Started learning about how to prompt Midjourney yesterday. Feel free to post anything you want, in 10 words or less, and I’ll send you the best picture I can prompt from it.

ICYMI : Matt Taibi is now among us #[0]

#introductions should have it’s own custom Damus tag #[1]

I need help from my betters. I have heard the following argument several time : "There are two ways out of the gigantic pile of debt countries have amassed over the past 50 years: a) Financial repression through inflation. Paying old debt with freshly printed, debased dollars, hurting savers, and probably leading to social unrest/possible hyperinflation. b) Enormous productivity gains. Before "Atomic Fusion" was the leading theory, now it's the emerging "AI/AGI" narrative. I certainly agree with a), that's my base case. However, regarding b), I don't see how productivity gains through AI would fix the debt situation, or our societies in any way. The current AI is leading us to the "Automation Revolution", which allows a few skilled engineers to automate complex processes, by being assisted by unlimited superhuman assistants, which costs a fraction of human labor, are pretty malleable, reliable, and can learn to do any digital task you want. Today, processes usually involve 2 to 100+ persons, and the timeframe and costs are correlated with the amount of persons involved in said processes. The final cost and final time spent on a project are usually exponential. AI, on the other hand, will have a rather linear time spent and cost, however big or small the project is, and it's easy to envision a team of 5 skilled engineers replacing (at least) 50-100 other person on a given project. In this reality, I find really hard to believe that most of these 50 replaced persons will be able to find work in the same industry (if they were replaced, they didn't make the cut...). Since another strong suit of AI is the ability to keep repeating/improving a project at very low cost, which then you can sell as a product/API, the incentive is to have the few best engineers/prompters leveraging AI as much as possible. So, if we remove even just 30% (low estimate) of the white collar jobs due to "productivity" gains, these people will have to find a new line of work, which will probably pay them less... or will just have to stop working due to depression. Meanwhile, the elite engineers working on developing/prompting AI will probably get paid much more than before, leading to even more wealth concentration. Which forces me to think that with the coming automation of so many jobs, the only way out of it in a fiat world will be to print money. This will probably be done through UBI, most likely branded something like "Solidarity Tax", levied in a small part through special "token" taxes on AI company for political theater, and in a big part from printing money... which is basically the same result as a). Am I missing something, or is something just wrong in my line of reasoning ? Would love to have anyone's insight about it, and maybe some esteemed minds like #[0]​ #[1]​ #[2]​ can also chime in! If you read til here, thank you. 🙏

Every day I have a look over at what’s left of Twitter I feel a bit more retarded. The level of discourse over there is basically who’s going to build the biggest strawman, and when the strawman has collapsed under its own weight it’s straight into ad hominem. The only think bringing me back is that not all the people I like moved on nostr ; I think maybe 10% did. We should try to onboard more people on nostr, from all backgrounds, and have them bring with audiences so we can fulfill what Twitter was meant to be : true free speech and thoughtful discussions between people having different point of views, looking to find the best solutions to our problems.

#woscustomaddressgiveaway Why should I get a custom address ? Because my current address is quackyfreon16@walletofsatoshi.com and Freon is a gas now mostly banned due to causing damage to the ozone layer. I already to have to spend hours every week explaining to my nocoiner friends that the NYT (s)hitpieces are full of lies and that Bitcoin isn’t boiling the ocean, stealing energies from hospitals and causing blackouts in the winter… please spare me having to also have to explain to them why my LNURL is called quackyfreon… 🥹 mysth@walletofsatoshi.com would be a great replacement. Also it’s much simpler to recall, and my friends would have no excuses to not send me sats after they are orange pilled. Thank you for having helped me onboard people in 2 minutes with the simplest Bitcoin wallet ! 😁

#Bitcoin #nostr #coffechain #zap #zapathon #plebchain 🧡💜

Ever since the Dogecoin bullshit and the Bitcoin buy-then-sell from Tesla, I always thought we could not count on Elon anymore if we wanted to change the world for the better. On Twitter, “free” speech costs $8, you get a shitcoin icon on your browser, and now can’t even link anything from Substack. Substack is one on the last place on the internet where freedom of speech exists, and where actual journalism lives after being forgotten by MSM. It’s a match made in heaven for nostr, and whoever has the means to should contact Substack management and see if they’d be willing to integrate nostr for publications and comments. We really need people from different horizon here, not only Bitcoiners.

Walked 2 minutes down the street with 3 Amazon parcels in my arms, got asked by 2 different people if I had their delivery. 🤣