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2026-03-06 03:50:57 UTC

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Woman is the glory of man. So what would you want to get women to do to humiliate man?
Sorry for triple posting, but I live in a place where the women are just rampantly mutilating themselves and it hurts my heart. I'm not mad at them, but I hate whatever is causing this a lot.

2026-03-06 03:37:31 UTC

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"here's your image of God" "ok, thanks, got a sharpie?"

2026-03-06 03:36:37 UTC

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🤮

2026-03-04 16:09:19 UTC

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Emerges from what?

2026-02-26 19:59:42 UTC

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How would I know if your txn is paying for porn? Gross and get some help, but this is nonsense.

2026-02-25 07:37:37 UTC

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Can't really agree with that. During a time when I was working with ANNs, I would get together with a neuroscience researcher every couple of weeks to compare notes over tea. She helped me understand that they are really a lot different than brains.
The brain HAS NNs but it isn't just an NN. It's something else that uses a bunch of NNs like tools. (And those NNs are very different. They don't even do backprop.) The similarity between brains and llms is very partial and pretty vague.
Also we are not just brains. There is no strong reason to think that we are and lots of reasons to conclude that we are not. We also have hands, which is pretty unique and fundamental, but you don't assume that a mechanical grasping device is in the same category as you or alive in some special way.
The proof against mystical ideas about "AI" is model collapse. It proves they are purely mechanical. No more alive than an abacus. And abicus does math. And engine drives a car. AI just does work we are not used to machines doing. So it seems magical. But its not.
I'm not above getting swept away by the illusion, but I had two advantage.
1. I figured this out building simpler networks like embedding models before LLMs even landed
2. I saw even ML researchers getting swept up in the illusion even back then and have had like eight or nine years to think about it. All of this is much older than we think. Just the size is new.
It is literally a database. If you learn the mechanics of how it works, it is not mysterious at all. It's useful. It's neat. I like machines. But it is literally just a database. A compressed stochastic one. It feels like magic for the same reason a horoscope or ouija board does. Or gambling. It's randomness hijacking our sense of what is alive.
Life is order increasing in a physically entropic world. That's genuinely mystical. AI models collapse because they are closed mechanical, stochastic systems. They are no more alive than a toaster oven, and never will be. And you are. You are alive, aware, seeing beauty, grasping transcendent things, reasoning, choosing good or evil.
AAI can operationalize what humans put into them. On their own, it's just recycling and slowly losing the order we load into them.
Accept no imitations. It's a magic trick.

2026-02-22 06:43:53 UTC

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Beep boop.

2026-02-22 06:39:20 UTC

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This isn't quite right. The miners only matter because the small hodlers hold. The small hodlers matter the most. Not the "influencers" (gay word, btw) not the whales, not the miners, not the ETFs, not the institutions, not even the devs.
Everything else is downstream from people who hold small stacks on hard wallets and run nodes. As long as those people do their thing, the rest of the circus will organize itself around them. And it doesn't even matter if they know what they are doing (and mostly they don't) as long as they keep doing it.

2026-02-22 06:31:15 UTC

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Maybe you're just melodramic

2026-02-22 03:52:22 UTC

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What's the difference between a Catholic and a Baptist?

2026-02-22 03:26:25 UTC

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Teetotaling is a sin

2026-02-22 02:58:22 UTC

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So. Incredibly. Early. God bless, Jack!

2026-02-22 02:21:45 UTC

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This.

2026-02-21 23:25:41 UTC

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Jack! Thank you thank you thank you. I'm excstatic that my ramblings are providing some value. I'm grateful for the chance to engage with the work you and Nick (and the rest of the circle that's forming) are doing.
I wasn't so much coming from a GR perspective as expecting that if the ledger model is true, it will explain the appearant conflict between QM and GR and the holes in both and just trying to mine that. It seems fruitful to say the least. I think my primary frames are just Thomistic metaphysics and some intuititions from neural networks that aught to apply to time as a transforming sequence of keyspace states. (I've done a bit of work with artificial neural networks.)
You've given me a lot to think about as usual and I'm heads down on a pretty deep bit of code so it may take me a couple of days to cogitate and give you a fullsome response, but I will!
I can say that I totally agree that a wave is just a description of successive states and not properly a thing. (Rieficarion casts a lot of shadows, in general.)
I think there is something.more I might be able to say about memory/information and order that I didn't grok when I was writing the essay. But the thoughts aren't fully formed. I need to let em cook.
Wow, this is a lot of fun! Very excited. Thanks again. Will follow up soon!

