A lot of parents have this mentality of protecting kids from themselves. I hate that mentality. I want kids to be able to protect themselves from me. Don't get me wrong, I have strong beliefs about what people should and should not do, and I intend to put up barriers to prevent the little losers from doing things that irritate me. But I also believe that one of the core obligations of a parent is to help their kids develop to the point where they are not so easily subject to the beliefs of others. My heart aches; I can't help but respect a person, no matter how pathetic or vulnerable they are.

My map is already perfect though. If I revise it then won't it just get worse???🤨

AIs nowdays are pretty competent, and so are their users. Unfortunately, AIs nowdays aren't self aware, and neither are their users.

That's 100% true! A lot of the combat metas aren't properly explored just because of stupid rules like "don't bite off someone's ear off" or "don't kick someone's knee backwards the moment they lock their weight on it." It doesn't really make for good repeatable practive when these things are allowed unfortunately.

Hmm, I believe that every person should share their beliefs anonymously, and that there is nothing wrong with seeking out and engaging with people who disagree with you. I agree that it makes sense to be very careful when associating beliefs with one's identity, but personally I think the point is to let someone who doesn't care about politics follow your personal posts without having to see something they don't care about. I don't think that having restraint when it comes to sharing one's beliefs has anything to do with avoiding infringing on other people's worldviews.

Put your tinfoil hat back on, your brain juices are leaking again.

Good for Charlie Kirk. I'm glad to hear he's still alive and well. None of that affects me though, so I'll just get back to what I was doing before.

On holiday.

Some people think that crude=funny. It's such a lazy and uncreative perspective. The REAL formula is cringe=funny.

Tor and Nostr have one fundamental trait in common: redundancy. Nothing else matters for my analogy. Any system making use redundancy is worse off when the user or designer of that system attempts to distil the available components to only the most robust and reliable. Reducing the number of components can never make the system harder to break, no matter how high quality and well selected the remaining components are. Trying to find and select only the best relays is a complete waste of time, just like trying to prevent people from running Tor nodes unless you are confident they aren't keeping logs. They are identical in the way that matters.

Oh I suppose we don't have the right to speak freely to anyone without being killed. It's more accurate to say that we have the right to speak freely to people who can't escalate to phyisical violence. Just like how we are having a conversation even though neither one of us can kill eachother. That's the right I'm talking about. That's the kind of free expression I choose to participate in, and because of it, I get to have interesting conversations with people who disagree with me. I also plan to proudly declare to my family when I find an adult of the opposite sex that I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. The fact that I want to spend lots of time with my family and lots of time with this hypothetical adult wife is why it becomes their business, because at a certain point the scheduling only works if everyone meets up together. Like a party. A mental illness on the other hand isn't the same thing. I can easily wait until I'm alone to jack off to loli porn. That's why my sexual attraction isn't any of their business. The idea that a person's family has the right to know what they finds hot reminds me of this funny, but horrifyingly cringey post: If you think the DSM-5's definition of pedophilia perfectly matches your own then I don't mind pulling it up. Well the actual DSM manuel costs money, but there are plenty of sources repeating what it says. I found a page that lists the following three criterion for who is a pedophile: A) An individual who has had arousing fantasies about, urges for, or behaviors with a prepubescent child or children. B) The individual has acted out these sexual desires, or is experiencing significant distress or difficulty as a result of these desires. C) The Individual is 16 years of age, and at least five years older than the child or children noted in Criterion A. Source: https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm--5-302.2-(f65.4) If I have only acted on my sexual attraction while alone and under privacy then what would even change if I stopped? How exactly are people supposed to see any signs that I'm a pedophile? Are you planning to take away the privacy and alone time of every person on Earth and hope that I don't stop? Unless I actually molest a child, unless there is an actual VICTIM you could never catch me. And unless society works with the victims of sexual abuse there is no guaruntee of being able to catch a predator. And unless society treats them like people rather than like time bombs or like animals, there is no guaruntee of being able to catch a predator. Except maybe all of the retarded child molesters you are apparently content to lump me in with. Go off king, catch all those guys for me.

I brought up the design of Tor as an analogy for the design of Nostr. It's irritating that you only considered how Tor can be used for Nostr rather than the general design of Tor itself, but I'd rather drop the topic than try to spell out the analogy better. You are right that if a Nostr user's privacy is compromised, that can be leveraged in order to censor their speech. It doesn't matter how many relays are willing to publish a person's notes if the person in question is being imprisoned and physically prevented from posting those notes. However there are many existing privacy technologies that can be applied here. The most robust protections focus on protecting the user rather than the relay. Why agonize over finding a relay owner who will resist torture to keep your IP address when you can just avoid giving them your IP address in the first place? Personally I use a VPN because it's easy and convenient, but there's no reason a person couldn't send notes to Nostr relays over Tor or I2P or from a burner phone in a remote field. If privacy is the issue then there are lots of options, but if the issue is finding a Nostr relay that you know for sure is trustworthy, then you have no options at all.

