“If you can stomach the volatility, you end up with a different kind of certainty.” View quoted note →

“Lightning Network is the telegraph , Cashu is the IOU and Bitcoin is the gold.” View quoted note →

“The easy part of governing is spending money. It is far harder to cut costs and design policies to raise growth. But it is the job of politicians to make difficult choices. Growing debt piles makes that even more imperative. If they don’t take the task seriously enough, then bond markets will.” https://archive.md/2025.07.04-151328/https://www.ft.com/content/36273c1b-2c41-416b-a3cc-545a27706e71

“…the more our identity is attached to fiat, the harder it may be to look in the Bitcoin mirror.” View quoted note →

“The journey of dismantling our self-imposed prisons is ongoing, and it requires a willingness to confront our own biases, question our assumptions, and embrace the discomfort that comes with genuine transformation.” View quoted note →

“Adopting Bitcoin is, for the first time, having access to the tools of the wealthy at a very small scale” View quoted note →

🤣 “The only things maintaining significant demand for these [trash] assets at this point are their holders' old age, intelligence deficiency, and susceptibility to government propaganda” View quoted note →

“Data brokers are the mycelium of mass surveillance” View quoted note →

“the gigacorps don't want us to have p2p because we would discover that we don't need them” View quoted note →

👀 “IMO the only way to make people care about bitcoin's freedom properties is out of necessity, not ideology.” View quoted note →

27% of Europeans could not afford a week-long holiday - News articles - Eurostat

27% of Europeans could not afford a week-long holiday - News articles - Eurostat

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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out Extract 1 If you’re writing to just one person, and that person deeply cares about you and the topic you’re obsessed with, you’re strongly incentivized to generate new ideas (because your audience of one has heard your old ideas already), to explore them in great depth and detail (because there is no inferential distance between you), and to think of things that are personally meaningful to you and follow from your own deep-seated intuitions (because the person cares about you, not just the generic quality of your ideas). Extract 2 [In the context of a bigger audience] If you don’t create a very unusual social context, you will subconsciously optimize your thoughts for the least-informed member of your group - we might call this the tyranny of the marginal reader. Extract 3 …it should be obvious what happens when you obtain a large following. Taleb’s marginal reader doesn’t care about the Russian school of statistics or Seneca’s views on death, they just want to hear Taleb dunk on Harvard professors. And so the exact subconscious process that motivated him to write compelling, original prose now reshapes his thoughts to endlessly repeat the most meme-able parts of his worldview for the entertainment of his marginal reader. Extract 4 …if you curate your followers well, and only enable notifications from people you follow, you can have a republic-of-letters-like experience, but it’s quite fragile and you’re always surfing the edge of 4chan-like memetic warfare. Extract 5 In order to do good work, scientists must retain a separate status hierarchy where prestige flows to the most innovative ideas, not the most popular ones.

Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

the actually scary thing about social media

“Bitcoin, as a [censorship] resistant immutable predictable thing, is on the order side of the chaos and order spectrum. Retarded as these people may be, they recognize the pendulum is swinging back against them.”

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reply on: Bitcoin Will Destroy Democracy! \ stacker news

You have to be naive not to think like that, it's a virtue signal to insist you've transcended the laws of the universe. Politics is downstream of ...

🧐 “the flatter the affect and the more Asperger-y the vibe, the lower the probability of being wrong” View quoted note →

Bitcoin sharpens the mind which in turn beautifies the writing. “nothing can be fixed from within a system that operates on manipulation of money” View quoted note →

Think less of what government debt will do to the government. Think more of what governments will do to you.

Comte is on🔥 ! “intelligence [is] the ease of swapping heuristics within the available bandwidth of your attention” (Now I need to look up heuristics) View quoted note →

“His companies are a matryoshka doll hot potatoing the debt/inflating the valuation for when Tesla eventually buys Xai and effectively dumps the turd on the public.”

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SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI \ stacker news

Non Paywalled: https://archive.is/Ain92 Musk called it “the smartest AI in the world,” though the chatbot it powers hasn’t gained nearly as m...

🦠 🦠 🦠 One man’s social construct is another’s mind virus 🦠 🦠 🦠