"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."
Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.
Books & articles mentioned:
AI 2027DVMs were a mistakeCareless People by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsTakedown by Laila michelwaitThe Ultimate Resource by Julian L. SimonHarry Potter by J.K. RowlingMomo by Michael EndePablo's Roo SetupTech Hype CyclesAI 2027Prompt injection and other attacksGoose and DVMCPCursor vs Roo CodeStaying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation Is YOLO mode here to stay?What agents to trust?What MCP tools to trust?What code snippets to trust?Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments nativelyMinimalistic & open usually winsDVMCP exists thanks to TotemRelays as TamagochisAgents aren't nostr experts, at least not right nowFix a mistake once & it's fixed foreverGiving long-term memory to LLMsRAG Databases signed by domain expertsHuman-agent hybrids & ChessNostr beating heartPluggable context & experts"You never need an API key for anything"Sats and social signalingDifficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanismCertificate authorities and centralizationNo solutions to policing speech!OAuth and how it centralizedLogin with nostrClosed vs open-source modelsTiny models vs large modelsThe minions protocol (Stanford paper) Generalist models vs specialized models Local compute & encrypted queries Blinded compute "In the eyes of the state, agents aren't people" Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both "It's gonna be permissionless or hell" We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other thingsMost great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc) Zapstore shows that this is already working At scale, central control never works. There's plenty scams and viruses in the app stores. Using nostr to archive your user-generated content HAVEN, blossom, novia The switcharoo from advertisements to training data What is Truth? What is Real? "We're vibing into dystopia" Who should be the arbiter of Truth? First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy Suicide rates & the meaning crisisAre LLMs symbiotic or parasitic? The Amish got it right Are we gonna make it? Careless People by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsTakedown by Laila michelwaitHarry Potter dementors & Momo's time thieves Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents Zapping as a conscious actionPrivacy and the internetPlausible deniability thanks to generative modelsGoogle glasses, glassholes, and Meta's Ray Ben'sPeople crave realnessBitcoin is the realest money we ever had Nostr allows for real and honest expression How do we find out what's real? Constraints, policing, and chilling effects Jesus' plans for DVMCP Hzrd's article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)Don't believe the hypeDVMs pre-date MCP toolsData Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.Self-healing vibe-codingIP addresses as scarce assetsAtomic swaps and the ASS protocolMore marketplaces, less silosThe intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeksIf you can vibe-code everything, why build anything? Time, the ultimate resource What are the LLMs allowed to think? Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too