What's the matter? I thought you were interested in this topic! Now that it's time to go into the actual details of the system you get cold feet? I think you'll find that the parts that actually matter are exactly the same. Nodes relay arbitrary encrypted traffic from an unknown source to an unknown destination. The biggest difference between the two is that EVERYONE relays traffic, not just people who specifically volunteer. Sorry, but that model just doesn't work.

Thanks. Hmm, I am morally against contributing to spam, but my reasoning has nothing to do with whether the volume is overbearing or whether it leads to distress. No, what irritates me is the fact that spammers attempt to get attention from me, and yet they are unwilling to give their own attention to the things that I have to say. The only time I will disregard what a person has to say without considering it is if I know they can't see my messages, or if I think they aren't paying attention to what I say and they won't repeat what I say even when I specifically ask them to. Though I will say that it's no wonder to me that many people might feel overwhelmed. I believe that there are many problems that have entered the collective consciousness for which the satisfying responses to haven't yet been shared. What is someone supposed to do if they don't have a satisfying response to an unsatisfying position? They can't argue with it, but they can't agree with it either. Personally I'd say that the biggedt problem is not the volume of views being shared but a lack of diversity in the views. For many problems, two sides isn't enough. Three sides isn't enough either. I believe anybody is capable being the first person to figure out a solution to any given problem society faces. But I believe that only happens if more people start getting their hands dirty trying to understand and resolve the reasons other people have certain differing beliefs. I'm getting myself excited. Do you have any political or religious beliefs you are confident in? If any of your beliefs are wrong-- er, I mean if any of your beliefs are different than mine then I'd love to argue with you.

How is relaying encrypted CP any safer on I2P? Yoy are doing the exact same thing, the only difference is that on I2P, EVERYONE is relaying rather than just the people who live in a safe jurisdiction and who are prepared to fight a frivolous legal battle.

Actually that's why I quit watching child porn. I wish other people had given that same argument you are giving now, it probably would have helped. People should demonstrate the strength to live in their own proclaimed ideal world. If someone wants to proclaim that children shouldn't be abused then it's not enough that they don't personally abuse children. They shouldn't be taken seriously unless they also act to live a life that's independent of the products of child abuse. Even if I don't feel guilty, (again, watching child porn isn't immoral) I am still disappointed in myself for benefitting from images and videos that came from child abuse. Is the only way you can feel secure in yourself by changing my mind? I didn't think that's why you were arguing with me. I certainly never needed to change your mind to enjoy arguing with you and hearing what you have to say. I still believe you are wrong, I just want to know how you came to your wrong beliefs. I don't see why this can't be both a debate of ideas and about our sense of self. If I all I cared about was meeting other pedophiles, or meeting someone with my same worldview then I'd find some homogenous pedophile fediverse instance or some "MAP" echo chamber. We both see ourselves as principled and unashamed of our beliefs, but that's exactly why we are willing to talk with eachother, isn't it? There is a stereotype that Jews are pedophiles, so maybe it wouldn't be surprising if I had a Jewish background. I'm curious though, is there any particular aspect of how I argue that comes off as Jewish to you? Also, your attempts to justify the fact that victims of child abuse go on to kill themselves or commit more abuse still come off poorly. Sure, whatever, you say I'm blaming the victim for their own choices and I'm using them as a shield for the fact that I think cute things are hot. These choices from rape victims still seem like a reason to rethink some of society's premises, not a reason to say the victims are better off dead. The victims of abuse are the only ones who have the inherent right to do anything about it. A society that doesn't respect them has no defense against abuse.

Exactly. I find it frustrating when people nitpick the reliability of individual components in a system designed to have layers of redundancy. I don't understand why people do that. Are they just too used to thinking about systems without redundancy, like ActivityPub or like VPNs?

