I can see the northern lights from California right now

Huge View quoted note →

“Stock futures inch higher Sunday after weaker-than-expected jobs report left investors looking up” Actual headline.

Seems like privacy is upstream of fungibility

The existence of a commodity money whose supply is totally insensitive to the cost of production is *super weird*

Suppose as a thought experiment that the price of energy fell by a factor of one thousand. What would happen to the price of gold? What would happen to the price of Bitcoin?

Such a strong point near the end of the video about the civilizational fork in the road between digital credit money vs digital commodity money View quoted note →

That would be so cool if there was an AI inside your laptop that you could grant keyboard/mouse control to and that you could communicate with verbally, and it would understand what you were asking it to do in context of what was currently on the screen. Basically like you're always screen sharing with your AI helper. Since it would have access to everything this would probably only be workable if you were running locally or self hosting. In any case I wouldn't be surprised if UX converges on something like this in the near(ish) future

You didn’t come into this world, you came out of it

It seems like everything is always falling apart because everything *is* always falling apart. What’s less obvious is that everything is also always coming into being. Death is just more obvious than birth. We notice the absence of things we were used to more than the presence of things we weren’t, and this creates the perceptual bias that the world is out of balance.

Facing resistance is a signal you’re solving the right problem View quoted note →

Years ago I bought into the idea that deflationary currency was unworkable because it would make raising capital too hard—that inflationary money was a necessary evil because to do otherwise would be to set a floor on interest rates equal to the real purchasing power accrued simply by holding the currency. I would guess that this remains the number one misconception among informed, intellectually honest critics of bitcoin.