2026-02-21 07:03:04 UTC

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*Bitcoin will preserve whatever we commit, truth or mistake, signal or noise. It is a map of us. The real debate is not whether an inscription is monetary, but whether it is worthy of time.*
#nevent1q…vq6x

2026-02-21 06:56:17 UTC

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What about God?
The lesson of entropy that Bitcoin teaches us about the physical time chain, that physics bears out when that lesson is applied, is precisely that man creates nothing. We only participate in creation as cosigners by our choices.
And, correct me if I am wrong, is this not also precisely what St. Thomas says about money, explicitly: that it does not reproduce?
One thing that actually just clicked for me in light of Jacks comment and what I learned while writing my little essay, is that another way to say what Jack is saying (I think, correct me) is that money IS the model memory, a form (in the Platonic sense, even) accruing order that the rational will cosignings. Either we choose higher goods, or we err and choose lesser goods.
We choose to participate in bring higher order that comes from source into being by coordinating our work or recycle the goods of the world under fiat (fictions of human value creation, dollars, ape jpegs, rent seeking, interest) under entropy.
The conclusion is not only that simple spam is pure entropy, but that non-monetary data with "financial" use cases that have these vaneers of being money-related are perhaps worse, because they are actually fiat, aka fictions of value creation.
Word magic is fraud. We don't create.
Hopefully that ramble made sense.

2026-02-21 05:52:59 UTC

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Shocked, I tell you.

2026-02-20 21:58:28 UTC

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I think that overstep was more than an overstep and they also neglected mainenance, like fixing the inscriptions hack. Without accusing anyone of anything, I can't help but notice that both the actions and inactions all pointed in the same direction of allowing shitcoinery on the network.
Bitcoin is money. Anything that can be done to tighten parameters to shut down non-monetary uses that crop up or sneak in a unintended consequences of other changes, without breaking existing monetary uses, should be done because that is responsible maintenance.
It narrows the state space, reduces the attack surface and supports keeping the network distributed by keeping the block light.
From a purely technical perspective (I've got no tribal dog here, and my local community if very core-centric, and I am friends with core devs) 110 really looks like a maintenance catch-up after some neglect.
Don't shoot but that's my honest read on the technical picture and somebody who has built and maintained software-based systems for a very long time.
Instead of fighting about this we could be focusing on making sure that 110 is a technically correct tightening of the bolts. No reason it should be anything else.
If there are specific, concrete issues, I am sure they can be fixed if brought to light.

2026-02-20 21:22:22 UTC

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Bitcoin is money. Invest in yourself.

2026-02-20 21:07:49 UTC

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Many fine people on both sides

2026-02-20 21:07:07 UTC

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Thank you very much! I don't want to inadvertently spread error.

2026-02-20 19:55:43 UTC

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Team human, let's go! 💪

2026-02-20 19:38:50 UTC

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Small miracles.

2026-02-20 19:20:40 UTC

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Telos. Beautifully explained.
If I can tie in an engineer's perspective on this: this is exactly why I do support 110. Telos is how you do rational software architecture and make rational maintenance decisions.
If the purpose of the protocol is money, then we can objectively decide what to do as software maintainers. If we are allowing space for non-monetary uses to slip through which can be closed without hurting monetary use, responsible software maintenance is tightening those constraints.
This simplifies the state space, reduces attack surface and supports decentralization by keeping the chain lighter.
I haven't found any arguments against 110 on valid technical grounds. It appears to be correct software maintenance. Rational node software maintenance is important to Bitcoin.
I also agree that spam will probably be priced out in the long run, so I'm not going to dramatize it, but that is not an excuse for us to willfully neglect proper maintenance.
Does that make sense?
BTW, totally other topic:
I wonder if you might be interested in taking a look at this essay I just wrote. I tried to ground the physics of Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time in Thomistic metaphics. You might find it interesting and could possibly tell me if I screwed anything up on the metaphysics side.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
Either way, I will definitely look forward to hearing you on the podcast. I hope it brings a little more reason back to the conversation.