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I wanted to be more concise. There is objective wrong -- full stop, no gobbledegook. I don't believe I am allowed to force myself on people, I don't believe that having sex with losers of any age is good, I don't believe cognative ability is a spectrum, and every time someone's described moral relativism to me, I have always disagreed with them. Do you consider it moral relativism if someone just doesn't want to treat rape victims like time bombs or wild animals? You're right that a rape victim might ask questions with faulty and evil premises, but any society that can't respond to something as simple as a poorly chosen question is profoundly incompetent. You're right that I like the feeling of being ostracized for my views on pedophilia. You are right that I have made my views on pedophilia part of my personality. However, I refuse to see myself as a victim and my beliefs are the only meaningful difference between myself and others. I'm confident in my beliefs, but they will always be up for debate. I'm on Nostr because I want to engage with people directly. Maybe for obvious reasons I don't want to talk about my race or background.

Yes, so are a great many Tor nodes. The point isn't that relays can't be taken down, the point is that ACCOUNTS can't be taken down. The point of decentralized trust is that instead of agonizing over how robust and trustworthy an individual relay is, you can just add more and more diverse relays until you are comfortable.

By the way, statistics don't matter: what matters is how you interpret the statistics. I genuinely believe that telling a Communist that Communism has a bad track record is terrible argument. I 100% agree with the Communist if they claim that true Communism has never been tried. I promise you: the fact that the ideal system has not been properly implemented yet is not controversial for anyone.

I think I'm good. Have a good day.

Libertarians who are only Libertarian because of the market are missing the point. Communism isn't bad because it fails. It's bad because it deprives people of the products of their labor. Capitalism isn't good because it succeeds. It's good because it respects people's natural rights. If someone wants to claim that Libertarianism works, (it does) they should claim it only happens to work as a side effect of the fact that it's ethical. Too many people flip it around and try to say that how well a system works is what determines how ethical it is. (It isn't.)

Okay, my identity is wrapped up in my beliefs and no matter what facts and perspective you give I will never change. I love talking with people like that. Talking with someone is a great opportunity to practice articulating my thoughts, and it's a great opportunity to figure out and test why some people disagree with me. Why is the fact that I won't change or whatever a problem for you? So you say my parents are sad and kill themselves too. How is the world any different now that it's missing one vile and disgusting individual with wretched beliefs and now that it's missing the two parents of that individual? Now some store is missing it's cashier or whatever we are saying my job is, and now nobody is living in the same city, town, or apartment building as me. What's the actual effect of that? You don't have to argue with me any more? Do you think my ideas will suddenly stop being correct if I'm dead and if everyone around me is dead? Are you just so i that this is the only way you vould ever feel better? Or is there some other consequence you are expecting? Who have I tramatized besides you? I hate to talk too much about my personal life, but my family certainly isn't tramatized. My sexual attraction is none of my family's business. What are the signs of mental illness? Being a Jew? Growing up with the wrong cultural background? No offense if you believe in the extermination of all Jews of course, I wouldn't hold that against you. I'm just trying to understand how you would ever manage to catch a pedophile like me unless I'm stupid enough to rape some kid. I feel so free to express my depraved beliefs because the only consequence is that I get to have interesting conversations with people who disagree with me. Our right to speak freely without one of us being killed is a law of nature, not a privelege granted by society.

I appreciate your transparency. I am here because said the word "pedo" in their comment and I searched Nostr for that keyword not too long after they made their post saying Charlie Kirk defended a pedo. I've been seeing posts for months now calling Donald Trump a pedophile when they SHOULD be calling ME a pedophile. I've just been sighing and scrolling past them for months now, telling myself that people will move on when the next big political topic comes up, but guess what? The next big political topic came up and someone STILL chooses to try and insert "Trump is da pedoo!" into it. I just wanted to test whether is so genuinely brainrotted that they are incapable of discussing Charlie Kirk's beliefs or his death without talking about "Trump pedo!!!" To respond to your script, you 100% got me. I'm irritated at the mild inconvenience that people aren't talking about the things I find interesting, and I'm over here trying to construct a mathematical proof for why the person who irritated me is a doodoo head.

Why do you keep on bringing up the impossibility of changing my mind? I see no reason why we can't have have a good argument even if "I have no mind to change" even if neither of us would ever change our minds. Not that I have a problem if you would prefer to insult me though I always appreciate the pursuit of a well reasoned, personal, and cutting insult. Speaking of which I hear your insult; you are calling me a disgusting mentally ill person that should be decapitated by my own family in public. But you haven't explained what that would accomplish besides my subsiquent inability to talk with you or think about things that you don't like. Ok, I'm dead. Now what? You make the ridiculous claim that society has many ways to defend against abuse that aren't being enforced other than my suggestion of working with victims. I know there are many jurisdictions where judges just let abusers walk free, but I get the insane impression that this isn't what you are talking about. Can you explain yourself? The choices of rape victims are a reason to rethink some of society's premises, not a reason to say that it's better that the victims be dead. Why are you so opposed to just talking with them that you would rather they be dead? Have you ever talked with one of these evil rape victims yourself?

