Sure. But that's common here also. Most people are not very creative.
Compelling content requires interesting humans so that's something that code can't substitute. Humans are always a step ahead of language mimicry models. Keep up the good work.
I'm a bit curious, how would you know that they haven't changed their views? And how would that relate to Nostr?
Interesting. Japanese must be quite a challenge. I also studied German + Spanish in school but much of it has evaporated due to neglect so I am trying to recapture some of it. It is absolutely easier once the path has been trodden before.
I focus mostly on improving my Polish but I practice some German and Spanish also. How about you?
When your language score in DuoLingo finally reaches higher than the price of Bitcoin. ☀️🌟⭐️✨️
Absolutely. I wrote a thread on why KYC/AML regulations are a violation of property rights.
The whole "terrorism" crime category was always trap.
Since 9/11/2001 and Homeland Security regulations, it became evident that the threat of terrorism was a method to sell surveillance and restrictions by pulling the strings of fear.
We always had laws against all kinds of crimes before we adopted anti-terror laws. The difference is that terror laws don't require the same legal protections.
In order to reject the abuse of anti-terror laws we must reject "terrorism" as a valid crime category.
Bitcoin has gravitas.
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Cool to hear.
I found this gem recently.
Right.
All effective spam prevention comes with tradeoffs.
Web of trust models should make it very hard for spam to pass. If an algorithm assigns weight to our social network nodes, filtering out spam would be relatively easy. The problem is designing a mechanism allowing newcomers into the web of trust that doesn't come with negative tradeoffs.
A cost-to-post is a possibility that can also help fund relays, yet will add an obstacle for new users and may reduce interaction depending on the costs.
We also have to consider that future censorship mechanisms will likely utilize anti-spam functionality as the primary methods of justification. It is therefore important to consider the possible censorship risks in a given anti-spam strategy.
Central planning ideas may sound bizarre (and they are) but they are not random musings without a history.
In Plato's Republic, Socrates proposed that in his idea of a utopian city state, children of the Guardian class should not know who their parents are and they should be brought up collectively. The goal was an attempt at eugenics; to produce the perfect citizens.
Let's dive into Plato's Republic.
"It follows from what we have said, and from our whole previous argument - that our men and women Guardians should be forbidden by law to live together in separate households, and all the women should be common to all the men; similarly, children should be held in common, and no parent should know its child, or child its parent."
// Plato - The Republic, Book 5, part 6, 457.d
"... our Rulers will have to employ a great deal of fiction and deceit for the benefit of their subjects" // 459.d
"We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we're not to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and bring up only the offspring of the best.
And no one but the Rulers must know what is happening, if we are to avoid dissension in our Guardian herd." // 459.e
"And we shall have to devise an ingenious system of drawing lots, so that our inferior Guardians can, at each mating festival, blame the lot and not the Rulers." // 460.a
"These officers will take the children of the better Guardians to a nursery and put them in charge of nurses living in a separate part of the city; the children of the inferior Guardians, and any defective offspring of the others, will be quietly and secretly disposed of." // 460.c
As we can observe from the above reasoning, Plato laid the philosophical groundwork for authoritarian central planning based on eugenics, secrecy and deception, for the assumed "common good". The road to hell is paved with a lot of well-sounding justifications.
While Aristotle opposed this idea of having wives and children in common, he made the observation that *if* this were to be done, and since slavery was the standard at this time, it would be better that the husbandmen class had this arrangement:
"This community of wives and children seems better suited to the husbandmen than to the Guardians, for if they have wives and children in common, they will be bound to one another by weaker ties, as a subject class should be, and they will remain obedient and not rebel."
// Politics, Book 2, Chapter 3, 1262.a.40
It is important to mention here that Aristotle argues several pages against Plato's idea of shared wives, children and also against shared property. This is not a scenario that Aristotle wants to see. He just considers that *if* it were to be done in theory, it would result in a weakened subject class that cannot rebel.
From here it is not hard to see the trailing impact of Plato's ideas on Fabian socialism and the general eugenics movement in the early 20th century.
When we are confronted with ideas of abolishing the family, or the gradual introduction of the State in handling family matters of education, we are tracing the roots of authoritarian central planning back to Plato.
Below, Katherine Timpf's article from 2015:
#Plato #Republic #Aristotle #Eugenics #Family #Central #Planning
Yep. And the point with communication is to reach an audience.
Nostr will have better reach in a few years. It is easier to attract people to Nostr if we demonstrate confidence. Confidence means that we don't have a need to lash out at other communication channels.
1. He seems to be critical - not of Nostr - but of the activism of funneling people away from channels that are efficient at reaching an audience in 2024. Why is it so important for some here to adcocate for a Nostr-only position when our reach on Nostr vs the general public is still extremely limited.
2. He is saying that Elon has better funds at his disposal vs Nostr app devs. Jack Dorsey was unable to bring free speech to Twitter because he lacked the funds necessary. Capital matters.
Of course, Twitter/X can still be overtaken by government pressure under Elon, so it makes sense that we have a presence on Nostr.
Instead of a Nostr *only* mentality I prefer a Nostr *also* outlook. Multiple communications channels is the way.
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I assume that it means 9% into the current halving period, so the numbers are apples-to-apples in that regard.
