People... are ridiculous. I don't see much point in paying them any mind. What do "real jobs" do? Contribute to the GDP? Even the jobs that actually do something are looked down upon. The next most vital job after raising the people who make up society is feeding them, yet while "farming" is idealized "farmers" are ridiculed. Plumbers at #3 also aren't anyone's ideal.

The result of real work is life, the result of imaginary work is money.

Parenting is the only real job nature ever created. All other jobs exist to aid parenting.

Sure there is a lot of nuance to that claim, some jobs are parasitic on society and some are far removed from the main goal of living, but it all comes back to replication eventually. That's why we get so upset about reproduction and education issues.

Well, I think the "doing nothing" mindset is a bit more European. In the U.S. SAHMs are suspected of internalized oppression by one half and idealized by the other. SAHDs are just kind of beta.

SAHD here. It is humbling doing a job that society doesn't value, to be dependent on a spouse who makes nearly double what I ever did. But that's just my pride getting in the way of enjoying a ridiculously blessed life.

We all want to give our lives to something or someone, a hobby, a cause, but we want to decide what, how, and why. The trouble is that retaining that control means we haven't really given our lives to the cause.

I am only miserable taking care of my 5 kids when I dwell on how important I could have been if I had had the time to program, or do some math, etc.

What has always bothered me is that the exponential growth thing isn't true. It is an S curve response to larger groups of people being able to collaborate. We have a ways to go before everyone is brought into the community and technology will continue to be an increasingly massive multiplier, but in the end it is people working their tails off, not some magical technology progression. If the people behind it lose their focus or stop having children, it will collapse.

That and a Nostr relay, but now I am dreaming.

Can you ask Elon to put one on every Starlink satellite? Make the network resistant to terrestrial instability and accusations of waste.

Not familiar with nix but that was an "interesting" rabbit hole. People are upset that they don't have the power to ban people they don't like. Only they use a lot more words and an RFC to say so.

Meta's Llama3 70b model is surprisingly usable on my PC. The 8b parameter model is great if you want something capable of stating the obvious at blazing speed. 70b works about as fast as an average human could type, but much better results.

That should have been "Recursive functions 3 evah"

Bamboozled again!

States will be a critical component of the web of trust. They don't get to own it, but they will be a highly trusted member. It should never be people vs the state, without trust the whole thing falls apart.

All humanly recognizable identifiers; usernames, domains, etc; need to be set by the client. I.E. petnames.

An entity can make a proposal about who they are, our network of friends can tell us who they think the entity is, and we can verify for ourselves. Each layer adds a bit more certainty.

A web of trust approach is the only truly decentralized way to do it. If you demand that identifiers be globally unique, then you have a form of centralization. Even consensus models are centralized if required to be global.

Don't bake in any global info to your protocol. It should function the same whether your corner of the network is isolated from the whole or joined.

Hmm. I didn't think of reimbursement. It's a good thing I am not actually in charge. But no, I was not planning on different transaction types. My reasoning is that if you treat business-customer, business-business, differently then it adds extra friction for interpersonal commerce. Under our current tax system if I want to hire my neighbor to mow my lawn now and then, I need to register myself as an employer, get a tax id, file a w-4, then submit yearly w-2s. Or he could register as a contractor and do it himself. In either case it is a massive pain in the neck, so for odd jobs we either go under the table or just don't hire each other at all.

If your law requires people become (minor) criminals just to associate freely, then something is wrong. The case of reimbursement is an issue or not depending on the transactional tax rate. We seem to be ok already with 3% going to credit card processors.

You probably can't run a government on 3% But I think the size of the economy would be much larger with greater transactional velocity.

In your flat tax would everyone pay the same amount or is it a rate on income?

Agreed on the localism. When I say "transaction tax" I mean paid locally. Kind of like a local sales tax. How would a flat tax work differently?

You make some great points. I made that "people don't change" mistake that I despise when made by other people. Whadda hypocrite!

I agree that you don't really want to mix in financial incentives too much. That is why I want to just use a transaction tax. Government picking incentives prevents the market from optimizing and has added a huge overhead in IRS agents and accountants, while disincentivizing interpersonal commerce. The loss of economic activity is immeasurable (not without being able to compare parallel realities)

The main thing I wish we could collectively knowledge is that the main function of a society, like every living thing, is to raise the next generation in the values that created it. We seem to think we can have a society that encourages goals other than continuing society and relationships without life.

Someone is spamming the global feed. We need web of trust.

I have to admit there is something amiss with the way we treat livestock. I am, I think, at least open to changing my mind. I do wonder though, if humans didn't eat them, would there be any cows at all?

I think there would be some. Dairy and preservation herds, but they aren't wild. They could probably survive in an area without too much competition.

I think we should at a minimum give livestock lives outside of a stockyard. There should be grass under their feet and sky over their head.

Wait a minute! Are you me? Other people have these thoughts? I want to get to the point that I can cosign a tax contract with my city wherein my wallet sends them a flat transaction tax. Just city, they can sign their own digital contracts with county -> State -> Federal.

The one hang up with the dependency thing is that I don't want to politically motivate adoption. Making the multiplier 0.5 instead of 1 might help, but there will still be incentive to only approve ideogically aligned adoptions.

Yes. All my personal clients across mobile, desktop, etc. should be a personal distributed data store.