Well said. I’ll start asking if places I shop at take #bitcoin although I know that don’t take it. 😏
Sometimes, instead of asking if a business takes bitcoin, I ask them how much of a discount they'll give me if I pay in bitcoin :-)
The article seems to blame bitcoin?! That's weird because they only started using it because the fiat banking pushed them out.
It's unfortunate that these ladies don't seem to know how to use bitcoin. They just tried selling it on exchanges, which blocked them too.
We're still very early.
I wanna support your right I choose relays that don’t moderate at all!
As for kids. I was thinking about allow lists instead of block lists. I also wrote about it a while back
Should avoid some of what you see with YouTube but also not throw them to the wolves.
https://gregwhite.blog/how-to-safely-open-social-media-to-children/
Yes, kids-friendly private "allow" lists that users can share would be very useful. Especially if it's easy to edit them.
I’ve been thinking deeply about content moderation on Nostr.
I’m very pro-freedom-tech but there are problems we will need to solve to scale and be acceptable to a wider audience of user.
To help get the ball rolling on improving Nostr’s ability to keep bad actors from poisoning the well here’s a proposal for a freedom maximising strategy for dealing with illegal or just insanity content (as determined by Nostr users)
I know this’ll be controversial so I’m looking for feedback and refinements before trying to build something to get this ball rolling.
https://gregwhite.blog/nostr-content-moderation/
Cc nostr:npub1yye4qu6qrgcsejghnl36wl5kvecsel0kxr0ass8ewtqc8gjykxkssdhmd0
I hope we never get censorship or any form of blocking at the relay level. I will be more than happy to pay for relays (wherever they may be) that DO NOT censor or block any content. All blocking, muting, censorship should be done at the client level. If the task becomes too heavy for a client-side app, we could have more beefy "personal" private relays that do that for us and our client-side app gets its data only from that personal relay (which would then rebroadcast our notes). Same goes for email : I choose to use servers that do not block any spam. I can do that for myself in my email client. I don't want someone else deciding for me.
All moderation/censorship lists should be private lists and I would stay away from any list from any of the current major social media players. If I wanted that censorship, I'd be on those platforms.
I would simply recommend that it be easy to share private lists between nostr users.
Kids-friendly moderation scares me if it's done by the likes of youtube. They actually *target* kids. I've seen it in action.
Small kids probably shouldn't be on social media, period. But if one wants them to be on nostr, I would like to have a personal, private, whitelist of people they can follow (family and family friends) and the client app limits what they can see to only what those few people share. Even then, I really don't think young developping minds should be putting out their every thought for all to see, for all eternity, with no possibility of taking any of it back.
There might be a case for only allowing a watch-only login (npub, no private key) for young kids. It might be a useful education tool which would provide different (and timely) topics of conversation with our kids.
Just my two sats.
He seems authentic to me. I like him.
The guy from 'Rich Men North of Richmond' :
I think you summarized the situation very well. It's very hard to know which countries are going in the right direction.
So many criteria to consider :
- general civil rights and freedoms
- no forced jabs or medical tests
- no conscription
- no war
- homeschooling rights
- protection of parental rights
- low level of criminal violence (the State, gangs, mafia, cartels, thefts, etc)
- Bitcoin acceptance or at least non-criminalization
- no forced revealing of passwords
- low level of endemic diseases and parasites
- low level of pollution
- low level of natural disasters
Still looking...
Just for fun, I tried to ask an AI (Llama 2, 70b) what it thought were good countries for a second passport. Countries that protected their citizens' and residents' freedoms and civil rights during the covid plan-demic.
Unfortunately, the answers were ridiculous. Did you know that Canada had a "relatively open approach" during the plan-demic??? It was good to learn that because the forced quarantines, masking, jabs and vaccine passports certainly could have fooled me!! hahaha
If I were any kind of good financial advisor, I would have bought bitcoin when I first heard of it in 2010... (I didn't...). Biggest mistake ever!!! hahaha
Back then, I thought it was just a wonderful project but the gobermints would crush it and I gave up without even buying/mining any...
Took me many YEARS to finally jump in....
So... yeah.... ;-(
Yes, but myself I wouldn't hedge with the BRICS. I would hedge with different countries. But I don't mean to tell other people what to do.
