Someone close to me has her mood completely tied to the performance of her stock portfolio. She has had some giddy days in the past several months, but yesterday she couldn’t get out of bed with the market bleeding. Why would any tie their happiness to something they have zero control over?

HI've noticed on Threads, Bluesky, and even some apps here on Nostr that I’m shown a lot more content from people I’m not following. This is often due to reposts, quote posts, or just the algorithms at work. While this content can be engaging and spark conversations, it’s often not healthy.

I see people posting obviously or maybe obliviously wrong things, which then get corrected and boosted, creating a vicious cycle. For example, someone mentioned considering a hyphenated name for their kids. I shared how my hyphenated name caused issues with computers, especially with international travel. This led to many calling me a bigot because the original poster was a queer woman. It’s odd because I’m queer myself, but it seems they felt an amab queer shouldn’t share personal experiences directly related to the topic.

I also saw clickbait articles about triathletes vomiting at the end of an Olympic triathlon, blaming it on a polluted river. Yes, the river is polluted, but triathletes often throw up at the end of races, and the swim was two hours before the nausea hit.

These issues occurred on Twitter too, but I didn’t experience it the same way there. I used Twitter daily from the moment Jack invited me and our coworkers onto the service, and for me, the conversations were healthier. I understand that many others had negative experiences, though.

On Nostr, I see zaps often rewarding hot takes and posts that signal membership in one group or another. This seems to exacerbate the issue, as people are incentivized to make posts that cater to specific in-groups rather than fostering genuine dialogue.

My worry is that maybe we’re actually doing worse with the new platforms. Is this something other people are seeing? How do we navigate this and foster healthier online conversations?

USE CAUTION WHEN PHILOSOPHIZING ABOUT COMPLICATED SHIT, PARTICULARLY IF THE SHIT IS IN THE DISTANT FUTURE OR INVOLVES COMPLEX SYSTEMS

AND WHEN YOU DO, KNOW THAT YOU DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING, SO YOUR WARDS WILL BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SOMEWHAT AND EXTREMELY WRONG - DEPENDING ON HOW WRONG YOUR STARTING INFORMATION IS AND HOW FAR OUT YOU EXTRAPOLATE. AND STUFF.

My profile picture on here commemorates Ba Jin, the leading anarchist Chinese writer. His short stories and novels animated a revolutionary generation that saw China break from thousands of years of dynastic rule - but he was personally punished by Mao during the Cultural Revolution. His wife was denied treatment for her cancer and she would die. Ba Jin took to writing about remembering the Cultural Revolution and reading Dante's Inferno to gain some small measure of comfort.

Some people talk about the "Chinese model" as if it is a matter of destiny, but the recent ideological fascination with Marx and a stronger Leninist state doesn't have as strong of a root as most assume, and even less so the idea of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" forged right after Ba Jin's torment. Ba Jin's story tells us that there was always a China that looked to temper the state's excesses and one rooted in a desire to engage the world (at the time in Esperanto, perhaps now with Bitcoin). Though the Chinese Communist Party has tried to seize his legacy, I believe it is Chinese cypherpunks looking to hedge and move away from one of the most unequal fiat kingdoms on Earth (China's income inequality by some measures surpasses that of the United States) that truly follow Ba Jin's legacy.

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I literally can’t imagine selling corn 345 blocks away from the 4th halving wtf is wrong with people 😂

What am I making for lunch?

Now, I'm trying to figure out how to break that algorithm.

You are right definitely. There is set of different thoughts that could lead to that. To be more precise, I was googling about this and that which is thighed to each other on some way and stopped thinking about that topic few days. Definitely, was a little bit scared when I realized that AI it has combined and formulated in a way how I think and presented me as an banner with a link or in some cases article.

Now, I'm trying to figure out how to break that algorithm.

You are right definitely. There is set of different thoughts that could lead to that. To be more precise, I was googling about this and that which is thighed to each other on some way and stopped thinking about that topic few days. Definitely, was a little bit scared when I realized that AI it has combined and formulated in a way how I think and presented me as an banner with a link or in some cases article.

Now, I'm trying to figure out how to break that algorithm.

You are right definitely. There is set of different thoughts that could lead to that. To be more precise, I was googling about this and that which is thighed to each other on some way and stopped thinking about that topic few days. Definitely, was a little bit scared when I realized that AI it has combined and formulated in a way how I think and presented me as an banner with a link or in some cases article.

Are you sure it’s not just remarketing?

Question for recently joined new users: what was your signup experience like? Impression? And what app/client are you using?

#ChatBTC LLM twitter tool 💡

In the world of Bitcoin, it's not uncommon to come across different communities that have complaints adjacent to Bitcoin. As a Bitcoin evangelist, it can be frustrating to not have the time and patience to engage in deep conversations with individuals who have concerns or questions about Bitcoin, CBDCs, UBI, capitalism, and inflation.

However, what if there was a way to enable an AI version of ourselves to engage in thoughtful conversations with these individuals? That's where the Bitcoin LLM social media posting bot comes in. The idea is to build a tool that would allow us to use bots that emulate our personalities and engage in conversations with Twitter nocoiners.

These bots could be new accounts, or connected to existing Twitter accounts and engage in long, thoughtful conversations with individuals who have concerns or questions about Bitcoin or bitcoin adjacent topics. The bots could use random time intervals between replies, come back to the conversation a day or two later, quote-tweet to start new conversations, and refer people to YouTube videos or other blog posts with time stamps and quotes from other Bitcoiners - all to make it harder for the left and middle curvers to tell they’re engaging with a bot.

