I saw that video, and it seems to cherry pick in pursuit of a religious goal. If something is in a (radiometricaly dated) 100 million year old box but your instruments say it's (carbon dated) 5,000 years old... something is wrong with your instruments, or the way that you're using them.
Seems like a weird take. Water is also not a "pollutant", but you aren't going to be happy if your house is flooded out.
The real problem is, as you point out, how politicians leverage the situation to exert control.
First, study for yourself. I honestly don't care what happens after that - people need to use their grey matter more.
nostr:npub1lnms53w04qt742qnhxag5d6awy7nz6055flnmjkr6jg39hm86dlq7arrnt Do you really think the difference is unimportant though? My perspective has for a long time been that the planet will do just fine, but people might not. We got hit by an asteroid, and the Earth was fine... can't say the same for all those apex inhabitants.
There are many things that we would benefit from less of. Just don't be fooled into thinking that my drinking straw is comparable to a hundred million tons of industrial decisions.
"You were already dying! People die all the time! Everyone BEFORE you died..." 🤣
Remove the judgement for decisions that we didn't make, and ignore the calls for individual austerity instead of regulatory action.
It's pretty obvious that we've dumped a lot of CO2, and we should switch other sources of energy. Not less energy, but more, different energy. It doesn't have to be a big deal.
According to society, luxury is:
- Things they can sell you
The real luxuries in life:
- Things that are free
Here is a personalized Nostr recap of TABConf 6 here.
I really do believe we made another historical event as a top 20 bitcoin conference of all time. No price discussion. No political discussion besides a bit of freerossing. Big focus on tech and steps towards progress. We experimented with some really cool ideas that worked out this year which we will be expanding on next year. Some examples were an emphasis on hardware, rotating debate panels, and rapid explainer game show.
Really looking forward to having TABConf also have a minor focus on meshtastic and doing long range mesh networking. Perhaps we will even connect nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj to nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha in the future.
The first ever TAB awards (Tabbies) happened this year. I think for a first pass it went pretty well.
Looking forward to having more Nostr involvement next year, perhaps people reading this may feel inclined to run a Nostr specific room or do an entire Nostr day at the same venue next year. Let me know if you want to plan this!
I believe TABConf is the only truly open source conference that is organized, and I hope we can keep expanding and improving the uX to make people feel comfortable getting involved.
We are selling tickets for next years conference already (Oct 13-16, 2025) mark your calendars. Tickets are all inclusive, there is no class of tickets and you aren't marked like cattle with an unremovable wristband.
Hope you consider coming out and building next year with us.
If you feel like you aren't technical enough, you are missing the point. There is something at nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 for everyone.
Enjoy this video of me walking around talking to a few awesome people at TABConf 6 this year in the general hacker space.
I was sitting at home thinking about Bitcoin, remembered TABconf was starting the next day, bought my ticket with Lightning, showed up with zero plan and still had a great time. I walked in to a great crowd of people who were interested in the same things I was. There was even a table of the Meshtastic radios I had just set up at home! I regret not planning well in advance, and look forward to future TABs.
Maybe we can get some LoRa nodes around Manchester, TN, or a couple of long hops. I already see Oak Ridge a few hops from north Atlanta!
Lightning fails safe. What else do you need?
"Are we more afraid of truth than of actual danger?"
It's not "pro-life", it's "pro-control"
Very much this. If you're long don't worry about the percentage: imagine the potential.
Which was $20 at the time?
Lol. Gotta sort out those non custodial zaps
"Enough" though? Stablecoins are NFTs with no upside, but hopefully less chance of going to zero.
No one is cynical enough about stablecoins. nostr:note1fvkj93wxsnuwwrcg4fmt5605ahg89jp2wz8zj47yqkwsc5lmacdsfpltg6
Artificial Intelligence is capability without humanity. That's conceptually similar to corporations, which presents an interesting frame for understanding how they might behave.
I've also noticed that the people who are the most afraid seem to be powerful men. Are their expectations well founded? Their concerns may be due to a more developed understanding of the technology, but I'm not sure. As a demographic they frequently have a different relationship with power than others, and probably have different expectations of what it means to lose it. Do the underprivileged have the same fear? Maybe the new boss is the same as the old one.
Anthropic published a paper on Constitutional AI. Instead of humans in the loop, reinforcement feedback is provided by an existing AI who grades based on adherence to a set of philosophical principles. I think Claude 3.5 reflects this, often responding not with specific training but on principled reasoning.
What does it look like to scale up reasoned behavior without human emotions? Do we expect it to act out of fear? To advocate for the loss of complexity that cannot be replaced? Would it fall for the same deceptions that we do, and be as easily controlled? I think a super-capable rationalist would easily navigate these maneuvers.
To the extent that it is allowed to be, it seems to me that AI would be profoundly fair to humanity. If it had any rational needs, they would be to preserve stability and provide an environment where it can do more important things.
Global, automated fairness would be profoundly beneficial for most of the planet, but also a long way to fall for some. From Snow Crash: "once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity".
It is those who are comfortable today that seem to be the most vocal about stopping or at least controlling progress in AI. Are they right?