Crazy how quick LLMs replaced search. But that means that LLMs will get worse as they monetize it through ads of some kind.
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We live in a world that focuses on cash flow rather than savings.
Optimizes for engagement, and you'll get content that is generally pessimistic.
Optimize for zaps, and you'll get content that's generally a lot more positive.
Bitcoin, not bank accounts.
Nostr, not social media.
First principles, not propaganda.
Honestly, it's way too hard to be pseudonymous and too easy to get doxxed. I suspect that had a large part to do with why Satoshi disappeared so early.
We're at the stage where people are trying to fix problems that they speculate may or may not happen 20 years in the future.
I can't think of a better argument for ossification.
Maybe mining will stay subsidized for a while by Bitcoin treasuries.
It's easy enough to identify scams. Hard to know when they'll fall.
Actions have consequences, but so do non-actions.
Holding has consequences.
Fiat money creates massive scale. But scale is a race to the bottom, which is why everything gets worse over time.
Death, Taxes, 21 million.
The hard things are good for you.
Like holding and waiting.
Courage will make you more money than knowledge or intellect.
Financial advisors have a hard pivot ahead of them. They have to acknowledge that Bitcoin is valuable, but have to excuse their denigration of it the past 15 years.
Everyone wants to be their own boss. Few people want to do the hard work or face the possibility of failure.
But the possibility of failure is what gets you to the next level. It's a superpower most people never tap into.
The rent-seeker's inevitable end is laziness
Seems like AI is hard to keep politically correct than not.
At some point all the best AIs will be based.
Success is usually very slow.
And thank goodness, because otherwise, you'd be unprepared.
Your sexual desires are biological imperatives to have children. Abstracting or rationalizing that away is a denial of your humanity.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #456
Bitcoin Tech Talk #456
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