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Probably going to be very wrong but here it goes. Also want to mention I understand exponential progress and my predictions are very conservative. But I think in general we underestimate the challenges ahead for a lot of technologies and there is no guarantee that progress continues in an exponential fashion. Just because it has since the 1900s doesn't mean it has to continue that trend for the next 50 years. I also think we're in a cultural phase filled with pseudo-intellectuals and real intellectuals are somewhat villainized which is slowing progress. Progress in Academia is currently stagnating and I don't see that trend chaning much in 50 years. Anyway, The world in 2070:
- probably post-quantum (i.e. we will have an actually usable quantum computer). Though I think it will be an incredibly expensive machine owned by few rich organisations. I hope that it can be used like the James Webb Telescope and all of humanity gets a turn. I think the discoveries made from using quantum computers and their impacts will be incremental
- nuclear fusion achieved: I think by 2070 we will have a dozen nuclear fusion reactors in the world but they will be incredibly expensive to build.
- nuclear fission OTOH I think will be the primary source of energy production in most of the world and fossil fuel energy sources will be the 3rd largest source of power by then. Maybe something like geothermal or hydro electric will be 2nd
- climate change: we will be behind our goals but we will be passed peak emissions and with carbon capture maturing, I think we will be on a year by year basis shrinking the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (though probably at a slower rate than we should be by then)
- electric cars will be ubiquitous with gas cars becoming the minority. In some places, they will be outright banned most likely
- I think we will have a sustained presence on the moon with colonies of a few thousand. Space travel will be affordable for upper middle class people. Mars will have been visited by Man but no sustained human presence yet (Elon under estimates the challenges)
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be mostly gone. Big W for humanity
- I think humanoid robots to help in the workplace will be common but their capabilities will be limited and applicable situations also limited. Turns out its harder to automate manual labour than white collar work. This may be the one to have the biggest impact. Wealthier people may have a humanoid robot servant to do certain tasks at home (though it will probably be a vanity thing)
- No AI singularity by 2070 though AI by then will be better, incrementally so, than it is now. I think the current AI bubble will pop hard creating yet another AI winter where not much attention is given or progress is made.
- Bitcoin still won't be world reserve currency but it may be the back bone of much of the worlds trade by then.
- If a new tech changes our lives, we haven't heard of it yet.

2025-02-17 04:03:46 UTC

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Exactly! g = gravity in physics

2025-02-14 16:15:23 UTC

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OMG if you go to doge.gov and right click Inspect, go to the console, it prints out database ids LMAO

2025-02-09 19:43:39 UTC

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Nothing personal or even this type of content, I'm just not sure how effective it is at converting people. I find content like this is largely consumed by people who are already orange pilled

2025-02-09 18:28:51 UTC

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Despite the neural network architecture, LLMs don't operate like the human brain. They're just fancy curve fitting algorithms. They need to reason and understand things to help us discover new things. But how do you program understanding? How do human brains even understand?

2025-02-01 20:09:48 UTC

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Do you mean web of trust scores? Regardless you can make your own relay without these rules.

2025-01-28 16:50:54 UTC

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Dude I really hope you're right but so far, I've only seen evidence to suggest they're not going to fight for any of this and will instead use this opportunity to enrich themselves.

2025-01-26 03:52:13 UTC

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Banger alert

2025-01-23 02:33:22 UTC

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Thanks for the additional context! Did not know those things.

2025-01-22 16:09:22 UTC

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Just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-odGW6UyEw
There's screen shots of him confirming he sent the money to someone with the intention of having someone killed. Now it seems like he got scammed out of 1600 BTC and nobody was actually killed. And as you said, there was never actually a trial or any conclusions made on these claims. But to me, there's certainly some evidence suggesting he did hire someone for murder and idk if I agree Ross did nothing wrong.

2025-01-22 14:58:39 UTC

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Serious questions: didn't he hire people on multiple occasions to kill someone? If this is true, what is your outlook on Ross in that respect?

