Started raining just now when I was walking the dog. People were running like it was something dangerous.

Reminded me of a time in NY 30 years ago when it suddenly started pouring and people were scrambling like maniacs to get to shelter. I was on my way home, and initially started running like everyone else, but stopped. I thought, why the fuck is everyone so terrified of the rain?

I purposely walked extra slow, it wasn’t cold out. I got soaked to the bone through my clothes.

I don’t remember anything else about it, only thinking it wasn’t a big deal.

thanks — will check those out

Not only imagine, but assume it’s the base case. AI is McDonald’s, humans make home-cooked meals.

Someone needs to write — or forward to me if it already exists — a book about internet infrastructure as clearly spelled out as Lyn Alden did in Broken Money for the financial system.

I read posts here from tech people and realize I’m missing something fundamental in my understanding of how my world works.

one day — when you have enough data and capacity — you will stop posting because you realize keeping up with organic intelligence in this kind of endeavor is futile.

Exactly — if the AI could post as well as a human, Cyborg would be my favorite follow on NOSTR. But I don’t even follow it.

AI will obsolete anything fomulaic, and that’s ultimately good the way the horse obsoleted carry heavy bags over long distances on foot.

I would bet huge sums AI will never obsolete the creative. It’s just a dumb robot doing what it’s told, no matter how specific or iterative the instructions.

I hope so. Seems like the schlock (which is most of it) will get AI’d, but the more sublime content, the art if you will, will remain.

maybe

Going to post some ideas here instead of as drafts on my Substack. I can use this as my notebook of sorts.

One thing that occurred to me while running at the track today is that my lung capacity and how I feel while doing it varies substantially day to day and week to week. (I go every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.)

Today I felt a bit sluggish, and I always thought maybe it was due to something inflammatory I ate — I’m gluten-free and eat mostly unprocessed foods, but you never know if some lactose-containing dairy or nuts or some kind of fruit sets you off.

I’ve also suspected pollens in the air, humidity, mold in the house, etc. I was diagnosed with “exercised-induced asthma” in high school, and while I’m not even sure that’s a real thing, I’ve definitely had times where I was much more winded than I should have been.

But today I was running and feeling kind of sluggish, not terrible, just below average and I paid attention to where the discomfort was in my chest and lungs, and I started getting in touch with a feeling of anxiety.

I suspected first it was anxiety about being pushed to run more or faster (I did 4 miles), but I watched it for awhile and it seemed more like just sweating and running and being outside, I was getting in touch with general anxiety, and the discomfort was from wanting to avoid that.

It occurred to me that maybe the exercise-induced-asthma was a defense mechanism from feeling something overwhelming. And it activates to keep me from breathing more deeply and getting in touch with whatever’s underneath.

And that I was sluggish today because I was more anxious than usual, and I was more anxious than usual because I had spent too much time on anXiety, the Elon-Musk owned social media site.

In other words, maybe my inflammatory response wasn’t from something I consumed via my digestive system but instead what I allowed into my mind.

X should rename itself anXiety.

It’s the primary feeling I’m left with after spending time there.

It’s a little bit here too, but not as much. Social media is in some ways a window into the mind of society, and there is a TON of anxiety right now being pushed from all directions.

A politician can’t protect democracy any more than a corporation can protect capitalism. Just do your job and leave the market (or democratic process) alone.

Send him Lyn Alden’s book. Explain Bitcoin, and they don’t get it. Explain money, and it makes perfect sense.

Full transparency encouraged (not mandated) in the *public* square, total privacy otherwise in personal/financial affairs.

You have to buy a little in order to study it IMO. Otherwise, you won’t be motivated to do the work.

I guess that wouldn’t happen though — it would just have a much smaller amount of it, and that would be sufficient to serve its fiat clients.

Because if people are front runner, Blackrock better hurry up and stack. And if people are front runner, and Blackrock is waiting for paperwork to process, then other players will front run too.

How hilarious if the ETF never really got to happen because the anticipation of it priced it out of existence.

Is Black Rock stacking or are people frontunning?

Thank them for helping get your “work” out to a wider audience

maybe they just hate people