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Ross
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Interested in open data, machine learning, and distributed systems.
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rossbates 3 months ago
Day 6 of #NostrNovember. Just me, my private key, and my own worldview.
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rossbates 3 months ago
Some want a censorship resistant Twitter replacement. Others want a dissident communication network. Censorship resistance requires discoverability and reach. Dissident communication requires obscurity. The protocol design can't fully optimize for both.
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rossbates 4 months ago
subjective is a lazy explanation for incomplete
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rossbates 7 months ago
"Oh, before the Enlightenment people lived in an enchanted world of meaning, then science came along and disenchanted everything." What if this is all just a load of shit? What if the Meaning Crisis is just elaborate content marketing?
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rossbates 7 months ago
I had no idea The Pulitzer Prize is named after the guy who invented clickbait but things are more clear now. Manufacture the problem, market yourself as the solution, get rewarded.
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rossbates 8 months ago
Nobody's talking because everyone's too busy reverse-engineering the algorithm for being heard.