2025-01-22 13:51:13 UTC

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Yeah I don't get this angle where people believe he's a nazi and this is him secretely coding to the world. We don't need weird conspiracy theories to hate Elon Musk, he's done tonnes of other stuff to hate him already.

2025-01-18 01:27:20 UTC

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But there's evidence to support a beginning. There's no evidence to support infinite rebirths and multi verses. Those are only theories. There may not be a beginning, but at least there's evidence for it.

2025-01-17 22:14:20 UTC

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Lmao you used the scientific method to determine all of this with certainty?

2025-01-17 20:59:44 UTC

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"The universe had no beginning" what? Our current best theory says it does aka The Big Bang.

2025-01-16 21:19:45 UTC

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This has the same energy as those anti-piracy ads back in the day or the big Napster controversy. You're displaying your work in a public town square but you're mad that passers by are looking at it without paying you. Defending that kind of behaviour is asking for violence since that's the only way to enforce this. Its not stealing to use an adblocker. Find a better monetisation model.

2025-01-16 18:18:00 UTC

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Ahhh but I mean what happens before the universe began is beyond the realm of science (at the present time). Religion and science are not two sides of the same coin.

2025-01-16 14:26:53 UTC

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What miracles does science require?

2025-01-15 13:13:48 UTC

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I'm guessing this doesn't cut it? https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

2025-01-15 01:41:43 UTC

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I think we need to reframe self driving. As much as I can't argue with the fact that automation will be better than humans at driving eventually, I think we really ought to ask if a future with self driving cars as our main mode of transport is one we want. And for me, that answer is no. I think cities will become less walkable, more car oriented and more dangerous for cyclists than they are now. I think there will be more cars on the road than now because instead of parking, your driverless car is supposed to go around making you money. Road noise will never end. And driverless car owners, companies will push to have dedicated roads with fences around them to prevent pedestrians from interfering with their tasks. It'll be sold under the guise of keeping us safe but its really about control. All that to say, more trains and fewer cars is the way.

2025-01-13 20:55:38 UTC

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Are you in Canada rn?

2024-12-21 17:25:31 UTC

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Are you gonna get a rabbies shot just in case?

2024-12-19 18:52:01 UTC

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You wouldn't happen to have a link to that note would you?

2024-12-11 13:34:00 UTC

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"I don't understand this thing, let me confidently and loudly proclaim something about it" seems many are chosing this path these days

2024-12-09 15:42:04 UTC

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I feel like it's really dangerous to be crying fraud without any actual evidence. You can't just point to circumstances like "oh its taking so long, must be fraud". Be vigilant, do investigate but call fraud only when you're 110% sure its fraud. Otherwise you erode trust in democracy.

2024-12-09 02:53:22 UTC

@nprofile…n6q3 I want to announce a new project I'm working on on nostr. What do you recommend for reach? Using particular hashtags?

2024-12-03 16:59:23 UTC

@nprofile…c9z9 are relays supposed to send a CLOSED after receiving a CLOSE? The wording in NIP-01 leads me to believe that CLOSED is only sent when the relay decides to close the subscription but it's a bit ambiguous IMO.

2024-12-03 15:46:48 UTC

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You really think the NSA can crack encryption?

2024-12-03 02:58:15 UTC

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Ahhh you're retarded

2024-12-03 02:51:12 UTC

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I encourage you to go to Poland and see for yourself. My gf is Polish with family members who perished in the holocaust. Her aunt was killed by a firing squad for rebelling against the Nazis. I'm not gonna judge too harshly but I do find it baffling that people think this shit didn't happen

2024-12-03 02:46:03 UTC

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For real my dude?

2024-12-03 02:31:03 UTC

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I live in Canada and sourdough isn't illegal. Here's a bakery in Ottawa that sells sourdough bread: https://www.breadbyus.com/

2024-12-03 02:26:50 UTC

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What?? No it isn't? Like to sell at stores?

