cody

thinking about the function of law in the field between materiality and language

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2024-01-11 20:40:48 UTC

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The SEC would have to get on nostr, and then get its nostr account hacked before announcing, before it can approve. Those are the rules.

2024-01-03 17:18:42 UTC

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Classic NFT cycle—Come in for community and miss out on generational wealth due to irony poisoning.

2023-12-20 23:40:43 UTC

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Likewise! Glad to see nostr hasn’t been devoid of rizz in my absence 🤙

2023-12-20 20:29:40 UTC

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I see where you’re coming from—but I think the problem is that too much gets lost in the gap between people’s inherent conception of rights and the reasons why those rights should or should not be infringed. Even if it’s the case nothing is owed to explain why a right should exist, there has to be an articulable reason why it shouldn’t be taken away if there’s a belief that doing so is necessary for some higher-order reason (e.g., national security).
My fear is that when lawmakers go into the chasm to learn about crypto, they leave without having anything concrete to assuage these higher-order concerns. E.g., if a politician goes in to learn about crypto with the belief it can be used to fund terrorism, but is willing to be persuaded otherwise, it is going to be tough to move their position when most of the readily-accessible knowledge base they can draw from is comprised of middling statements like “it’s not that widespread,” or “it’s not as bad as banking.”
I’m not saying they can’t also weigh those alongside the other positive benefits crypto can offer, but that those benefits are easier to dismiss or devalue in the absence of other positions that directly clash with the specific issue—especially one where the consequences under consideration (e.g. terrorism) are taken so seriously by those in government.

2023-12-19 23:52:16 UTC

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@npub164q…2rl3 - Should have tagged you in this too. Just got back to Nostr after listening. Thanks for the great and thoughtful content!

2023-12-19 23:47:19 UTC

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Don’t disagree with your sentiment. One general problem I see in the counter-messaging to Warren’s bill/views (and others like it) is too much emphasis on the principles behind crypto, and not enough on the reality of what can be done to address the bill’s concerns.
Government tries to solve problems (real or imaginary) that it believes (rightly, wrongly, or duplicitously) the public is incapable of solving itself. I want to see more messaging and discussion that is literally as direct as possible—e.g. “How Bitcoin stops terrorist financing” or “Why crypto is a better alternative to eliminate terrorist financing than the government and big banks.” Even the Blockchain Association’s November 15 letter to the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee was lukewarm—only stating that proposed regulations would be “counter productive” to national security interests with a citation to a single WSJ letter to the editor from a different crypto lobbyist that effectively said “blockchains are public, so terrorists don’t like using them.” True or not, it’s too abstract.
Legislators that barely know how to use google need to be persuaded by offensive messaging and education that is tangible, which means discussing and demonstrating the utility of solutions to the problem they’re confronting. It’s against these concrete backdrops that the more ethereal appeals to freedom, equality, etc., can be contextualized—and against which the government’s alternatives can be evaluated.

2023-12-19 23:05:35 UTC

@npub1hyq…k7cp - Just listened to The Progressive Bitcoiner episode you were on. Your discussion of meme culture made me think of this other podcast episode you might find interesting: https://theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/checkpoints-ruby-justice-thelot-third-spaces
TLDL: The podcast presents Ruby Justice Thelot’s case study on how communicative “third spaces” can exist on internet platforms (in this case, tens of thousands of YouTube comments accumulating over almost a decade under a video for the soundtrack to Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest)—and some of the challenges censorship or centralized platforms may pose to those structures. It dovetails into a discussion of what that means for the “Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet,” which is just a more academic way of saying “how online echo chambers are created.”
I find it to be a pretty compelling anecdote for thinking through the value of things like censorship-resistance, accessibility, and the role of media and platforms generally.

2023-01-20 04:13:42 UTC

Here's a bit of a meta question for those out there on nostr who are more savvy than me: What would be the best way to conduct a poll on nostr without having to worry about creating a massive reply chain? Thought about using some sort of "1 sat payment = vote yes / 2 sat payment = vote no," but that seems a bit hectic.

2023-01-20 04:06:52 UTC

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I think CR makes a lot of sense for the initial gathering just because that's the biggest gravity well we can harness from the outset to launch the conference into a sustainable and replicable model. But definitely think rotating is a good idea after.

2023-01-20 02:20:01 UTC

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Word. And I don't know if the fall would be ideal anyway. If the forces continue toward Costa Rica the later we get into summer/through fall, the rainier it gets.

