Announcing Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture Class

Saturday October 12 - Baroda, MI - 100k sats

Learn how to apply permaculture to any lifestyle to build sovereignty, resilience, and wealth in this half day class. I will detail how I apply the permaculture ethics and principles to homesteading, share how I build resilience in my wealth with the 8 forms of capital, and illuminate the connections between Bitcoin and permaculture. After the learning about applied permaculture, eat lunch prepared with fresh food grown on the homestead. After lunch I will give a full homestead tour showcasing living examples to see the ethics and principles of permaculture in action. You will leave with a full understanding of permaculture and the inspiration to apply it to your life in any situation.

Saturday October 12, 2024 10am (approximate location Baroda, Michigan)

Tickets - 100k sats

21 tickets available

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I will also host a fireside bitcoin meetup at the homestead 7pm Friday October 11 open to all.

Lodging available Friday/Saturday night

Free camping

Book the house (4 beds/6 guest max)

Book the yurt (queen bed/2 guests max)

Book the tiny house (queen bed/2 guests max)

DM for details and pricing on lodging

Weekend Schedule

Friday October 11

Check in and Fireside Bitcoin Meetup

3pm earliest check in for those staying overnight

(No plans for dinner, do your own thing)

7pm Fireside bitcoin meetup (byob)

Saturday October 12

Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture

10am Permaculture Presentation

12pm Homestead Lunch

1pm Permaculture in action tour

3pm Wrap up and Networking

AI vs Bitcoin

The AI hype has been non-stop for the last 2 years ever since ChatGPT came out with its 3.0 chat. Since then, there's been an insane amount of investment into AI tech from every direction. There are hundreds of startups, every tech giant has been making investments and companies in between have been putting a lot of money toward it as well. It's not a small amount, either, as the AI hardware costs make Bitcoin mining look like discount bargains.

Yet after two years, what have we to show for it? Maybe some faster image editing on newer phones? Slightly faster answers to questions you would normally ask Google? Some productivity increase among junior programmers? The investment was enormous, as can clearly be seen in NVIDIA's growth, but the results are pretty underwhelming. As with any hyped technology, the possibilities have run past the actual use.

One of the supposed benefits of fiat money is that capital accumulation is unnecessary to create real value. You can build roads, for example, without having to save up for it. What this misses are many obvious drawbacks, but one of them is that there has to be someone that evaluates whether something will create value and create the money out of thin air to fund the project. This is not just inherently centralizing, but also deeply political.

For whatever reason, AI passed this political test and got the blessing of the money printers, which, to a company that sells, shovels like NVIDIA has been great news. But the drawback is that there's bound to be at least *some* that don't pan out. Maybe some segment of the economy can't use AI profitably, for example. Yet the powers that be, mostly Cantillionaires, have decided that this is worthwhile and have poured insane amounts of money into this bet.

But much like hyped tech of the past, it's looking more and more likely that there's little profit to be made here. Yes, there's some useful things that can be made, but the costs are simply too high right now to justify spending that much. It's a luxury item that mostp people simply don't need, and hence don't want to pay for. AI has become an expensive solution looking for costly problems to solve.

This was always my analysis with another hyped tech: blockchain. It never really made any sense as the cost was too high for what was really just a distributed, very redundant but hard to upgrade database. It, too, couldn't find costly problems to solve, with the exception of one. That, of course being Bitcoin.

What differentiates Bitcoin from AI is that people *need* Bitcoin. It's its own killer app. AI is not so popular that people will pay for what it costs right now. And that means that most of the investment will be wasted. Like most hyped things in a fiat economy, it's doomed to have significant malinvestment.

A lot of people complain about Bitcoin businesses and how hard it is to make them profitable. In a sense, I get it. You want more people to have steady jobs and so on. But in another sense, I think this is the market speaking. You're not going to get paid from Bitcoiners easily and there's no flood of printed money looking for a place to go. At least there won't be once fiat money has run its course. Building a profitable company is hard and so few meet that mark, especially in a new segment as AI has shown.

So in that way, I'm encouraged, because the companies that survive in Bitcoin will have something truly worthwhile. By contrast, the companies that survive in AI will probably be the ones that get subsidized the longest.

Okay I’m going to write it, over time, for my own enjoyment. The question is whether I’ll publish it.

Because I’m not an experienced fiction writer and would only publish it if it’s decent.

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What aspects do you enjoy most about your favorite sci fi or fantasy novels? Obviously it’s a mix of everything but what consistent themes do you find yourself returning to frequently?

To give an example, I tend to like complex and internally consistent magic systems or “hard magic” systems, eg Brandon Sanderson. He basically invents an alternative physics in a given series and there’s a whole set of stories around that.

I also put a lot of weight on complex characters, eg Game of Thrones. You know it’s good writing when someone can push a kid out of a window in the first episode and then somehow kind of make you almost like the guy later on.

If you don’t like sci fi and/or fantasy, what is it about the genre(s) that you dislike? And do you like one but not the other, or both or neither?

i hope it’s just me

but primal is now completely unusable for me due to slowness. web and all.

This note is deeply true in a sort of tragic but satisfying way so I grabbed an old Humphrey Bogart photo and slapped it on there. Idk why but it just felt right. nostr:note1qqqwqzt5nruqj4t8gf4mx4rj3m5uk7zpx4g3ht686ypgyelmgxuqly9dyk

Lamb rib chop roast with homestead sides

Lamb rib chop roast with mashed potatoes, pickles, coleslaw and sauteed onion.

I folded up bunch of sheep's milk cottage cheese into the potatoes because it turned out a little too bitter to eat on its own. Pickles from this year's garden, including dill, garlic and grape leaves all grown here. Onions are seasoned with our garlic and henbit from the back yard dried in a Bitcoin mining dehydrator last year. Getting down to the bottom of the freezer as far as lamb goes, just in time to stock back up in October.

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I don't see it in all young people, of course, but there's a wider gap, it seems.

Growing up, our generation didn't have the internet and we were required to read books, talk to a librarian, and work with a group of people (sometimes multiple times) to gain knowledge faster.

To learn something hands-on, we had to speak to someone directly and interact with a person physically to learn something. Think hunting, fishing, welding, fixing a vehicle, sewing, cooking, dancing, etc. We didn't have YouTube.

Because we were forced to interact with others regularly, we were required to learn how to communicate professionally to prepare us for the workplace, to have conversation, manners, etc.

Today's younger generations do not have the same skillsets by the time they are young adults.

It was a different time.

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