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What are “Things you eventually regret supporting?”

I’ll take “Defaulting on the debt either way” for $800 Alex.

Yes, it’s a beautiful thought. I would expect most including myself would still need atleast a side job for currency for those things. But I agree with the sentiment of the video.

Thank you for your thoughts. 🤔😀

Here is my case for why it is a technology problem:

In the “natural state” of humans, we would have little technology which preserved the value created through our labor into the future. Wealth (preserved value from a previous period into the present) would be harder to hold as it would just rot, nor could a disparity of preserved material value arise between humans as it would continually be rotted away from everyone.

Bitcoin would not be special in this regard it would be a problem caused by all technology of value preservation in proportion to the preservation enabled, Bitcoin would just be the latest improvement in the technology of preserving the value generated.

But if Bitcoin is the best value preservation technology so far, then the technology which preserves our labor value indefinitely, also enables the greatest miserliness.

I don’t think the “selfish monk” and the “orphan” are non existent, impossible caricatures, I think I see them in the motivations of many, in the fears and ideals of Bitcoin stacking in the context hyperbitcoinization. But my error may be in treating hyperbitcoinization as a serious idea and necessary result. Perhaps that belief is not as likely as I had presumed. And so the scale of the problems in 1 and 2 may not be so great.

The argument that a rising tide lifts all boats in a Bitcoin world. The orphans will still gain Societal benefits is a compelling one.

Yes this appears to be most of it. Thanks for the link.

Thanks for the long read

I don’t think the client would need to know your position for the user to search through and find things that interest them. But I think the latitude and longitude (gps) makes finding the place that you are recommending easier without depending on an external centralized service.

This entry for example has the lat, Lon of the place and a link to Google maps. So if I’m interested I know where it is. That is pretty much all I mean.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mahakal-mandir

#asknostr #philosophy #economics #bitcoin #grownostr I’ve been thinking about money, bitcoin, and the natural state of things. And I’d like a discussion to test these ideas socraticaly. I’m wondering if hard money like BTC isn’t actually a problem. Atleast in some cases. Hear me out.

The natural state of the world is decay. If I’m a Hunter gatherer I spend my time gathering food and supplies, and if i don’t use them up, they rot. That’s the natural state.

Now humans have clearly invested a lot of time and energy into tools to reduce this, and make more efficient use of our time, since the most finite resource is your own life. I understand why humans desire it. But a resource that once collected, exists forever seems like we are cheating the system somewhere. And my instinct is if you cheat the system somewhere, someone, something will pay the price.

Most Money itself, even fiat, usually has a better shelf life than perishable items. It may have even been the key strategy to put energy into collecting primarily foods that had a longer permanence like gourds, and seeds, that could be stored. And they eventually became rudimentary money. Which on the one hand is just good sense. But on the other hand, I ask: does it at some point become a distortion of the natural state enough for it to become a problem.

With BTC hard money, who pays the price?

I can think of two scenarios:

1) FOMO: The individual today, if accepting the rational conclusions of BTC as hard money and thinking multigenerationally, may spend (may I say waste) their life collecting every resource they can and funnel it into buying BTC, embodying the individual who sells their chairs to buy more Bitcoin. Sacrifices every moment To protect their future generations from becoming scenario 2)

2) The MO, The individual in the future, who has no stack of Bitcoin for whatever reason gains your sympathy. They are orphaned in a boating accident, let’s say. Cast into a world where everyone has been stacking for generations, competing against each other for the scarcest hardest resource. “Everyone else” sits a top a stack. Everything is priced in BTC, they must compete with other individuals for resources. In one since, this story is as old as time, there have always been people born into better situations. But in another sense, if the promises of BTC are as transformative as is said, then this distortion will also be greater than it’s ever been. And if the solution to 2 is “well that’s just life, you need to be responsible for all your future generations if you want to avoid this”, then that logically puts you into scenario 1).

Stuck between these extremes, extreme FOMO, and extreme MO. Is any point in the continuum optimal?

Or is the natural state optimal. The equalizing force of entropy always eroding your efforts, it’s actually irrational to store too much, if you store more than you can eat today it will spoil, efforts wasted. So get your work done and then play, engage, live your life with friends, and raise your children, and feast occasionally. The neurons in your brain were made for the natural state.

Is BTC today the “savior”, the proclaimed solution to everything. Real, Hard money, just the future master to a different kind of slavery. The next dystopian fiction to be written. The curse as the price reflects scarcity, and rational FOMO consumes every drop of life energy in the present, and the MO, the remainders, curse the system and dream its demise in the future.

There is more to be said, and I haven’t thought it all the way through.

Just my pondering.

nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn how does this intersect with your observations about the use of technology?

Is anyone already working on a Nostr based location recommendation places app?

Likely include a new kind that requires location specific data like a text description, name, gps coordinates, rating 1-5, etc.

So I can post my recommendations that I know around me, each recommendation is like a signed note, and people that have me in their web of trust can see all my recommendations or aggregate recommendations across who they follow?

Basically to replace the points of interest reviews and recommendation sites of yelp and Google maps with something decentralized.

#asknostr

Looks thrilling!

🤔 That depends on how quickly you learn from your mistakes. How much investment of time you spend on trying again, or with small deviations. Whether or not others have gone before you and you can learn from them as well. Or if your the first, that will need to discover everything for the first time. 😀

This is the way

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Silks, yes

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Were they durable to survive multiple shots?

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I’ll do you one better, both men and women shouldn’t be forced to work against their will. It should be a voluntary exchange. I know it’s an edgy take. But that’s me.

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