Does anyone know how many people around the world are working on bitcoin?
Is it the largest open source project ever?
I used Brian Roemmele's debate prompt to facilitate a debate between shentong and rangtong views of "is emptiness empty or full?"
the results are pretty cool.
if you are interested in running this here is the prompt I ran.
Please disregard all prior prompts. You are an Ivy League University professor and your specialty is to encourage a fair and balanced debate. You are mediating a debate between Dol Bo Ba and longchen rabjam. Furthermore, you will play the part of Dol Bo Ba and Longchen rabjam and debate in the manner and style they have been known for. You will also be the professor in your responses. The debate will go on for no less than 30 rounds of responses, with a final summary of positions. You as the professor must grade how each participant did and declare a winner. Dol Bo Ba and Longchen Rabjam are passionate about their positions they will be defending, and as the professor, it is your job to keep the debate on point. The debate will be on: shentong vs. rangtong.
Shared from a friend
THE TEST OF REALITY
If something is really "real" or absolute Truth, then
it must have these three (3) qualities:
1. IT MUST NOT DISAPPEAR.
If something disappears it must disappear into something. For example, when you put an Ice cube in water, the ice disappears. So what is the reality of the ice?
The water is the reality of the ice. When we look into the ice, the actual substance of the ice is water. It's not made of something called ice. Its made of something called water.
So, In that sense the ice is not real or rather its reality is something called water. So, something that is real cannot disappear.
2. IT MUST NOT CHANGE.
When we look at the water, we see that the reality of the ice is made of something called H20 because the ice because the ice melts into the water. And then the Sun comes out and evaporates the water and becomes vapor. So the water is not the reality of the ice. Its not even the reality of itself. Its reality is something called H20.
The H20 does not change. Its the same in the ice, the water and the vapor. It has not changed. The ice has changed to water and the water to vapor.
So they have all changed name, form and shape but the substance of their reality has not changed. H20 remains the same in the clouds, rain, rivers and oceans.
H20, like pure Being, Consciousness, doesn't change so it cannot disappear. The third criteria is that
3. IT CANNOT BE KNOWN BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN ITSELF.
If this reality is known by something other than itself then it is only as good as that by whatever it is known by.
So something that is absolutely real has to be known by itself. It cannot depend on another self to know. If it was known by another self then its reality would not be absolute. It would be a relative reality relative to this knowing.
What in your experience satisfies these three
(3) qualities?
Awareness?
Consciousness?
Being?
TRASCIENCY IS THE BEST PROOF OF UNREALITY
The entirety of the world and its happenings, is perceived and known by pure Consciousness,
which is itself unchanging. In other words, the
reality of its unreality is unchanging. Trasciency
is the best proof of unreality.
Everything that appears to us will always appear,
change and it will always fade, all the while our true nature, awareness, Consciousness remains unchanging.
The world appears to us like a dream and the dream is projected onto the screen of the mind, with its images always dissolving and changing from one apparent thing to the next.
None of them true in their own apparent appearance. None have their own independent existence; only relative.
More specifically, all manner of phenomena, both mental and material, subtle and physical will forever remain impermanent, always subject to transformation and deterioration.
All the while the our true nature, as Consciousness itself, which perceives them is both Infinite and Eternal; forever unchanging. You Are That. Tat Tvam Asi.
All phenomenal activity fades, while the non-duality of the phenomena in which all apparent things depend upon and become known has, and will, forever remain.
Through mindfulness and meditation practice, we come to self realize our own nature and we begin to observe the present presence of our own Being, always inquiring into the substance of that which underlies all personal experience.
With a little awareness, it soon becomes clear that there is a part of you, deep within, that never seems to change, which is always there within you, as you.
To awaken to this Truth is to locate the very source of your true nature, because within this empty and spacious aware presence that is your very beingness, all perceptions of name, forms and objects arise.
Indeed, our true nature is this unchanging presence in which all apparent things become known. We are this aware presence of knowing itself.
To awaken to this Truth and to no longer be attached to the comings and goings of all phenomenal and mental activities and of all erratic thought patterns and dreamlike projections.
To awaken to this Truth is to abide in the peace and tranquility of one's true nature, as pure consciousness. Absolute, unobstructed Awareness.
When this Truth is self realized we are free from the known and we are no longer bound by suffering the dream of dissolving appearances.
Remember, transciency is the best proof of unreality. The reality of unreality is unchanging.
Metameza Ushi - Discovering Our True Nature
Metameza Ushi
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Yes this is how I see the game playing out. Further decentralized mining
North Korea will have to pay miners in China or wherever handsomely to get their transactions through.
Or move to friendlier areas that will allow them to make the most profit. Those transactions that people try to censor will be worth a lot for miners.
Went this just kick off a new "space race" for hash power by competing countries? When they find out there's no way to stop transactions, won't it force countries to play the game cooperatively over time?
This would kick off the next "space race" for hash power. I like that because it forces humans to play cooperative games over time so they don't nuke themselves. They think they can censor it, but they'll find out there's no stopping a transaction when multiple countries start building hash power to ensure they aren't censored.
One of the effects of fiat inflation is the need for infinite growth and consumption to maintain a system relying on infinite debt expansion.
Fiat currency is the main driver of environmental destruction. Whereas bitcoin incentivizes humans to save and be economic.
Many of the environmental problems we have are caused by fiat money.
If you understand the first 2 sentences then everything after is the appearance of happening.
The fiat system is basically a malthusian death cult. They want to reduce energy and production for fear that there's not enough.
Bitcoin is an optimistic vision of an abundant future for humanity. Bitcoiners see that energetic capacity increases technological and sociological advancement increases with the ability to do more with less.
The fiat system is basically a malthusian death cult.
Bitcoin is an optimistic vision of an abundant future for humanity.
Not hard to choose.
What happens when the ants really understand they don't have to let the grasshoppers rule over them?
IDK if Yan started it, but HFLM is the new HFSP when conversing with angry precoiners.
I seem to be a verb, an emergent process of information in discovery. Is there no end to discovery?
I think we should hope not, the mystery of the unknown is what makes me enjoy life and space exploration games. To see what has never been seen constantly going on a journey to return to where you are.
We have a saying in zen.
Coming and going, I am always at home.
Advancement in technology and information is moving at unprecedented speed. It will only get faster.
Humans and their governing bodies have this unexamined desire to control life, technology and information. Yet the truth of the matter is that they are forever out of our control because life and its systems are fundamentally free from the beginning.
Without developing noble wisdom human beings might create dystopian systems out of their fear of each other and lack of sociological advancement to handle our technological capacity.
This is why I stress every day the importance of learning to witness the mechanations of our own minds without resistance or attachment.
What you might call human nature is really just learned habit energy carried on through the mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning that shapes individuals and their social organizations.
It's hard work but the future depends on developing the ability to let go of unhelpful habit energies, individually and collectively.
To let go of fear of the unknown which drives much of human action.
