Perhaps we should expect applications to evolve to become AI-enabled by embedding small local models that are specialized to each application. However, such models would have enough agency to reach out to services enabled by large models, whenever the local small model needs expertise that falls outside its own. Just like how the model should know when it should perform Web browsing to fetch the most up-to-date information; or it should invoke a calculator to do arithmetic; or it should invoke Mathematica to solve differential equations analytically; or it should generate Python and execute it to perform computations; or it should use online services for payments, commerce, and logistics; similarly, it should know what online services (large models) to collaborate with to take advantage of expertise beyond its own limited capabilities.

Bitcoin priced in fiat is more volatile than Zelenskyy's butthurt.

Web of Trust is not. It should be a Web of Authenticity and a Web of Integrity. It is NOT a Web of Authorization.

Intelligence metric: epistemological dynamic range. Measure how far a person can understand the world in terms of abstractions, while also grounding such knowledge in terms of concretes. The metric is not scalar. One dimension is in the meta direction. Another is breadth across domains (analogs).

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Fiat slogan: fux the money, fux the world.

Or does a Cashapp lnbc address never expire, even though I get a new unique address every time I click to see it in the app? That is what is incredibly confusing. Meanwhile, everyone in Nostr has LN addresses that look email-like.

I think I must be a total LN dumbass. When Satoshi Wallet was working, everything was flawlessly easy. It gave me an email-like address, and zaps to it just worked. When it was shut down, I started using Cashapp, it shows a bc1q address and a lnbc address for receiving BTC. However, I just realized the lnbc address changes with every transaction for privacy, and maybe it even expires after some time. Cashapp doesn't give me an email-like address for LN. Or does it? This is so confusing.

Most charity is a scam to fund the administrative staff to control the organization that operates the charity. The purported beneficiaries are decoys.

Is Primal superior to Amethyst on Android? I should give it a try.

I'm not a proponent of Apple iPhone. However, as an Android user while the rest of the family uses iPhones, I feel like I have a much higher rate of fat-fingering when using GBoard. Apple's virtual keyboard accuracy is far superior.

Worth contemplating: what 'checks and balances' exist in our system of government to counter abusing classification of data to hide wrongdoing?

Having heard about Primal on Bitcoin Audible, it sounds interesting. But then exploring primal.net I can't see any information about how to on-board.

«One day you discovered you'd learned a cartoon version of Lincoln in school. Not the man who favored an amendment to the Constitution forever preventing the federal government from abolishing slavery» https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/20243-9250479?e=8be05b6441

Our culture and societal cohesion relies on a shared understanding of history as a collection of false but believable myths. Myths are formed from idealized stories retold to essentialize some moral principle or some virtuous characteristics that inspire us. Of course, the noble goal of freeing the slaves motivated our nation to transform itself. This is one element that binds us proudly in fraternity, because we are a part of a great improvement in society. We are built on myths to fuel our virtues, such as courage and valor. We look back to the precursors to our society, such as the 300 Spartans who stood bravely against the vast Persian army of Xerces. Their battle cry Molṑn Labé defied the enemy to come take their cannons and semiautomatic rifles, as it does today for us.

Did the value of all NFTs crash to zero yet? And everyone moved on without anyone noticing?

If there was ever any doubt that Jack was in favor or tolerant of establishment censorship and narrative control using Twitter, we now see that Bluesky is in full-on censorship mode to suppress such opinions as "trans-women are men" and to suspend accounts who engage in such speech.

nostr:nprofile1qqstpw8mm9tc4s370qke0get0va89ndqwcrkzdvm6etxr4p8226qjzspz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyqt7a0 I just heard your rant about Pear Drive. A quick search failed to find any trace of the project and its source repository. Is it not open source?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3sYh4nnRSodyFj5L5306Jz?si=JYZQiJZhSnmxRB2abwF8cQ&t=4253

In today's climate of lawfare and the routine weaponization of “Show me the man and I'll show you the crime” (Beria's law), one should judge defendants accordingly. If someone is charged or convicted of crimes, ask who was the victim and what rights were violated? The state or a state agency or office has no legitimate standing to be a victim, because the state has no rights (only enumerated powers).

The corollary to this is that unjust and immoral laws are also illegitimate. It is our duty to violate them. This includes laws that violate free speech, free expression, free association, privacy, and private property. This includes KYC, AML, surveillance, and lawful intercept.

Are there independent journalists on Nostr publishing current events and breaking news? To me that is the next gap to fill for Nostr to actually replace Twitter as the primary social media site, next to having a friends network that includes one's favorite people to follow.

I see that you already said the exact same thing in your follow-on episode. Good job.