2023-01-16 22:40:01 UTC

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Here's a link to a PDF (for when you're caught up on your reading list!) - https://filedn.eu/lSmbVOH8OJnh8q06rNwVmqS/public.library/2020-06/20200531-182759-The_Fragility_of_Things_Self-Organizing_Processes_2384568_%28z-lib.org%29.pdf

2023-01-16 21:31:29 UTC

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Thanks! Maybe you could write it?

2023-01-16 21:02:44 UTC

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After the first time this debate was had on here a few weeks ago, I started to write something about what self-ownership would mean once the last bitcoin is mined. Maybe I'll pick that project back up - I think it could be a good lens to think through these things.

2023-01-16 20:59:05 UTC

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#[1] - You should read The Fragility of Things by William Connolly

2023-01-12 21:30:48 UTC

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My biggest pet peeve about searching is that iOS leaves that little “search” back button in the top-left when you’re using the app. Pixel space is precious.

2023-01-12 18:03:39 UTC

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Looks like 10 hours of playtime! (+maybe cancer/reproductive harm)

2023-01-11 18:52:46 UTC

I know this is on Twitter but this is very cool to see irl.
"Disruption," if you want to put it simply, happens when a new entrant is able to re-define an established industry by introducing a novel innovation to address a parallel need that the establishment has historically ignored. The entire world has ignored people shut out from participating in global markets for far too long - and this could be its reckoning. Not saying we need to go full neoliberal/markets solve mentality, but the structural inequities that global finance and capital markets/regulations have created must be broken.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1613123560511242240

2023-01-08 18:51:19 UTC

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HFT's current stage is a point on a really interesting through-line of how systems align themselves to push information exchange to its limits. We've gone from shouting hawkers bartering in open-air markets to skyscrapers filled with floors of traders shouting into phones to 5 quants doing math in a basement server room.

2023-01-07 21:36:45 UTC

#[0] - Not a major issue but one UI thing to think about with the new banners on Damus might be to change the color/contrast of the previous screen button in the top left - purple on purple is pretty hard to see

2023-01-07 21:20:15 UTC

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I think I saw something in the roadmap about merch?

2023-01-07 05:31:05 UTC

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Wow 2008 has already gone up 1500% since mint this thing is going to the moon. Can’t believe I paper handed it 😓

2023-01-07 03:11:04 UTC

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Confirmed - same chain.

2023-01-07 02:59:37 UTC

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Yeah it's not a settled question. I'm not familiar with how Midjourney et al. scraped all the images to use as training data. If they got an image from a website where scraping/saving/using a copyrighted work violated the terms of use, that's a clearer line, but I'd hope they had the foresight to know that would be an issue. For other more "open" images, it can depend on things like how the model is tuned, what the training actually extracts from the pictures, how the extracted info is stored, and how many images are in the model.
E.g., if I just trained a McDonald's logo generator and scraped 1,000 variations of the golden arches, that starts to looks like copyright infringement. But if those 1,000 images are part of a 100,000,000 image data set, it would look more like fair use. Mind you the question of whether a copyright violation exists for the person generating an image from a dataset is a separate analysis. This is all from the US-perspective though.

2023-01-07 02:45:37 UTC

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Congrats! If only I had diamond hands...I probably could have bought all of us houses

2023-01-07 02:39:23 UTC

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#[5]

2023-01-07 02:38:59 UTC

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If there's no human authorship that's true, but the line as to what constitutes "human authorship" is actually kind of blurry. It's a function of a few different factors, including how much effort and originality there was from the person using the AI to render the "final" image.

2023-01-07 02:34:45 UTC

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nostr NFT bull market!

2023-01-07 02:32:46 UTC

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Bear market 😢

2023-01-07 02:30:58 UTC

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Ok I really don't want to have to sell it but I need liquidity so I'm willing to part with this NFT at floor - buyer is getting a steal.
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2023-01-07 02:22:39 UTC

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Incredible I'm actually going to hang it on my wall

2023-01-07 02:19:27 UTC

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Just sent now what lol

2023-01-07 00:37:45 UTC

Was looking to finally register an NIP-05 address but saw that #[0] was already taken. Not surprising given I was the later Cody to game. Luckily they seem pretty chill. When I checked the account and hit "follow" I got instant nostalgia for early-days Facebook when you'd just add random people who had the same name as you.
So, hey Cody!

2023-01-07 00:00:35 UTC

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Very hot debate about where to draw the line. The Copyright office is actually still trying to figure that question out. It can very depending on things like how much work went into creating the prompt/input how much post-generation refinement was done by the human "author," how much/what kind of source material used to train the model is being used to create the new work (and what restrictions there were on the usage of that material), how novel the actual image/code is, and more.

