Idea for a NIP to improve Nostr. Enable a user to attach a smart contract to a note, so that if someone replies to satisfy the conditions on that contract, they receive the reward that is pledged. This would allow users to ask important questions for which an answer (by the public at large or requested from a specific individual) is valued enough to stake a monetary reward. This would greatly incentivize engagement, especially when lowly users are seeking the attention of a prominent figure. It makes it worthwhile for big names to reply to a nobody, if there is a payoff.

@Guy Swann appreciating Bitcoin Audible for teaching so much. I wonder if maybe on the Bitcoin security topic, you could explore the threat analysis of the attack vectors that authoritarians will use against "fix the money, fix the world". You've touched on it before in episodes (ie., ordinals) where you remind us that provable ownership a digital token does not protect you from physical force against your person and your property. Therefore, what Bitcoin actually can fix is inflation (fiat counterfeiting, theft of purchasing power), but it cannot fix the state stealing income and wealth.

how is LoRA training different than fine-tuning a model? What tool can crawl web pages to produce LoRA training dataset for oobabooga? https://www.perplexity.ai/search/5db83fc3-21c9-4461-9d25-30e3d430dd88?s=c

Found the most easy peasy way to self-host a LLM with Web UI. 1. Assume you first have a python 3.11 venv activated. 2.

GitHub

GitHub - oobabooga/text-generation-webui: The definitive Web UI for local AI, with powerful features and easy setup.

The definitive Web UI for local AI, with powerful features and easy setup. - oobabooga/text-generation-webui

- download and extract. 3. sh start_linux.sh to do the setup (you can select the option to use GPU or CPU-only) and then shut it down 4. Download a model (e.g., one of the bin files from https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-Chat-GGML/tree/main) to ./oobabooga_linux/text-generation-webui/models 5. export OOBABOOGA_FLAGS='--share' ; sh start_linux.sh to run the server for use, and it prints the URL 6. Point your browser at the URL. 7. Go to Model, select the model you want, and Load. 8. Go to Chat, and start chatting.

One of the greatest things about Nostr is that spam bots use zaps to spam you. You receive real money to get spammed. Zap-spam me harder, I say.

Perseids meteor shower associated with comet Swift–Tuttle. By far the largest NEO to cross Earth's orbit and make repeated close approaches. "the single most dangerous object known to humanity" Enjoy the Perseids on Aug 12-13.

@Mark E. Jeftovic easyDNS domain registration pricing is confusing to me. Got email today saying price increases by $2 in September to cad$19. I go to renew early jetpen.com and it charged me usd$37.18. I don't understand the difference.

I wish I could zap a tweet with a variable amount of sats, so that I can reward creators proportional to the value of the content. A fixed default amount isn't always appropriate.

2020-2022 was a pandemic of the fearful and fearsome.

We should embrace the mantra "diversity is our strength". Co-opt it for decentralization. Support diversity through decentralization. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PtyG2ZcCOICn6Rbaork3f?si=WdIurUhwRQ6_Cr2q6U13jA

Loving how Nostr has altered the landscape around paid promotion. Advertisers pay users to receive ads. Advertise to me harder!

People plan on disintermediating financial transactions to cut out payment processors; they plan on taking custody of their money to cut out banks; and finally they plan on using Self-Sovereign Identity to cut out government from surveiling them and controlling them.

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

As I listen to @ThomasEWoods and @saifedean talk about Saif's new treatise on economics, without having read his book yet, I have some thoughts on the general tone and framing of economics in all schools. The focus is on human action based on the scarcity of resources and marginal value. I feel like there is opportunity to expand economic thought by recognizing value is based on value systems rooted in human life. This view of value helps reframe economics from bean counting (i.e., metrics based on money) to standards of living (quality of life). This unifies material value (priced in money) with spiritual, fulfillment, aesthetic, and all other forms of value. This obviates the need to treat externalities exceptionally. This framing puts human purposes and outcomes (goals and achievements), and thus value-systems that model human purposes, at the heart of economics. Incidentally, it also brings ethics into the economic realm. As it should, because ethics is fundamental to human action. I feel that this unification would benefit economic theory.