So there’s a TechCrunch account on Nostr posting a TechCrunch article about Bluesky which is silent about Nostr?! 🫠
Thought experiment: a world in which the main gage of success is the clarity of one’s conscience not how much wealth one has acquired.
I like the idea of factoring out “non-productive financial services” combined with factoring in the productive impact of technological advancements. But arguably this is all very subjective and subject to political gamesmanship.
Another nuance would be whether #Bitcoin becomes the measurement tool or gets subsumed within the category of technological advancement.
A nuance within an ellipsis! I like it!
Nice. Is there a word missing?
As long as people believe {prices} “always go up”…
“April 3, 2023 - Real Humans Can’t Tell the Difference Between a 13B Open Model and ChatGPT
Berkeley launches Koala, a dialogue model trained entirely using freely available data.
They take the crucial step of measuring real human preferences between their model and ChatGPT. While ChatGPT still holds a slight edge, more than 50% of the time users either prefer Koala or have no preference. Training Cost: $100.”
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
“…holding on to a competitive advantage in technology becomes even harder now that cutting edge research in LLMs is affordable. Research institutions all over the world are building on each other’s work, exploring the solution space in a breadth-first way that far outstrips our own capacity. We can try to hold tightly to our secrets while outside innovation dilutes their value, or we can try to learn from each other.”
“”Without software that protects the individual user's rights and freedoms, and without digital infrastructure that is open to all, modern society risks slipping further into digital totalitarianism," OpenSats said in a statement.”
“Governments can seize your real estate for arbitrary reasons.”
https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/11-ways-to-lose-money-and-time-with
“Bitcoin is about power first, not money. Bitcoin gives you power over your money.”
https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/11-ways-to-lose-money-and-time-with
“People are prone to wishful thinking. They can believe an assertion and espouse it as truth in the face of overwhelming evidence and facts to [the] contrary, simply because they wish that things were so. Also, people are generally gullible, easily mislead, and conformist - as in the Asch Conformity Experiments. Fortunately, the higher the stakes, the more incentivized people are to actively seek and filter information, rather than let opinions come to them. Unfortunately, social media has trained us to be “fed” information and ideas rather than considering first and intentionally searching after - this is contrary to human nature.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“Every effective story sends out a charged idea, in effect compelling the idea into us, so that we must believe. In fact, the persuasive power of a story is so great that we may believe its meaning even if we find it morally repellent.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“Google’s thesis says “primary sources generate high-quality, reliable information at scale.” In normal social environments, primary sources are a synonym for trust or reputation; but since social media systems don’t mimic these trusted environments, the utility of reputation breaks. The inequality of influence - and noise from an unknown crowd - further impedes deliberation; so we can understand why they do not produce (nor sort for) high-quality, reliable information at scale.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“As tribal animals that use inner circles to function, community boundaries are important in allowing us to coordinate and trust each other. Without these barriers (as in our cosmopolitan cities) it dampens all significant variety, arrests most of the possibilities for differentiation, and encourages conformity. This creates basic people - or liking likable things to be liked - and is the death of authenticity.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“Mimetic Desire (think ‘mime’ or ‘mimicking’) is a theory by René Gerard that shines light on why we desire what we desire. In Gerard’s own words:
"Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires."
This also applies to how we (or the markets) derive value and why popular ideas (or trends) are so alluring.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“…we are rediscovering what happens when we can’t “hear” each other. And since mass scale communication is from which we assemble our knowledge, decide the future, and maintain world peace, this might be the most important problem in the world.
When solved, we will speed up the evolution of humanity. The ability to coordinate information at mass scale will help us discover new ideas - hidden behind the archaic algorithms that prioritize the familiar, and obscure the unfamiliar. We will find groundbreaking secrets again. We will more easily source labor, capital, and resources for their best uses. We will reach consensus and get things right.”
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem
“…Americans need Bitcoin "to ensure freedom."”
“Klippsten’s claim is that if Bitcoin reaches 10 million supporters in the United States, that small but unmoving minority will make it practically impossible to fight the technology.”
“Each of the players in the current game are incentivized to keep it running as long as possible and they have access to tremendous resources to help make that happen. Perhaps, for the first time, the issue isn’t powerful interests trying to make more money, it is the very definition of money itself. It will be a war and they will pull out all the stops.”
Your #Bitcoin participation is swimming against the tide of centralisation.