I appologize, you didn't accuse me of hiding the fact that I'm a pedophile, you accused me of "covering up" the fact that I am a pedophile. I wasn't covering up the fact that I'm a pedophile so much as it just wasn't relevant. It still isn't relevant by the way, you were just being proactive and looking for excuses to dismiss my position just in case I have actually good arguments. I also don't see what practice has to do with anything. Maybe you are talking about when I referred to the general life inexperience of children, or ridiculous idea that children (or anyone else) could improve at life in general from sex. Could you clarify what I said that you were referring to when you brought up practice? There's evidence that says all kinds of things. I would never "try to lie about it" because what really matters is interpreting that evidence. When many children who are molested grow up to become child molesters, you interpret that to mean it's better for those children to die so that you can avoid any intellectual confrontation that might result. When many children who are molested grow up to become child molesters, I on the other hand, interpret that to mean society is systematically incapable of addressing the questions that are raised by child molestation and the ideas that contribute to it. I genuinely appologize for going off on you; I should have tailored my response more closely to what you actually said rather than trying to present a broader criticism. The argument that viewing child pornography contributes to the kidnapping and murder of kids is one I've heard before. Even when I was a minor I read that argument and rolled my eyes. It's no surprise that I ended up viewing photographs and videos sexualizing children with all the dogshit arguments that I was surrounded by. I was very careful so that my watching child pornography caused zero tangible harm to actual children. No cryptocurrency changed hands and no comments were posted on the dark web. Maybe I should feel guilty about all the pedophiles whose private and intimate moments I intruded on or for all the criminal evidence that nobody should have paid any attention to. But to this day I feel zero guilt about how much people like you are harmed by the psychic pedophile waves my porn habits gave off. I'm a real Scoundrel for that one. No, because society only gave me dogshit reasons not to watch real child porn, I had to come up with the argument MYSELF. And yes, I'm ashamed I ever stooped to pirating child porn. Now I stick to animated loli hentai, like some kind of fucked up degenerate vegan equivalent, lol. To answer your question, I can't lie; I love porn. I think sex is fascinating, aesthetically and thematically, especially sex involving anything cute. I'm not weighed down by the fact that some people see sex as some kind of status measurement. I actually came up with that idea on the spot as a possible explanation for why people come up with so many weird rationalizations for not having sex with kids instead of having a more robust reason. Does that help answer the questions you asked me? Does that help you to figure out better where to place me in your worldview? Can you give me any new or updated insults or criticisms? Thanks in advance.

I disagree with everyone and about something. Point me at anyone; see if I have a "master". At least I can come up with my own rationalizations. I don't need other people to feed me talking points. Can you even argue against a single other belief Charlie Kirk has? Or can you only decide what to think of someone based on which politicians they support or oppose?

What are you talking about? You never even asked me if I was sexually attracted to children. You just assumed I wasn't because the idea of a confident, rational, and openminded pedophile is inconceivable to you. I would have told you immediately. Ask anyone; I'm very upfront about being sexually attracted to children. You can even look back through the conversation. I called a coward for saying that younger children aren't sexually attractive and I made a distinction between rape and staturory rape. I wasn't "hiding" the fact that I'm a pedophile so much as it just wasn't relevant. It still isn't relevant by the way, are just being proactive and looking for excuses to dismiss my position just in case I have actually good arguments. People make your arguments all the time, but that's only because they got it into their head that having sex makes someone less of a loser and they are i about the fact that they wouldn't have sex with a kid even though kids need to improve more than anyone. They have to come up with all kinds of excuses for why they won't have sex with kids even though they believe sex makes someone a winner. "Well, having sex with kids actually makes them evil! It's only when they become adults that it makes them a winner." "Oh no! I'm not holding their inexperience against them, it's hust that... they are booger face brats! They aren't cute or attractive at all!" "Kids just aren't capable of rational thought, only adults are! Measure their craniums with this device. See? They could never even properly understand sex. They wouldn't get anything out of it, they would just end up confused!" Or maybe having there's no excuse for having sex with bimbos and failures. Maybe sex doesn't fix people. Maybe people are just sluts, or having sex with sluts. Maybe winners are just better than everyone else regardless of if they get laid. But no, better that a kid gets killed than exist as living proof that all of your rationalizations about sex hold zero weight. Me, I've never been molested and I've never molested anyone else, but if I am executed or if I rot in prison then I will never commit the far worse sin of challenging your sexuality and your views on children. Am I wrong?