“It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
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Days 19 and 20 ✅✅
I forgot to post yesterday but I def did them! Added some squats and pull ups for good measure 😎
The term grok was coined by Robert Heinlein for his book Stranger in a Strange Land — it has been stated, if I recall correctly, that the book is basically an extended definition of the term. 😄
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Day 18 ✔️😊
Hi Daniel - if you go to DCoSL.com I have links to several resources, including the tapestry protocol which I’m in the process of rewriting and various blog posts and essays at various stages of completion on habla, substack, github. nostr:npub1p2uwv7qme2u92y2qcpqqvafhkkqsxfrrnz8m79lm60v4005s7vuqnexr0s is rebuilding a proof of concept from my desktop app Pretty Good Apps (specifically, the Curated Lists section) as a webapp. There are a few of us discussing these ideas in discord and I can give you an invite if you’d like to join us :-)
My vision of web of trust is that it’s not enough for WoT to curate content, facts and information. WoT must simultaneously curate the very digital languages we use to communicate about those things. The reason WoT has never lived up to expectations is that we have never even really tried to do that. But it can definitely be done. Just gonna take some work.
Here’s a recent post of mine describing a bit about how I envision web of trust to find the users and content we’re looking for without getting distracted by the cult of the social media “influencer”.
https://prettygoodproject.substack.com/p/the-pretty-good-way-to-calculate
Hi Daniel - if you go to DCoSL.com I have links to several resources, including the tapestry protocol which I’m in the process of rewriting and various blog posts and essays at various stages of completion on habla, substack, github. nostr:npub1p2uwv7qme2u92y2qcpqqvafhkkqsxfrrnz8m79lm60v4005s7vuqnexr0s is rebuilding a proof of concept from my desktop app Pretty Good Apps (specifically, the Curated Lists section) as a webapp. There are a few of us discussing these ideas in discord and I can give you an invite if you’d like to join us :-)
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Day 17 ✅
Still counts! 💪🏻
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Now that I think more about it, my existing prototype is ALREADY capable of demonstrating that feature! All you have to do is assume that not every user has access to the same set of relays. Which is, in fact, already the case!
Your comment got me thinking: the point of the tapestry protocol is for a community of users to work with their WoT to curate a decentralized digital language. In many ways, it’s modeled after the way real life works. Importantly, no one is required to have a bird’s eye view of the entire community or of all the attestations, or even to know how many users are part of the group. In fact, now that I think some more about it, communication with a small handful of peers is all that is technically required. We’ve been curating spoken languages that way for millennia, and the tapestry protocol just takes what we already do and implements it digitally.
My curated lists prototype doesn’t make the above feature evident, bc in the prototype, all attestations are public and so everyone does in fact have a bird’s eye view of everyone’s score for the curation of each list. So now I’m wondering what’s the minimal amount of the tapestry protocol that I can implement that will make the above feature evident, ie the fact that it allows us to build consensus on some question without anyone having a bird’s eye view. 🤔
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Day 15 ✅
A decentralized language is nothing more than a long list of arbitrary-ish questions that are answered by your web of trust.
Example:
Q: what shall we use to indicate the timestamp on a nostr note?
Some reasonable answers:
created_at
createdAt
CreatedAt
Most of us don’t care all that much, as long as we’re all on the same page. The web of trust method is that I’ll do whatever my closest frens are doing. Take a simple weighted average of what my inner circle of friends think, and created_at is the winner by a mile!
And that’s the tapestry method / protocol in a nutshell. The Concept Graph is a simple protocol to ask questions and the Grapevine is a simple protocol to answer them.
It’s what we already do in real life. But by making it digital, we will scale Dunbar’s number from 150 to 8 billion.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by failure of the pancreas to produce insulin, typically caused by destruction of beta cells by the immune system. This is not the kind that’s caused by diet.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by (or defined as) insulin resistance, meaning that the cells of your body stop responding properly to insulin. It’s not primarily caused by dysfunction of the pancreas, although there can be secondary pathological effects on the pancreas. Diet is a big contributing factor. If someone is well fed all the time, then the insulin levels in the blood are always high and never drop to zero. The fact that cells become insulin resistant could be related to the fact they have been swimming in high levels of insulin for as long as they can remember. Fasting will drop your insulin level to basically zero after maybe 18-24 hours (or longer depending on activity level). If your cells have forgotten what it feels like to exist without high levels of insulin around, that’s probably not a good thing, and fasting / decreasing carbs in your diet will probably improve insulin resistance.
He did a very good job.
But I’m waiting for people like him to start talking about financing warfare as the primary use case of fiat. Like 2/3 of British bonds for WW1 were secretly paid for by the central bank. And I’m pretty sure the military industrial complex prefers fiat for their money laundering.
Imagine if we wake up one day to find Satoshi is alive and has signed the following message.
🤘🏻PV everyone! In case you were wondering, I’m still here and I still have access to all my coins. And I know what I’m gonna do with them. In one year, one of two things is going to happen:
1. I send them all to a burn address.
2. The US Congress (and President), passes a set of laws (and signs a series of executive orders) which accomplish the following: end the Federal Reserve, eliminate all legal tender laws, and forbid the issuance of new fiat denominated debt by the US Treasury. If that happens, I pledge all my coins to be used to pay off all outstanding US debt, at whatever dollar-to-bitcoin ratio that will use up all coins and pay off the entire debt.
How would that play out, I wonder?
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