Indeed. It takes feeble minds to dream about subjugating other feeble minds.
The strong respect sovereignty.
Yes, albeit most people have been fed the lie that free markets shares side with authoritarianism. Voluntarism is the proper vector and explaining it is easier by contrasting it with its opposite; central planning.
Central planners have an observable need to phrase their ideas in a veil of certainty. Their whole idea structure is built on wishful thinking, based on their power ambitions.
Harari wants free will to be over because its existence threatens his fragile psyche, yet that's not a reality that is going to play out.
Those that seek to implement a 1984 society are enemies of humanity at the most primary level.
// Solar Orchestra
A galactic formation of stars
A cosmic swirl of energy
Amid forces of catapulted orbits
In a hurling charge of matter
Beneath a searing
Solar orchestra
An elliptic symphony of plasma
A blazing cosmic pulse
Amid attraction
and dissolution's dance
A wheeling trajectory
A fiery maelstrom
A universe without beginning
A piercing vibration
Expanding through space
As thunder through atmosphere
Yes, but the awesomeness of Heraclitus comes from his paradoxical observation that we both change and remain the same.😎
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The number of reported unlikely events have certainly increased since 2020, such as airplanes crashing into food processing plants. Ever since 9/11, the fall of WTC 7, and the Patriot Act that resulted, we have been made aware of the false system we live under.
Every anomaly is a communication to us regarding the health and stability of the system. There are no longer any coincidences. If something is over- or under-reported, that in itself is a communication.
I think more in terms of 'interesting art'. For art to be interesting to me it has to strike a nerve and connect at some level. Connection is foundational and we connect with different things as individuals.
The architecture of Star Wars have an appealing greatness to it, yet it is not a greatness that we have access to yet on a civilizational level. Perhaps it must be built on some distant planet, since we already have an Earth full of historical civilizations. There is little space or political room for such a civilizational change. And I wouldn't want to live under a central planning system.
Right, I kind of skipped your main point, which I certainly agree with.😄
I've just seen so many people saying 'not your keys, not your identity', but we need to remember that Bitcoin is fundamentally unique.
Not every bitcoin principle can be applied to Nostr and this is an example of that.
If your nostr private key is compromised, that doesn't invalidate that you own your identity and everything that you have created in your lifetime. Your identity existed before Nostr and can exist on an infinite number of social media.
What happens with a compromised private key is that someone else *also* gains access to your nostr account. That access does not grant them ownership and luckily they can't (yet) lock the real owner out from their own account. You can re-direct your subscribers to a new account and the impostor will not likely convince rational individuals. Having several social media reduces the risk of false account-redirection.
This is a fundamental difference between Bitcoin and Nostr. Bitcoin is a finished monetary protocol where we know the security mechanisms and they have been fire-tested for 14 years. We can send any amount of bitcoin to different addresses/wallets, thereby deciding our own security level per address/wallet. Since Bitcoin is the optimal monetary protocol it makes sense to be Bitcoin-only. Not your keys, not your bitcoin; they will literally be stolen if the private keys to a particular address are compromised.
There will always be a variety of communications channels. We can't know for certain what the Nostr security model will look like 5 or 10 years from now.
Anyone knows how I can get verified at bitcoinnostr.com? There seems to be no channel to get into contact with them.
I verified this pubkey from my Twitter account in January. Although my blue bird account is shadowbanned so my first verification doesn't appear on a regular search.
My nostr verification from January 26:
No, I wouldn't.
Liberty or void.
I am probablt biased but I love the painting by Swedish painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist; 'Valdemar Atterdag brandskattar Visby', finished in 1882.
It's a gargantuan painting covering a full wall at the National Museum in Stockholm and I can recommend seeing it in its full size.
Hellquist, the son of a shoe-maker, was awarded a gold medal for this painting in Wienna the same year. Alas he was plagued with headaches in the years after, which obviously wasn't cured by the electro-shocks he received as 'treatment'. He passed away 8 years after he finished his masterpiece, in 1890.
Ask the chatbot which year it is.
Google is one of the most incompetent and unethical companies out there. Just trash all way through.
That's hilarious. 😅🤣
Since animal packs are small, if their leader or pack fails there are other sovereign groups out there. The ruin of one group does not bring down everyone else. Decentralization allows for experimentation and resilience in the face of unknown and changing circumstances .
Few can handle the truth. The signal-to-noise ratio is bad when AI art is spammed. Prompts are saved and can easily be repeated; soon there is no need for prompters at all.
I am interested in what people can create with their minds and effort. An artwork becomes interesting to me if there is a mind, a person in there. Someone wrestled with design decisions and made an effort to put their own experiences and aesthetic vision into the work. That's something I can learn from or aspire to. I can't learn anything from an AI output.
AI art can be fine for specific purposes where a writer have a low budget and need a quick illistration for an article. Or where you need quantity at low price. If people are having fun with AI tools that's great. But the real fun starts when they take control over their own creativity and explore what they can accomplish if they push their comfort zone. This requires work and competence.
Then there's the matter of dependence on centralized tools that require enormous computing power. That's not a place where I would like to be if I were a content creator.
Then there is the original artwork problem. If you generate something with an AI, the algorithm takes all those details from existing human artworks, artists who had to put in their unique visions and work to accomplish that. That's not your voice. Why would I want to use the voice of others? That's appropriation of someone elses identity. Similar to sending someonr a thoughtful letter that you didn't write yourself. Those were not your thoughts. Better if people can attempt developing their own voice. At least that's interesting.