2023-01-06 21:53:44 UTC

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Thanks both! I'll check each of these out. I've had a tendency to come at this sort of stuff from what I guess I'd say is a more speculative point of view, but I think we're seeing complexity getting directly injected into people's realities at a time that's faster and more palpable now than I've ever felt before (not that I've been around that long...). Hence the ask -- I've been looking to dig even further into more "rigorously analytical" approaches like the ones you've each cited.

2023-01-06 04:32:17 UTC

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Who/what have you been reading that you’ve found to be the most interesting fuel to keep propelling you down the rabbit hole?

2023-01-05 18:03:57 UTC

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Lol thanks, I think you're right - I like to think of myself as a bit of an idealist but I still appreciate the kind words!
I share the same concerns. Constant streams of media seem to tend toward libidnal eddys around platforms like river water around a rock. If I can think of one positive characteristic that could help create escape velocity from this kind of thing, I think it might be that we at least don't have one single centralized algorithmic organizing function on nostr that can supercharge the ability to capitalize on captured attention.
Nostr is already an escape from Twitter, and maybe there will be algorithmically-defined clients and relays that try to farm engagement, but now they'll be in greater competition with each other. If the content of one relay becomes increasingly vacuous - like many people think Twitter is - then there will be less friction to jump out of that information pool while (hopefully) staying in the bigger stream. That's an interesting problem I'll definitely have to give more thought.

2023-01-05 14:20:11 UTC

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It can have beefy nodes to scale, but it can also follow (and should follow) a rhizomatic distribution to scale.
Decentralization in communication doesn’t necessarily need to create some monolithic way for information to be immediately apparent to everyone, everywhere—it just needs to make sure that the value behind the information can be reliably distributed and accessed with as little friction as possible. If the tendency of that process is toward including beefier nodes, then it’s probably an indication that, at this point in history, more centralized nodules within the network are just an inherent part of the decentralization process.
But history also shows us that we tend toward decentralization as technology reduces the barriers to processing and transmitting information. So while there might be some nodes/systems that play a more centralized role now, if the trend towards innovating more connective frameworks like nostr continues, the importance of any one node to the network will continue to diminish.

2023-01-05 02:16:53 UTC

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Ironically this is another example of why anarcho-capitalism isn’t an internally consistent/sustainable system. No one has 100% perfect information to understand the full future consequences of their choices, nor does anyone have 100% control over those consequences. So even if you create “ownership” over something in a particular moment, your future “sovereignty” is still always constrained by the same relational forces of everything else in time and space you didn’t obtain ownership of. And you can’t own everything, nor can you exist forever.
Anytime you try to assert self-ownership as an ordering principle it’s going to run into very real spatial and temporal limits it can’t account for, which means it is not a good a-priori principle to use if we think one exists to explain order in the world. Maybe it’s a useful heuristic to understand how some things in the world work in practice, but it can’t act as a fundamental natural law if it can be violated. We don’t say that physics theorems or math proofs are invalid because they’re super complicated and aren’t likely to ever really be observed in the real world outside of contrived experiments, so we shouldn’t use complexity as an argument here if we’re trying to talk about the same forces—albeit from a more philosophical perspective.

2023-01-04 21:00:03 UTC

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That’s amazing! I assume you’re a doctor?

2023-01-04 20:43:08 UTC

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Nope - still instant. Maybe it's because I'm replying to my own prior posts.

2023-01-04 20:42:18 UTC

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Interesting. That was the first post I ever made with the app installed, this is the first post I’ll have ever made from the app itself. I’ll keep playing around and see how it goes.

2023-01-04 20:33:18 UTC

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I sent this post through astral.ninja and it showed up on Damus instantly. My Notes App doesn’t even synch that fast 🤯

2023-01-04 20:31:49 UTC

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Nvm I'm dumb. Figured it out. Love the UI. Glad this post will stick around...

2023-01-04 20:25:15 UTC

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Ah so maybe a noob question - but am I unable to import this account (made private key through Alby then linked to nostr through astral.ninja) to Damus?

2023-01-04 20:20:07 UTC

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I was just able to download and install the beta about 30 seconds ago. Had TestFlight already installed and then just requested access by going to damus.io on my iPhone browser.

2023-01-02 18:09:25 UTC

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Makes sense, I don't think it should be an issue either because obviously nostr is just the delivery mechanism for the invoice and not where funds transfer, but the fact Apple is trying to take 30% of gas fees paid through a Coinbase wallet always has me concerned about in-app purchase mission creep.

2023-01-02 18:01:36 UTC

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Any concern about Apple trying to restrict invoicing for SATs over nostr through Damus (I missed the beta by two days so not sure how it works in the app)? Not saying they're in-app purchases, but I was curious given its earlier attempt at getting coinbase to pay up for gas fees.