nitrousflame

Lifetime student here for crypto, space, ai, and longevity. d/acc

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@jamesjyu @arrakis_ai Yes, this is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks!

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@jamesjyu @arrakis_ai Oh man, I’ve been trying to find the source image of this for some time now. Would you share it please?

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>be me
>midnight in Brazil, need to sleep
>one last scroll
• 200,000 actual human neurons in a dish playing literal DOOM like it’s nothing
• fly brain 1:1 emulated, running on a potato laptop lmao
• karpathy open sources agent that literally evolves better AIs while you sleep
>mfw ai and humies are merging and I’m still using alarm clocks
>how do I close my eyes now 🤯

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

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I tried using the traditional search bar to find a specific chart I saw recently to no avail. But @grok nailed it on the first try! 🤙

https://t.co/L92Gvt5f4O

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

The single most destructive falsehood taught in school wasn’t a fact, it was a frame:

“The system is neutral.”

We were taught:
•History is objective
•The economy is fair
•Science is apolitical
•Authority is earned
•Success is linear
•Money follows merit
•The future will reward obedience

All of it designed to manufacture compliance not understanding.

The truth is:
•History is written by power.
•The economy is shaped by leverage, not labor.
•Science is real, but funding decides the questions.
•Authority is often inherited or engineered.
•Success follows strategic asymmetry.
•Money follows network, not virtue.
•The system rewards signal, not submission.

We weren’t taught how the world works.
We were taught how to function inside the world they already built.

That’s why so many wake up at 30, 40, or 50 and feel betrayed.
The curriculum was never designed to liberate you.
It was designed to format you.

The deepest falsehood wasn’t any one fact.
It was the illusion that the system was built for truth.

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@GemBooMBooM @QwQiao @AskVenice has a solution 🤘

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

I'm going to call it right now. A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission.

By design.

As part of the plan.

Don't get upset. I'm not saying SpaceX plans to fail. I'm pointing out that SpaceX has taken an ultraimportant principle from software engineering, and realized it applies to all engineering.

Feedback beats planning.

And that, you see, is why SpaceX doesn't do things the NASA way. The NASA way was to gold-plate everything, plan and test and plan and test, and generate mountains of paper detailing every contingency, with every scenario prepared for.

SpaceX just shrugs, says "it's unmanned", and sends it.

Half the time it blows up. That's the whole point. They don't actually want it to blow up, of course, but they're anticipating that it might.

That possibility is part of the plan. Because one rocket blowing up, or crashing, in an actual end-to-end test, beats many, many man-years of planning and plotting.

The key realization here is that knowledge only comes from empirical observation. Everything else is just speculative.

The sooner you get into a feedback loop, and the faster you run it, the more iterations you can do in less time. This means, while others are planning and speculating, you actually learn something.

Relevant data is the most precious thing in the universe. And it's worth blowing up any number of rockets to get it.

Because rockets are just stuff. They're just made of stuff. And you can always get more stuff.

You can never get more time.

So expect to see a lot of things go wrong on this, and other SpaceX missions. Anticipate it. Accept it when it happens. Doesn't mean the dream of the stars is dead.

It just means we're doing it cowboy style.

This is a valuable lesson for our own lives. If there's something you want to do, something you want to try, some goal you have, it's easy to dip a toe in the water, test the temperature, and plan. A lot.

Planning makes us feel good if we're afraid. Because it provides us with the illusion of security. Never mind that we don't know which scenarios are actually going to happen, never mind that we're planning for the wrong thing, planning makes us feel safe. And if we're nervous, we can plan forever.

But the difference between the expert and the novice isn't theory or intelligence or plans. It's relevant domain knowledge. Gathered from empirical observation.

So the trick is to get into that feedback loop as soon as possible, and run it as fast as possible. Give yourself the most possible opportunities to learn, per unit time.

We only learn while we are moving.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I love every single time it's the same reactions from people:

2022 - ChatGPT first version: it'll never be smart enough as humans

2022 - Image models like Stable Diffusion: it'll never be able to make imagery as good as artists

2023 - Then people in these images: it'll never be able to generate realistic people (remember the hands problem?)

