I use them to enhance reality. The coffee you're drinking right now has probably prompted you to take a shit in the last few minutes. That's a drug that can make you do things on command. Be in control. Do good drugs.

I agree, but i will still do some drugs. It gives me an edge on the AI.

what's your daughter doing?

A lot (if not almost all) emphasis on financial privacy in the bitcoin community is focused on privacy-from-government as the core concern. For good reason. Particularly those using bitcoin to avoid political repression. It's life and death. I know some of these people personally.

This completely ignores the more proximate concerns of the need for financial privacy that emerge from the private sphere. If we don't have privacy, it puts a target on our back from bad, private actors. Fraudsters, thieves, or worse.

Privacy is fundamentally important within our personal lives, even if you take the government out of it the picture. State abuse of power is surely a critical concern. But so is private abuses of power -- such as in the phenomenon of "surveillance capitalism". The full-throated defense of privacy does not start and end with concerns about the state.

A lot (if not almost all) emphasis on financial privacy in the bitcoin community is focused on privacy-from-government as the core concern. For good reason. Particularly those using bitcoin to avoid political repression. It's life and death. I know some of these people personally.

This completely ignores the more proximate concerns of the need for financial privacy that emerge from the private sphere. If we don't have privacy, it puts a target on our back from bad, private actors. Fraudsters, thieves, or worse.

Privacy is fundamentally important within our personal lives, even if you take the government out of it the picture. State abuse of power is surely a critical concern. But so is private abuses of power -- such as in the phenomenon of "surveillance capitalism". The full-throated defense of privacy does not start and end with concerns about the state.

Three big global risks over the next decade, imo:

1. Insufficient energy security. Politicians pointing the direction for technology rather than technology itself leading the way.

2. Sovereign debt crisis combined with lack of establishment/institution credibility.

3. Widespread disregard for objectivity, combined with AI making it harder to verify what is true. Descent into tribalism.

In history, when existing institutions and power structures become antiquated/corrupted and are replaced, it's a highly vulnerable period for society. The shields are down.

What gets built in their place during that highly flexible period can be far better or worse. The tails of possible outcomes are fatter than usual.

The first two risks (severe energy and currency mismanagement) harm the remaining credibility of existing institutions and power structures and likely lead to their eventual demise.

The third risk affects the probabilities for what the new institutions and power structures will look like, in terms of being better or worse than what came before. It also affects the smoothness or severity of the transition from the current system/order towards the next system/order.

Oh and magic. There’s gonna be magic.

My daughter is in the elementary talent show and I. Can’t. Wait.

We got a kid doing a Rubik’s cube, some doing martial arts, violin, and a kid telling jokes. Gonna be overwhelmingly underwhelming.

I love this movie 😆

I think you mean BRAWNDO THE THIRST MUTILATOR. ITS GOT ELECTROLYTES!

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The one way to assure increased healthcare cost for people, is to inject a third party which extracts a 30% profit between the people and their healthcare.

Call it insurance, and then convince the people that they should pay a year before they need it, for a service that the company will likely deny without a fight.

What are the features needed for that? Do you think it would work with just kind:1 notes? Are these groups private or public?

I am tempted to answer this, but I could not do justice to the complexities on such a medium. My first recommendation is to read the following.

Killing the Host. Michael Hudson

I'd imagine that will be very difficult. Consider the audience. Most bitcoiners tend to be early adopters. While nostr clients have been improving tremendously, it is still somewhat clunky and you have to make manual tweaks for an optimal experience. Not quite ready straight out of the box.

For the most part, the only people left on Facebook are the laggards. They tend to be less technically capable and hang onto old technology after most have moved on because it is comfortable. They will be the last group to migrate and the most difficult to capture.