#Bitcoin #Nostr #Memes

I agree on almost everything you have said, except for 1 thing.

Of course, these individuals have hit rock bottom but that doesn't mean they don't want help. The thing is that they're to pathetic to ask for it

“But Erik, no one cares about decentralized, open-source, censorship-resistant protocols!”

Right, just like how most of the Jews in Germany in 1935, despite the writing on the wall that what was going to happen was much more horrific than what had happened, most just kept plugging along, staying in their lane, oblivious to their own impending murder by the state.

“The state would never let that happen!”

They did and they’ll do it again. And again. And again.

They keep stealing, killing, and violating every ‘right’ you have until you don’t let them do it anymore. Or they enslave you. Or kill you.

Look, all the lemmings are gonna living in the camps, lick the boots, eat the bugs, and own nothing and ‘be happy’ under the tutelage of global ‘happy happy nice nice we all love each other and are totally equal…except for white men who are piece of shit who must burn’ communism.

These people are worse than useless, but are detrimental to creating real change where we could be empowered against such totalitarianism, but refuse to engage it in any meaningful intellectual manner, because they are cowards and slaves, abated mostly unconsciously. They have allowed for the brainwashing to convince them the state is just a giant daddy to care for them and keep them safe. While it is true, it’s a much more sinister version that’s more than happy to engage in filicide because you didn’t clean your room.

Trying to convince these people of real change and empowerment is a waste of time. Focus your efforts on people who want to be helped, and are willing to actually think about why you might need these tools in the future and to prepare for such a future.

The masses are not our allies or friends, and we should stop looking to them as such. Change will come when we valiantly push forward with courage and tenacity that we have the solutions that are needed, and finding those who want to actively work with us to improve, deploy, and develop said solutions.

#voteharderer nostr:note10zw2v5ucjurfl7z3dqg7xydw7ehg3yt05wa55d0uvlp6c7k42cmse57w4w

anger is poison

This is why the well-known people who come here (or those who get boosted by someone big, right away), love how they get lots and lots of interaction really fast, whereas normal people just languish for days or weeks and then leave again.

And it's not because they aren't replying to other people. They reply, they get a response, then it's over. Their replies don't lead to being followed-back, and everyone looks only at follows, so it's like trying to break a glass ceiling.

This onboarding experience is actually much WORSE than when I first got here, and lots of people were surfing global, so just posting notes into the void got you new followers. That ended because the big relays turned into nothing but porn and spam, after the eGirls showed up, so we all switched to OnlyFollows.

The better solution is to use smaller relays, that don't have a bunch of porn and spam, but the outbox model hadn't been popularized, yet. I feel like this better solution is languishing because of feed-inertia, but I'm hoping personal relays will end that.

If something was a REAL problem, a life or death situation, then you wouldn’t have time to think about it, you’d just act.

99% of our ‘problems’ aren’t actually problems, just situations we’ve named problems; an emotional response. 🤝

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wtf are these birds in Nashville? They are massive

Subjective belief in anything literally means you lose the capability for

'potential' objective truth.

The definition of being a free thinker should be built on the premise of non-belief. It doesn’t matter whether it is the right or wrong—if you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing in its possible opposite. This emphasises the importance of faith and leverages knowledge. We can all have personal beliefs, of course, but be wary: the collection of subjective beliefs can be made manifest into objective reality, for better or worse.

Mind is reality, and reality is the mind. Have faith in truth, spread the love.

The puppets being puppetted

The more I learn about animal husbandry the more I have to acknowledge that humans are and have been domesticating themselves. Which isn’t entirely as bad as it sounds, necessarily. But the repeated observation of multiple domesticated species is that they become more and more dependent on human interventions (antibiotics, deworming, artificial insemenation, fences, feed troughs, incubation or hand raising of offspring, interventions during birth to save the mother or offspring) Some of these are the unintended consequences of focused selective breeding for one feature at the exclusion of all others, but others are more insidious as the farmer is just trying to protect his bottom line here and there. And for the humans species I see the interventions all around us. We use antibiotics, we intervene during child birth to save the mother and child, we of course take medications for parasites, and many other ailments. We provide IVF and other amazing treatments. We live in cities we eat at restaurants instead of gathering the food or prepairing it. I do these things too, I believe at least one of my kids would be dead if we did not do these interventions. And if we needed to use IVF I wouldn’t hesitate, and all the other things and yet I can not help but clearly see that we are weakening our species genetic pool. And in time we will become more and more dependent on these interventions for more and more people. I don’t like the implications or the predicted outcomes.

#grownostr #genetics #evolution

since truth is generating from One and it doesn't change much, i.e. truth is ancient truth most of the time, the seekers of truth almost have to plagiarize each other all the time. people speaking about truth parrot each other. thats why building an llm based on it is a trivial task. each addition confirms the other. the numbers don't battle but just support each other.

lie pumpers can get much more creative and nuanced and they should. lie producers should constantly distract and spend energy. truth is much more energy efficient. you can sit and shut down your mind and download lots of it. liars thru llms should spend resources to cover every kind of question that can be answered that will lead to a lie, in order to succeed.

Ok, now I understand, thanks. My opinion about this topic is that in the future everyone will be able to make clients with pretty little investment (almost zero). If clients become increasingly interoperable over time and everyone can create them, this means everyone has individually the benefits of interoperability BUT that doesn't mean those clients won't come without tradeoffs (see, I'm one of those that think that everything comes with tradeoffs. Also, the more useful or convenient, the more tradeoffs it has)

If everyone has to deal individually (or even in a Dunbar number fashion) with those tradeoffs, that means everyone will have to soften them paying MONEY (summing it up: the fact that everyone can make highly interoperable clients almost for free means they will have a clear DEMAND for the things that make clients smoother). Another thing is that individuals won't be really able to deflect the cost of making clients smooth by passing that responsibility to big corporations because that will be economically inviable in a free market

Everything I said makes me conclude that there will never be free lunch again because clients will be an eternal source of demand for everything Nostr related (Relays, dev work, etc) and the starting point for a sustained division of labor.

So, saying that relays are cost centers is highly gauche

I’m not exactly a branding genius myself, but so many nostr apps have such terrible names that I just want to say “I see a rebrand in your future”

Not intending this towards any one app specifically.

Look what fiat took from us. 😭