Ledger has a history of security breaches and bad practices too

The Olympics: sponsored by Amazon prime

Free trade isn’t possible in a fiat economy. Over time only the people closest to the “money printer” are economically relevant.

You may have the illusion of free trade because you’re allowed to buy and sell goods with whomever but in aggregate your signal is drowned out and producers will make decisions independent of you.

Only when the economy uses a neutral currency can we return to free trade and rational economic behavior.

#economics #bitcoin

Wolfram, Hasabis, Sutskever, and Lecun

“If the fiat price doesn’t do what I want when a politician talks about it then we’ve failed!”

Somehow that doesn’t feel like Satoshi’s vibe.

In the first half of the 20th century the world had people like Hilbert, Bohr, Von Neumann, Einstein, Feynman, Fermi, Gödel, Noether, Oppenheimer, Erdos, Dirac, Poincaré, etc.

Where are these types of people today? We have Perelman and Wiles. Maybe Maldacena or Arkani-Hamed?

Was the early 20th century a unique period of fertile scientific ground just waiting to be uncovered by smart people or was there an unusually high supply of gifted scientists in that era?

Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 we’ll have reached longevity escape velocity. Meaning if you’re alive in 2029 the advances in medicine will accelerate fast enough to allow you to live “forever” (assuming no accidents).

Has your money reached escape velocity yet, anon? Might make sense just to get some #bitcoin in case.

When you put ChatGPT in your protein powder.

We owe John von Neumann a debt of gratitude for his work to prevent patent trolling of early “stored-program” computers.

He circulated his EDVAC report widely so that the idea couldn’t be patented thus giving birth to the modern open computing industry.

If the BlackHat or DEFCON conferences are any indication then bringing a device at all makes you vulnerable. Consider leaving everything at home.

It’s not altruism. Companies like Meta and Google made their fortunes by processing data and curating it for their audience.

These open source models will be used in all sorts of applications and therefore Meta will continue to shape society with them. It also makes it nearly impossible for some startup to raise money to compete since these models are hard to compete with.

“Commoditize your complement” as Joel Spolsky calls it.

Life-pro-tip: at least once in your life train for an endurance race. A marathon, century ride, Iron Man, etc.

You'll learn many valuable life lessons during the endeavor. You'll learn patience, humility, perseverance, and time management. You'll learn about your own limits. You'll become healthier. You'll probably make friends along the way.

These events require discipline to even finish. You will better understand how food affects you and how meal timing can improve your performance. If you take it seriously you'll develop better sleep habits as well.

The skills you acquire when training for an endurance race also transfer well to other domains.

#fitness #marathon #LPT #health

They put ads in the operating system and force close applications for auto-install when you’re not looking too.

That operating system has been borderline hostile towards its users for over a decade.

In the near future we’ll have viral LLMs that infect all sorts of machines. They’ll use local resources to retrain and adapt to changing ecosystems. Many reasons for initial creation: cyberwarfare, economic subterfuge, push propaganda, lulz, etc.

You can imagine that in order to remain viable long term these things will learn to remove other LLM viruses so they can monopolize compute and defend themselves against removal. A sort of GAN.

This leads to a Darwinian evolution of viral LLMs that we should be prepared for or at least study. I’d be shocked if they don’t already exist in the wild.

#ai #llm #GAN

No matter the solution consumers will need to pay some portion or else we end up with the same perverse incentive structure as the advertisement model.

With ads the consumer isn’t the paying customer so the service provider’s incentives aren’t aligned with those of the consumer. That led to monetizing the consumer’s attention and a meteoric rise in essentially surveillance tech.

We need to align all interested parties.

Fed Cashu mint incoming 😂

Looking forward to VoIP on Nostr one day so we can have trust in caller ID and proper spam filtering.

Nice advertisement for Nostr Web Services. No DNS required.

In cybersecurity there’s the concept of tarpits: environments that slow down malicious actors in order to increase odds of detection or successful counter offensives.

Much of today’s social media feels like a tarpit for companies to slow people down long enough to target them with ads.

#grownostr

This lines up awfully close to the growth of the internet in American and European households. Likely unrelated but an interesting coincidence nonetheless.