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Obviously just because that has been my experience doesn't mean it will feel the same for everyone

I follow ~800. My experience has been good. I've seen a lot of good stuff. I'm slowly pairing it down.

I had to try them, you understand?

As a man I was faced with a choice: Live courageously or shrink from the challenge and never know my true limits.

I chose the former.

With this logic I should weather the next 8 hours with stoicism and humility.

FOR WHAT I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IS AKIN TO STARING ZUES IN THE EYES AND NEVER BLINKING.

Had a wing night yesterday. I decided to get the hottest wings they had.

Save me.

Good morning

Likewise. I appreciate you, and glad there are people like you who look forward and are hopeful. I was never good at that.

Agreed on the points about the west. And yes some hardship will remain. It's hard to imagine a world with none.

I don't think depression and suicide is new, it's been around for a long time. I just think these things are getting worse, and it's a red flag for me.

Ultimately, time will tell how all this will turn out, and it's out of my hands (not that it was ever in them)

Sure, it will make life very easy. That's not good. Hardship is what helps shape people into who they're supposed to be. We're not become more hardy as people, we're becoming weaker. Softer.

Depression is at its highest and growing. Suicide too. It's getting the point where no real effort is being made to make people not want to die. Instead we're helping people die. That's just one data point, in fairness. But I think it's important.

Plus this is based on the assumption that all advancements in tech will lead to improvements in perpetuity. Which is not likely, because all things are subject to diminishing returns.

I do agree that quality of life was not higher back in the day. I agree that having access to information is good. But there is something else about how life is now that is soulless.

Also you can't go back, so I'm not really advocating for that.

Cool, Coracle uses Svelte.

https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/03/msg01848.html

This link is relevant for my previous note about Cashu. This describes a variant of Chaumian Blinding by David Wagner, a professor at UC Berkeley and Cryptography researcher. Ecash is based on this, not the original definition of Chaumian Blinding.

Let's learn about Cashu:

From their own documentation, Cashu is an Chaumian ecash system built for Bitcon.

Chaumian refers to a technique called Chaumian Blinding. In short this technique allows a transaction to be carried out without revealing the parties involved on either side of the transaction.

Cashu is a protocol. Kind of like how Nostr is a protocol, or Bitcoin. This way anyone can develop tools that can talk to any other tool that implements the same protcol.

Sources:

Cashu Docs: https://docs.cashu.space/

Chaumian Blinding overview: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/chaumian-blinding/

Chaumian Blinding Paper: https://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Chaum.BlindSigForPayment.1982.PDF

For the record, I'm probably, at most, wrong about everything. And at least, most things.

I don't know if that's true. I would love to believe that, I really would.

Was Hitler valuable?

Stalin?

Terrorists?

Degenerates of every stripe?

There are some who many would agree that is not the case. Not even to mention the people above, or people like them, would have the same feeling about you or I.

And if the mighty think you are not valuable, what are you going to do to stop them from implementing whatever machinations they have in mind for you?

The second sentence was referring to LLMs

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With full acknowledgement that even I could be one of those people, or my offspring.

Living a life where your useless is not exactly a future I am excited about for myself, or for anyone else for that matter.

But also an increase in useless people who can't contribute meaningfully. This are relegated to being supported via UBI or whatever. Then you have people who are have never fed themselves. They only have ever been able to eat by taking.

Humans need goods. Food, clothes, housing, tools, etc.

Additionally, I don't think we really have "AI" yet anyways. But even those are not going to necessarily lead to human flourishing.

I guess technically I'm a hater. It's not that simple though.

I can see that some of the fear mongering is an obvious attempt to make it inaccessible to plebs (can't have a repeat of the internet can we?) In this sense I'm for acceleration.

But I also think that it will ultimately contribute to the continued decline of human quality.