Love this. Similar vibe I was talking about here.

My interest isn't even anything so cloak and dagger as advanced digital spycraft, more like: a bunch of people running around using their own names and faces. I wouldn't have a single good night's sleep.

That was so compelling for some reason!

I wonder at the deep satisfaction that it generated. Is it just the tangible nature of it? Something so manifest, w such clear purpose, one dude structuring the universe? And that is in such short supply?

I have no expertise to offer but have been super curious for years about how the opsec, or lack of it, will play out among core devs once various important people / groups have billions, and then trillions, at stake, and are no longer okay with it riding on the whims of some small collection of neckbeards.

So far as I can tell almost no discussion or concrete action has occurred to pre-empt the issue, aside from the attrition of some good people.

I like to think that's a compliment. Don't correct me if not.

But I would be humble, sat-stacking, and with a very large couch in a pole barn somewhere.

If it ever happens, check your DMs, I will invite you for a beer.

That is an excellent observation.

This is the entire reason to become a billionaire. If you were Bezos, you could just click the fucking button and see what happened. Then build some place to put it.

God damn it I would make an awesome billionaire.

I wonder if they really would have built it.

It's notable to me that the framing of this, and of the comments, is on bitcoin. I like btc, but is btc-centrism really the key to everything?

Maybe it is, I'm not sure. But the idea shouldn't be swallowed unexamined.

I think the advice to do something beautiful / creative is good not only as economic advice, but as advice for the soul -- be maximally human, because the expansive definition of that is the last vestige of competitive advantage, but also the entire point of being alive. It's easy to forget that. At least, many of us find it alarmingly easy to forget.

I think that's been true on the macro view, for most of the reasons you say. It has not, as best I can determine, ever been true on the micro scale, e.g., the Luddites were not wrong that the introduction of machines would be the end of their ability to inhabit the world in the way they knew how to do. On net, it's been great, but that's little comfort to the people who have fallen off the edge of the world.

The job-centric view of things has always ground my gears; it's like some people believe there are these Platonic entities called "jobs" that everyone must have, and so the discussion fixates on the details about what will happen to them. A preferable view is that life is all a giant dance, and sometimes the circumstances change and then the nature of the dance changes, and now being a horse trainer is part of the dance, and now it isn't, and now being a guy who carries heavy things in a wheelbarrow is part of it, and one day that will probably stop, too. But through it all the challenge is simply to figure out how to dance in a way the local environment will reward.

I don't have a sense of what this will mean post-AI, but I think it may finally be different. Doing something beautiful seems like as good a strategy as any.

Also have not watched, but my usual objection to this is that some notable attackers don't need to make a profit in btc terms. Fucking up people's faith in btc's viability (and resultant price drop) would be reward enough.

A thing I've heard said is that btc is just rediscovering all the lessons of markets and finance and economics. Usually this is a pejorative but I take it as a compliment- doing all that on non-state money is quite an accomplishment.

V4V is the same, although more of a pejorative imo. Not sure why we need the term at all to describe busking or tipping. Not sure why anyone expected two thousand years of human behavior to change bc suddenly the money is bitcoin.

But whatever, the truth wins out in the end. If you're looking to make a living on your SN or nostr activity you better grind like a fucking madman, that's all I can say. Bitcoin doesn't fix this.

(Oh, FYI: the tweet is one of those very long tweets, there's a lot more than just the section I quoted.)

@ek makes me feel very seen :) The only additional context I might add is this.

I'd like MH to be a home for a certain kind of thing. The top posts @ek linked are a good example, but a shortcut might be "thinking deeply about life and the world, and talking about it in good faith."

A number of other territories deal in some of the same topics, if you think in terms of topics, e.g., ~culture, ~tech, ~BooksAndArticles, maybe ~FiresidePhilosophy. In such cases, MH is a vibe.

I like the design - cool vibe!

It's hard to know the true perimeter of your bubble.

Can you zap with it? I can't tell.

Solid tip to stop creating bugs.

This is so ballsy. I bet you would learn a ton, about them, about the world, about yourself.