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many “party” in virtual worlds today. that’s setting yourself up for a rude awakening when the physical world comes knocking
we are not brains in vats.

2025-03-23 03:08:58 UTC

party less, get your head kicked in more
contemplating my 20s and why everyone’s sick
if you never face real difficulty, your life will get complicated later. there is no escaping it
we did not evolve for a never-ending good time 😷

2025-03-22 23:53:07 UTC

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All the big techs do this. Quickest way to get banned from any platform is to start questioning their system. If users are products, this is like quality control

2025-03-22 23:31:21 UTC

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no amount of discipline will turn you into a machine. that's a result that many are seeking, with a feeling of lacking “balance”

2025-03-22 23:20:45 UTC

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the role of AI is to help you keep balance in this information overload. It’s not ideal to have a machine decide what’s better for you, but it's a tradeoff between something worse - getting lost alone and getting nowhere. we’ve reached the limits of what default human wetware can handle, and it’s not enough to keep up with the present

2025-03-22 23:02:55 UTC

the world as it’s built is not ready to answer all the “why?” questions millennials and younger now ask
there was never a need to understand this much because you’d never use your knowledge
it’s still not clear how to use all that you learn from asking “why?” but it’s evident that others figure it out
there is no step-by-step if you ask too many questions. you’ll be over your head and no one will help

2025-03-22 21:35:46 UTC

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cynicism, nihilism, and fiat collapse are all unstoppable trains that’ll fuel war we can yet imagine. On the other side of it all is the world the lazy dream of today

2025-03-22 21:29:49 UTC

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IMO, ww3 won’t happen because it’s too expected. But all other cracks that don’t annihilate the human species will get exploited by ambitious psychos

2025-03-22 21:23:06 UTC

people who want perpetual peacetime have no ambition
all great nations are terrorists in their own way

2025-03-22 20:58:11 UTC

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I find that the idea of “money is a tool” is better than hating money, but it’s not enough. You have to develop an obsession with numbers going up, else they go down by default

2025-03-22 20:39:32 UTC

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never have I heard someone who defaults to “money is not everything” think out loud how to make more money.
for at least half the world's population, money is everything because they are objectively poor
for almost everyone else, it’s also life-changing, but rich societies enable laziness

2025-03-22 19:51:11 UTC

most people dream about not having to think about money, but there is no easy path to get there. Best to get in the habit of thinking about nothing else, with intensity for a few years
do the work you don’t want to do
it sucks, especially if you are creative. but it’s the neurons that you need to grow in your head

2025-03-20 15:47:44 UTC

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just buy an apolitical car.

2025-03-20 02:50:14 UTC

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Mail sent to the alias kept getting dropped for me. No allow-list changes made a difference

2025-03-20 02:10:47 UTC

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Fed aura, but privacy is privacy. Trailblazing with honeypots will have to do

2025-03-20 00:53:33 UTC

One benefit of going to therapy is it’ll keep you from joining the army once that starts sounding like a good idea in your deep-fried head

2025-03-20 00:41:12 UTC

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will try again later this year, but experience with their email alias features was bad

2025-03-19 21:58:01 UTC

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nostr might grow up to be the de facto identity system. regardless of official or legal status it just works
#nevent1q…tkw7

2025-03-19 20:34:37 UTC

top 3 free apps in App Store:
- ChatGPT
- Delivery tracking app
- Get ready for war app
No one will prepare you for all the unprepared plebs. These mfs are concerned that you bring a cage for your pet instead of thinking about how to defend the country

2025-03-19 18:37:51 UTC

“we had to buy drones with your pension” is such a convenient way to explain away fiat debasement
keep promoting Bitcoin. It’ll save lives

2025-03-19 17:38:11 UTC

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For every employee entering what they should not, there are many more frustrated that they’re being responsible and missing out on AI

2025-03-19 16:11:08 UTC

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Just adding extra steps. If the content is good, people will mirror it one way or another. You can’t throw money at everything. Focus on producing stuff worth keeping

2025-03-19 15:54:29 UTC

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Good content stays up. Don’t need to worry about how

2025-03-19 15:51:03 UTC

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like torrents?