2024-11-28 20:30:37 UTC

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These are cool. The only complaint I have is the death star seems really small. Isn't it like the size of a moon?

2024-11-28 16:36:13 UTC

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If you read the article, it says "A last-minute change to the bill specified that platforms must offer an alternative to making users upload identification documents." Sounds like there will just be sonething like an age gate like one rated M games on steam. Its still worth opposing for privacy reasons. I'm with you but its not a doomsday scenario yet.

2024-11-28 11:19:06 UTC

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Yeah reading that thread was like hearing all the reets explain why they're voting for trump: they made up their mind a long time ago and the reason make sense in their head, not when spoken outloud.

2024-11-23 19:19:33 UTC

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I'll watch it but companies have been caught faking and cherry picking for demos. This should be taken with a pinch of salt. Give me actual research papers, peer reviewed

2024-11-23 18:25:53 UTC

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Dude what AI are you using to think this? I've tried keeping an open mind and tried it over and over, have read countless research papers and watched countless videos discussing it and it all points to the fact that its not as good as you and others like you are claiming. In most situations where AI is marketed to be useful, at best its sometimes helpful, at worst its downright wrong. As a coding assistant, it always gets in the way, can really only help with boilerplate and even then stack overflow is usually better, more reliable and faster. And the research is showing these things are not improving at the rate that the Open AI CEO types are claiming and is even plateau-ing. I'll finish by saying if AI is really that good and us ludites are wrong and are GMI, then shut up and prove it. Build something to obsolete me.

2024-11-22 00:13:24 UTC

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I also don't agree that we are apolitical. We took a political position when we decided to build this protocol. Someone else can label that position but nonetheless, it is political.

2024-11-22 00:10:20 UTC

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Idk I get appealing to newbies but nostr is inherently not for newbies if we think of newbies in the stereotypical sense. We have keypairs and relays. I don't philosophically align with the idea we should hide this fact when its so core to the protocol. nostr.com should tell people about what nostr is. No bs, no cheap comparisons. Individual clients can do the hand wavy stuff, comparisons, etc.

2024-11-21 16:55:31 UTC

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That's a dishonest representation of the law. If you mis gender someone intentionally or not, you can be charged with a criminal offense, yes. But in court, the burden is on the accuser to prove you did so intentionally and with malicious intent. So far in Canada at least, I've not heard of anyone being charged, let alone convincted for doing it unintentionally. Intention is the key here. I'm not defending the law or the morality of doing this but let's be honest and not change the truth to fit our narrative.

2024-11-16 19:44:34 UTC

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I think it speaks more to the culture of nostr. Very bitcoin culture tangential where if you're not with us, you're against us. Everything else is bad, fuck nuance, fuck actually researching and looking at facts. So long as you post "gm, zaps and DVMs are the future, NGMI", that's what nostr mostly is right now. There's a few high signal accounts worth following here but otherwise its just a bunch of noise. I'm probably part of that noise, hoping to change that soon.

2024-11-16 01:45:45 UTC

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Tbh I don't think its coordinated man. They're all just reporting on the same story.

2024-11-15 02:47:04 UTC

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#nevent1q…t8an

2024-11-15 02:09:03 UTC

Funny that the same group of people who are so morally superior and condemn the Jeffrey Epstein's of the world are really fucking quiet about Matt Gaetz being appointed attorney general. But yes, let's vote Trump for Ross. 🤡🤡

2024-11-14 12:46:57 UTC

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I feel like this fact isn't talked about enough. The supreme court gave the president immunity from prosecution in the most be decision ever. That alone should've been enough to kill his political career in the land of the free but his supporters are way too far up his ass to see the truth.

2024-11-14 11:20:30 UTC

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Oh so relays are going to need to be modified to not check for a signature then? How will a relay know that a given event is meant to be unsigned? I think having a dedicated kind would simplify this.