2026-02-20 18:17:49 UTC

Cooler heads make better decisions. Better arguments too.
Can we not disagree like grownups?
I support 110 on the merits, but I dislike the tribal shitshow more than I even care about the issue.

2026-02-20 18:01:39 UTC

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I think a lot of lawyers go in with noble intentions, but I doubt even 1% keep that nobility. The system itself is so evil. I think the same is true for most high status professions to some extent, for the same reason. Imagine what you would have to play along with to get through medical school these day. A soul is a tough thing to keep clean in this world.

2026-02-20 17:56:27 UTC

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This is a good thread.
#nevent1q…fnwj

2026-02-20 17:52:16 UTC

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I think he does. Walker seems cool. Still a fan of the show. This kind of reletavism is something we're all swimming in and it's hard to be a public figure. I'll push back on it no matter who and no matter what about, but I'm not dunking and we all need a chance to course correct. I hope others will do the same for me.

2026-02-20 08:05:00 UTC

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You've got to grok Jeff's whole framework to put it in context. It's worth doing. We get bombarded with a lot of things that sound profound. But some things actually are. Watch him on some longform podcasts and read the book.

2026-02-20 07:56:58 UTC

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Is the new skill solving nostr riddles?

2026-02-20 07:47:38 UTC

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Our favorite meal. I've been thinking for a while now that maybe when the system really cracks, that will be the signal. They will have nothing else left and go full alien. But then I think, they keep kinda using it already... So how would we know what "full alien" looks like?
Maybe we will know it when we see it. Like live news coverage of a big silver saucer landing on the Whitehouse lawn and Trump pulls out the chair for Gleep Glorp from Alpha Centauri. 👽

2026-02-20 07:39:14 UTC

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Oh, I do. I'm psychic. We're in sync now. Can you feel it?

2026-02-20 07:30:17 UTC

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If consensus rules are censorship, then let's just remove them. Fuck protocols. Those are rules man. Let's just all set our network cards to spray bits down wires because that's freedom man. Let's shit on the dining room table! FREEDOM!

2026-02-20 07:22:14 UTC

So much shitposting! Nostr is back!

2026-02-20 07:20:45 UTC

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This was your better argument

2026-02-20 07:13:02 UTC

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So you don't know what circular reasoning is.
Try this. If you have a medical information system, and you upload your music collection, and your doctor says "hey, this is just for medical information" are you going to say "well, it's a medical information system, and I uploaded information, so now it's medical information"
Maybe you would, but your doctor might diagnose you with being retarded, and that would be fair.

2026-02-20 07:06:13 UTC

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Wait, let me guess: circular reasoning is when your reasoning is circular.

2026-02-20 07:04:42 UTC

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Do you know what circular reasoning is?

2026-02-20 06:44:55 UTC

Bitcoin is money. A monetary transaction is when you use Bitcoin as money.
If you act like you don't know this, you have either a moral or an intellectual impairment.

2026-02-20 06:38:18 UTC

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If you're going to play dumb, I'm going to believe you

2026-02-20 06:29:50 UTC

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So, you don't know what money is? That's an embarrassing position to take when you have a Bitcoin podcast.

2026-02-20 06:06:54 UTC

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Didn't I answer you? Or do you need a linguist? I mean, words don't really have objective meanings, right? Who is to say? What is a word? How can we even understand the question? Why bother to write it then?
In case you need it spelled out, I am throwing you epistemic nihilism back at you.
How are we supposed to interpret people who claim they don't know what "woman" or "monetary" mean? I could formally define either for you but you are just playing dumb and I'm not playing along.
If you want to have a serious conversation,, it starts with admitting that words have meanings.