2025-03-19 15:13:35 UTC

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Before reading that last bit, I was thinking that this is the perfect AI job

2025-03-19 09:58:30 UTC

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It does not feel like it this morning, but yeah. Every day is just as golden, and we’ll be old for longer than young

2025-03-18 23:55:00 UTC

After setting your mind on Bitcoin, the habit of feeling like you need to run on the fiat treadmill won’t go away overnight. Already being where you need to be is a foreign experience. Watch the world as it catches up, but there is nowhere to run towards (or away from?)

2025-03-18 23:12:13 UTC

Many consider $0.01 to be junk and a nuisance. Fiat cents make it clear that they are not money from the beginning
But somehow, junk multiplied captures people’s imagination as worth something
The tiniest amounts deny access to the most people. Zero should not be so sticky. You can always get off zero with Bitcoin

2025-03-18 21:25:42 UTC

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“Under this most inclusive approach, poverty isn’t measured solely by income thresholds. Instead, it encompasses:
• Extreme Poverty: Those living on less than US$2.15 per day (adjusted for purchasing power), which captures the people facing the most severe deprivations.
• Moderate Poverty: People living on less than US$3.65 to US$6.85 per day—levels that, while above the extreme threshold, still fall short of ensuring a decent standard of living in many contexts.
• Relative Poverty: Individuals earning less than a certain percentage (often around 50%) of their society’s median income. This recognizes that even in wealthier nations, many people are economically marginalized relative to their peers.
• Multidimensional Poverty: A broader measure that looks beyond income to assess deprivations in essential areas like health, education, sanitation, housing, and social inclusion. Tools like the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) capture these overlapping deprivations.
When you combine these criteria, you capture not only those who are absolutely poor but also a wide range of people who lack access to basic services and opportunities—even if their income alone might not label them “extremely poor.” Some analyses using this comprehensive definition suggest that nearly half of the global population (about 3–4 billion people) face significant deprivations in at least one key dimension of well-being.”

2025-03-18 21:13:08 UTC

ChatGPT about poverty: “When poverty is defined very broadly—not just in terms of daily income but also by factors such as access to education, healthcare, clean water, sanitation, and overall living conditions—the number of people considered “poor” rises dramatically. While traditional measures (like living on less than US$1.90 a day) indicate that roughly 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty, a more inclusive, multidimensional definition can classify between 3 and 4 billion people as poor. This broader view suggests that nearly half the world’s population faces significant deprivations in at least one key aspect of a decent standard of living.”
Are you poor? It’s 50/50.
Such an insane planet. We need to fix this.

2025-03-18 19:32:52 UTC

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ChatGPT: “Imagine your identity as a house with many rooms, where each room represents a unique facet of who you are—your passions, values, relationships, and personal experiences. Building your “identity house” involves exploring new interests, challenging old assumptions, and embracing the discomfort that comes with stepping outside your comfort zone. By adding more rooms, you create a richer, more resilient self; if one room is shaken by life’s challenges, the others provide stability and support. This evolving structure of self-complexity not only makes you more adaptable in the face of change but also empowers you to navigate uncertainty with confidence, ultimately leading to a more authentic and fulfilling sense of identity.”

2025-03-18 19:19:04 UTC

If you can’t seem to form an identity it might be because you still need to think bigger to an uncomfortable degree
All that you know is not enough to be You. And that’s a scary thought

2025-03-18 18:48:54 UTC

I believe everyone should be wealthier, but not without effort. Being born into affluence robs one of much to work on
Then, all kinds of addictions begin to creep up
Many on nostr will have to think about how to transfer wealth to the next generation best
WW3 might still happen if enough want one, but in aggregate, the quality of our problems is improving

2025-03-18 10:57:25 UTC

Bit late to fix the part where the government robs you.
Focus on fixing the part where they steal from you in stealth.