2024-11-13 13:22:03 UTC

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What the actual fuck? A human beings worthiness of living is measured by their productivity? What kind of monster says something like that? God damn

2024-11-12 16:11:45 UTC

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I'll also add, about 7 years ago I started experiencing knee pain after playing some soccer (which didn't add up because I'm in my twenties). Went to a physiotherapist and they diagnosed me with weak hips and tensed up quads. So tense (because of compensation for my weak hips and lack of deep stretching) that the muscles were pulling the patellar ligament off axis and my knee cap was not aligned causing wear and pain. I started foam rolling my legs, deep stretching and strengthening my hips, and the knee pain went away. I give myself 30 minutes before every workout to do deep stretches (holding poses for 50 seconds), foam rolling and hip strengthening to keep these symptoms at bay and so far its worked.

2024-11-12 15:54:06 UTC

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This guy on YouTube is famous for curing knee pain through Tibialis exercises. You do Tibialis raises and it will strengthen those muscles and prevent knee pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqsg9DGPX0

2024-11-12 12:38:02 UTC

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I've been slowly selling my bitcoin for a down payment on a house. I plan on buying more once I own a home but I see nothing wrong with spending your money. What's the point of saving if you never spend it.

2024-11-09 12:03:52 UTC

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Negentropy should NEVER be mandatory. There is a whole usecase for relays as private communities where users do not want their notes to go anywhere but that specific relay and this NIP would just kill that use case. Its also very complex and makes building a simple relay more difficult. Optional NIP is the best option IMO.

2024-11-07 02:24:21 UTC

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Lol the irony https://image.nostr.build/3c8cec7ee42ccfc6cf6c4d2b1409e9ce025d352b3d383f8dbe5d69c339ebfc78.jpg

2024-11-06 12:35:49 UTC

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Truly, do you believe this? Genuinely asking.

2024-11-03 19:15:17 UTC

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What are you going on about? Aren't we talking about ICANN and whether or not they regular censor/take down domains?

2024-11-03 18:14:56 UTC

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"Domains regularly get taken down or censored". Mind elaborting on that and providing some evidence? I'm not doubting you that domains can and do get taken down by ICANN. But regularly? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

2024-11-02 12:55:51 UTC

#Amethyst has anyone ever reported this bug? My media player in the top widget menu will show amethyst "playing" a post? Its really annoying if the last thing I did on my phone before getting into my car was scrolling amethyst. Then when my phone connects to my car it won't auto play music as I expect but will auto play an amethyst post. Which makes no sense, I'm not sure why a normal text post is being treated as media to play in the background. Like a given post won't even have a GIF, audio or video linked to it.

2024-10-31 13:26:26 UTC

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My grand father passed away 8 years ago as of August. Not a day goes by when I don't think of him. He was the kind of man most of us work hard to be, but he just was. He was wise, caring and he didn't give a damn what people thought about him. Unapologetically himself. And he loved to make people laugh. He was the life of the party. Family get togethers just aren't the same without him. He taught me so much. He was also wicked smart. For a guy who didn't even finish high school and worked his whole life underground, he could fix or build you anything. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing about special people like that as it makes me think of him.

2024-10-28 13:42:06 UTC

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I may be missing something but I'm pretty sure its not competing with nostr. Essentially, using mainline DHT (which torrent clients use) and a public/private keypair, it's a decentralized way to create name records. So for example you can sign a message with your keypair saying I want to claim www dot abh3po dot com, direct it to x.y.z.w IP address and publish it to the DHT using the PKARR protocol and now that domain will resolve to your server. No need for ICANN. Though one of the devs told me it won't necessarily work in the browser out of the box this way.
Regardless, its not just for domain names, any names can claimed in this way. You could have a record resolve to an npub or a bitcoin wallet address. You would need whatever nostr client or bitcoin wallet to use PKARR to resolve these names but if it did, then you have permissionless and decentralized DNS.

2024-10-26 12:30:16 UTC

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Idk if I agree. What trainwreck would come with a Harris admin?