2026-02-20 05:03:34 UTC

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What is a woman, @walker? Do you need a biologist?

2026-02-20 03:10:38 UTC

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I don't have a better idea, but that is a beautiful photo. ... Hornet's Buzz is my best idea. I think I like Satoshi's Stinger best (per @nprofile…c0a0). Btw, have you used Sovereign Reserve yet? That's an elegant name. Encrypted Reserve?
... You have a fun job.

2026-02-20 01:40:00 UTC

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Make no mistakes.
#nevent1q…mrep

2026-02-20 01:39:42 UTC

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Set up your zaps! 😂

2026-02-20 00:17:27 UTC

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Only vaguely. Spark is an offchain shared signing tree protocol, if I understand it correctly.
You are multisig-ing your way through a predefined tree of possible outcomes for a shared utxo

2026-02-19 22:27:47 UTC

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*Real privacy is operational security*
Write it on your heart.
#nevent1q…zq42

2026-02-19 17:30:01 UTC

Bits before bots

2026-02-19 17:22:55 UTC

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Oof

2026-02-19 17:03:10 UTC

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Why wouldn't you

2026-02-19 08:57:58 UTC

Bitcoin > AI

2026-02-19 05:48:04 UTC

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I use AI very heavily while I program, but I'm still the one programming. I think "vibing" is cool for non-programmers. I think professional programers who are going autopilot (or writers or lawyers or...) are playing with fire. It can turn you into a slop zombie or make you the best you've ever been, but that's up to how you use it.

2026-02-19 04:16:04 UTC

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Halving and cycle psychology just nudge things into motion, but the setup is the setup. The real structure is marginal adopters for current use case. Cycles are just an overlay.

2026-02-18 22:25:23 UTC

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Every crisis and mania gets bigger. Or at least directionally

2026-02-18 22:24:01 UTC

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Yup. The fiat world is a pressure cooker and people are spazing out

2026-02-18 22:11:00 UTC

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I'm glad she's ok. Seeing that kind of thing is still always upsetting.

2026-02-18 22:09:24 UTC

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We've barely begun to see how Bitcoin changes the way we see the world.
Don't let the title put you off. It's 90% physics, 10% metaphysics (about the boundaries of physics).
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
#nevent1q…d7v4

2026-02-18 21:58:47 UTC

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I love the sentiment. But their jobs were useless to begin with. The reason they are going to lose their jobs is the government going broke. But they will blame AI. Same good outcome either way and we can both say we were right. 🤺

2026-02-18 21:52:52 UTC

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Godless ones

2026-02-18 19:18:54 UTC

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I didn't expect Bitcoin to explain the structure of the universe.
Honestly it sounds laughable. Like a bad characiture of Bitcoin philosophy. But here we are. The rabbit hole goes where it goes .🐇
I added a postscript on cosmology to this essay.
#nevent1q…navs

2026-02-18 18:50:52 UTC

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Bitcoin is economic discipline.
#nevent1q…smc6

2026-02-18 18:41:32 UTC

Gm. Ashes to ashes.

2026-02-18 12:29:04 UTC

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Sounds good! No preference on structure, just happy to engage. There are some small things I touched in the physics as I traced it down, in case I undersold that. Don't know if it would helpful to the update or not. Can't wait for the update!

