Bitcoiners want Bitcoin to become the new de facto money. They do NOT want the government to treat Bitcoin as money. Otherwise, financial regulations like KYC/AML and money transmitter licensing will be enforced, which no Bitcoiner should build technology to comply with. Florida appellate court rules that Bitcoin is money.

Trouble in Paradise: Florida Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin is Money Transmission

Summary and analysis of a Florida circuit court

@npub1kzu0...rf4g the term you are looking for is "embedding" in AI Unchained for inserting a block of content into a context window so that you can submit a prompt to operate on that content.

Fuck that Ben guy. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fayedwePqCWpmIRt6ipH6?si=ElGxpDHWRjek8bVZYStxYA

My internal communication just now. «Following up on the topic of autonomous operations, AO roughly refers to a service running mostly without human intervention. [MyProduct] can push this envelope further by setting a more ambitious goal. By standardizing the patterns for SOPs and interfaces (workflows, observability), and by formalizing them toward machine precision, we can enable the next generation. It becomes trainable for an LLM. First, gen AI can assist SRE to answer questions. Then, it can do the SRE's job almost completely, once given sufficient agency. That should be our end-point to set a vision that can excite.»

Everyone on Nostr are excited about Blossom Drive. It's a minimalist in every way. Entirely different than what I envisioned as the basis for decentralized storage. Perhaps this basic building block is what we need at the base layer. Torrents above it?

Because of the friction of integrating digital services to fiat payment systems, including PCI-DSS and KYC/AML, the ease of integrating to Lightning might be what pushes Bitcoin into the mainstream. Unleashed.chat is the first service that only accepts Bitcoin/Lightning because of this ease of integration.

I asked Unleashed.chat about what topics I talk about. That is not me. Do I have a doppelganger?

Bookmarking this ep on executive function using the prefrontal cortex for how to evolve toward AGI.

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Centralized control through government tyranny, cronyism, and corporate monopolization are the underlying dynamics that must be mitigated through decentralization, but we are falling behind. Foundational technologies are lacking. First we need identity. Id must be self-sovereign, so that the individual controls their own private keys, sharing them with no one, holding custody securely with unbreakable secrecy. Everything else is built on SSI as a foundation, because we need ownership, privacy, authenticity, integrity, and access control---all dependent on identity. Next, we need dis-intermediated communication. Individuals need to be able to exchange messages reliably without being tied irreplaceably to a third party. This includes being able to identify, find, and address each other according to their identity. Over top of p2p comms, we need censorship-resistant apps that are capable of interacting with one's social network. This includes commerce, so Bitcoin for store of value and for payments is a foundational element of the architecture. For apps and the services that individuals can offer for commerce to be censorship-proof, we need for hosting of logic on compute to be distributed, and we need the data that is processed to be distributed. Here is the point where the analysis necessarily veers away from the simple explanation that I've tried to stick to, so I'll stop this thread here, and I'll start exploring the details in separate threads as my wandering mind spontaneously gets to them, as I did in this thread.

The danger of quantum computing growing capable of factoring large numbers is not only that public key cryptography that enables private communications, data privacy, data integrity, and Bitcoin transaction verification. It is that replacing the cryptographic algorithm in Bitcoin would require a hard fork. Once Bitcoin becomes the dominant money, such an event would provide an opportunity to change the rules encoded into the protocol. The enemy class would seek to inject authoritarian controls (KYC, AML, lawful intercept) into the protocol at that opportunity. This thought arose while listening to this podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IIp1LOwQg1pNpiNxTDrUp?si=ws9HStHLQPavQ2T77U08Cw

Listening to this read. @Guy Swann, does Bitcoin mining rely on real time availability of Internet access? Or can a block be verified offline and then synced to the block chain periodically (i.e., once per day)? https://open.spotify.com/episode/2W7MuTETn73GMjJOkCEUES?si=uklow9IhS9qffDS887_ruQ

I imagine that as AI models proliferate to become more personalized, compute will adapt to treat GPUs less like physically attached hardware and more logically. Like storage volumes that are virtualized and dynamically scalable, so you can attach a H100 slice for a few minutes.

The Spirit of Satoshi industry report (listen to read by @Guy Swann in AI Unchained podcast) gives this insight. If a foundation model is trained on mainstream data, fine-tuning on good data is very difficult to correct the prior misinformation. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ckb2A3rPY7zGpcxW3jT9E?si=pARMwzPdQ9GEvmRM0MxWww Now, apply this insight to humans who have been "educated" by state indoctrination, and our goal is to correct their mislearning using good information. How difficult is that task? (The phenomenon of cognitive dissonance is useful in both human and machine intelligence.) When original training adjusts the model weights (is learned as knowledge in the neurons), it is impossible unlearn (irreversible). New fine-tuning can only make further adjustments that add to what is learned, hopefully with greater weight and without causing confusion. The difficulty of unlearning can be understood by examining the concept of unit economy in epistemology. Optimizing knowledge compactness. Absorb concrete examples and learn the patterns and principles that are universal, committing the abstraction to one's knowledge. New knowledge contradicting those abstractions is difficult to reconcile. Knowing this, we should appreciate (1) epistemic humility and (2) be sympathetic to those confused by cognitive dissonance. (1) is the recognition that past learning can be based on false data. (2) recognizes that others reacting badly is natural to their mistraining.

What is the capital of Ancapistan? Ancapistanople or Ancapistanbul?

"We" is a big club. And you ain't in it.

Across covid public health, climate change, and monetary policy, they believe that fear-mongering, lying, and suppressing inquiry and dissent are valid for manipulating collective action. That's why we don't recognize their authority.

Is it possible to build a keystore (wallet) architecture that itself is distributed in a way that is resilient to being lost or destroyed, while remaining completely unassailable? Another requirement that is important to prevent lost wealth is for that key store to have a dead man's switch along with a list of authorized executors of the will. Possibly to build such a thing without it becoming assailable prior to death?

«Bittensor provides a decentralized and permissionless platform to build incentive-driven compute systems as a one-stop shop for AI developers seeking all the compute requirements for building applications on top of an incentivized model»

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Ex-Google employee launches open-sourced AI protocol to challenge tech giants

A former Google employee concerned that tech giants are trying to consolidate their power in the artificial intelligence industry has introduced a ...

I wish Amethyst would let me control the number of sats I zap on a per transaction basis.

The public now understands that governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions should be considered lying institutions and hate groups. We also understand better that society must become trustless and permissionless