For my taste :
- Brazil under Lula is too Jab-friendly,
- Russia under Putin had the Vaxx cards in many parts of the country and had conscription for a while,
- China has a social credit system and is very death jab-friendly (or mandatory covid testing-friendly),
- many in South African political parties seem to want to kill a different demographic (!) and
- India also had a very forced death jab-friendly attitude with the poor in some parts of the country (plus it pretty much woke up one day and demonetized their then-current rupee bills overnight) and unfortunately it has an incredible amount of diseases and parasites (I know many who came back from a simple trip to India and had parasites the doctors couldn't treat for years).
Obviously India has great history and great traditions, etc. I'm also fascinated with many things from China. I also love Indian and Chinese food. Brazil is also a very big country and it has many freedom-lover. So I could understand the appeal.
I'm sure you'll find great people in any of those countries but... I would hedge with other countries, personally.
I haven't been able to find anything better than where I currently am so I haven't moved but, if I were to hedge I think it would be more likely to be with Guatelama / Nicaragua / Mexico / Japan / El Salvador / Romania, or perhaps with an island passport somewhere (although I wouldn't choose Saint Kitts or Saint Vincent, I forget which one, because one of those two had a natural disaster (volcano eruption?) a while back and the gubermint told their people that only the death-jabbed could go on the rescue boats! (So they won't be getting my money).
Just my two sats :-)
I wouldn't advise you to do that but if you really want to do that, you might like the Nomad Capitalist channel on yewtu.be (an invidious instance for youtube)
Having fun with Llama 2. I think it wiggled out of that one fairly nicely :
Me : Please summarize this article for me :
Llama 2 : The article reports on the recent wildfires
that occurred on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The fires burned
thousands of acres of land and resulted in the deaths of several
individuals. According to officials, those who survived the fires did so
by dodging barricades set up by authorities to prevent people from
entering affected areas. The article notes that despite the devastating
impact of the fires, the number of fatalities could have been higher if
not for the efforts of first responders and local residents who helped
to evacuate people from dangerous areas.
Me : But, isn't that weird? Are you sure? If people who dodged the barricades survived, does that mean that the barricades were there to help people or were the barricades there to trap people and prevent them from escaping?
Llama 2 :
I apologize for any confusion caused by my
previous response. Upon further consideration, it's true that the idea
of people dodging barricades to survive a fire can raise questions about
the purpose and effectiveness of the barricades.
It's possible that the barricades were put in place to prevent people
from entering the affected areas for their own safety, rather than to
trap them. In situations like wildfires, authorities often establish
barriers to keep people away from danger zones and direct them towards
safer routes. However, in the heat of the moment, some individuals may
have decided to take their chances and try to navigate around or through
the barricades to escape the fire.
In hindsight, it's difficult to say whether the barricades in
question were effective in protecting people or whether they
inadvertently put others in harm's way. It's important to recognize that
emergency responses to natural disasters like wildfires can be complex
and challenging, and sometimes decisions made in the midst of crisis may
not always be perfect.
The article doesn't provide enough information to make a definitive
judgment on the role of the barricades in the Maui fires. It's possible
that investigations or subsequent reports may shed more light on this
aspect of the incident.
Reminds me of the video of the nashville explosion on christmas day a few years ago. Weird stuff... People said to listen to the video backwards. I did. It was weeeeeird. I tried different videos from different people who recorded the same thing from different locations. It really did say something freaky backwards (I used Audacity on linux to hear it).
I'm looking at the differences between the models (7B, 13B and 70B). This page has a video comparing the outputs : https://replicate.com/blog/all-the-llamas The 13B seems incredibly "woke" and basically asks the guy to change the question... , which, weirdly enough, the 7B and the 70B don't seem to do. Have you found the 13B model to be useful or is this video a good reflection of what it does on your computer?
Typo : I meant we *can't* just freeze it.
Thanks for the follow-up. I've been trying to run the 70B and it's slow with a general-purpose cloud provider (with 80GB of RAM and 16 cores). The RAM doesn't seem to get maxed out though. The cores, yes.
I'm still looking for GPU cloud providers that take bitcoin and so far vultr.com is the only I can find that takes bitcoin (though through bitpay, which is definitely not my first choice). But with vultr we have to destroy the instance between uses, we can just freeze it.
100%
Without meaning to, I've ended up trying both approaches.
1. Getting people who might be interested to show up for an introductory meeting/class about Bitcoin. People show up. Orangepilled = 0
2. Live life, have friends, help people out with things, just mention Bitcoin a bunch of times : many more Bitcoiners on the (local) ground.
Orangepilled = Many
Amazing! Trying out the free demo of Llama 2 70B from deepinfra. It's quick! Then I see they're using a 80GB GPU (A100) from nvidia? Seems to retail for 16,000 USD.
Ouch...