Together, how can we cultivate the fine art of disagreeing well?

With a commitment to truth and friendship, I see philosophy as the art of translating private insight into shared understanding through careful yet open-ended dialogue. We must be willing to risk ideas we hold dear, permitting transformation without reproach toward ourselves or others, and recognising truth as emerging from the cyclical, irregular, and cumulative interplay of conversation.

The clock is a strange technological object.

The clock tells you what the time is but doesn’t tell you want time _is_.

Time is not what clock ‘says it is’, time is knowing when it’s time to check the clock.

Democracy likewise is a state transition system at scale that attempts to keep approved participants below the threshold of violence.

Nowhere does it say participants should be happy with the outcome. Only that they consent to lose.

Markets are conversations that maximise the possibility of a peaceful settlement between beings.

Nowhere in market logic does it say each side should be happy. Only that they settle.

When you meet a Politician address them as Citizen. And remind them of their humanity.

Regulate the regulators.

You’re doing Satoshi’s work Anita. This is amazing. I sent Bongani some sats

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AI is often being used and promoted as yet another dopamine dispensing distraction toy or as a tool for commercial efficiency.

Turing’s 'imitation game' implicitly places human expectancy and judgment at the forefront of the mind and prompts humans to consider how they recognise intelligence. By creating this tension between human perception and machine capability, it risks overlooking other forms of intelligence, such as Piaget's adaptability. This view emphasises intelligence as the ability to adapt in a dynamically changing, complex environment.

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X is a trash fire that rages more ferociously than a Tesla dealership

There’s nothing more satisfying that telling a story that resonates with all sides in a debate

Welp X Spaces is completely unworkable on my setup. Nothing but bugs so going to look in to Nostr Nest https://m.primal.net/QDuz.mp4

The colonised web is nothing but paddocks and it will take a while for the livestock to shepherd themselves out in to the open ended extensible expanse.

I am trying out a Space on Twitter on the AI Conversation and it's relationship to Bitcoin and evolution of Technological Objects

https://x.com/i/spaces/1vOxwXBnDEdKB

In the ongoing unchecked inflation of symbolic forms the symbol is unmoored from its original informational content.

Prices no longer reflect real value.

Grades no longer reflect mastery,

Bureaucratic reports no longer improve decisions,

Moral words no longer spark conscience,

Rather than isolated maladies, these are seen as a structural pattern of modern life, where human cognitive limits (on attention, memory, discrimination) collide with ever-expanding symbolic systems.

By studying these together, we gain a unified perspective: inflation as the *entropy of the symbol* – the point at which our externalised cognitive frameworks become so “heavy” or plentiful that they fold in on themselves, obscuring the very reality they were meant to clarify.

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Technological objects exist outside or your interactions with them.

These are the aliens you share everything with. Your gadgets, your fancy laptops.

They know your secrets. More than you know about yourself.

No wonder the Nation State wanted to recruit them as spies.

As technology advances, many devices and platforms are designed to maximize engagement, leading to addictive behaviors that steal time and reduce human agency. We risk becoming like automata, passively responding to external systems rather than exercising conscious, reflective decision-making. #TechAddiction #neomania

https://chatgpt.com/share/67ef17ec-1454-800d-a4bb-2b7c7f5d95e2

Politicians never ask for help unless it’s your vote - maybe. Yet they face insurmountable challenges.

Doesn’t seem very human to me.

Teaching bitcoin since 2013 has made me realise:

Democratisation isn't simply a mechanical transfer of power from a sovereign or central authority down to the population. Rather, it's also an internal, ethical, and psychological shift that emerges from within individuals and communities.

And it is a painful evolution of cognitive and moral reasoning.

The blockchain may be surrounded but it’s but it’s pre-political voluntary jurisdiction is yet to be colonised.

I still see too many people waiting to get rich thinking the revolution will happen by itself rather than helping communities understand not just bitcoin but all the other extensible open source tools they can use to find individual sovereignty