I never sold a sat, Ray. I never sold a sat.
I’m as into BTC as the next “pry it from my cold dead hands” maxi, but no one else here into fantasy football?
that was apparently before he wanted to put the unvaccinated in camps
I said on Twitter when I got to 50 followers on NOSTR it would be my main social media outlet. Now we’re here, and it is.
Ain’t gonna work on Elon’s farm no more (except on Tuesdays).
Build on a firm foundation even if you have to start from scratch.
Free speech is dangerous in certain cases but censorship is dangerous at scale.
New podcast:
Trip to France
Two weeks on NOSTR
The highest authority in the universe
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0OIF8Hw6riiQbPizrLd2Kj?si=d2d25d49ca9b4d14
Firm but fair
Why I Don’t Fear AI
"The question in which we’re interested is which function AI(x) or Mind(x) is more powerful.”
Like a desperate, cornered animal. Keep your distance to the greatest extent practicable.
Sucks I might have to hop back on Twitter earlier than I wanted to in order to seek a remedy against the Enterprise car rental company that is trying to steal $1000 from me.
Those fuckers rented us a beat up car and when we didn’t get photos of every single last scratch is trying to bill us for them after we returned it without incident.
This will prove to be a grave mistake on their part just as it was a mistake on Orbitz’s part 5 years ago.
https://medium.com/@chris_liss/stop-stealing-our-money-694d3649d274
I think it’ll be like AOL after people got used to the open web. What purpose would it serve?
Probably not, but that’s all they can be in the end.
Eventually all the platforms — Twitter, Substack, Facebook. Etc. — will just be clients.
DEGREES OF INFINITY
5/10/23
In the late 19th century, mathematician Georg Cantor showed that not all infinite sets were of the same size. For example, while there are the same amount of odd integers as there are integers (because you can match them one to one forever), there are many more points on a line, or real numbers, than there are integers. In fact the ratio of integers to real numbers is effectively zero. The ratio of all integers to real numbers between zero and one is similarly zero.
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/degrees-of-infinity
The implication of this discovery is that not all infinities are equal, i.e., some infinities are more infinite than others. This is a hard concept around which to wrap one’s mind, but it’s another, perhaps simpler way of illustrating my “big idea” that AI will never tame complex systems, than using Graham’s Number and TREE(3).
My contention is that AI is climbing the integer ladder, while complex systems are expanding in the realm of real numbers. (If you’re unclear on real numbers, they are comprised of both rational numbers — those that can be expressed as fractions like 1/2 or 2/1 — and irrational numbers like the square-root of two or pi that cannot be expressed fractionally.) Real numbers comprise every discreet point on a line, whereas rational numbers (and obviously integers) leave gaps.
Hence, no matter how powerful AI becomes, it will never be able to solve the stock market, central-plan an economy, create forests, coral reefs or complex new life forms. The more juice we give it, the farther up the integer ladder it climbs, but no matter what heights it reaches, it will never cover even an infinitesimal step to the next rung on the real number one. AI is just a machine, perhaps a powerful and impressive one, but no match for the Tao, operating, as it were, in a higher dimension of infinity.
Went back on Twitter yesterday and immediately taking another one-week break. Think I’ll just do it on Tuesdays and called it Twitter Tuesday or maybe See You Next Tuesday.
There’s a great account for covid and “climate change” on it @ethicalskeptic I follow, but he never shows up in my chronological feed — I have to click specifically on his handle to see his posts. And if they’re doing that to some of my follows, I imagine they’re also doing that to me with respect to some of my followers.
In other words, I can’t be sure what I’m posting is reaching the audience that wants to see it.
One could argue — well, that’s still better than having it reach your 46 followers on NOSTR, likely half of which are only checking once/week at most.
But it’s not.
I’ve heard #[0] argue to avoid buying the Twitter checkmark due to KYC, but while I returned my check and stopped paying, it was never really due to KYC or the info they had on me.
After all, I post under my own name here and at Substack, so it’s not like they’d have to look hard to figure out I’m an apostate to their religion. It’s that your entire online world is built on a shaky foundation when your presence is on Twitter or the other even worse social networks. The more you invest in your history and identity there, the worse they can rug you.
It’s really a lot like the fiat financial system — you’re at the whim of centralized actors who do not remotely have your best interests at heart, and will play dirty without hesitation. And unlike the financial system, there is no requirement I use it to pay my bills or taxes.
So I deleted Twitter from my phone — stuck with NOSTR while I’m waiting on line or killing time somewhere — and for now I’m only using it once a week, on Tuesdays, largely to promote what I’m doing here and on Substack.
Plus I like to say See You Next Tuesday.
All fermented foods from cheese to meat to vegetables to alcohol was once “artisanal”
Smartest thing I did was delete Facebook in 2018. Second smartest was delete Twitter from my phone two weeks ago. Now if I’m stuck somewhere in line, I have only NOSTR.
Went back to walled garden of Twitter today. It's like any other organism in an ecosystem - adapted to its paricular niche. NOSTR is the ecosystem itself.
This like leaving your bitcoins on an exchange? Which ones are closed source?