I think there is a niche market where this can succeed. "how to" podcast.

This has been going on for years and years on youtube. Look up any type of technical instructional video and you will find dozens of how-to vids that are entirely AI generated.

The reason why this works is people are: (a) interested in a narrow subject and that video/podcast hits exactly on those terms, and (b) is not interested in compelling discussion...its literally just "tell me how to do this thing".

I think this "debate" will look very stupid when fees are higher and people are almost universally using block space for transactions. For me, it's obvious that transactions are eventually going to price out people who wish to store other data in blocks.

The only worrying thing is how easily people have been convinced that the vast majority of bitcoin devs are corrupt, and the intense tribalism that has been drummed up. As I understand it, there is already a shortage of bitcoin devs - and this will only make it worse.

I would love to make the posters. Can do that at the print shop

It is how it contradicts your "They won't be able to afford nodes, you ruffian!" argument that I particularly like.

The cost of storage for a node is currently decreasing.

Unfortunately, I think LibreHans may be resistant to this evidence.

You really beleaguer this pointer over and over again, but hardware costs are hardly a prohibiting factor for people to run nodes. At least not for as long as the block size remains where it is.

Later in the article it says one of the people behind this got his start by doing a podcast that just read CDC reports during the pandemic, then expanded to reading weather reports.

You make a great point. Name your niche skill -- here is a weekly podcast that explains how to do it and delivers the latest on updates to the skill. This is something even I might listen to.

Awesome stuff! Although I'm also not a big fan of using tags in headings, purely for aesthetic reasons.

I'll have to think about how to promote / get involved with the project in a larger scope. I'm sure that there's synergy that can be created between the stuff you're doing, the SN Zine by @plebpoet and Zap Zine by @hybridbits ... I have also been thinking that perhaps some of all this could be incorporated into the Open Source Culture initiative... (read the Manifesto: #883698). But that would require explicit agreement from everybody involved in every step of the creative process that their works will be available, free to use by anyone, for any purpose.

There's another idea I've been floating around for a bit in terms of trying to bridge the gap between fully digital Open Source Culture and physical items / publications. But I need to flesh it out a little bit before getting into the details, and that idea is generally more geared towards visual arts and perhaps not that much towards literary arts. Nevertheless, if it can be done with visual arts, I'm sure the concept can be transferred over into slightly different mediums...

I really like the title of the newsletters. There are so many levels at which it works.

Do you have any plans for advertising the newsletter beyond SN? If so, I'd love to help.

Sounds like a worthy project. I will definitely post another bizarre memoir chunk or two.

A lit mag with no rejections--only features.

very interesting, my mind is sort of lighting up. Should i think of this as a literary magazine?

I appreciate that you have been open to discuss your intentions and the things you're learning through this. I agree with a lot of your assessment. So yeah, sounds like you are landing in a well-considered place, I'm excited

Can you talk more about The World's Most Costly Newsletter as a title? It makes me chuckle, that's intended, right?

This is incorect. Also GFY Bot

Right now, spam isn't meaningfully increasing the utxo set at all - in fact blocks are often not full.

And in the future we'll probably have something like utreexo that means the average person doesn't need to store the whole utxo set. I think in another 2-3 decades we'll all be running nodes on our phones.

In my opinion, if you're concerned for the poorest of the world, forget their ability to afford a node, and focus on their ability to own a utxo. That's where I'd say the real rub is.

With social media, it takes seconds to convince the masses of anything.

It's convinced you and many others that the vast majority of bitcoin devs are corrupt. Now that will genuinely hurt bitcoin development, when you make devs choose between death threats and slander or a cushy, well-paid corp job. No good deed goes unpunished, unfortunately.

To keep the richest teams from getting all the best players.

Interesting thought experiment

I would say that given how certain countries around the world have legalised euthanasia, there might come a point in time in which AI capabilities are incorporated into the process to ascertain whether one’s application process for euthanasia should/should not be approved

Yeah this is why I stopped using the keychat app

Sims

I played with Notebook LM's podcasting feature a while back. Tricked some friends into thinking it was a real podcast talking about their business.

Personally there's no way I could listen to it but several people I played it for thought it was great. But, I don't think they actually listen to any podcasts.

I have a feeling that the knowledge that it's AI will limit the success regardless of how real it sounds. That is not to say it can't have success.

Depends on the sport. For the NBA, I think teams can roster 15 permanent spots and then they get a couple more spots that split time with the minor league affiliate.

I appreciate the feedback. You're not the only one saying that (see #1220534) about tags so lets pin this and say that this is optional.

I do like seeing people acknowledge what genre/form they're creating in, since I think it can show self-awareness; however, I do acknowledge that a tag is not the best way of accomplishing this.

Therefore, the only requirement for being considered is posting here -- no tag necessary.