One of the significant advantages of this tool is that it would enable us to engage more actively in conversations that frustrate us with people who are thick-headed and stuck in their ways. It could also help increase financial literacy around Bitcoin, the economy, and the problems with wealth inequality, banking and money.

The tool would be most useful for orange pilling individuals who are already the most active 2% in a group, who are fertile soil form planting bitcoin seeds.

The tool could help engage individuals wh but have some sort of hang-up where they think Bitcoin is a digital currency in the same vein as CBDCs, and therefore, it is bad. By engaging in long conversations with these individuals, we can help them understand the benefits of Bitcoin and increase their financial literacy.

To achieve this, we can use social graph analytics platforms hive.one and Social Forensics.

These platforms would help us find Bitcoiners who are like us and train the bot on that group of people to create avatars.

With this, we can create different personalities that would engage in conversations with individuals who have questions or concerns about Bitcoin.

In conclusion, the Bitcoin LLM bot is an innovative solution that would help increase financial literacy and engage in thoughtful conversations with individuals who have concerns or questions about Bitcoin. By enabling an AI version of ourselves to engage in these conversations, we can help individuals understand the benefits of Bitcoin and increase their financial literacy.

It’s not enough to be a good product manager, designer or developer to build a business.

Build it and they will come is a great fallacy.

The most telling qualities of a person who succeeds in building a startup are

1. Perseverance

2. Focus

Everything else is just a bonus.

Shipping super fast is also a factor. People who ship imperfect products for immediate feedback do better than those who wait to get everything perfect. MUCH better.

Be fast, try stuff, don’t give up and don’t get distracted = win.

Sometimes you have to risk it all for a vision no one can see but you.

Drive Bitcoin Furthur

#Plebhy #Plebchain #NostrMemes #Bitcoin

I woke up, wife is sick with mystery cough for 3 weeks now.

Wanted to have a good start to the day, so I did some pushups and stretches while listening to the RRR soundtrack.

Made my coffee, opened Damus & saw a couple of great posts, saw Jason Williams joined, sent some zaps.

For some reason I went on Twitter - saw #[0]​'s tweet about his LinkedIn engagement, went down a rabbithole of reading and replying to all the idiotic takes in the LinkedIn comments.

Wrote a couple linked in posts and Facebook posts.

Back to Twitter, go into a Twitter space about ordinals, get triggered by stamps growing the UtreeXO set, urge to go on stage and shake them all.

Went to cafe Bitcoin space, heard Natalie Brunell and that calmed me down a bit (there is hope!) ... then the regulars start talking a bunch of nonsense, moving the convo away from Natalie.

Scrolling on Twitter and see the NYT fud piece, pretty agitated again.

Switch to clubhouse and we're taking random shit - wife asks me something and I reply to her in a snarky voice.

Back on Damus now listening to some lofi - feeling calmer, a little upset with myself for spending 2 hours on social media getting worked up giving my attention to negative bs.

Might need to hit the sauna or the bath.

Whatever I can do to avoid opening up my 6.15 km long to-do list.

1. How does Nostr user experience compare with Twitter?

It’s both at parity and far more advanced. Zaps are far more advanced and a leapfrogging. As is logging in with a key pair. As is autopilot relay model in some clients.

2. What client(s) do you use?

Primarily Damus for iOS, gossip for desktop, and a variety of web clients (snort and coracle).

3. From what I’ve seen, current user base is highly concentrated among Bitcoiners. Thoughts on implications this has for user experience and network growth?

Bitcoiners tend to be pretty principled and focused on building tools to enable more self sovereignty, so I think it will turn out very well for individuals. But like Twitter, I think there are many other niches you aren’t seeing yet because you aren’t on those relays.

4. What do you think of Twitter blocking Substack links?

I don’t believe Twitter should block any links. Is this true?

5. Is Block building on/for NOSTR?

Yes.

1. How does Nostr user experience compare with Twitter?

It’s both at parity and far more advanced. Zaps are far more advanced and a leapfrogging. As is logging in with a key pair. As is autopilot relay model in some clients.

2. What client(s) do you use?

Primarily Damus for iOS, gossip for desktop, and a variety of web clients (snort and coracle).

3. From what I’ve seen, current user base is highly concentrated among Bitcoiners. Thoughts on implications this has for user experience and network growth?

Bitcoiners tend to be pretty principled and focused on building tools to enable more self sovereignty, so I think it will turn out very well for individuals. But like Twitter, I think there are many other niches you aren’t seeing yet because you aren’t on those relays.

4. What do you think of Twitter blocking Substack links?

I don’t believe Twitter should block any links. Is this true?

5. Is Block building on/for NOSTR?

Yes.

1. How does Nostr user experience compare with Twitter?

It’s both at parity and far more advanced. Zaps are far more advanced and a leapfrogging. As is logging in with a key pair. As is autopilot relay model in some clients.

2. What client(s) do you use?

Primarily Damus for iOS, gossip for desktop, and a variety of web clients (snort and coracle).

3. From what I’ve seen, current user base is highly concentrated among Bitcoiners. Thoughts on implications this has for user experience and network growth?

Bitcoiners tend to be pretty principled and focused on building tools to enable more self sovereignty, so I think it will turn out very well for individuals. But like Twitter, I think there are many other niches you aren’t seeing yet because you aren’t on those relays.

4. What do you think of Twitter blocking Substack links?

I don’t believe Twitter should block any links. Is this true?

5. Is Block building on/for NOSTR?

Yes.