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@ No Solutions
2025-03-27 17:28:23“The human spirit should remain in charge.”
Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.
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In this dialogue:
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Wind
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More Wind
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Information Calories, and how to measure them
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Teleology of Technology
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Platforms get users Hooked (book)
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Feeds are slot machines
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Movie Walls
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Tweetdeck and Notedeck
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IRC vs the modern feed
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37Signals: “Hey, let’s just charge users!”
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Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
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Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views
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Long videos vs shorts
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The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention)
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“Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it
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Questr: 2D exploration of nostr
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ONOSENDAI by Arkinox
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Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
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DAUs of jumper cables
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Gossip and it’s choices
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Flying water & flying bus stops
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RSS readers, Mailbrew, and daily digests
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Nostr is high signal and less addictive
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Calling nostr posts “tweets” and recordings being “on tape”
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Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
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The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96
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Blossom (and wind)
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Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
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ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
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SaaS and the DAU metric
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Not caring where stuff is hosted
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When is an edited thing a new thing?
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Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits
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NIP-60 and inconsistent balances
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Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching
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Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing
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Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
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Helping your uncle jack of a horse
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Can we fix it with WoT?
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Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr
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Linking to hashtags & search queries
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Advanced search and why it’s great
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Search scopes & web of trust
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The UNIX tools of nostr
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Pablo’s NDK snippets
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Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI
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Blog-post-driven development (Lightning Prisms, Highlighter)
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Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs (HLDD / LLDD)
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“Speed itself is a feature”
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MCP & DVMCP
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Monorepos and git submodules
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Olas & NDK
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Pablo’s RemindMe bot
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“Breaking changes kinda suck”
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Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
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LLM-generated sticker styles
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LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email)
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“AI-generated art has no soul”
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Nostr, zaps, and realness
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Does the source matter?
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Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1
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Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
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Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin (Technofeudalism, book)
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Is more context always good?
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What is meaningful?
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How do you extract meaning from information?
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How do you extract meaning from experience?
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Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
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Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
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Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
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10min block time & the physical limits of consensus
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Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post
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Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids?
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All you need now is motivation
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Upcoming agents will actually do the thing
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Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality
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Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution
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Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art
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Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
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Joe’s songs
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Hyper-personalized stories
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Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau)
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Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
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Agency, free expression, and free speech
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Edgy content & twitch meta, aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming
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Using attention as a proxy currency
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Farming eyeballs and brain cycles
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Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait
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Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
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What should be done by a machine?
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What should be done by a human?
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“The human spirit should remain in charge”
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Our relationship with fiat money
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Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom
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