All positivist law, which grant positive rights such as the right to health care or housing, or food, inevitably lead to some form of slavery. This is because such goods and services must be provided by someone.

No positive rights exist, they are a political fiction to get support from compliant people.

RT @cb_doge: You can fine-tune your 𝕏 ‘For You’ feed by engaging with and sharing posts that interest you.

It’s a simple way to make your…

Yes, as I see you setup a LNURL, please try with a lightning address. If you create a wallet with Primal, they use that one, e.g., name@primal.net - or any other wallet that you want that gives you a Lightning Address woth a name@lightningmail.something format. Then we all here will be able to zap you :)

It will be a pleasure! First go to your profile, and add a lightning wallet to it :) - right after I’ll be able to zap you :)

If you never got a zap, repost and comment and I’ll become your too zapper ⚡️ - This is like a social proof that you somehow added value to someone else 😇

You can’t be free with digital corporate and government surveillance. It’s tike to consider switching to #opensource software.

Phone - Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

Laptop / PC - #linux consider PopOS, Linux Mint or Ubuntu for ease of use. #ArchLinux for the brave(er)

Browsers - Brave, Chromium, TOR, Mullvad Browser, FireFox

Password Manager - KeePass, Bitwarden

Email - Proton, Tutanota

Comms - SimpleX, Signal

Protect #privacy and support #FOSS projects with your money and #bitcoin

Going for glory, full block or nothing

AI vs Bitcoin

The AI hype has been non-stop for the last 2 years ever since ChatGPT came out with its 3.0 chat. Since then, there's been an insane amount of investment into AI tech from every direction. There are hundreds of startups, every tech giant has been making investments and companies in between have been putting a lot of money toward it as well. It's not a small amount, either, as the AI hardware costs make Bitcoin mining look like discount bargains.

Yet after two years, what have we to show for it? Maybe some faster image editing on newer phones? Slightly faster answers to questions you would normally ask Google? Some productivity increase among junior programmers? The investment was enormous, as can clearly be seen in NVIDIA's growth, but the results are pretty underwhelming. As with any hyped technology, the possibilities have run past the actual use.

One of the supposed benefits of fiat money is that capital accumulation is unnecessary to create real value. You can build roads, for example, without having to save up for it. What this misses are many obvious drawbacks, but one of them is that there has to be someone that evaluates whether something will create value and create the money out of thin air to fund the project. This is not just inherently centralizing, but also deeply political.

For whatever reason, AI passed this political test and got the blessing of the money printers, which, to a company that sells, shovels like NVIDIA has been great news. But the drawback is that there's bound to be at least *some* that don't pan out. Maybe some segment of the economy can't use AI profitably, for example. Yet the powers that be, mostly Cantillionaires, have decided that this is worthwhile and have poured insane amounts of money into this bet.

But much like hyped tech of the past, it's looking more and more likely that there's little profit to be made here. Yes, there's some useful things that can be made, but the costs are simply too high right now to justify spending that much. It's a luxury item that mostp people simply don't need, and hence don't want to pay for. AI has become an expensive solution looking for costly problems to solve.

This was always my analysis with another hyped tech: blockchain. It never really made any sense as the cost was too high for what was really just a distributed, very redundant but hard to upgrade database. It, too, couldn't find costly problems to solve, with the exception of one. That, of course being Bitcoin.

What differentiates Bitcoin from AI is that people *need* Bitcoin. It's its own killer app. AI is not so popular that people will pay for what it costs right now. And that means that most of the investment will be wasted. Like most hyped things in a fiat economy, it's doomed to have significant malinvestment.

A lot of people complain about Bitcoin businesses and how hard it is to make them profitable. In a sense, I get it. You want more people to have steady jobs and so on. But in another sense, I think this is the market speaking. You're not going to get paid from Bitcoiners easily and there's no flood of printed money looking for a place to go. At least there won't be once fiat money has run its course. Building a profitable company is hard and so few meet that mark, especially in a new segment as AI has shown.

So in that way, I'm encouraged, because the companies that survive in Bitcoin will have something truly worthwhile. By contrast, the companies that survive in AI will probably be the ones that get subsidized the longest.

I saw a headline about BlueSky adding 2 million users this week, many from Brazil. so it seems like it's still alive and kicking

my impression is that it's less censorship resistant than Nostr though

aren't there others though? or they all already peaked you're saying?

I've been using Nostr more lately

it's a significant upgrade from early 2023 when I first signed up, there is still some lag, but the progress is clear

I'm here for two reasons: first, censorship resistance

and I'm more specificly on Nostr due to social proof

plenty of people whose intelect and opinions I trust are on here

it's striking to me that nearly everyone I know seeking decentralized social media are going to Nostr and almost zero going anywhere else. why is that? is it mostly the later--choosing Nostr because others before you did? or is it mostly the former--chosing Nostr because it has better censorship resistance compared to other decentralized social media? Third option is just because Nostr has embraced Bitcoin more and my social circle is mostly bitcoiners.

curious about how Nostr came to dominate my social circle. why did you join Nostr and not a different alternative? social proof? better censorship resistance? zaps and other cool features? other?

Next Generation: Distributed #AI

Imagine training AI models on data distributed across a secure network like blockchain.

This decentralized approach offers several advantages:

—Enhanced privacy: Data is distributed across multiple nodes, reducing the risk of data breaches.

—Increased transparency: Every transaction and change in the AI model is recorded immutably on the blockchain, allowing for auditing.

—Improved security: By eliminating a central point of failure, blockchain makes it harder for malicious actors to attack the system.

—Scalability: AI models can be trained on larger datasets and more complex algorithms.

This combination of AI and blockchain has the potential to revolutionize industries such as finance, healthcare, and supply chain management.

Any full stack developer in Portugal looking for a job?

#dev

#portugal

Must be pro freedom.

Where's the #Nostr #developer community? I want to connect, cuz as dev i have thoughts, ideas, questions.. constantly..

I'm actually going build something cool ;)

Is there some group chat or something?

I mean, i can get deep around Github but.. still.

#nodejs #typescript #rust #web3 #dev #webdev #devchat

Made a thingy ;)

Stateless passwords and keys derivation.

Can be used for a bunch of things, crypto wallets (#bitcoin, #ethereum, #nostr) manager, and a password manager.

Can also be used for storing 2FA secrets.

#software #devel #dev #development #asknostr #intro

Which one of these would you pick, and why? #ai #asknostr