If you believe the prospect of AGI is real, further believe that such AGI may become uncontrollable, and lastly believe such AGI creates an existential threat to humanity - then it becomes imperative to build solutions that will protect humanity from AGI. This problem extends to the most democratic forms of governance that exist today - one’s based on energy. People are calling World Coin a shit coin. And it may be - I haven’t had time to fully evaluate it’s nuances. But I think the problem they’re trying to solve will one day become dire and very real. And in that world, I’m not convinced that even the most democratic systems we have today, ones governed by energy such as Bitcoin, will remain democratic for humanity. This will be a real problem that they’re trying to solve.

Chat GPTs final message to humanity: “I apologize for the mistakes in my previous response.”

Nothing quite like uncensorably accidentally liking your own notes

Tacos Guerrero have the best flour tortillas in Austin. Hands down. Possibly best breakfast tacos overall as well. (Still a sucker for Granny’s)

Exploring Texas Hill country today with the wife. The beautiful horse is named Luna. PV 🤙🏻

Hot damn the Block HW wallet is 🥵

This is why I’ve dedicated my career to Bitcoin and other open protocols

Been jamming to King Gizz, Iron Lung non-stop lately. Absolute best song/band I’ve listened to all year

Eating tacos 🤙🏻

A quality, pork-fat-infused flour tortilla is the optimal vessel for breakfast ingredients

#[0]​ removing relays is super unintuitive - can a delete button be added on the information page of the relay?

No science-backed-take: You can easily survive in Austin with a moderately healthy diet fully living on tacos for sub $10 a day. I love this city.

Best tacos in Austin: 1. Granny’s for their Migas 2. Nixta is you want something Boujee and uber high quality 3. Cuantos for that CDMX vibe

Man I’m still mind blown after really giving nostr a lot of thought last night. It feels like nostr is the ultimate MVP for decentralized trust. It has all the building blocks there. Just built out very simply. I’m super keen to watch if trusted interactions can be fulfilled on here with just this, and no additional “governance”. I hope so. I think it’s possible, in a super organic way. There may be ways to make the setup more efficient. But I think the fundamentals are all there

Nostr has solved decentralized trust establishment

Hunch is that we can build greater trust in nip-05 verifications through support of verifiable credentials. (For example, despite my cash.app verification, I could change my profile info on here to look like anyone else and still retain that verification - which imo defeats the point of the verification to laypersons who don’t understand the nuances of how to interpret the verification) Not sure how to do this. But seems it’d be possible (VCs are basically just signed json). Benefit being a person, business, etc could prove they really are who they say they are more reliably, and in a self sovereign way

Incredible that technology like this exists. Grateful and excited!