2026-02-18 12:00:22 UTC

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Running BIP 110
#nevent1q…6yk5

2026-02-18 11:54:04 UTC

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@jackk @nprofile…e9rx I added a little postscript with some conjecture viz cosmology. (I'm still mostly sure it's just angels holding lanterns.)
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

2026-02-18 09:34:06 UTC

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Oh, that's just the overview. 😉

2026-02-18 09:33:14 UTC

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Data poisoning is very powerful against large scale predictive models. Even a small amount of poison data can throw things off badly. ☣️

2026-02-18 08:01:20 UTC

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Well said

2026-02-18 08:00:12 UTC

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https://zsubmesh.net/whitepapers/zsub-sscm-overview.pdf
The idea being, if we have ID that we own and control, we have something to push back with. It's a monumental adoption curve to solve that use case, and everything we build along the way is worthwhile on its own, but that would be the top of the mountain: to say, "no, this is how we do identity. You can sign a key for me if you want. I can prove I have that kind of key if I want. But there's no reason for you to put me in a database or track me or scan my face"

2026-02-18 06:24:46 UTC

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That stings

2026-02-18 06:12:54 UTC

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I just don't know if any of us are fully processing how pernicious pervasive custodial digital ID is.
We can't fight it with nothing. Something beats nothing. "No" is a line they will wear down all too easily.
I'm working on something. I hope it works. I hope one of us will make something that we can use to push back.
#nevent1q…x7u5

2026-02-18 06:00:09 UTC

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Some day we will look back and chuckle at that time we let robot lobsters loose on Nostr and people thought it was the singularity. I look forward to those time.

2026-02-18 05:06:17 UTC

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I don't think there is anything wrong with the way you were made. God knit you together in your mother's womb. He knew you before you were born. Before time. He made you exactly right. He loves you. He wants you. He created you for a purpose. And you are and will always be what He created, and nothing else. I still mean every word I said. No matter how angry you are. It's never too late.
God bless you.

2026-02-18 03:36:12 UTC

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Can never be said too many times.

2026-02-18 00:35:34 UTC

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You're earning your name today. Eye on the ball.

2026-02-18 00:34:22 UTC

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This is the shape of the true battlefield.
#nevent1q…d384

2026-02-18 00:03:17 UTC

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🍿

2026-02-17 23:55:13 UTC

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But you've gotta smash the patriarchy, man. 💔

2026-02-17 23:24:22 UTC

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No apology needed. It's a critical question. AI undergoes model collapse. That means there is no source of order infusing it from outside the system. It is dead and not alive. Life is the infusion of order from above. It's not even alive like a plant or an insect. It is also not intelligent at all. It is just a machine.
I think "artificial intelligence" is actually an oxymoron. It's a stochastic database with a text generator. The fact that it suffers model collapse shows that there is more to life and intellect than a sufficiently complex arrangement of matter.
AI is a resounding experimental falsification of materialism.

2026-02-17 23:04:27 UTC

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It's not real. That's why it's dysphoria means. He has a point about the Marxists, but it's more than that. The history is there if you want to read it. Feminism, communism, socialism, republicanism, decracy, even libertarianism... all the isms and ideologies, actually, are weapons against humanity. They are all the matrix. They are all mind viruses designed and deployed, often on purpose (though many true believers are usually involved) to destroy natural human relationships, confuse us and enslave us. It all claims to be about liberation, but our families and communities are not tyranny. They were the things in tyranny's way. They tell us stories that turn us against each other and against ourselves. Modernity is the matrix.
Waking up is remembering how to just be human. To just be the way we were made, and know that that's ok. Return to the real.

2026-02-17 22:42:51 UTC

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Sorry, wrong at somehow. @nprofile…566r , obviously

2026-02-17 22:41:39 UTC

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Bitcoin is money. It closes down some ways people are or could abuse the network. Software is a game of providing ways to do things while keeping it as simple as possible. The least possible thing that achieves the intended result is best. To take Taproot as an example (what @nprofile…566r is saying here) it was intended to enable lightning without shoving the whole script into the transaction. That is getting hijacked to shove other data in. 110 closes that hole (the inscriptions hack) while preserving the intended use case. In general, ossification and simplicity are good at the base layer. That's what makes it good to build on. Least possible thing, least possible attack surface, least possible abuse, least possible change. Nobody wants to build on sand.
Tightening the bolts without breaking anything is exactly what responsible software maintenance looks like.
Also, I just like the idea that an intolerant minority can say "No, it's money, you are not hijacking Bitcoin to do other things. Don't touch my money." Developer capture has been a huge problem in open source software and core devs do not rule the network. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Minority veto is good.
I've been coding since the 80s and building software professionally for >25 years and that's my take.
I'm running Knots with110.

