysis, but i think his solutions (and his weird fucking cult aura) are awful.

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Globe99 1mo ago

Yeah on a more serious note, I was thinking something like Attestr could work for things like media reviews... Movies, books, exhibits, music, etc... i.e. a semi-formalized data format for "I liked X thing", which could then be measured against WoT score

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vinney...axkl 1mo ago

Something like that! Probably would have to be a lot simpler than attestr.

Another approach I am partial to is nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3 's decentralized lists for this kind of thing:

https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqqzdjx2cm9de68yctvd9ax2epdd35hxarnwrn9hx

https://github.com/PrettyGoodFreedomTech/nips/blob/decentralized-lists/93.md

A list like "good comedy movies in 2025" that people can contribute to, then using GrapeRank WoT you could not only filter out spam, but filter the list based on contextual reputation, like "only show me npubs' contributions if I trust them for comedy movies" or "show me npubs' contributions whose taste in movies I **strongly disagree with**" (so you know what movies to avoid).

Even if 8 million npubs contributed to this open, decentralized list, you don't have to give a shit about most of them except the people in your GrapeRank AND the trust-context you care about - handily cutting the whole human populations' opinions down to a handful you can actually make sense of.

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vinney...axkl 1mo ago

Related discussion on "tagging" systems (tagging, like hashtags or similar)

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Sebastix 1mo ago

Great to discover you have an art (study) background as well! Me too 👀 but both developers now 🤓

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vinney...axkl 1mo ago

Cool! Yea, I think it's more common over the last couple decades than people realize. It has been my experience that having software developers from wider intellectual and creative backgrounds is a good thing for an engineering team. Better communication and fewer blind spots + lots of learning opportunities from each other.

Did/do you create art, or are you talking more about an art history background? If the former, what kind of stuff do you work on? I was mostly doing pen & ink illustration. Veered into a sort of 1960's "comix" angle before I (temporarily, I hope) hung up the pen and brush.

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Sebastix 1mo ago

In my first year of the Art Acedemy we had to do everything so everyone could discover what he liked the most to do. From painting, photography, making audiovisual stuff / film, performance, etc. I already knew that programming / code were my tools to create something. So I showed them stuff made in Flash / Actionscript etc and what interactivity could do. I went to the art school, because they were starting a new course called 'interaction design' but it only started in the 2nd year. The 1st year was a difficult year for me, because they didn't understand my tools and I had to learn how to create concepts and learn to process ideas into something.

But they didn't sent me away (although I had not enough study points) and within the context of 'interaction design' I was able to do my thing with teachers who understand digital technology. So I kept coding, learned https://processing.org/, played around with Arduino's and sensors etc. I even made a interactive art installation which went to several festivals.

After my study I was a fulltime solopreneur for some years (doing client-work) and in the periode 2014-2021 I worked part-time for some small digital agencies and now I'm fulltime solo again since '21 doing a lot of Drupal related work.