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neurologist and freedom tech maxi Co-founder @ NosFabrica 🍇 Grapevine, 🧠⚡️Brainstorm

https://straycat.brainstorm.social

Nice, I'll give it a listen

You’ll want to see the slides with it — which I think is only available as video on Spotify. I keep thinking I ought to upload the video myself somewhere. Do we have a nostr YouTube yet?

Nostr's protocol will have to endure partitioning I think, just like the relay network does. This is pretty dicey in conventional terms, but happens all the time in nature. Think of human language — it shifts, morphs, sometimes becomes incompatible, but is beautiful, highly expressive, and the diversity is beneficial. This is the best case scenario for nostr's outcome. Worst case it becomes an unmaintainable mess. But that will happen anyway, because that's what always happens with huge protocols. So we might as well treat it like the fungus it is and let it bloom 🍄

I like your analogy to human language. Most of our digital languages are centralized and brittle. Human languages are decentralized and flexible, with a high tolerance for ambiguity. The decentralized web won’t exist until we learn to curate digital languages the way we already curate human languages.

I touched upon this topic in my talk at Nostrville in November.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-park/id1646515985?i=1000638461896

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Satoshi energy in the US could provide some assistance here.

Are you part of their team?

SPARROW WALLET.

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I tried sparrow for the first time this week. Working nicely for me so far. Easy to use, good UI. (Although I haven’t tried coinjoin yet).

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@saylor is the man he needs to talk to

I’d love to see that happen. Although Saylor doesn’t know me so no way for me to make that happen.

Also: I wonder whether saylor might be too hard of a salesman. Softer sell might work better in this case. He trusts me enough that he’s going to crunch the numbers but not enough to just believe me when I tell him what (I think) he’ll find.

Anyone have any advice on how I can help an economist friend of mine learn the economics of bitcoin mining? He’s just been put in charge of building a team for a think tank and he’s in a position to influence public policy at the federal level, especially if republicans win the White House (but even if they don’t).

He’s Austrian / libertarian but as close to a blank slate as you can imagine when it comes to bitcoin. Very interested and willing to learn. His team will be calculating the costs of policy proposals on a wide range of topics, including energy. Policy changes on energy permitting definitely on the table. I have introduced the concepts of stranded energy and that bitcoin mining is a magic wand to convert that into money but he will be crunching actual numbers and I can’t tell him how to do that. If his calculations convince him that the money involved is enough for anyone to give a shit, he’ll push it up the chain. But that won’t happen without some guidance.

Ideally I’d put him in contact with an expert in the bitcoin mining field who could answer all of his questions, by chat or email or whatever. Maybe several sessions over the next 1-2 months as he does his work. Short of that, maybe something he could read? …

PLEASE repost this and/or flag this note to anyone with the requisite expertise who might be able to help. Or send me DM and we can talk. I’d love to see him orange pilled … maybe even purple pilled. Government intrusions into privacy is one of his passions but he simply hasn’t had much contact with the bitcoin or cypherpunk world.

Pura vida!

Anyone have recs for the best open source iPhone / android on chain hot wallets? I use a few but I picked them so long ago I’m not sure the state of the art

https://x.com/lynaldencontact/status/1725369094579392709

need that inglorious bastards “hiding 12 words” meme if someone has it handy. Cant find it

Exactly 1 year ago today, after some fine tuning and beta testing, I released nostr.build to the world.

I never imagined it would get this far, especially in such a short period of time. I can't even imagine what another year will bring! Keep building and LFG

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I use it! 👏🏻 🙏🏼

paper I’m working on

TITLE

The Tapestry Method for Social Linguistic Consensus: Insights into Object Oriented Programming and a Proposed Foundation for the Decentralized Web

ABSTRACT

Members of a community, whether digital or biological, cannot communicate without language: a commonly accepted set of methods and tools for abstract representation and transmission of information. But how does the requisite consensus arise in the absence of a centralized authority? In this paper we propose the tapestry model as a solution to the problem of social linguistic consensus and consider its application in two quite distinct realms: digital and biological. In the digital realm, communities are composed of users who communicate using apps built from shared digital tools including digital standards, specifications, schemas, libraries, repositories, ontologies, etc. In the biological realm, communities are composed of human beings who communicate in speech or in writing using conventional languages: English, Chinese, etc. We propose the tapestry model to be an existing feature of the central nervous system, with the power and flexibility of human language being a testament to its utility. However, with the possible exception of large language models, the tapestry method does not characterize the digital tools of today. In this essay we outline an implementation of the tapestry method to the digital realm for realization of the decentralized web. Furthermore, the tapestry model may provide insights into the structure and function of class and object in object oriented programming as well as insights into the occasionally touted claim that OOP is a reflection of how we as human beings think.

One of the biggest obstacles to growth I've seen in people is that make everything about themselves. Not everything happens to you or for you. The higher you climb the more it is about others.

When struggles starts - no matter what happens - on your end it's all about staying productive, being a good person, and doing the best you can. That's all.

Yes, you are there because of the experiences and skills that you have. But maybe you're also there to be an example. Martyr. You could be part of someone's test. You never know how Universe wants to use you.

