Very good. I did a huge language deep diver a decade ago. The best I ever came across was the “Pimsluer” method. Guy was a genius.
I picked up conversational Spanish in 30 days.
I didn’t continue unfortunately - life gets busy - but I’m sure if I did a whole 90 days, and then stayed in a Spanish speaking place, I would’ve been flying by now. The good thing is; I can understand pretty well, and a lot of that is residue from the Pimsluer stuff I did.
Definitely worth checking out.
Unfortunately, despite multiple invites and attempts by people to work WITH you, in good faith, you’ve instead decided to put your ego infront of what’s an extremely beneficial initiative to drive Nostr usage and adoption across three cities.
I’m very disappointed
How do you “steal credit ” for work?
3 cities. 3 countries. 3 conferences. 3 full Nostr Days following each conference. It’s gonna be EPIC.
Hope you can make one of them!
You’re all welcome. I sold some Sats last week to pay bills 😂
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft I accidentally clicked "defer" on my own article and now the article has disappeared.
Happens to me all the time
[New Podcast] Anarchism, The Origins of #Nostr, & The Future of FOSS w/ nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm
https://fountain.fm/episode/GwkMHQvCQCFjmLdqbCeT
I sit down with LNbits founder Ben Arc for a wide ranging and fascinating conversation about political philosophy, Nostr, and the future of FOSS/AI. This was a treat to record and I hope you enjoy! Here's a full sample of what we discussed:
- Ben’s left libertarian / anarchist lens on Bitcoin - the ultimate goal is liberty
- Stateless socialism, Marx, and Adam Smith
- Open protocols like Bitcoin / Nostr and public key cryptography replacing functions of the state
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: “Property is theft, property is liberty”
- Soulful vs. soul-less capital
- “The Adam Smith Invisible Bitch Slap” - Ben’s synthesis of left anarchism and Austrian/ancap thought. Open protocols, public key cryptography, FOSS create new more efficient commons in which private capital can participate. But if capital tries to co-opt the commons, it gets the Adam Smith invisible hand bitch slap (see the big blockers from Segwit2x). This creates the playing field for an actual free market
- Collaboration vs extraction - key is aligning incentives so both parties win and grow the pie
- “Value waterfalls and the remix economy”- Max’s idea of how BTC and open source protocols will evolve - similar to Stemstr. Both parties win when they collaborate are incentivized to share the same stream of files which get remixed and create thicker value waterfalls or a bigger pie for all
- Peter Kropotkin and Mutual Aid - rereading Darwin for mutual aid as a driving factor in evolution
- Karma and evolution: 1) nothing is permanent; everything is in flow; everything is relative - one order lower of complexity sees only itself + information 2) karma may be the ultimate driver/law of evolution - a system evolves in its totality toward more mutual aid and complexity
- Hegel and the Master-Slave Dialectic - exploitation requires dehumanization making both parties less in touch with reality and happy; in order for them to both be free they need to become peers. The ultimate goal is more liberation/liberty
- P2P peer relationships are the best healthiest relationships: what we see in Bitcoin and open networks
- John Nash: non oppressive mind space is healthiest - Mind on Strike: giving more people mind space allows their minds to explore and explode open; libertarianism comes from liberation and the need for some equality for this to happen.
- Is John Nash Satoshi?
- Ben’s entry to bitcoin: dorky Uk news correspondents, his students using dark markets, a hatred of banks, and Wikileaks
- The mindseed for Nostr: Ben’s Diagon Alley
- Pirate Bay and p2p markets
- Building the first twitter clone on nostr; apologies for NIP-04
- Reverting a fiatjaf hard commit led to Branle
- Securing http://nostr.com for 1 BTC
- First talk on Nostr at Paralelni Polis
- Finding the alpha with the productive nyms; spear fishing for projects; hanging out on edge of internet; if you’re sending a deck it’s generally too late for me
- Nostr and free / open / non Orwellian / non evil IoT - what all can we build with relays, web sockets, and public key crypto
- Building a new web with Nostr (e.g. see Nostr Wallet Connect and early IoT)- the old web is compromised and drowning in AI spam; dead internet theory is here; Nostr (public key crypto) for signing notes is our best defense
- http://Nostr.com is selling dope NIP-05 verifiers
- LNbits released a Nostr signing device for identity management
- Nostr is best of both worlds online - create smaller forum like communities while still riding on a global network effect
- “A better Internet is possible” - we’re not at the end of history
- FOSS, nostr, and bitcoin are viruses which infect the system: Just like the major financial institutions with Bitcoin, eventually Twitter will plug into Nostr
- Monopoly of the commons is the future; FOSS eventually swallows all (see Switzerland recently requiring the government to use FOSS)
- AI brings the age of disposable software at least at the level of building extensions
- The need for more Bitcoin and Nostr tooling in Python for the AI community so they can easily bring identity and payments / value transfer to the agents
- Max’s thesis: evolution of digital life forms : open source models will evolve into swarms of agents with value - see http://hivemind.vc/ai
- The importance of reputation in Nostr: Web of Trust as a theoretical solution; open timestamps with payment to go higher up a merkle tree; AI agent as dvm for calculating trust
- Ben is more wary of AI long term and thinks it will be more monolithic than swarm-like; perhaps it becomes a benign dictator that could kill us or just give us what we need to be happy; could be capitalism as we know it eating itself and requiring a new system?
- How the Light Gets In: philosophy festival (part of haybook festival): open AI guy calling the god AI Super Gaia
- Max’s idea on AI: there will be always trade-offs resulting in different forms of intelligence
Nice!
nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm - I DM’d you
I saw an early preview of this, and it is very, very powerful.
Bitcoin’s protection under the first amendment. Take some time out to read it.
https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment
Most are. But they’re a place to find legit people who are more likely to be interested in Nostr.
IMO, that’s the cohort of people we need to onboard here first. And we need to 10x the number of people on here in order to really reach a critical mass.
This post made think that for those whose goal it is to #growNostr, which is a lot of us on the network, an invite-only system seems to attract interest in new things. It creates like an artificial scarcity and FOMO. It appears this worked well for BlueSky, and I think even Facebook and Gmail accounts did that in the beginning. Since Nostr is already out there, perhaps a new Nostr client, maybe like the one nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn has teased, might use that strategy and attract a lot of new users with it. Perhaps you could only login to the client or use it if some existing user has invited you (if that is technically possible with Nostr, given interoperability and all). Then you have the start of a web of trust going in and at least one other user to follow. Just a thought.
Actually a solid idea 👌👌
Great essay Tanja. Well done
The internet is a strange place.
Or maybe that’s the world.
Either way…incredible
Yeah I think that’s because steak is very tricky to get right.
Personally though, I hate steak. Or at least, I don’t like it compared to slow cooked brisket or beef cheek - and perhaps that’s because it’s so hard to get steak right
