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#06 - The Winds of AI

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“The human spirit should remain in charge.”

Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.

In this dialogue:

  • Wind
  • More Wind
  • Information Calories, and how to measure them
  • Digital Wellbeing
  • Rescue Time
  • Teleology of Technology
  • Platforms get users Hooked (book)
  • Feeds are slot machines
  • Movie Walls
  • Tweetdeck and Notedeck
  • IRC vs the modern feed
  • 37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!”
  • “You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
  • Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
  • Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views
  • Long videos vs shorts
  • The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention )
  • “Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it
  • Questr : 2D exploration of nostr
  • ONOSENDAI by Arkinox
  • Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
  • DAUs of jumper cables
  • Gossip and it’s choices
  • “The secret to life is to send it”
  • Flying water & flying bus stops
  • RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests
  • Nostr is high signal and less addictive
  • Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape”
  • Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
  • The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96
  • Blossom (and wind)
  • Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
  • ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
  • SaaS and the DAU metric
  • Highlighter
  • Not caring where stuff is hosted
  • When is an edited thing a new thing?
  • Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits
  • NIP-60 and inconsistent balances
  • Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching
  • Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing
  • Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
  • Helping your uncle jack of a horse
  • Can we fix it with WoT?
  • Vertex & 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
  • Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI
  • Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter )
  • Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD )
  • “Speed itself is a feature”
  • MCP & DVMCP
  • Monorepos and git submodules
  • Olas & NDK
  • Pablo’s RemindMe bot
  • “Breaking changes kinda suck”
  • Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
  • LLM-generated sticker styles
  • LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email )
  • “AI-generated art has no soul”
  • Nostr, zaps, and realness
  • Does the source matter?
  • Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1
  • Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
  • Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book)
  • Is more context always good?
  • Vervaeke’s AI argument
  • What is meaningful?
  • How do you extract meaning from information?
  • How do you extract meaning from experience?
  • “What the hell is water”
  • Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
  • “Bitcoin is singularity insurance”
  • Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
  • Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
  • 10min block time & the physical limits of consensus
  • Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post
  • 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
  • Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
  • Joe’s songs
  • Hyper-personalized stories
  • Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau)
  • Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
  • Agency, free expression, and free speech
  • Edgy content & twitch meta , 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”
  • Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
  • The importance of speech & money
  • 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
    • ...more
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