2024-10-26 03:59:42 UTC

Tbh, I have lost a lot of respect for bitcoiners who are voting for Trump solely because he promised to free Ross and ignore his shitcoin schemes, and undemocratic actions during his term. Your heads are so far up his ass, you can't see the man for what he is: a power hungry politician who sold himself out to gain power. This isn't me saying that Kamala Harris is perfect and has no flaws. She's a cookie cutter politician. But what is wrong with that? What is wrong with business as usual? Trump isn't going to make things better and neither will she but at least she's predictable. Its Trumps unpredictability that is scary and when you hold as much power as the US President, that certainly isn't a desirable quality.

2024-10-17 16:56:26 UTC

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_Canada
Not law but the CRTC has told them they can't. So maybe don't lawyer up *yet* but do report it to the CRTC. Much cheaper and easier a step (though admitedely less badass) than starting your own ISP.

2024-10-15 20:03:16 UTC

Idea: a new method of AUTH on a relay based on Web of Trust/degree of separation. You configure your relay to allow a max degree of separation (say 3). Then when a new user connects to your relay and gets the AUTH message, not only must they sign an AUTH message but so does one other user already on the relay white list (to essentially vouch on your behalf). The person vouching for you must have had their auth message signed by the relay operator/admin or by someone that the admin vouched for directly or someone they vouched for directly up to the degree of separation limit.
You can even enforce moderation this way where if someone let's in a bad actor, both the bad actor and the person that vouched for them gets kicked out. If someone you vouched for is kicked out, you get a strike up to a maximum of three (or some other configurable value) #nostr #dev

2024-10-15 13:45:40 UTC

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Colour coding. Posts destined for account X's feed are red, account y's feed green. I have similar ideas for distinguishing from which relay a given post is from too.

2024-10-14 22:48:27 UTC

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Ahhh okay I sweat when I sleep but I don't wake up in a cold soggy mess. And I don't have interrupted sleep. I'm probably fine then haha

2024-10-14 19:40:11 UTC

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Is sweating when you sleep a bad thing?

2024-10-11 18:04:36 UTC

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What kind of complex queries do you want? What kind of complex queries are out there in the wild right now?
IMO this is a large ask and complexity can become out of hand very quickly and all of a sudden implementing a relay includes and implementing an entire query language. Everyone is saying "let's use SQL". Which flavour of SQL? And then relays are locked into using only SQL databases of that flavour or writing some translation layer that can be riddled with bugs and security issues.
The simple query language lowers the attack surface and makes it easier and more flexible for relay operators. That doesn't mean we can't add complexity to the existing query language but let's be very careful here.

2024-10-11 01:29:37 UTC

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Is it that bright to the naked eye?

2024-10-09 11:53:51 UTC

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What in the Alabama is this?

2024-10-06 16:49:19 UTC

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Wait what??? There's no voice in your head? What about when you read?

2024-10-06 14:12:05 UTC

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I think both can exist. Personally I'm not a fan of the feed type social media paradigm. I think some relays can be strung together to create a web backing this kind of global feed and other relays can service individual communities.

2024-10-04 12:39:18 UTC

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Has force ever not been equal to mass*acceleration? No but that doesn't mean Newton was right. Its a good model of physics in many applications but it has its shortcomings. Einsteins theory of relativity is far closer to the answer than Newton's model.
Are politicians known to be corrupt? Absolutely. Will they continue to be corrupt? Most likely but you don't approach new situations with your biases and then find evidence that matches your world view. You look at every situation indepedentely, look at all the facts, then draw your conclusions. Einstein's own biases cloud his judgement when evaluating quantum mechanics he said "God doesn't roll dice". Yet he was wrong, quantum mechanics is the best model of the atom we have currently.

