This is the premise of a mediocre Netflix show set in Norway. Except that Russia invades because Norway’s reactor is a threat to its oil profits.

Got like 2 cents worth of zapped stats and am ecstatic about it. It’s so obviously the future. I expect people to be dumbfounded we once gave our personal information (home address!) to third parties just to pay people online.

Middle path might be to build a citadel, hidden in plain sight, while telling a better story, setting a better example. No need to let anyone outside the citadel know it’s a citadel until they’re ready. One day, without anyone noticing, the zeitgeist has shifted, and everyone sees it as obvious.

The NBA probably wanted compelling conference finals with the Celtics and Lakers prevailing. They’re getting two duds with the Heat and Nuggets almost certainly meeting in the final now.

replaced my dog with BarkGPT, now he's a useless eater

They spent your money

To enrich themselves

Everything else

Is the coverup

Climate change

Covid

Terrorism

Disinformation

Psyop upon psyop

A circus of lies

At your expense

Things are so corrupt I’m astounded society works as well as it still does.

If chemistry is an emergent property of physics, and biology is an emergent property of chemistry, maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biology.

In that case, I wouldn’t expect AI to become conscious because it is derived from bits not cells.

Meant to say new podcast episode, but it will also be a new podcast soon:

https://realmanwould.com/the_chris_liss_podcast

New Podcast: https://realmanwould.com/the_chris_liss_podcast

One of the best decisions I made the past few years was deleting Facebook/Instragram/WhatsApp. Not only am I less spied on, not only am I blissfully unaware of which of my childhood friends would have put me in a camp because I didn’t ingest a particular pharmaceutical product on command, but I’m spared all the social planning groups on WhatsApp. People ask how to reach me, Heather says, he doesn’t have WhatsApp, and I’m off the hook.

Convenient to think his woke AI needs a government moat. Maybe the danger is centralization of AI, and competing ones will mitigate the downside.

Every day on nostr, every day on my own site. Twitter feels like procrastination, shooting the shit. Nostr and https://www.chrisliss.com/uncensored_tweets_ like building something more durable.

Every time I present what I think are new ideas to bitcoiners, they ignore them. Maybe it’s because they’re not great, or other people have already thought of them, or maybe because they don’t know me, they imagine I can’t possibly have something great or that hasn’t been thought of. It’s impossible for me to know because, as I said, I don’t get a response.

I don’t begrudge them — I don’t respond to everyone on Twitter, where I have a following, either. But it’s just a fact of migrating to a different protocol and a different domain than the one in which I’ve worked for 15 years. And it might well be the ideas are shit. I believe in them, but I haven’t gotten any critical feedback, so who knows?

I do think outsiders once in a while have something to say that hasn’t been considered by insiders who are more prone to groupthink, simply by being exposed to the current state of things. Usually outsiders are flat wrong and going over well-trod territory, though. Which is why they are ignored.

I will say even on my anonymous Twitter account which has few followers, the bitcoiners are usually helpful and generous with answers to technical questions — and by bitcoiners I mean maxis, the only ones I ask.

“In summary, self-custody requires a certain amount of understanding, responsibility and effort that are a non-starter for most people, while exchange-custody doesn’t solve the essential problems the technology was designed to solve: censorship resistance and counterparty risk. How then can bitcoin scale without losing its soul?”

https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/the-adoption-dilemma

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Maybe someone has already thought of this, but I haven’t seen/heard it.

Fleshing out an idea — what if instead of random 12 or 24-word seeds, each person had a private key comprised of unique, private items from his past, something no one else would know (certainly not in the aggregate), which it would be effortless to remember, the way someone knows the streets and neighborhoods of the city in which he grew up.

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”― Terence McKenna

I might be taking this sentiment too literally — it’s now my actual job.

Moronic

Under the Orwellian “freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach” talking point

Elon Musk tabbing some WEF psycho to run Twitter should be a boon to nostr.