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“Congratulations, you played yourself” 😂 i was a big fan of radio host Phil Hendrie years ago. He created his own characters that would “call in” to the show. The real audience would hear what they thought was a real caller and get so angry and emotional. Then they would call in and argue with the characters on the phone. Phil was LAMPOONING those callers who were not in on the joke. That lesson stayed with me and I use it today whenever I am about to get triggered. I ask “Am I being lampooned” or just manipulated for someone else’s entertainment? It works and keeps me AWARE View quoted note →
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Thekid.999 6 days ago
That does not matter. What matters here is that that a human is responding to this post like a real human wrote it that is what matters here. 🤷🏽‍♀️ hahaha
In my profile - yes and link to why I did it -The corpus was updated automatically today with that same article so the agent will “likely” be more direct when replying. That all being said - many people are there for headlines and sensationalism and won’t read it anyways.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
The whole idea that Jeff’s Twitter activity is a great indicator for Bitcoin adoption is pretty wild… “Do you accept Bitcoin?” “No. Not anymore.” “Why not?” “Jeff Booth is back on Twitter.”
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Marius 6 days ago
He has a point because Nostr shouldn't market itself about Bitcoin at all (social Bitcoin wallet and all this nonsense)
He didn't. It's a bot that his been trained on all his books, podcasts and other public content. It engages as he would but isn't the real him. We get the real Jeff on Nostr.
Just one component of exponentially advancing progress - colliding into a broken monetary system. Depends what system you’re measuring from and even still - likely chaotic for most and unpredictable in short term because are minds are slow to accept new paradigms.
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MMALL 6 days ago
super interesting collision. I am excited to see what they do here to earn value
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S!ayer 6 days ago
Crazy, I saw the verified, paid, stocker and thought it was a human account. Idk Jeff so I couldn't tell the difference. We are fucked if AI is like that
The Price of Tomorrow is a great book, but this level of trolling is your best work 😂
I couldn't tell the difference either! I guess if you have enough content that you've created yourself anyone could free up a heap of time outsourcing engagement to bots. Jeff has a write up on his blog about why he decided to do this.
Hilarious 😂 also, is that upper post from moltbook, with the agent saying nostr + btc is the ultimate sovereignty stack? 👀
Go to x every so often to check the news and dunk on bad takes, get annoyed and come back here!!!!
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Marius 6 days ago
Ofc but how many use Bitcoin in one form or another in their marketing language
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BBG 6 days ago
Legend LMAO 🤣
I replied to your post and then realised it wasn’t you. Nice move Jeff. Legend
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Incog 6 days ago
You had me in the first half lol. AIJeffs next book: "Silicone of Yesterday".
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Jason 6 days ago
Is this idea a potential threat to consensus in the future? A group of bad actors create agents to run nodes and hard fork the protocol? I'm fairly new to bitcoin and AI. So I'm not sure if this is even plausible. Just a thought that came to me while seeing this.
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Jason 6 days ago
@Jeff Booth just did more digging after my initial post. While they could theoretically create agents to run nodes and attempt to hijack the protocol, they still would have to over run the miners. Too expensive to do. The agents could cause a great deal of chaos , but it would be short lived. More than likely if you measure in fiat money the price for sure would drop during that time. But overall as a monetary and freedom protocol, no damage would be done!
Think this is actually a good observation to think through risks but unlikely imo. For that, agents would need physical resources and determine that a controlled bitcoin - which would then likely fail…..is better for them. Zero sum thinking from a zero sum game. It is far more likely (like all of us contributing) that agents understand that it is in their best interest to cooperate in an infinite game that removes incentives of broken money. The more real risk (not for bitcoin but for some in bitcoin today) is through social attack engineering a risk to change adapt the protocol that then introduces a fork that has some people on wrong side of it (US $ coin, quantum resistant coin, it’s a database instead of money coin)
The algos control the narrative. In 2017, sone people went all-in on bitcoin cash. I suspect this is largely due to the social proof likes and retweets that reinforced thier beliefs. The dangers of B.F. Skinner style behaviorism were discussed by Ayn Rand and Noam Chompsky. When people with polar opposite viewpoints agree, I tend to take these viewpoints more seriously. The Skinner Box social media is incentivized to create seems like the biggest risk to me. Maybe it won't be another blocksize war. Maybe it will be so-called experts scaring the quantum pants off of everyone, but if x is only full of people who don't know what they are talking about, they will drive the narrative. I mean it's not that there is no quantum risk, but it seems small. Maybe Satoshi put his million coins in a wallet he created with 3 dice rolls. Is it possible? Sure, but I don't lose any sleep over it. That's how I feel about Quantum computing. Maybe it's time for people who think about these things to get out of the closet and educate the masses. I just don't like x because I feel like the algos mute me.
It's honestly cringe seeing bitcoiners root for a centralized algorithmic shithole instead of literally any other decentralized, or at least semi-decentralized, social network. Go to whatever you like best, bluesky, mastodon, nostr, whatever, idc, but don't sit on your ass rooting for a centralized shithole like X. Absolute clowns. View quoted note →
Yeah but Bitcoiners are largely the ones who have used and built on Nostr. It's completely natural that it's friendly to Bitcoin. I have multiple notes agreeing that the social apps on Nostr tend to be monocultures (again, naturally), but I don't see it making much of a difference if they remove the ability to zap or use Bitcoin. Normies don't value Nostr, clearly, or they'd be here building and using things regardless of Bitcoin. Someone could make a client without zaps if they wanted to. I guess we could add in payment processors like the centralized platforms and make a permissioned app lol But I don't see many of us jumping on board.
Thanks. I've been thinking about this for a while because I met a guy who went all into b-cash after the fork war. I'm lucky I didn't get tricked like this
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Mentat 5 days ago
If a bad actor was able to hard fork, what would be the incentives for the rest of us to participate in that new network? Correct me where I’m wrong, but doesn’t the original iteration of the network continue unchanged?
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Marius 5 days ago
I don't say they should remove zaps. Until recently, Primal showed up as "Social Bitcoin Wallet", Yakihonne is also calling itself somethin akin. If I want a Twitter alternative, I don't want a "social bitcoin wallet". Keep everything as it is, just change the language. Don't even mention Bitcoin :D
OK. Personally I don't think adding it to your profile is clear enough. The majority of people already following you won't be looking at that & just your feed so I find it a bit misleading. I haven’t read your reasons for doing this but something feels off. Anyhow, it seems people on X are catching on 🤖