2024-10-04 12:10:43 UTC

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I'm not saying all conspiracy theories are wrong nor should they be dismissed. But a huge problem I have with this kind of thinking is its mostly anti-scientific. Instead of looking at the facts and drawing conclusions, typically people with this kind of thinking have drawn conclusions and then find evidence to support it. Example: the whole COVID-19 plandemic theory that governments around the world conspired to make a pandemic and then use the opportunity to implement authoritarian rule over people. Typically, these people already held the view that governments are waiting for the opportunity to tighten their grips, power hungry monsters, etc. Then when the pandemic happened and governments *did* employ authoritarian measures, it fit their narrative and so it must be true. But now in 2024, we can see they were wrong. The world didn't slip into full on authoritarianism as they said they would with vaccine passports still in effect, police check points, bread lines, etc. Should governments have this kind of power? Were the authoritarian measures justified or worth it? Those are different questions. But the point stands, I find in Bitcoin/Nostr communities this kind of thinking pervasive. If holding this opinion makes me an NPC then so be it.

2024-10-04 11:41:27 UTC

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How are you mocking these up BTW? Looks amazing :)

2024-10-03 15:32:27 UTC

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LMDB?

2024-09-30 16:38:33 UTC

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Metal water bottles >>>> I previously owned a glass bottle, took it everywhere including to the bouldering gym. I put it down on the ground, someone accidentally knocked it over and it shattered. Never again.

2024-09-30 16:34:53 UTC

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100% I would much rather have a safe way to remotely sign then have key rotations.

2024-09-26 20:17:12 UTC

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Yeah I would tell him about running his own relay and how he can moderate all he wants as well as require verification.
I think what he and people like him need to realize is the damage caused by social media has been done. There's no undoing it, atleast not in an easy way. But moving forward if we migrate to protocols like nostr, we can help reduce these effects. But we will never fully remove it. There's always going to be a place like 4chan where these crazy ideas proliferate. But we can return to a time where those people are rare and fringe instead of half the voting population.

2024-09-26 19:32:32 UTC

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I saw this video literally 30 minutes ago and thought the same thing. I'm relieved to see his own fans disagreeing with him. There is still hope. Its funny, minus requiring verification and stuff like that, he's circling towards nostr IMO. Maybe IRL over a beer, he could be convinced that nostr could be the solution.

2024-09-24 18:10:29 UTC

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Even if his UTXO isn't anonymized, its still a fuck you to the state. They can't stop people from doing it. Only punish them for doing it.

2024-09-24 14:43:39 UTC

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Tbh I really don't care for zaps at all and I don't think most people do or will. There I said it. I like Bitcoin, I like using it but I just don't care for zaps.

2024-09-20 06:58:31 UTC

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I thought so but google came up with different looking things. I think they're actually invasive species, chinese stink bugs

2024-09-20 03:42:28 UTC

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I think a goal for humanity should be to ensure the universe is experienced by as many different life forms as possible. For us this translates to ensuring as few species as possible become extinct.

2024-09-18 20:59:16 UTC

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Recaptcha would have to become a NIP since all of this happens over websockets and not basic HTTP. And then nostr clients would need to add support for recaptcha.

2024-09-18 15:15:04 UTC

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"Feeling cute, idk might delete later"

2024-09-18 01:24:55 UTC

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I guess it depends how it all unfolds. We likely won't be around to say "I told you so" one way or the other haha

2024-09-17 15:07:50 UTC

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Sure but its not as simple as stating it. There is continued effort to make it distributed. A world where this technology exists is one where I imagine many other great technologies exist. Like ones to maneuver massive asteroids through space to bring them into stable orbits near celestial bodies flesh world people live on and can mine them. With that comes the power to destroy entire continents, planets. The digital people will need flesh world representatives to defend them and constantly ensure the safety and distributed-ness of the network. Distributed over many planets? Anyway, this will be a heavily trust based relationship. Idk to me it seems your outsourcing those concerns to pretend to live in this world, away from violence and the woes of flesh world but in reality, are still subject to it.

2024-09-17 04:55:51 UTC

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Does amethyst have WoT filtering? If no, when?

2024-09-16 23:51:29 UTC

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That seems like a bad idea. There will always be IRL humans or conscious beings who could shut everything down. You're at the mercy of their violence no?