After going through all the life experiences and startups in the last two decades - the only moments I regret are those when I lost control and lashed out, blaming and hurting others.

On the other hand, if I managed to keep control and stay the course, it has paid huge dividends. I've had engineers come back in decade and admit they've been assholes causing problems, only to end up being critical for the projects I'm currently on. Young startup founders who followed my struggles and wanted to know details behind them so they can do better. Or my favorite - VCs that have been following me on Twitter for years... and complain they can't shitpost (I explain that they can, but not high success rate there).

The most important part: don't allow pain to provide opening for corruption to seep in, allowing others to vilify you. Stay the course and do the best you can. Protect others that are overexposed. The more you can honestly channel the truth you feel, the better in tune you'll be to manifest whatever outcome Universe wants you to manifest.

A good case can be made that the greatest scientific revolutions in history are basically realizations that it’s not all about us. The sun doesn’t revolve around the earth being just one of many examples.

Conservation of energy leads to Bernoulli's principle which is essential for understanding aerodynamics and the flight of a bird. In the same way I feel like conservation of energy must operate in the brain at least on certain timescales. Obviously net energy comes in via the bloodstream but what if neurons were able to directly reward each other with energy, forming a kind of activity market? Further research tells me this is unlikely however I did learn that often-used neurons and connections get optimized to be faster and more efficient.

I’ve wondered before whether ATP, or glucose, or ketones, or some other source of energy could be used by cells as a currency. Maybe in a WoT: i “trust” you more if you pay me some glucose? It would be like bitcoin, but if bitcoin were truly “digital fuel” instead of digital gold. 🤔

I'm not sure if you've looked further into it but noswot's WoT is initially built from follows and reports. The WoT algorithm is based on one from freenet which instead of 6 degrees of separation uses an exponential falloff of influence. If you're interested in trying a different source than follows and reports I can point you to where that's defined in code or maybe add it to noswot.

I started with follows and reports for simplicity. It operates on the least amount of data and allows us to see if some kind of WoT can prove out the value of this general approach. That being said intake can be expanded to get reactions and replies for example if you wanted to attempt to detect topics and rank by bucketed engagement. It can quickly get complicated.

idk why I’m just now seeing your reply … that’s very interesting, and another way that we seem to be thinking along the same lines! The WoT in my own desktop app Pretty Good does the same thing: influence (which is contextual) is the quantity being calculated by the WoT, and the fall off is exponential. There’s a scrollbar to adjust how steep the falloff occurs (a constant between 0 and 1, which is factored in to the weight of each rating). If Alice endorses (not a follow, but similar) Bob in some context, then her influence determines how much weight to give to her endorsement. There are scrollbars so users can adjust the default influence of users about whom no ratings exist. There are multiple other variables to adjust in the control panel, designed to mitigate various sybil attacks, so yes it’s also quite complicated, but not intractably so. Most of the user-adjustable variables can be set to default values and hidden from the user, to be discovered later only if they need adjusting.

I suppose I’m imagining you have a dev to build a UI to make it feel like one list even though it’s multiple lists under the hood. But of course that won’t always be the case. Do you have specific application in mind?

I’m very keen on seeing curated lists become a thing in nostr, as I explain in my habla essay (summary of a talk I gave at Nostrville), so I’m curious to know what it will take to move us in that direction.

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3e8yurjd35xuurwvfnqgs98k45ww24g26dl8yatvefx3qrkaglp2yzu6dm3hv2vcxl822lqtgrqsqqqa28tg539d

Doesn’t that accomplish exactly what you want? Alice has one list for which she has whitelisted specific authors. The existence of the other lists may feel a bit inelegant / uneconomical, but do they detract from the solution?

I suppose I’m imagining you have a dev to build a UI to make it feel like one list even though it’s multiple lists under the hood. But of course that won’t always be the case. Do you have specific application in mind?

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I think this would create 3 separate lists, no? What I really want is one list with the ability to whitelist specific authors.

Doesn’t that accomplish exactly what you want? Alice has one list for which she has whitelisted specific authors. The existence of the other lists may feel a bit inelegant / uneconomical, but do they detract from the solution?

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Damn, I didn't think so. Changes to which NIP? nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn mentioned NIP 32. This would be a great feature on listr.lol

Does NIP-51 with “a” tag support not do what you’re asking?

Bob and Charlie maintain lists of widgets. Alice makes a widgets list but instead of managing the list herself, she imports the items from Bob’s and Charlie’s lists.

Highlander II nostr:note1t83eh5k42ns9l6z2c0jztkpx6wupepljkwlfndfs299f3avxegjsl8jcqa

The model I present in that presentation I now call the tapestry model and I conjecture 1) we need to employ it if we’re ever going to build a decentralized web (ie a functioning WoT) and 2) the brain already implements the model.

And the brain of any social organism has got to have an internal representation of the external WoT — one could consider that to be part of the definition of “social.” If a cortical column (or some other patch of neurons) represents an individual in one’s WoT, and contextual trust ratings are calculated for that individual, then would that qualify as neurons having reputation? Perhaps so!

That presentation btw is from before I discovered nostr. And what I call the “principle of Loki” I’ve decided to rename the “class thread” principle, with “class” a reference to object oriented programming.

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