2025-03-17 19:59:08 UTC

No longer feeling entitled to know what your personal progress looks like is progress. And it feels great
There is no Key Performance Indicator that the Universe owes you
If you are not supposed to know something, you won’t know
The mind will never be satisfied with this

2025-03-17 18:57:17 UTC

I remember being 22-23, going to lunch with a colleague; they said, “Wow, it must feel great having your life in order at such a young age.” I was definitely “winning” objectively with a cushy office job. But also highly disappointed that this is all that people aim for.
“Now what?” was a frequent thought, but then covid happened and I was never able to buy into that “orderly” life again. I was a remote “working” mess until I focused hard on Bitcoin maximalism and adopted a lower time preference. The fiat world does not have a way for you to win.
What they call “order” does not hold up. The amount of over-the-top control of the population they are ready to deploy is insane. They don’t want you to think long-term. They’ll keep doing the same for any “challenging time.” Your well-being is just something popular to talk about.

2025-03-17 14:09:41 UTC

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They try to copy-paste what “works” from platforms but give up here quick

2025-03-17 13:33:14 UTC

Being broke is a luxury
It’s something you can’t buy the more money learns to find you

2025-03-17 12:59:33 UTC

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never know what’s needed to make the morning 😂 thanks

2025-03-17 03:42:41 UTC

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With dependence on AI growing, reading and writing code will be even easier to avoid. What was once “coding” might become known as “understanding the cryptic language of AI.” As if it’s not programming languages we created for ourselves. When most programmers are machines in the future, code will be remembered as only some strange language of forgotten origin. Like doing the electrical work

2025-03-17 03:23:15 UTC

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System administrators often have self-doubt that code is somehow beyond them, that they are not “developers”
Developers feel the same about administrating systems, but at the end of the day nobody knows what they are doing

2025-03-17 03:16:14 UTC

local AI tools for “non-technical” users be like:
“Have at least 128GB+ of system RAM. Larger models and complex tasks may require 256GB+ or more.”
who the hell runs an actual Ubuntu server and is still afraid of the CLI? What is this psychographic of non-technical techies that marketing people are after?

2025-03-17 00:43:28 UTC

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There will be no more real humans on social media. Only signatures of known-to-be-humans. Media will be made for machines to be consumed by machines. It’s already often the case, but many are sleeping in between the gears ⚙️

2025-03-17 00:28:33 UTC

I’m excited about the cost of AI “DeepSearch” and “reasoning” coming down. Soon, you’ll be reminded to have your agent running 24/7. Always researching and synthesizing something for your life. This is super-intelligence in a small way; it goes beyond what a person can do with their energy and time. It’ll suggest what it should research next, too. It would take hiring a globally distributed team to replicate what a machine will soon be able to do for a small fraction of the cost

2025-03-16 23:35:52 UTC

“Deep work” is meant for building yourself up. You get around 4 hours each day to really change what’s in your head. After that, it’s autopilot. Most just sell this time for close to nothing while learning useless stuff.
Learn while the learning is good.

2025-03-16 23:11:33 UTC

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laughably few know how money works in the old fiat system. Bitcoin is resetting the game. Knowledge distribution will improve by at least a few orders of magnitude
https://m.primal.net/PiQz.jpg

2025-03-16 22:11:39 UTC

keep an eye out for block 888 888

2025-03-16 17:43:22 UTC

If only all cryptography professionals would be as concerned about quantum threats as Bitcoiners. We might be living in a passwordless time by now
Nobody cares unless it’s their money at stake

2025-03-16 17:35:42 UTC

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Or like not lose them in the first place and do nothing?

