Anarchist in the 1800s started as a form to remove monarch, supreme and authoritarian power (or maybe they were just tired of 17 kings with the same name who knows).
Back then, it was a bloody affair and they were far lefts to create a balance - and only until recent times, post 1970's /80s we see a shift of anarchist turning rights with more tech based resistance. There will never be an idea situation where people will not be dominated by rulers and powers, but the goal is for anarchists to keep them in check, provide resistance and empower the people to survive and be free
after a year or so, we can slowly see how clients are forming up - coracle is more local community focused, primal and damus is on an entrepreneurial pursuit, amethyst is championing solo devs and innovations, snort and iris combine great minds and deliver fun innovations. There's a lot more clients, digital use cases and other stuff and it's often hard to see what's happening on Nostr real time because of the immense innovations, and I know people have been really hard on Nostr - but when you look back and see how everything is slowly taking shape, it's pretty amazing.
he’s 100% right about the incentives companies have. but CEOs and politicians make terrible babysitters. https://youtu.be/md1SORSmQGg
yea tho Jon Ossoff wasn't trying to have a discussion or find anything midway - he just wanted to make a point. I have watched hours of these hearings the past few years including several with you in it - its always the same thing - they seem pissy, there's always a preconceived opinion and they want you to agree with it and get really upset if you didn't - and then they get labelled as the macho folks, and the public will only read the headlines "politicians grilled social media CEO over xxx" - such a marketing tactic instead of an actual hearing
lol 😂 this journey is going to be fun to watch.
And def a big shout out to all Nostr men who are rocking those abs and muscles or working towards it! 💪
Happy Anniversary Vanessa & Will and Damus team, esp key personal Mr E ❤️ When you look back, its incredible from where it was and how far it has gotten. A great prelude to what's to come. Party hard today!
now that's quite the spirit, good morning! Hows the body feeling post massive workout ?
In a 1997 showdown billed as the final battle for supremacy between natural and artificial intelligence, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov.
Deep Blue evaluated two hundred million positions per second. That is a tiny fraction of possible chess positions—the number of possible game sequences is more than atoms in the observable universe—but plenty enough to beat the best human.
Still, losing to Deep Blue gave him an idea. In playing computers, Kasparov recognized what artificial intelligence scholars call Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.
There is a saying that “chess is 99 percent tactics.” Tactics are short combinations of moves that players use to get an immediate advantage on the board. When players study all those patterns, they are mastering tactics.
Bigger-picture planning in chess—how to manage the little battles to win the war—is called strategy. As Susan Polgar has written, “you can get a lot further by being very good in tactics”—that is, knowing a lot of patterns —“and have only a basic understanding of strategy.”
A few years later, the first “freestyle chess” tournament was held. Teams could be made up of multiple humans and computers. The lifetime-of- specialized-practice advantage that had been diluted in advanced chess was obliterated in freestyle.
A duo of amateur players with three normal computers not only destroyed Hydra, the best chess supercomputer, they also crushed teams of grandmasters using computers.
Kasparov concluded that the humans on the winning team were the best at “coaching” multiple computers on what to examine, and then synthesizing that information for an overall strategy.
Human/Computer combo teams—known as “centaurs”—were playing the highest level of chess ever seen.
It’s like an executive with a team of mega-grandmaster tactical advisers, deciding whose advice to probe more deeply and ultimately whose to heed.
In the end, Kasparov did figure out a way to beat the computer: by outsourcing tactics, the part of human expertise that is most easily replaced, the part that he and the Polgar prodigies spent years honing.
- from the book 'Range' by David Epstein
'i came for democracy, but i stayed for bitcoin' - love this. I remember Estonia established a blockchain based election but it was still owned by the election committee. And there's been a lot of conversations blockchain based voting globally but non with bitcoin. This is a very interesting innovation.
wow what an arse. poor thing your mom. This period in the 60's / 70's would be the uprise of women in the workforce pushing through incredible amount of challenges, just to be seen and heard - big props to your mom for having the guts to dream big and go after it. Her courage lives through you.
likely from the mythologies version with aphrodite
+1. Also lightning uses the actual bitcoin. With NFTs, it also becomes a miners haven because of what they gain through fees, hence there is less incentive to drive NFTs out - but everyone loses in the long run as it becomes too expensive to be used - a catch 22 situation. Greed makes a man blind and foolish
There’s this concept called the “pygmalion effect” - on the expectations others have on you that can become a self fulfilling prophecy. There’s a famous study by Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968) - these 2 folks randomly selected a few students and lied to their teacher saying that these students are “gifted with unusual potentials” and identified the rest as average. The teachers subconsciously focused more on the “gifted” students through better feedback and supportive actions, and 8 months later these “gifted” students gained an average of two IQ points in verbal ability, seven points in reasoning and four points in overall IQ.
The idea is that good expectations leads to a good outcome and a low expectation, one that puts down other people, leads to a negative outcome. I’m sure there are more nuances to this.
As I was reading through this concept, I was also thinking about how one identifies themselves as a giver or a taker. Some might read this and say “hey I want to be a positive force in someone else’s life” .
Others might say “I’m like this because I didn’t get the support from A, B and C” . I think this can be dangerous as it allows others to rule your life, emotions and thoughts, and you end up playing the blame game when things go wrong. It becomes a 'battered syndrome' vicious cycle. I think awareness, being self conscious and honest with yourself helps.
I also think in order to receive this positive energy, you send that wavelength out into the universe; give and you shall receive. And hopefully we meet more people with a balanced exchange of these energies.
Hope everyone has a calm and positive day, in whichever way, mean and form ❤️
Love this brief overview of salt farm and love it even more that currency is automatically referred to as Bitcoin. Malta is gorgeous, with so many great places for photography shoots. I don't know how big the Bitcoin scene is there but loved that it came naturally in the conversation.
https://video.nostr.build/1e29948505cf893e4737a56853b581fa74a66626496eb25a51900150158b27df.mp4
i don't know what the science behind sound bath is, but there's something about these frequencies that is incredibly relaxing
Gita : And in the famous words of somebody that you know, I mean, money is really a database that allows for the exchange of goods and services, and money has to have certain qualities; it's got to be durable, it's got to be recognizable, it's got to be divisible, it's got to be portable, it's got to be scarce. Bitcoin just seems like the perfect antidote or answer to any pre-existing monetary instrument. It allows for that optimal intersection between what travels over time and what travels over space, but the fiat establishment just seems so doggedly sticky without any ability to show open-mindedness about this cool innovation. How do you think we're going to be able to overcome that resistance?
Jack : Ignore it
I’ve been wanting to listen to this for some time now - this is such an uplifting, humbling, yet to the point kinda talk, and there are many great highlights on Nostr too. Thanks for always being a positive and selfless force nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. You are much appreciated.
We need to create more use cases (for bitcoin) so that we can ignore it (fiat) more and more - nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
Getting a nice tax bill from the income tax office apparently some "tax discrepancy" from 11 years ago. I was contemplating triggering audit check for this but I do have these receipts from so long ago, and triggering audit might trigger more problems and time i do not have so I decided to just pay for it. This is the 2nd time in 2 years I got billed for some random rubbish and its not a small amount (to me at least).
Imagine when CBDC kicks in. Tax people are going to be super joyful. They will just come up with the stupidest reasons and take money from your bank accts directly without you having any control over it. Slavery in the making