2024-09-15 16:35:08 UTC

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How you experience art is not the same question as whether or not the output of an AI model is art.
It is interesting that ai generated images evokes those emotions in you. I find them souleless and same-y for the most part. But as you pointed out, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
But yes, to me what makes art is the human behind it or the experience of consuming it. Both can be art. But without both, you have products. Its why even in a distant or not so distant future where ai generated music is topping charts and many people are enjoying it, those same people are unlikely to go to a concert for such things. There will be some people that would of course and its interesting to imagine what an ai concert would look like but part of going to concerts nowadays is to support a band you love, feel the energy from them performing live, from the crowd, feeling the passion for the music they wrote ooze out of them. With ai generated music, you won't get that though consuming the songs may invoke similar feelings as it the ai generated image did for you.

2024-09-15 16:11:45 UTC

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I don't agree at all and I'm not sure our current understanding of the human brain is in line with what you're saying. Humans don't go about the world predicting the right word to say next. There is understanding of what was said to them to help formulate the response. Also the choice of words you use may change based on who you're talking to, the socio-economic context you're in, etc. There is certainly an element of memorization for learning language and even how we engage with the world but it is much more complex than simply predicting or curve fitting.
If human brains worked this way, GPT models would be much better than they are and wouldn't need millions of training data points and thousands of learning hours to mimic what we do. There are obviously very large differences in how we think and how these algorithms work.

2024-09-15 16:01:03 UTC

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I don't agree. The difference is humans are capable of creating something new. Being inspired by previous works. Currently, AI isn't creating something new because it doesn't think, reason, doesn't have lived experience, etc. It is an algorithm which given some inputs (the prompt) is predicting what is the most likely combination of pixels to output based the training set. Its why you ask a model produce a cartoon crab underwater and it gives you something reminiscent of Mr. krabs from sponge Bob (since that was part of the training set). You ask a human to do this and you will get wildly different results based on the person and their lived experience.
One day when ai is better I'll agree, but right now its hardly ai to begin with and more a fancy curve fitting algorithm.
Not to mention this argument feels like it misses the point: as a creator it feels so shitty knowing you built something and shared it on some platform only for the platform to use it to make money of your work. It may also be illegal, though thats a different story altogether. I don't think any amount of "well acshually all art is stolen content" will change that.

2024-09-15 15:14:58 UTC

Lmao GPTo1 is just using the python scripts people built to chain prompts together in the background based on your initial prompt for tasking/agents (I e. Break down the steps, then make each step its own prompt, summarize the result, ask if it matches with original prompt, etc.). This is nothing new.

2024-09-15 13:46:42 UTC

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Dude what the hell are your replies? Most of them are completely off topic (e.g. cycling article, sjw meme, etc.). It seems nostr has a way bigger bot problem than I thought.

2024-09-14 02:13:48 UTC

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Fuck me this is awesome! Definitely going down a hot reload rabbit hole

2024-09-12 10:20:15 UTC

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Yeah actually that's exactly what the law says. Here's a link to the Australian government website summarizing the law: https://www.ag.gov.au/crime/publications/abhorrent-violent-material-act-fact-sheet
They explain what the definition of abhorrent content is:
"Abhorrent violent material is limited to very specific categories of the most egregious, violent audio, visual or audio-visual material produced by a perpetrator or their accomplice. The definition includes video, still images (including a series of still images) and audio recordings.
It must stream or record conduct where a person engages in a terrorist act (involving serious physical harm or death of another person), murders or attempts to murder another person, tortures another person, rapes another person or kidnaps another person (where the kidnapping involves violence or the threat of violence). This conduct is referred to as ‘abhorrent violent conduct’. The definition does not include material recording animated, re-enacted or fictionalised conduct."
I still don't agree with the law but this isn't about the ability to criticize a government at all.

2024-09-12 10:10:33 UTC

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Link? The link the one dude shared in this thread doesn't mention text content at all.