It's quite ironic that we, a bunch of materialistic, post-industrial barbarians, program AIs and then expect them to exhibit ethical behavior based on the data of our insights and judgments.
The weak link in this chain of creation is the builder, not the product.
But when we think of ourselves as perfect beings, we don't come to this conclusion of course.
What if the skin color confusion of Google's Gemini is actually a social engineering campaign aimed at achieving the opposite effect? Namely, to make the younger generation more racist. It's widely known that among this age group, there are more rebellious tendencies, which do exactly the opposite of what the mainstream and the establishment dictate to them.
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And these forks all failed, because they weren't 'Bitcoin' anymore, but something else. To change the Bitcoin supply, you need the consent of all node operators around the world. Good luck achieving that.
Uhm ... what?
Note, this is not some wierdo seeking for attention on social media. This is the president of El Salvador.
The ECB seems to have published a satire magazine.
"Bitcoin transactions are still inconvenient, slow, and costly."
"Bitcoin is still not suitable as an investment."
"the mining of Bitcoin using the proof of work mechanism continues to pollute the environment on the same scale as entire countries, with higher Bitcoin prices implying higher energy consumption as higher costs can be covered by miners."
And much more such gems.
Can't make this up ...
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2024/html/ecb.blog20240222~0929f86e23.en.html
Whenever you wake up and feel disconnected from this society, remember that we live in times where 'dating coach' is a profession one can earn good money with.
Me (the one further back) when someone on Nostr says "I need a website, but I can only pay in Sats".
9. Brag about how many Sats you made at Nostr last year/last month 😉
What partnerships?
Did you know that Mullvad offers free, content-blocking DNS services for everyone, blocking ads, trackers, adult and gambling content?
I'm not really exited about Google's coming new IDE named IDX. I don't know why. Maybe Google doesn't have the credibility anymore.
Got to acknowledge the simplicity of BlueSky. That could beat Nostr in the race for the disappointed Twitter users.
Than why are we talking about it? Maybe it should have another name, Web of Trust is a bit misleading. This term was used before.
Private groups are coming to nostr. E2E encryption with no meta data leak. Already implemented in nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk . So … this would fit your bill?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/44.md
Problem is… nostr would still need a user applied marker for “is trusted friend”, because metadata is not available for querying “the people you engage with privately”. Though… a smart client could offer user option to “mark trusted friends based on your private messages” or something.
As I said, I don't like the idea of a Nostr-centered implementation. It would be a shame to artificially limit something like that. "WOT" means more than just Nostr. And Nostr isn't the end-all, be-all of wisdom. One should look ahead when it comes to such an important standard.
Follow is not enough. In a narrow sense, social media alone is not enough. The definition should be expanded somewhat. Like, Telegram and private chat groups on Signal are more 'social' than Nostr. Weblogs can be social too. They're even the first social media. Then think about email etc.
I don't see any sense in a standard that is narrowly confined to timeline-based platforms. However, as an independent, open format, it would make much more sense and would also be ready for the next big thing.
I didn't even have Nostr in mind, I'd like to think of WOT as an open standard every platform can adapt. Even Google (if they want to). And if you operate an own website, you could put that file there too.
And the relationship graph between individuals wouldn't necessarily have to be dependent on the "following" status at Nostr, but could be independently represented so that each platform could integrate it.
Do you know the old RDF format FOAF?
How to connect real people as nostr grows?
>”On a base level, If you turn out to be a decent human and take action to further the advancement of our species in a positive way , selflessly, I would like to know you more.” nostr:npub1ualvtyga8hj6kgw9mwe72ns9pn6c8kd66qruv98eafeuawg7yt0shdwmqx
nostr:note1xd7smv80vczsmqdxut2qs8jvatvur9tupjnn434l43jstqmqthgspjsun9
Not everybody has to be part of a WOT. Only those who strive for it for different reasons.
And there could be different classifications. Like
"I don't know his real id, never met him, but he helped me out with a problem"
or
"I did business with him and he was fair"
or
"He's my neighbour, I know he's real for sure"
or
"I follow him since 7 years and his seems reasonable"
If nobody knows you and has never interacted with you, then you'd just have a WOT rank of 0 or something like that.