Maybe there is room for an "ignore" Nostr event kind. Post it as a response to any of your notes to signal that they can be ignored. People can choose their client based on how it handles these ignore events.

After posting these kind of notes, I always feel like having had to much sugar. It's cheap to post these shower thoughts and there is a temptation to share such random "insights" with the world. Like informational fast food or the urge to play with a fidget gadget. Apologies for any spam, unfortunately deletion is not a feature of Nostr.

In a world of generative AI that is only limited by the imagination of the prompt, the key skill is to focus and keeping a clear mind.

Maybe you find my posts too much like LinkedIn level platitudes but still, you're welcome to give them a read :)

I also appreciate insightful responses / discussions!

Stop, breath, reflect. I write this note for myself. Life is good. Many things to be grateful for, many things to pursue. What's the meaning of life? Let's set this question aside. It won't go away. It costs mental energy to ponder, yet I rarely find a fulfilling answer. Solving practical problems is fulfilling. Living life, not just examining it. I love the taste of my luke warm coffee. Taking a break in the rocking chair. Enjoying the sensation of my surroundings. Stop worrying about things I can't control, focus on the parts I can. Get good at my craft. Life is fascinating. Getting to experience a slice of space-time in this universe. The high resolution of our virtual worlds makes me appreciate the detailed richness of reality even more. I don't want to wirehead myself. At least for as long as I have this body. I want to care for my health. Striving for a lower biological age. Communicating with other people is amazing. Sharing the experience of this slice of space-time with others. Taking notes. Communicating not just through space, but also time. Thanks for reading. Wherever, whenever and whoever you are. I wish you all the best. Take care until we connect again.

Recently I've read "Mythical man month" and one of the interesting perspectives to me is, that complex software is not built but grown. Top me that makes a lot of sense. You don't start out with a perfect blueprint and implement but rather start with a prototyp, turn it into a minimal viable product, mange technical debt, explore new features, adapt to changing environments and so on. The code base is like a garden that needs care and yields utility. This perspective also helps me with frustration in legacy code bases. Working in a garden is nicer than working on a construction site. It also resolves the question of when the software is finished. It will always need maintenance. It can always be developed further.

Would you like to have a delete button?

That's really clever 😄 🤙

I'd really like to delete notes. Just to increase signal to noise in my feed.

There's a categorical difference. I live for all the things life is about, but for some causes like my children and loved ones I'd rather die than keep on living. Not for everyone I love of course, but for my children for sure. So maybe the question is better posed as what would I die for? Obviously there are the physical needs, where a constant lack has the consequence of dying. I live to eat, drink, sleep, clean. To care for shelter and health. To gather resources, which is just money in our modern society. Apart from that, I also live for my children and loved ones. Are there any other things I'd die even though it wouldn't kill me like dehydration? Politicsl ideals come to mind, but thankfully these scenarios are so abstract, that I don't know how I'd actually react.

As of now, I'm mainly using Nostr for public journaling. Getting some outside thoughts and leaving some artifacts I can review later.

This feeling of inadequate intellect is also a common reason for me, to not take any stance on complex topics like nutrition or (macro) economics. Finding the right people / institutions to trust on these complex topics is also a hard problem in my opinion.

How is life possible in the face of ever increasing entropy. For a human, the probability of their atoms to be in the configuration that make up their human body is so small, it doesn't happen by chance. It requires DNA, ribosomes, cells and all the other molecular biology processes. I'd really love to understand where my thinking falls short. Somewhere I've read that life is not a closed system. Somewhere else I've heared that life is an accelerant to increase the entropy of the low entropy energy we get from the sun. Emitting high entropy energy back in space. I feel too stupid to reason about entropy by myself. I probably need to understand some basic definitions and work through some thermodynamics exercises. However taking notes of my thinking also seems to make it easier to organize my understanding. Thanks for reading. If you know something about life and thermodynamics, I appreciate any food for thought!

So unlikely for this dirt to end up this way by chance. Me cleaning makes the room an open system I guess.

Decreased entropy looks so good 🤓

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7045864637398216121693825270.webp

Is there a good way to show users which clients implement which parts of the protocol correctly and whiparts they break? Something as official as the NIPs repo maybe

What is consciousness? Why do we talk about it? There is no canonical definition for it. Some people say it doesn't exist, it's just an illusion. It seems like a software property of our brain. Having a sense of self, persistence in time, experience of sensory input, control of muscle output, processing of memories. What do I mean when stating that I'm conscious? When sleeping I'm not conscious. I don't (or only very rarely) have control about my thoughts. But in dreams I still experience things as David Härer. Is it a model my brain has of my body? Associating memories and future possibilities with my present body. Is it like a software session? Having access to the memory and I/O of my body. But who is having this access? My body itself. It's self-awareness. A computer simulating a user interacting with itself. Does this user actually exist? It makes sense to talk about it. It explains what happening on the computer. It can be observed as a process in memory. It's not much different then other software on the computer. However I'm still struggling with the right level of abstraction. How detached can I view my software from my hardware? My brain is more like an ASIC then a general purpose computer. I don't have a GPU in my head, capable of running arbitrary neutral nets. It's hardware that has evolved to execute one particular neural net. So the software is defined by the hardware. It's possible to learn things, change habits and so on, but that means slowly changing the hardware. However we are capable of acting in roles and doing mental math. So there is some general computing capability. But my consciousness and personality is in the domain of hardwired software. So it's not arbitrary but specific to the wiring of my brain. Is it possible to create a dublicate brain or move my consciousness to silicon hardware? I guess that's a question for another time. Thanks for reading. Do you have a definition of consciousness?

That's right, I don't know how my children will go through life. I hope they will have this positive outlook and I will do my best to help them. But in the end I set them on a journey into the unknown, believing that it will be a good one.

What I mean by aging gracefully is to accept that getting older is part of life. To be grateful for the good experiences in the past and to accept that you have to make sacrifices. You loose more and more abilities, but you get richer in experiences and wisdom. I don't think it is possible to maintain a positive attitude no matter what life throws at you. But I also don't see it as inevitable to adopt a pessimistic view on life.

It seems like you don't believe people can age gracefully.