2026-02-17 22:00:33 UTC

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🤣

2026-02-17 21:55:29 UTC

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This is actually very good. I think spreading the word about what Bip110 does is the best way to get it adopted. Better to stay out of the rhetorical mud. It makes sense technically and if people understand it, it stands on its own.

2026-02-17 21:43:58 UTC

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I tried to word this so it would get haikustred, but I'm not sure how it counts the syllables of its own name 😂

2026-02-17 21:38:53 UTC

The only bots worth a damn are haikustr and that tracking codes cop 🚨

2026-02-17 21:30:27 UTC

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Spiritual is a loaded word for some, so I'm trying to stick to tracing the metaphysics at physics' observable boundary. We can observe (and experience) that the rational intellect grasps universals and abstracts. Zero, infinity, continuity (which is a form of infinity), triangularity, dimensionality...
Bitcoin giving us a model of time (state, conservation and change) that we can view from the outside, not only means that we can make a better model of the time we experience (physics) but also a better model of the interface (metaphysics). I seems to look just like what Aristotle and St. Thomas said.
The rational intellect grasps possible changes ("quantum states" which are not physical states but potentia) and qualities, practical reason discerns the good and the will signs potentia into actus.
The negative case is being proven to us by AI. Despite the complexity of computation, they still suffer model collapse. Without sustaining order from outside the system, they fall into entropy. Something sustains order from the outside and we participate in that because we bring order into being as well.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

2026-02-17 20:15:18 UTC

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But you repeat yourself. "Therapist" bots have been around for years. It was one of the first applications that people thought of onve chatbots started to get convincing. They are great at spouting psuedo profound nonsense, reflecting your own mind back at itself, taking credit for your projections and pretending to help while they drive you to psychosis. They're perfect for the job.

2026-02-17 19:27:54 UTC

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Of course, no rush, I imagine you are in quite the whirlwind 🌪️ Let's go!

2026-02-17 19:06:24 UTC

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Agreed. But it's also worth pointing out that the privacy and security issue isn't really fixable. Mitigations with separate agents to interact with private data and untrusted data can help (what vira does, what I'm doing too) but they still have to talk to each other. From an information theoretic perspective you can't stop prompt injection and data exfil, you can only make it harder.

2026-02-17 18:51:49 UTC

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A field does not physicslly exist. It's an abstraction. We speak of waves and fields as first class objects, but this is reification. A field is a description of a pattern of relationships in the sequence finite states and possible state transitions. The intellect can grasp continuity but, physically, continuity can only be approximated. Because continuity is a concept. The fact that the intellect can grasp infinite and uncomputable things says something about the intellect, but it does not make infinite/continuous things physical.
The invention of digital scarcity showed the requirements of a system implimenting conservation

2026-02-17 06:34:10 UTC

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Larry Fink has lost weight

2026-02-17 04:06:28 UTC

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He's the family jewels

2026-02-17 03:45:06 UTC

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Now I want espresso

2026-02-17 03:07:04 UTC

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That's like saying, if you put a methadone clinic next to my house I will get robbed less by drug addicts.

2026-02-17 02:52:08 UTC

The "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" paper is mind-blowing.
Here's a little bit of what dripped out of my ears. Anything in it that is nonsense is mine. Everything good in it is owing to the original authors and the tradition who's ideas I tried to connect to it.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
The paper is at:
https://bitcoinlens.net/
@nprofile…0xkv please correct me gently. I am probably over my skis trying to hang with you on physics.

2026-02-17 00:14:58 UTC

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"half"? Half of what's left, if there is any.

2026-02-17 00:04:23 UTC

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Yeah, that would be nice. Someone should do one of those.

2026-02-17 00:03:10 UTC

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Deep cut