nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

🚨Announcing Satoshi 7B 🚨

The team and I are proud to release Satoshi 7B: the most “based” LLM in the world.

After almost nine months of experimentation, we’ve got something we’re proud enough of to open source & share with the world.

Tuned like no other model to date.

Satoshi7B is designed to produce responses that do NOT fit the current political overton window, or Keyensian viewpoints. We built a custom data-set from scratch, with a deep rooting in libertarian principles, Austrian economics and #Bitcoin literature.

The result is a model that excels where others fall short.

It knows that there are two genders

It knows that Ethereum is a shitcoin

It knows that inflation is economic stupidity.

The Satoshi 7B is ideal

for anyone who’s tired of using #mainstream models (whether open or closed source) that:

Avoid answering controversial topics,

Regurgitate wikipedia-esque answers,

Pre and post-frame responses with apologetic excuses, or

Flat out tell you the blue sky is green.

Size & availability

Satoshi 7B is #opensource and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and enhance.

As the name suggests, it’s a 7 billion parameter model, but despite the size, it outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 on a few key benchmarks related to Bitcoin, economics and what we’ve termed “basedness” which is a kind of non-woke-truth score.

(See links in comments to use / download)

First of its kind

This is the first of a whole suite of Satoshi models we intend to train & open source.

In the coming months, we’ll enhance the dataset further, and train a 30B model.

Finally…

All language models just represent a model of the world and are inherently biased. So I hope you appreciate Satoshi 7B’s intrinsic austrian leanings, Bitcoin maximalism and overall “based” cultural and philosophical bias.

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what did you tell them? how do you use it?

Has social media been a net positive or a net negative in your life?

Would you use a call ☎️ feature on nostr?

Good day!

This is #InkblotArt, the note that lets your imagination fly!

Today is April 5, 2024. Block height of 837806

What do you see in the blot? Comment and get a zap!

Is it exposed to the clear net?

There is no way to do a DoS attack on Amethyst.

Imagine what we’re envisioning now that won’t look anything like that. nostr:note14xmdfnwt2d5zkxzm3d5z7mtj344dt90vs7xau5p0lqr2qsphg7vsf0nhpn