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@allen what are your thoughts on STRC?

“The open question is if everything that’s unique about you can fit in a 10 kB CLAUDE.md. If that’s true, we have a pretty sad future ahead.” speaking of local models….. https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/15/t…

Don’t be surprised when the debate jumps directly from “what is intelligence?” to “what is life?” as if the first question just resolved itself.

The things that make PKI unusable for humans disappear when the users are machines.

Shout out to all the "it's just next token prediction" folks this morning.

You know a new platform is on the verge of breaking out when all of the "this is nothing special, I could have built this" comments start to increase.

AI is not replacing developers. Developers are multiplying. Gatekeepers in disbelief.

That discomfort you feel is the gap caused by reality changing faster than your mind can model it.

We build cathedrals to capture the patterns and man sits in awe. We build machines to animate the patterns and he shudders.

If anyone wants to try out a GPU (CUDA) based npub miner I put one together and pushed to GitHub. https://github.com/rossbates/rummage

Day 6 of #NostrNovember. Just me, my private key, and my own worldview.

Some want a censorship resistant Twitter replacement. Others want a dissident communication network. Censorship resistance requires discoverability and reach. Dissident communication requires obscurity. The protocol design can't fully optimize for both.

subjective is a lazy explanation for incomplete

"Oh, before the Enlightenment people lived in an enchanted world of meaning, then science came along and disenchanted everything." What if this is all just a load of shit? What if the Meaning Crisis is just elaborate content marketing?

I had no idea The Pulitzer Prize is named after the guy who invented clickbait but things are more clear now. Manufacture the problem, market yourself as the solution, get rewarded.

Nobody's talking because everyone's too busy reverse-engineering the algorithm for being heard.

Couldn't make it any further than the net worth scene in Mountainhead. As Silicon Valley so brilliantly demonstrated, roast people for how they actually behave. Don't get bitter at tech bros and write about how you secretly wish they'd act.

As a freedom maxi I despise constraints. As an ML practitioner I recognize freedom without constraints results in an unstable and ultimately incoherent model. What are useful or desirable constraints for nostr?

Education needs a radical transformation from “what do you know?” to “what do you care about?” Not in a trite "pursue your passions" or "follow their interests" way either. Students need something to grapple with that’s not contrived or transactional.

embedding space is the real cyberspace. few