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@ No Solutions
2025-03-27 17:28:23
“The human spirit should remain in charge.”
[Pablo](https://njump.me/npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft) & [Gigi](https://njump.me/npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc) talk about the wind.
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In this dialogue:
- Wind
- More Wind
- Information Calories, and how to measure them
- [Digital Wellbeing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.wellbeing)
- [Rescue Time](https://www.rescuetime.com/)
- Teleology of Technology
- Platforms get users [Hooked](https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2021/06/book-review-hooked-how-to-build-habit-forming-products.php) (book)
- Feeds are [slot machines](https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/social-media-copies-gambling-methods-create-psychological-cravings)
- Movie Walls
- Tweetdeck and [Notedeck](https://damus.io/notedeck/)
- IRC vs the modern feed
- 37Signals: “[Hey](https://www.hey.com/pricing/), let’s just charge users!”
- “[You wouldn’t zap a car crash](https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqm2lz4ru6wlydzpulgs8m60ylp4vufwsg55whlqgua6a93vp2y4gzyphydppzm7m554ecwq4gsgaek2qk32atse2l4t9ks57dpms4mmhfxzzxtzc)”
- Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
- Devolution of YouTube [5-star ratings](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/03/18/youtube-thumbs-stars) to thumb up/down to [views](https://www.makeuseof.com/the-real-reason-why-youtube-hid-dislikes/)
- Long videos vs shorts
- The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with [attention](https://dergigi.com/2022/12/18/a-vision-for-a-value-enabled-web/#attention))
- “Don’t be evil” and why Google had to [remove it](https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-erases-dont-be-evil-from-code-of-conduct-after-18-years/)
- [Questr](https://questr.vercel.app/): 2D exploration of nostr
- [ONOSENDAI](https://www.onosendai.tech/) by Arkinox
- Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
- DAUs of jumper cables
- [Gossip](https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip) and it’s choices
- [“The secret to life is to send it”](https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqmjxss3dld622uu8q25gywum9qtg4w4cv4064jmg20xsac2aam5nqqxnzd3exsmrswfjxsurxvf3qvlsju)
- Flying water & flying bus stops
- [RSS readers](https://github.com/fiatjaf/narr), [Mailbrew](https://mailbrew.com/), and daily digests
- Nostr is high signal and less addictive
- Calling nostr posts “[tweets](https://nostr.band/?q=tweet+by%3Anpub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc)” and recordings being “on tape”
- Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
- The unnecessary complexity of [NIP-96](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/96.md)
- [Blossom](https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom) (and wind)
- Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
- ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
- SaaS and the DAU metric
- [Highlighter](https://highlighter.com/)
- Not caring where stuff is hosted
- When is an edited thing a new thing?
- Edits, the edit wars, and [the case against edits](https://blog.udaya.dev/fiatjaf/ad84e3b3)
- [NIP-60](https://nips.nostr.com/60) and inconsistent balances
- Scroll to [text fragment](https://mgearon.com/html/text-fragments/) and best effort matching
- Proximity hashes & [locality-sensitive hashing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing)
- Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
- Helping your uncle [jack of a horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hands_\(album\))
- Can we fix it with WoT?
- [Vertex](https://vertexlab.io/) & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr
- Linking to hashtags & search queries
- Advanced search and why it’s great
- Search scopes & web of trust
- The UNIX tools of nostr
- Pablo’s [NDK snippets](https://nostr-dev-kit.github.io/ndk/snippets/)
- Meredith on the [privacy nightmare of Agentic AI](https://njump.me/nevent1qqsts24dta3nay5ypkhnqd8aphynhw7z89qw69sp3pceady2xujakygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3qguh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0quyzs70)
- Blog-post-driven development ([Lightning Prisms](https://dergigi.com/2023/03/12/lightning-prisms/), [Highlighter](https://dergigi.com/2023/04/04/purple-text-orange-highlights/))
- Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ([HLDD / LLDD](https://gist.github.com/dskvr/b34f836b68ff2ca51bcc8fe7763eceec))
- “Speed itself is a feature”
- MCP & [DVMCP](https://mcp.so/server/dvmcp)
- Monorepos and git submodules
- [Olas](https://olas.app/) & NDK
- Pablo’s [RemindMe](https://njump.me/npub17hsu5gd24stmzuuezwvavgeuwwac233nfzg59dfyhf4fvel8n2sqw3d0k9) bot
- “Breaking changes kinda suck”
- Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
- LLM-generated sticker styles
- LLMs and [creativity](https://dergigi.com/2022/09/25/creativity/) (and Gigi’s [old email](https://gist.github.com/dergigi/04760fbcaa3769bb243db2b0e31c75df))
- “AI-generated art has no soul”
- Nostr, zaps, and realness
- Does the source matter?
- Poker client in [bitcoin v0.0.1](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atrottier%2Foriginal-bitcoin%20poker&type=code)
- Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
- Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ([Technofeudalism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75560036-technofeudalism), book)
- Is more context always good?
- [Vervaeke’s AI argument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-_RdKiDbz4&list=PLND1JCRq8Vui2YOOfrxbeRwJk5jZPmAth)
- What is meaningful?
- How do you extract meaning from information?
- How do you extract meaning from experience?
- “[What the hell is water](https://youtu.be/ms2BvRbjOYo)”
- Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
- “[Bitcoin is singularity insurance](https://njump.me/nevent1qqswawr4cz68sjswhtdkat8qgnpfsc6wygx4xmq2d5gd5fg9extvl4gpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyphydppzm7m554ecwq4gsgaek2qk32atse2l4t9ks57dpms4mmhfxqcyqqqqqqg74yxgf)”
- Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
- Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
- 10min block time & the [physical limits of consensus](https://dergigi.com/threads/physical-limits)
- Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his [announcement post](https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/p2pfoundation/1/)
- Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids?
- All you need now is motivation
- Upcoming agents will actually do the thing
- Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality
- Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution
- Patronage, belle epoche, and [bitcoin art](https://x.com/FractalEncrypt)
- Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
- Joe’s songs
- Hyper-personalized stories
- Shared stories & myths ([Jonathan Pageau](https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/team/jonathan-pageau))
- Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
- Agency, free expression, and [free speech](https://dergigi.com/2024/03/25/speaking-freely-online/)
- Edgy content & [twitch meta](https://www.talkesport.com/news/what-is-the-twitch-meta-decoding-trends-and-controversies/), aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming
- Using attention as a proxy currency
- Farming eyeballs and brain cycles
- Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait
- “[You wouldn’t zap a car crash](https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqm2lz4ru6wlydzpulgs8m60ylp4vufwsg55whlqgua6a93vp2y4gzyphydppzm7m554ecwq4gsgaek2qk32atse2l4t9ks57dpms4mmhfxzzxtzc)”
- Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
- The importance of [speech](https://nostr-resources.com/) & [money](https://bitcoin-resources.com/)
- What should be done by a machine?
- What should be done by a human?
- “The human spirit should remain in charge”
- Our relationship with fiat money
- Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom