I’ve been doing this thing for awhile now where I don’t correct anyone’s assumptions about me.

When I stopped trying to defend myself I started to learn a lot more about others.

The assumptions someone holds about you actually speak volumes about them.

Give it a shot, you’ll get some interesting data from it.

Christianity built the world there’s no denying it

Boomers created a world I have no intention or desire to live in and yet they want my respect.

Respect for what?

We have to tear down what you did and start over.

No you cannot have my respect.

When we say bitcoin fixes this what we mean is it restores…

- Future orientation

- Delayed gratification

- Individualism

- Scientific method

- High trust societies

- Free markets

- Limited corruption

- Enlightenment ideals

- Christianity

- Heritage

- Rational optimism

- Pragmatism

- Manifest destiny

- Moral ideals

- Ruthless efficiency

- Technological supremacy

I think a sort of modern trap for ambitious men is the idea of the optimized man. Cold baths, protein, supplements, fasting, green juice, red light therapy etc…

Not saying any of those things are bad, but over indexing on them feels like compensation for a profound lack of purpose.

The most dangerous man is not the one who endlessly optimizes it’s the one who believes something deeply and is willing to act irrationally in pursuit of it.

GM ☀️ time for a nostr experiment.

Since nostr has no algorithms you can now rent me your friendly neighborhood influencer to be YOUR algorithm.

The menu below will be active 4/8/25 after that you can zap me all you want, but it won’t produce a reaction on my end.

Enjoy!

Does two children and a dog count for no,1 ?

Decaying multisig is the future.

A lot of motherfuckers don’t even know we have this capability right now.

No forks or upgrades needed.

Writing a sci fi manuscript, and continuing to fine tune it, made me do a ton of extra research on current trends in AI, biotech, material science, and VR. Like a big refresh.

Not because the text focuses in detail on this tech (it doesn’t), but rather so that I have a general idea of what technologies are likely to come before or after other ones, to create what seems (at least to me) a reasonably coherent future world (with one big unrealistic extra thing I threw in there for fun).

There are a lot of different path dependencies or “alternate timelines” for how the world could look in say 2030, 2040, 2050, and so on. So no sci fi vision can be said to fully predict things. And for example, we don’t fault the movie Blade Runner for not accurately predicting what 2019 would be like in 1982.

But my goal is to be “well-considered.” Plausible. Or at least, plausible in the places where I am intending to be the most plausible.

For example if I read a space opera set 500 years in the future and AI is nowhere to be found, or minimally so, I am distracted by this unless given a plausible explanation. The explanation of “the author didn’t think about it” isn’t good enough, at least for something that big.

What technologies do you expect to surprise to the upside or downside in the next few decades?

I think materials science, biology and chemistry all hit the same wall. We have a problem in understanding particle physics. It’s not obvious when this is, but progress won’t be a simple function of available compute although everyone seems a little drunk on it right now.

Writing a sci fi manuscript, and continuing to fine tune it, made me do a ton of extra research on current trends in AI, biotech, material science, and VR. Like a big refresh.

Not because the text focuses in detail on this tech (it doesn’t), but rather so that I have a general idea of what technologies are likely to come before or after other ones, to create what seems (at least to me) a reasonably coherent future world (with one big unrealistic extra thing I threw in there for fun).

There are a lot of different path dependencies or “alternate timelines” for how the world could look in say 2030, 2040, 2050, and so on. So no sci fi vision can be said to fully predict things. And for example, we don’t fault the movie Blade Runner for not accurately predicting what 2019 would be like in 1982.

But my goal is to be “well-considered.” Plausible. Or at least, plausible in the places where I am intending to be the most plausible.

For example if I read a space opera set 500 years in the future and AI is nowhere to be found, or minimally so, I am distracted by this unless given a plausible explanation. The explanation of “the author didn’t think about it” isn’t good enough, at least for something that big.

What technologies do you expect to surprise to the upside or downside in the next few decades?