2025-03-16 13:02:07 UTC

bitcoin is the ultimate marshmallow experiment
hyperbolic discounting for a monetary premium that’s also not recognized yet
free as money gets

2025-03-16 10:56:07 UTC

Strange that I haven’t seen anyone selling a course about how to make $1,000/day in zaps on here yet
Why might that be?

2025-03-15 22:27:15 UTC

Fiat is a prison system, mostly in place, because most still believe there is no alternative. Sometimes, you can’t tell the difference between a prison cell and a “studio” apartment from pictures alone. There is no “outside” while you work for money someone else can print

2025-03-15 20:46:43 UTC

Identity theft is not being able to sign stuff because you are not using the digital signature solution that they use
Any eSign app I come across always has a rating of like 1.4 stars. There’s reason for that
Your signature should be on an open standard. No service providers should gate-keep
This is a big problem to solve. The Bitcoin of eSigning must be elected

2025-03-15 00:46:59 UTC

Not even the new AI god in development can print Bitcoin. That's really, really important. The work that matters has been done.

2025-03-14 21:21:17 UTC

The Manus AI waiting list has enough people to populate a small country.

2025-03-14 18:13:37 UTC

“We regret to inform you that we did not find a match. But you might be what we are looking for in a few weeks. Regards,” - some place I don’t even remember lol

2025-03-14 15:36:19 UTC

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ChatGPT: “As AI becomes more accessible and its outputs increasingly smooth and persuasive, there’s a risk that people may prefer to accept its answers just to save the mental effort of verifying or thinking through issues. Over time, this convenience could lead to a kind of “creep of laziness,” where individuals increasingly defer to AI-generated responses without critical reflection.
This tendency—often described as cognitive offloading—is not new. We’ve seen it in contexts where automation leads people to trust systems too readily (sometimes with dangerous results, such as in aviation or medicine). The same dynamic may emerge with AI in everyday decision-making, where the ease of getting a “ready-made” answer diminishes our incentive to engage deeply with information. This could not only lower our critical thinking skills but also make us more vulnerable to biases or even misinformation that AI might propagate.
While the energy and time saved by using AI can be beneficial, it’s crucial to cultivate habits of active inquiry. We need to design educational and institutional frameworks that encourage users to scrutinize AI outputs and remain engaged with the information process rather than passively accepting answers.
Such concerns are increasingly discussed in academic circles, as research shows that interacting with opinionated language models can subtly influence users’ perspectives. Balancing the convenience of AI with the need for independent critical thought will be key to ensuring that we benefit from these technologies without surrendering our intellectual autonomy.”

2025-03-14 15:24:29 UTC

Any message is accompanied by a level of authority that delivers it. Is AI the new global authority? It seems like it when I see comments that go like “let’s see what [your favorite LLM] has to say about this...]

2025-03-14 13:37:40 UTC

Working at least two jobs is what it takes. One pays in the short term, and the other one pays long term
A “career” is not enough because you’ll have to do work that means nothing, while doing work that pays nothing besides it

2025-03-14 12:42:02 UTC

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I like aiming for 100 years. Makes all the numbers simple, and you can see your life as a percentage bar. Life can be cut short at any moment before reaching 100%, something to keep in mind for staying in the moment

2025-03-14 11:24:39 UTC

“Bondman” is such an apt word for the state of the world.
“James. James Bondman.”
https://m.primal.net/PfWe.jpg

2025-03-12 19:51:11 UTC

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insane

2025-03-11 01:08:47 UTC

The range of “AI” voice qualities and intelligence present simultaneously is such a weird phenomenon. We have the tech to be better but choose to keep shit around

2025-03-11 00:48:54 UTC

buy the corn. Ponzi world is lost
https://m.primal.net/PbXS.jpg

2025-03-11 00:29:37 UTC

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gambler premium retreating. few know that they can just buy more money

2025-03-10 23:45:21 UTC

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unlimited data plans

2025-03-10 23:37:18 UTC

Customer “need mining” is an active research area. Basically having an automated way to capture customer/user complaints and turn them into product requirements. There will be no time for interviews. As soon as someone complains online, some AI will be already shipping product.
https://m.primal.net/PbUb.jpg

2025-03-10 12:37:02 UTC

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Might call bitcoin payments that. Transactions will stay OG

2025-03-10 12:08:28 UTC

Human chaos. Machine order. It’s already the case.

