*In a free market, cash scarcity forces decisions. In today’s market, cash scarcity gets patched.* View quoted note →
*Find the fear that exploits you. You are stronger than that* View quoted note →
*AI is responsible for the omniscient and omnipotent "Compute"; Humanity is responsible for the "Gravity" of pain and glory. AI is responsible for maintaining rational order; Humanity is responsible for providing the spark of chaos.* Tianqiao Chen
*Absolute rationality implies absolute prediction. In the eyes of an all-knowing observer, the world is static because everything is within calculation. Without surprise, there is no time; without time, there is no meaning.*
*What's needed: Permanent, searchable, crowdsourced investigation infrastructure. Not one journalist. Thousands of eyes finding connections. Published to Nostr so it can't be memory-holed.* View quoted note →
*1. Being a great hacker does not imbue moral or ethical characteristics. 2. Being a great coder doesn't mean you're not a crackpot. 3. Working on a great project doesn't mean you share my motivations about it.* View quoted note →
*"If you didn't run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn't boot"*😂 View quoted note →
“Most people are sitting in a sympathetic state a lot of the time, in this low-level stress, and that wears you out,” Stacy says “It can impact your ability to perform at your job, and it can impact your relationships with your family, friends, and loved ones.” “[When you improve your V02 max], there's less stress on your overall system. And when there's less stress on your overall system, it's much easier for you to manage your emotions. It's much easier for you to step back and make better decisions and see things for how they are, rather than being caught up in all the day-to-day stresses.” Why Increasing Your VO2 Max Is Great for Improving Longevity—and Your Daily Life | GQ
*...Bitcoin was money designed to serve humanity, rather than humanity being bent to serve the money* View quoted note →
*Why this obsession with time? Because marking the passage of time is something that marks us as humans. It is the lower animals, the brutes, and the outcasts who fail to mark their time on Earth. Who simply live into every hour of every day, as if it were interchangeable with every other. Like zombies. Like the lost, cursed to wander in the desert. As if there were no progression, no direction, no movement. It is both a Biblical curse and a sign of societal degeneracy to _fail to mark the time_.* View quoted note →