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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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Max 2 months ago
Looks like we have fixed the outbox model relay connections in @White Noise, users with a large follow list now don't get overwhelmed with relay connections, which caused messages to not be delivered or received. We still have more polishing to do, but next release will hopefully work for your existing npubs!
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Max 2 months ago
Comparative advantage is one of the most misunderstood principles in economics, and AI has made the confusion worse. Most people think it means comparing yourself to others, but the real logic is internal: you should focus on the task where your own opportunity cost is lowest. This post follows that insight through the hardest question AI raises, what happens when a machine beats the weaker worker at everything, and arrives at conclusions that neither the doomers nor the optimists want to hear. View article →
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Max 2 months ago
It doesn't need to be fancy. It just needs to be free.
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Max 2 months ago
Still the apple prison guards have not approved our update to White Noise, it's both hilarious and sad... View quoted note →
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Max 2 months ago
Most people start chaining agents too early. They have a vague task, they split it into planner, writer, reviewer, tester, maybe even critic, and then they wonder why the result feels bloated, circular, and strangely fragile. The answer is simple: the chain did not remove uncertainty, it only distributed it across more participants. The Ralph loop matters because it forces the system to keep working until the task crosses a clear finish line, which means the chain has to serve a concrete result instead of producing a polite pile of intermediate artifacts. View article →
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Max 2 months ago
You can make @Amethyst search 100x better by adding these to your search relay list: wss://antiprimal.net wss://relay.ditto.pub wss://nostr.wine wss://nostr.wine Thanks @Vitor Pamplona for that tip
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Max 2 months ago
BCC 2025 Building the Second Realm: The future of The Cypherpunk Movement| Barcelona Cyphers Conference 8333 Max Hillebrand advocates building a "Second Realm" parallel economy using Bitcoin, Nostr (distributed messaging), and anonymous cash systems (Cashu, Fedimint) to operate outside state control. He emphasizes privacy-by-default architecture—where encryption is computationally cheap to deploy but expensive to attack—and distributed protocols avoiding single-point failures like Silk Road. Solutions to
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BCC 2025 Building the Second Realm: The future of The Cypherpunk Movement| Barcelona Cyphers Conference 8333 What if freedom isn't something to ask for — but something to build? In this talk, Max Hillebrand explores the “Second Realm”: a ...