Zap to Zero Day 18 | Triple Agent

A triple agent is a spy who pretends to be a double agent for one side while they are truthfully a double agent for the other side. Unlike a re-doubled agent, who changes allegiance due to being compromised, a triple agent usually has always been loyal to their original side. It may also refer to a spy who works for three opposing sides, such that each side thinks the spy works for them alone.

They are raising my pay if I sign this contract.

They are raising your pay because they know you don't really want to do this. They are raising your pay so you continue to do what you've been doing for the last few years so they don't have to find another one who can replace you. That would probably be more expensive to them. I think it's a dead-end job and you know it since you've been complaining about this job for a while. I think you should find a job as a dev if you really want to get paid one day for what you learn in university.

So you are saying being a cashier is not as important as being a dev?

The sense of agency, or sense of control, is the subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions in the world. [...] In non-pathological experience, the SA is tightly integrated with one's "sense of ownership", which is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that one is the owner of an action, movement or thought. If someone else were to move your arm (while you remained passive) you would certainly have sensed that it were your arm that moved and thus a sense of ownership for that movement. However, you would not have felt that you were the author of the movement; you would not have a sense of agency.

Satistics

How are other people's (@ekzyis and @elvismercury) current zap experiments going?

Am I not writing every day how my current zap experiment is going? :)

But I guess you are right, I kind of lost to share what I learned in these posts like I did in the beginning. Will think more about this and reply here or create a post or just add them to my next Z2Z post.

I just meant quick takeaways. How has your experiment changed your own zapping behavior? Have you noticed changes in other users? How have your rewards been affected? That kind of stuff.

Recent Superzaps

1. You're a slut and a whore for the algorithm.

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You’re looking for that viral moment so it opens up the door and you can do the thing full time. But you start to compromise just to get the door to open: guessing what it wants, debasing yourself, alienating yourself. Until you’re not even in service to your art anymore. You’re in service to the algorithm. Deep down every artist just wants to be seen. Everyone does. And that’s how it controls you. The algorithm makes you behave in a certain way, create in a certain way, in exchange for being seen. And if something can change what you do, it can change who you are.

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2. What's your "ritual" for reading a book smoothly?

1 - "Bookend" the day. Reading first thing in the morning (especially before going online in any fashion) and then reading at night before sleep.

Highlighting and rereading.

I'm not a believer in highlighting, at least for myself, since what happens when I do it is that I accrue a series of things that I vaguely intend to come back to one day; and yet that day never comes, because there's always more to read.

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The key is to know what it is you're after. I have read thousands of books that now, years later, I have only the illusion-of-knowing about. Since my goal is to engage with the book, and be changed by it, interactions that don't afford that are useless to me. It's just LARPing, bedpost-notching.

Not saying this is right for everyone, just what I do.

However, I want to add it's not only bitcoiners. It's just any group of entrenched people, really. And there are a lot of such groups out there.

100%. It's just that bitcoiners generally thump their chests about their intellectual honesty, and then devolve into kindergartners when thoughtcrime strikes a dischordant note against the symphony playing inside their echo chambers.

So I expect better from them, as a group, and hold them to a higher standard that is often sorely disappointed.

I shouldn't talk in generalities this way, I know. It's a sore spot.

3. Swedish government discusses cash retention

Good news for the freedom movement from Sweden: it seems that the new government is trying to make cash compulsory. It's news like this that should startle the parasites in Davos!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1888719/sweden-studies-how-to-save-cash-from-extinction

• YNAB is just too convenient
• I want stores to feel the pain of card processing fees
• I don't think using cash is a good way to prevent CBDCs. Imo, that's like advocating to go back to gold and as significant like trying to mine bitcoin using CPUs. But I didn't do much research. That's just how I feel currently. I change my mind all the time (what is imo a virtue if done for the "right" reasons)
• I don't care about the ~privacy of my everyday transactions. I believe in hiding in plain sight. If I want to buy something in a very private way, I'll use monero [1]. I mostly don't even have a choice. That's simply what is accepted on most DNMs. I have yet to see a DNM that uses lightning.

The notion of hiding in plain sight originally developed in the 1600s as a military tactic that posited that soldiers could occupy any space on the open battlefield as long as they remained out of the line of view of their enemies. As weapons technology advanced and combat evolved beyond rank-and-file fighting, the concept expanded to include early forms of camouflage.

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As a theory, hiding in plain sight relies more on the limits of human perception than outright trickery. The paradox of the visible remaining unperceived is a function of our need to filter sensory information in order to navigate the world. According to Eviatar Zerubavel, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance, the discrepancy between all that we could see versus what we actually notice underscores the critical role of intent attention to our perception.

Challenge of the Day

Song of the Day

I was scared of dentists and the dark I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations Oh, all my friends are turnin' green You're the magician's assistant in their dream

Oh-ooh, oh-oh And they come unstuck

Lady, runnin' down to the riptide Taken away to the dark side I wanna be your left hand man I love you when you're singin' that song and I got a lump in my throat 'cause You're gonna sing the words wrong