2025-03-10 11:06:32 UTC

Aversion to authority is normal when morals are rare. There is little support structure in not questioning things these days

2025-03-09 23:27:08 UTC

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with many tools asking for $60/month after a trial, being closer to Bitcoin also makes sense

2025-03-09 23:00:28 UTC

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After using Cursor and Windsurf for vibe coding, I noticed how lacking non-AI terminals are. There is demand for natural language input anywhere you can type a command or code. Only these two options are available today.

2025-03-09 22:51:00 UTC

Grok:
“1. Warp Dev - A modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built-in, offering features like AI command suggestions, collaboration tools, and an IDE-like editor. It’s available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It has both free and paid versions.
2. Wave Terminal - An open-source, cross-platform terminal with superpowers, integrating file previews, file editing, AI assistance, web browsing, and workspace organization. It’s available for free on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Unexpected Detail: While many expected more AI-powered terminal options, only these two were found with built-in AI features, highlighting a niche but growing market.”

2025-03-09 12:27:17 UTC

Been Vibe Coding for the past few days, when you get the requirements and rules for the agent right it’s really fun. Now just need to build stuff that the market demands, so I could spend it on AI credits lol

2025-03-09 12:04:58 UTC

Enjoying these few days of perfect weather. No more cold, but still not hot

2025-03-08 11:14:07 UTC

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I have a to-do list. Not a prompt for everything in my life. Intelligence is about *not* having to receive a prompt and training yourself in whatever way necessary to do a thing. Having to micromanage LLMs, or to fit pipelines of them to every unit of work is not the way.

2025-03-08 11:01:50 UTC

After using AI for a few years, I can imagine a future where you ask it to do things, and it does them.
Are we there yet? No

2025-03-05 10:48:20 UTC

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It’s fine as it is. What’s the issue exactly? The user does not feel in control on the most hand-holding app? cry harder

2025-02-15 21:06:18 UTC

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Europe needs to grow in military capability anyway. Maybe this will be motivation

2025-02-15 12:09:52 UTC

Having a Big Tech that you personally don’t like the most is good. That way, you help the other Big Techs eat up any monopolizing market share they hold.
They are all evil, but they are also like zebras. The lions will eat it if you mark one to single it out.
Microsoft is my top evil corporation.

2025-02-15 11:35:15 UTC

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“Bots are not independent agents but rather extensions of the specific interests of their creators. Whether designed for commercial gain, political influence, or any other agenda, these systems are built to serve particular objectives, reflecting the biases and priorities of those in power.
Moreover, the algorithms and data that drive bots can unintentionally reinforce these interests by amplifying certain messages and behaviors. In effect, bots act as digital proxies that extend the influence of special interests, shaping interactions and perceptions in subtle yet significant ways.”

2025-02-15 11:08:08 UTC

Trying to imagine life with even higher levels of automation. Stuff already just happens if you slow down a bit. So next, machines will eagerly await you, wanting more money, fame, and power? I’m missing something here. Why would a bot care so much about your wants?

2025-02-12 14:52:46 UTC

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it’s the social credit system no one saw coming. More than just a “score,” you’ll get assigned a whole story

2025-02-12 14:50:04 UTC

AI “profile summaries” about you will be more important than what people think. Because people will eventually think what’s repeated to them

2025-02-03 08:04:29 UTC

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stacking is using

2025-01-23 23:13:08 UTC

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OGs trying to get their zaps back from plebs. Don’t fall for it

2025-01-20 20:44:40 UTC

“Free speech” has hit a new low on legacy social. Demand for Nostr is growing.