2024 - Then video: it'll never be able to generate flawless video, it's too messy now

2025 - Now games: it's all AI slop and will never be able to generate high quality games

Every single time AI enters a new industry it's the same reactions and every single time it's improved so fast over such a short time and did become good that it'd be naive to ridicule it and ignore it

Better to embrace it, be curious about it, learn to work with it and see how you can implement it in your workflow, because 99% of people will just ridicule it, fight it and won't!

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

On illicit funds in crypto...

Background
The entire purpose of crypto is to build neutral, objective, transparent protocols. "Permissionless" is the phrase.

It's a belief that regardless of the ethics of the *users* of a protocol, the protocol itself should simply act under the protocol rules. That honesty, that integrity, provides immense societal value. And upon such a foundation, further layers of coordination/rulemaking can be built. Coinbase as a central exchange can make its own rules about its property and systems, *built on top* of permissionless, neutral Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols.

Questions
When crypto funds are illicit, what should happen?

Should Bitcoin nodes block illicit txs?
Should Ethereum nodes block illicit txs?
Should Uniswap contracts block illicit txs?
Should Thorchain nodes block illicit txs?

Should miners and validators be policing content?

If the answer to any of those is "yes!", then we are not designing an ecosystem of permissionless, objective, protocols, are we? We're designing something else.

If the answer to any of those is "yes!", then we're building permissioned financial services, but on a blockchain. Of what value is this to society?

And to do so, suddenly the definition of "illicit" must be defined, and it cannot be. Illicit to whom? Illicit under what standard of suspicion, or proof?

These are social and legal questions about which people will disagree. If crypto protocols are built to incorporate this social/legal layer, then they are truly useless, for they lose their entire reason for existence... objective, transparent operation.

An objective protocol must permit bad actors operating on it.

Mathematics doesn't "turn off" when a bad man solves an equation.

Language doesn't fail to execute when a bad man speaks it.

These are permissionless protocols and so too must be crypto.

To those advocating that illicit funds be blocked by protocols, please explain the standards by which such things shall be determined, and please explain why you're involved in crypto in the first place?

If a hack is $100, nobody will advocate for censorship.
If a hack is $1.5 billion, suddenly, many do.

At what dollar value shall a blockchain halt?

It's easy to vilify North Korea. What about when Western governments violate law, and confiscate without due process, digital assets from a rightful owner? This is illegal, this is illicit.

When our own government commits crimes, shall we permit their action across our protocols, yet when "bad" governments do the same, we put a stop to it?

Should a German node operator enforce Saudi law?

Should a Chinese operator enforce American law?

Should chains be halted and addresses blocked before trials and legal guilt even been established? Just the *accusation* of illicit funds is enough to violate that which we claim to build as inviolate?

I am vehemently opposed to crime; to actual crime: to fraud, to theft, to violence. I see open, transparent protocols as an antidote to crime, and as a tremendous boon to good civilization.

Laws, which are a human *social layer,* are in place to prevent and punish such crimes and the best governments should vigorously pursue actual criminals. Dear law enforcement: please pursue the criminals that stole those funds! Law enforcement is your job, and you've taxed us upon the promise of fulfilling it.

But that social, subjective layer of laws and legal enforcement, must exist above and separate from more foundational underlying strata that operate *objectively* and equally to all parties.

When the human world of right and wrong, which must always be subjective, is transposed into an otherwise objective, permissionless system, the latter will fail to be so, and there is no purpose to it. In such case, let us admit we are merely building a more complicated apparatus for subjective social policy.

Being decentralized is a gradient
Being permissioness is not

[Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital @avichal]

Ironic that we got free AI from a hedge fund and $200/month AI from a nonprofit.

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@yenkel @yacineMTB @dirceu Try @AskVenice, it’s encrypted!

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On Living Rent-Free In Your Head

People and ideas are ferociously competing to live rent-free in your head.

For most people it is worse than that.

It is a high school rager with hundreds of people and ideas spilling beer on the sofa of your head.

Your job: face control

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@0x_fbb4 Based

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@0x1ee7 @8thAvenueInc @charles_wcr @pepecoins There is a new tab in the BasedAI farm, now called AfterBurner via https://t.co/8MCyVcUXar. I just did it this morning.