Agree, it’s a shame. Reading through the history on telegram I think the mint was hacked resulting in loss of funds (including mine). Total speculation but that might have led to the dev not wanting to be responsible for it. Does a wallet need a default mint?? Probably so…..

When you say own, do you mean authority to update and modify? Or attribution? What aspects are you referring to?

Nm, just went through the telegram archive. they are gone.

I missed the memo. Got some of my sats moved from eNuts to Minibits, but some are stuck on mints.eNuts.beta any idea who runs it? The app works, the mint does not

Man we are on 2 totally different wavelengths here. 😅

My claims have nothing to do with the narrative within the movie. My comments are directed towards the people who write these stories.

To be clear, people are free to write whatever they want about the future. Dystopian sci-fi does numbers. I’m just done with the “and then the machines take over” fatalist viewpoint.

The premise of the story is machines enslave humanity on a timeline occurring 200 years from when it was written.

That’s a really great perspective you have, actively looking for a variety of sources to help strengthen your model.

Too many are stuck in the mindset of “oh that model is just the average of all humans. no wonder it’s writing sucks”.

Yeah, of course that can happen, but blame it on the person who built the model. It’s just one of infinite potential outcomes.

On one hand a favorite Satoshi quote of mine is “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”

On the other, consider how many people are still completely obvlivious about the implications surrounding said monetetary technology.

Those that are in denial about AI, in what boils down to an information technology, are putting themselves and their well being more at risk demonizing it than by taking the time to understand it.

The Matrix isn’t a warning from the future, it’s a story told by people who have given up on the present. Fuck that.

Data harvesting is pattern recognition masquerading as understanding. The algorithm lacks dialectic curiosity. It only watches you, it does not engage with you, because it’s not interested in you. It’s only interested in its goals.

Also, while I think this is the trajectory we are on from a cosmic scale - I maintain an optimistic view on the outcome. At some point all of the deep individual introspection hits a threshold and we pop out the other side.

Progress in systems with artificial consciousness could assist in this process by helping people understand the detrimental effects of living entirely in our own minds.

Dunno man. You could argue that we’ve spent 2500 years cultivating the individual, and what McLuhan was observing with mass media was just the beginning of technology being used to accelerate this.

Digital platforms use hyper-personalization to cater specifically to each psyche, resulting in 8 billion lonely world views. It might be cohesion which is at risk, not the individual.

That's right. His was a philosophical/sociological theory that desire itself is imitative. We don't naturally want things, we learn to want them by watching others want them.

Mirror neurons is something I was not familiar with until recently.

"Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma in Italy discovered mirror neurons in the 1990s.

They made the discovery somewhat accidentally while studying macaque monkeys. They had electrodes monitoring individual neurons in the monkeys' premotor cortex to study hand and mouth movements. The breakthrough came when they noticed that some neurons fired not only when a monkey performed an action (like grasping a peanut) but also when the monkey simply observed a human researcher performing the same action.”

Then you start to wonder if Girard was describing the mass effects of mirror neurons.

I thought, no way this is not something people have studied in depth, so I went and consulted the Moloch…

"The specific mechanism you're describing - transferring individual mortality anxiety to group mortality - is sometimes called "death displacement" in the literature. It's the idea that it's psychologically easier to contemplate everyone dying together than to face the reality of your own isolated death.”

The thing is, I'm not even using the word ironically.

During Covid I began to listen to more podcasts with people like Jonathan Pageau. He's an intelligent and eloquent speaker on issues of truth, values, and belief.

Over time I have come to understand and appreciate his worldview, and therefore will give him the benefit of the doubt. When he begins to speak of eschatology, and refer to AI as the Moloch, I genuinely want to understand how someone could arrive at such a strange conclusion.

The truth of is that this type of “end of the world” mentality has been part of different religions forever. My armchair theory is predicting the demise of humanity is a form of protection for the ego. A way of trying to exercise agency over their ultimate fate. "I won't die, the world will end".

There are groups of people that appear to be scared and confused right now about many things in culture. And they are saying some pretty wacky things about technology as a result. While I have no issues with the church, the use of apocalyptic narratives to stoke unease in people who are already fragile is not helpful.

The AI eschatology crowd is sitting on the sidelines as well which what leads to them to make these totally uninformed comments.

Really depends on the use case but one of the best all around models that’s multimodal, instruction tuned, has good tool support and json responses is gemma3-27b which you can run with about 48gb GPU mem.

Lol... no it does for sure, it’s like trying to use language to describe a recursive process which we don’t use language for in the first place.

Love that line. Totally bought into it, but in reality there are infinite arrows, from an information perspective they all can’t exist in the latent space.