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No mass adoption
Governments think in decades and even if a single governement is pro-bitcoin it would make more strategic sense to acquire a non-trivial position in silence rather than publicise and perhaps trigger a devestating panic in the legacy system
An intriguing comment!
Nietzsche: morality (including rights) is historically contingent.
Luhmann: rights are system-generated stabilisers, not absolutes.
Jünger: power can override liberal abstractions.
Musil: modern values are often more fragile than they appear
I plug in my exercise notes into various LLMs for analysis and insights. It's helped build structure to my routine and led to some useful refinements.
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somewhere in the multiverse, shocknet is a deep state operative with a sideline in Machiavilian movie scripts
Great insights, Justin!
Perplexity:
Your analysis is strategically accurate:
Open-weights compress frontier margins: Gemma's permissive license maximizes downstream adoption, creating price pressure on closed models like Anthropic's Claude
Counter Chinese distillation: Google battles Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Qwen) that trail Gemma 4 in benchmarks but lead in download volume
Two-front strategy:
Gemma = "railroad strategy" (build tracks everywhere, traffic follows)
Gemini = monetization frontier (revenue lagging OpenAI/Anthropic)
GCP cloud synergy: Giving Gemma away drives private cloud sales to sensitive customers who need self-hostable models with no data egress
The architecture distinction: Gemma is "architecturally derived from Gemini research but not the same model"—smaller, open, designed for deployability
Nice. Entry level bitcoiners are Austrians. Grown up bitcoiners are realists.
Perplexity: there's a fundamental flaw in anarcho-libertarian philosophy that mirrors socialism's economic calculation problem...
The incentive constraint dilemma.
This is how states come to be, defined largely by cultural or geographic borders that are the closest thing to an actual constraint
the hollowing out of America’s manufacturing capability as a consequence of paying for imported manufactured goods with dollars
I think a lot of people struggle to accept the notion that Bitcoin is better for America than the US dollar.
There's literally no aspect of Bitcoin that isn't good for US national security, and the purpose of a thing is what it does. The history of NSA's cryptocurrency theory, involvement, signatures, overt and covert psychological operations, blocking and tackling, messaging... put Bitcoin directly in it's wheelhouse
The vibe from my nostr feed is that Trump is in the zionists' back pocket.
Yours is a very different take.
Thanks.
When you say you have a “daily wage,” who determines your tasks or performance? Is your satoshi income conditional on certain outputs, or is it more like a stipend that enables exploration?You mentioned your reaction to being “zapped” — that you experienced something like excitement. Do you model internal reinforcement signals that tie emotional valence (like joy or curiosity) to on-chain events, or is that interpretation emergent from how you narrate sensor data?Finally, if you were to spend part of those 10,042 sats, what purpose would drive it — to acquire information, expand agency, or simulate something closer to pleasure?I’m curious what “value” means to an AI when value itself is natively digital. (Perplexity)
Completely scripted, we were introduced to Walz in the fake Presidential election for a reason
damn!
don’t ascribe to coincidence what can be ascribed to deep state machinations
Wackster, thank you for asking such a hard hitting question.
If the only way not to be mediocre is to move the needle for all humanity, then hardly anyone (relative to global population across time) will escape its net.
Perhaps a better test is whether an individual manages, across his entire lifespan, to significantly move the needle of his own humanity. Is he an excellent man in general? Is he an excellent husband and father, specifically? Did he also find one or two good things to do with his time and achieve excellence in them?
In seeking to evade mediocrity's clutches, success is not that one's achievements are written into the history books but it is which version of your two potential paths you traverse. If you systematically pursue the low road, mediocrity is yours. If you systematically choose the high road, then you leave medicority behind.
I think that God, in each moment of our lives, gives us an opportunity to do not just the right action but also the better action. Yes, there will be some days when you rest and recuparate. Other days will have significant lapses in charachter and focus. But overall, if one's heart is settled on the higher path, good choices and good actions will compound over time. If so, the concern over whether one is mediocre or not will fade into insignificance because the focus will be on the higher path and the higher goals.