What is your position?
*I mean, I reject the metaphysical claim *and* I think it's on terrible epistemic foundations.
I think the most entertaining debate I could have with AnCaps is on "self-ownership". I think self-ownership is a terrible basis for a universal conception of rights, and I reject the arguments by Rothbard et. al. that the metaphysical claim that it represents an objective conception of rights is on terrible epistemic foundations. I want to have this debate with someone who can go deep on this.
Doomers talk like we're at some low watermark for human civilization and things have literally never been more tyrannical than they are today, when in reality, we're much closer to the high watermark in terms of human freedom, progress, and quality of life, compared to the entirety of human history.
It's important to balance these two competing thoughts in your head to avoid becoming politically insane:
1. Things can absolutely get better, and we have the capacity to make them better; and
2. Things could absolutely be a lot worse, and we should be careful to avoid falling into the trap of thinking "anything is better than is", because the vast majority of possibilities *are* worse, and it's kind of a miracle of sorts we haven't wiped ourselves out so far.
Be kind to people.
It's subjectivism all the way down, bro!
It's a reasoning error because it usually misunderstand the nature of adaptive complex systems.
Why is it a pitch for Ethereum exactly? I have a pretty robust argument around why I think Ethereum is nonsense that looks at marginal costs and incentives, that does not implicate this subject matter at all.
Yeah. There's many ways to solve it. But they all have trade offs. If you only allow messages from people you follow, it reduces the ability to meet new people. Like, I'm not following you right now (and I'll give you a follow), so under that solution, you and I wouldn't even have had this interaction.
Replies and DMs.
Not sure it's possible to create a stable oasis of simplicity. The world we today inhabit, with advanced divisions of labor, technological-dependency, and social interdependencies can't just be easily disentangled. Even self-sufficiency is an illusion.
Unless you're literally living off the land through hunting and foraging, with no dependency on technological civilization or social society, any claims of self-sufficiency are pretty suspect.
Even this conversation we're having right now, over the internet, is contingent on social order. It is contingent on the telecommunications companies that continuously maintain, expand and support that communication. While it doesn't require explicit cooperation between you and them, because of the market mechanism, I completely disagree with the argument that the market mechanism makes you self-sufficient. Capitalism and free exchange doesn't remove the dependency -- it governs the interaction. This claim of self-sufficiency within a market, is one of the most problematic epistemic claims a lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists make.
The main reason you're going to want it, is spam. If Nostr goes mainstream, spammers, fraudsters and advertisers will come and start assaulting us in our replies with ads. If and when that happens, we *are* going to need to have ways to detect and filter it, otherwise Nostr will become unusable for a lot of people.
The problem is that the world is not a simple domain.
I'm more worried about spam in the near term. It will be exceedingly efficient for spammers to generate new keys and even NIP-5s, and deluge us. There's inevitably going to be A LOT of work in relay software and clients to counter that. But it's coming. Because of course there is. There's money to be made.
It was a duplicate post due to a Snort bug. The second copy of the note still exists.
No. It's a far more subtle point than that. The summary is that contradiction is unavoidable and you require continuous adaptation to cope with it.
Snort.social fired off a duplicates of my last post, including some empty notes. Is it me or is Snort buggier in Safari than in Chrome? I hate having to use Chrome, but it genuinely seems to work better with it.