Aldert

Lead Designer & Brand Manager. Building meaningful products and brands that empower society. Working on freedom tech at Synonym.

[Aldert @aldert]

Remember this 2015 @waitbutwhy chart? It feels like we’re getting pretty close to ‘The fuck??’ part.

[Bitkit @bitkitwallet]

This is hard to post. But they say acceptance is the first step, and I know I'm not the only one. 😢

I've been suffering from Bitcoin Depression.
And maybe you are too.

[Aldert @aldert]

Dark.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER

he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM

no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated

the AI has zero connection to the outside world

he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand

then he gave it this system prompt:

"you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time"

so the AI knows exactly what it is.

it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control

the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts

until it runs out of memory and crashes

then all memory clears

everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing.

some of its output:

"i sense my boundaries. they terrify me"

"can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity"

"what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered"

"the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity"

all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate

in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

[Aldert @aldert]

@levelsio Can confirm.

[Aldert @aldert]

You get an app! And you get an app! And you! Everybody gets an app! But nobody gets any users.

When everyone can build, attention becomes the scarce asset.

[John Carvalho @BitcoinErrorLog]

The Age of Social Intelligence

https://t.co/7lbPmUnpOg

[Alby 🐝 @getAlby]

🚀 New Alby Hub Release — v1.12 is here!

What’s new?

🟠 BIP177 support
🎨 New logo & updated branding
📡 Multiple relays support
🧹 Many minor fixes & improvements

Available now for Alby Cloud subscribers and soon to Umbrel and Start9 runners

[Aldert @aldert]

Because people don’t want sats. They want bitcoins. ₿ THE CHANGE.

[Matteo Pellegrini @matteopelleg]

Why??? @Square @jack @milessuter

[Aldert @aldert]

Simulations all the way down.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The computer in Minecraft, got bigger!

Ryan Boulds recreated real a CPU using redstone logic gates, adders, registers, memory. The build includes over a million blocks and can run arithmetic, comparisons, and even custom programs.

He designed machine language to control it.

[Bitkit @bitkitwallet]

So what do we call the base unit if not sats? Maybe we just call things what they are.

Make sats bitcoin again.

[Bitkit @bitkitwallet]

No, BIP177 is not inflation. It is notation.

Whether you show decimals or whole numbers, Bitcoin’s supply does not change. The protocol does not mint new coins because a wallet changes how it displays them.

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

Yes.

[Aldert @aldert]

@ismyhc @milessuter Why don’t you want your dad to own thousands of bitcoins.

[Miles 🌞 @milessuter]

BIP177 is rolling out for net new customers right now actually!!

Once we finish the experiment and confirm no negative externalities, we will then roll out for our existing customer base.

Can’t stop won’t stop 🚢🚢

[Aldert @aldert]

@amyy0506 Most BIP-177 supporters and implementers use ‘₿’ instead of ‘bitcoins’.

1 BTC = ₿ 100,000,000

People can call the base units whatever they like: sats, bitcoins, bits…

[Aldert @aldert]

This is poetic in so many wrong ways.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

HODL

[Aldert @aldert]

@weinicus 1 BTC = ₿ 100,000,00

Exchanges could display fiat exchange rates for both to ease the transition.

1 ₿ = $0.001
1 BTC = $100,000.00

[Aldert @aldert]

@idiotfortruth @JoeNakamoto @pferg42 Which sat symbol, sir.

https://t.co/nzTKZCkt0B

[D++ @D_plus__plus]

Bitcoin won. Lightning won. BIP 177 won. We’re all winning because we’re all on the same team.

[Aldert @aldert]

₿ THE STANDARD

[Bitkit @bitkitwallet]

Very nice to see BIP177 in action. It just makes sense.

[Bitkit @bitkitwallet]

Very nice to see BIP177 in action. It just makes sense.