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#05 - Prompt & Pray

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"What should the next iteration of the internet look like?" 

In this dialogue:

  • Paul and his awesome nostr t-shirt
  • Are we all just nostalgic?
  • Where did the optimism of computing and the information superhighway go?
  • We went from interop to pay-to-unlock.
  • Do we have to live in the digital gulags forever?
  • Homecooked meals and homecooked apps
  • Paper straws and the downfall of Western Civilization
  • "You need to be okay with people getting rekt"
  • If the car would be introduced today, it would be illegal
  • Bravery and personal responsibility
  • "nostr will only be what diehards will build it to be"
  • Bad teleology is built into the current (non-nostr) app landscape 
  • "You can get a lot of the upside without holding your own keys”
  • “...but you can't get ALL of the upside!"
  • Expressiveness and free speech online 
  • Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, and Financial Freedom in Cyberspace 
  • Self-publishing vs platform publishing 
  • Information calories. Can we count them? 
  • Don't make me think! 
  • Is not being forced to think part of the problem? 
  • Mutiny & bitcoin UX that's too easy 
  • Games and costly mistakes 
  • The early days: software distribution via print magazines 
  • Prompting allows you to define your own teleology 
  • Vibe coding and Cursor 
  • "The hard part is to figure out what you want." 
  • "What should the next iteration of the internet look like?" 
  • GenZ doesn't know shit about files and folders
  • Why files are great 
  • Gigi's SyncThing & Standard Notes setup 
  • File-based apps like Smart AudioBook Player
  • Reading apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readwise Reader
  • Saving all the things & linking stuff together 
  • Clips of podcasts and videos, e.g. Fountain
  • A Commonplace Book to cyberspace
  • Creating a "Family Bible" app
  • If you want to maximize profits in the attention economy, you have to get users addicted
  • (Zaps potentially fix this, as you wouldn’t zap a car crash)
  • Let computers do computer work, let humans be humans
  • "The end is not being on the computer"
  • Solo private / group private / public 
  • Liberal vs Conservative sentiment in social environments 
  • Whom to care about? 
  • Web of trust & our understanding of it
  • Forgiveness, Trust, and Repeat Games 
  • Tit-for-tat and forgiving tit-for-tat
  • Three strikes and you're out! 
  • "Choose your gulag" is the alternative to nostr 
  • 7-generation thinking 
  • 2140
  • The Sovereign Individual is embedded in a social structure, always
  • I, Pencil 
  • Jungle vs Civilization 
  • Fiat = because I said so (“Fiat Lux” - Let there be light)
  • Do we need leaders in bitcoin? 
  • Peterson Fallacy / God vs Bitcoin
  • Jesus early followers were the Followers of The Way 
  • Zaps are not payments 
  • Zaps are not "tips" 
  • Bitstein & Pierre: The Reorg 
  • Vervaeke: “Where do you go for wisdom?”
  • Rough consensus and Pieter Wuille
  • "There is no such thing as a leaderless system" 
  • Wisdom in cyberspace 
  • Can we build wise tools? 
  • Prompting the Bible, ChristGPT, and Bible Slop 
  • Gell-Mann amnesia effect
  • Vervaekes AI argument: The Coming Thresholds and The Path We Must Take
  • Where do new ideas come from? 
  • Sandwich prompting style (HLDD / LLDD)
  • The Tale of John Henry 
  • Silicon Sages
  • Conscience and The Muse
  • Hypermedia and HyperNote 
  • Glassholes, Google Glasses, and wearable technology
  • Prompting & Praying for An Internet Worth Having

    • Books mentioned:

    • The Bible
    • I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read
    • Don't make me think! by Steve Krug
    • The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
      • ...more
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