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Some good dev follows on nostr:
- calle (cashu): npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
- Pablo (highlighter and a million NIPs): npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
- Ben Arc (LNBits): npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm
- Verbiricha from habla.news: npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg
- k00b (SN): npub1qkfnmpuz692azr8c5phn0930x2v92xyqvwgr6ve8znaa3qd6c3hq09ertp
- Ben Carman (Mutiny): npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz
- JeffG (nostr.how): npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc
- Brugeman (nostr.band): npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy
- Hodlbod (Coracle): npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
- Bumi (Alby): npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x
- Miljan (Primal): npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr
Let's get some mutual stacker following on nostr going!
My npub is npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
Oh no, there is no question in my mind that he's authentic. The question is: authentically what?
He went from "hey maybe this btc thing is important, maybe I should learn about it" to swallowing the hook on every possible conspiracy or tinfoil hat thing he ever brushes against. He recognizes that existing systems produce some bad effects, and instead of digging into the complexity of the world, he sort of relaxes into his circlejerking like it's a warm bath. You probably have hyper-liberal and hyper-conservative friends who do the same thing. It's a familiar archetype.
He seems like he's got a good heart. That's half the problem.
Wait... Am I the value? Thats the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. Even my wife when asked just says "he's alright"😂
If the incentives of the social internet are status and validation, if the social internet is merely a convenient venue to get what we want from other humans, proliferation of strong AI will kill it because AI will digitally represent us better than we do.
I think you're on to something here. It is obvious that the social internet is already mostly fake and the new AI tools will just increase the velocity of fakeness. I hadn't thought about this before in regards to social internet but many things in human history swing from extremes. I suspect the more and more AI / fake the internet gets the more desire for real things will rise.
I think we are still in the early phases of adapting as a species to the always connected internet. I think we are finding the edges. Some of us, especially those that work on the systems have long been aware of the negative side of this connectivity to an artificial world that presents itself falsely as real. More and more the users of this world are seeing the issues with it. That will continue. I wonder how fast it will happen though.
Your post reminds me of Dune (book) which predates Star Wars and I've heard was a strong influence. In Dune there is a ban on the use of computers. If you mentally suspend how unenforceable something like this would be, it is an interesting idea. I believe the idea Herbert had was that human kind was limited in its potential by computers. This might seem like a luddite idea but I think there may be some merit to it. When I watch people glued to their phones swiping TikTok videos full of nonsense I wonder how much potential is being wasted. I wonder how much we are being dumbed down by the algorithms built to entertain and addict us to these little dopamine hits. How close are we to finding the edge of this world and moving back into reality?
I sometimes wonder what it would look like if we had a world wide economic catastrophe like the great depression? If even a few systems just stopped working? If some key people died. How many people would even know how to survive with slightly less modern conveniences? It hasn't been that long since the Covid pandemic gave us a little taste of what it might be like. The scary thing to me is that when I look around and talk to people it doesn't seem like most people learned any lessons. Few seem concerned about preparing for a really serious pandemic. I think we were very lucky it wasn't much worse. We are still recovering from IMO mostly self inflected wounds. What would a very deadly catastrophe bring? Does the average person even have a weeks worth of food? Do they have a means to protect their family? Do they know how to survive without power from the utility company? What if the Visa system went down? I know that I learned many things since 2020 because of how exposed and unprepared I felt.
I think we have many hard lessons ahead. One may be a gift from AI. Getting us off the slow death feeding tube of fake connection. Maybe we need to OD first. I think we will lose many people. Many are already lost. Just don't be one of them.
Dang, I didn't mean to get that dark but you got me thinking @k00b. Need to check my generator now.
we have some sort of problem here with what they call gost supermarkets and gosth restaurants
small business that operate under close doors and only use Uber Eats kind of apps to deliever..
You're free to do whatever you want, of course, but why? You said it once. Presumably you were okay with it mapping it to your nym. What's different?
There are use cases for ephemeral content, probably everyone here knows that. But having only ephemeral content is a bad deal.
Actually, this might make a good SN post.