Darwin award

Can a fairytale skool me on better interactions? (also for fans of Hegel, Vervaeke and of course taichi)

A modern folktale

Forget t-shirts. New market sectors opening up.

Claude says: I'll help clarify what the Bible says about usury. **Usury** in biblical terms refers to charging interest on loans, particularly to the poor. **Old Testament:** - **Exodus 22:25** - Prohibits charging interest to poor Israelites - **Leviticus 25:35-37** - Forbids taking interest from fellow Israelites in need - **Deuteronomy 23:19-20** - No interest on loans to fellow Israelites, but allowed for foreigners - **Ezekiel 18:8, 13** - Condemns charging interest as wicked **New Testament:** - **Luke 6:35** - "Lend, expecting nothing in return" - Less explicit prohibition, more emphasis on generosity **Historical interpretation:** The prohibition was primarily about exploiting the poor, not commercial lending. Medieval Christianity banned all interest-charging, but this evolved as economies became more complex. Modern interpretations often distinguish between: - **Exploitative lending** (what the Bible condemns) - **Fair interest** for commercial purposes Islamic finance still maintains strict usury (riba) prohibitions today.

A couple or us were having a conversation about this the other day. I've been in social since 2008 don't visit Twitter much since covid-v2 - so I don't play too much with "nostr the social" for the reasons you mentioned. The thread was along the lines that: if nostr can't monetize beyond sat circles jerk then people won't fund relays. So nostr _could_ be great infrastructure for an Application first internet where identity and your reputation is portable between a "nostr airbnb" and a "nostr user" etc. So really using the vibe potential to attack VC funded b2b SaaS hegemony. It's e/acc without the Andreessens. Nostr is a protocol so nobody needs permission to build whatever they like. This is already hapoening and what is doing is true leadership. The problem I see now and getting really bad is the lack of curation of hobby projects that are basically broken. Like most OSS its "try 5 before you find the 1 that works". This is where VC funded businesses win. Relentless focus on g2m and onboarding and quality. Nostr needs more QA than developers, Nostr needs a benevolent VP of Product (jk but also serious) I guess the tl;dr might be "nostr the protocol" could be much bigger than the social.

this is great and am surprised something is not already out there. I'm gonna make a "woo" suggestion. In stages there are certain agent attributes you really want. i.e in hand-crafted json I might declare "creativity": 80%. In the coding phase commitment to security might be "defensibility": high. In the QA Agent rigour may be "adversarial": 50% I watched Interstellar again last night and Cooper keeps adjusting Tars' humour settings (probably the only comic relief in the movie) - so agents need a disposition. Its easy to specify directly into the DSL but how you encourage humans to prompt that consistently might not be so easy. I guess if the workflow designer was conversational...

Ignore Frost in the title, I took that bit out (looking forward to playing with my Frostsnap when it arrives.... soon!)

A true shaman. That dunk at 1:50 so good and 3:50 is next level genius. Beautifu liminall stuff, thank you.

I've drafted a heretical centralized approach that let's the user still be sovereign over their root key

Fair enough. I come from startups and it's always "sell the sizzle, not the sausage" As a tech, I was always getting into the weeds on details so saw a lot of glazed eyes :)

Its the early hours of the morning here so, quick thought and can flesh out later. 1. I was vibing a docusign using nsec signing. Few lazy afternoon sessions and good progress. Docusign market cap $16.5B. I don't need or want to do another startup, let alone a replacement strategy play but a small team could displace chunks of the b2b stack with new economics. Pipedrive disrupted Salesforce. Can a nostr CRM disrupt Pipedrive because trojaning into business is 🔥. But don't talk about nostr, talk about solutions. 2. may want to share what he is doing. Another sector with significant incumbent revenues and less friction. 3. The point being, products (not hobbies) first. Monetization is a deliberate act. Jack can code bitchat without concern for monetisation. But that is a byproduct of silicon valley success and mindset. I've built startups outside SV and you have to be pragmatic about monetization. 4. There was an excellent 30023 about a year ago by somebody who tried to build an app using relays as a data store and how slavish commitment to a protocol may be the wrong formfactor for the solution. Maybe some apps just stand on the shoulders of the protocol but aren't prisoners to its original libertarian ideology. It's a protocol so you need zero permission to use it in the way it serves your customers. 5. Shiny objects. Vibing clutters the landscape with broken projects. We need a badge for apps that have a product person and a malevolent tyrannical committed QA function that demands the product serves customers, not the autist hobbyist creator (I'm talking about me of course) Back to bed.

Understanding their threat model helps to find an appropriate framing. The conversation will likely end the same but you may burn less energy. IIRC had a one page on clarifying your own threat model and its super helpful to know where you sit. I suspect some big problem or reveal on how meta uses WhatsApp will make a seachange but they will logically go to signal. Last time I tried Whitenoise it was a fail.

Powerful stuff. I looked up Sowell: "Sowell argues that intellectuals, whom he defines as people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas (writers, historians, academics, etc.), usually consider themselves as "anointed", or as endowed with superior intellect or insight with which to guide the masses and those who have authority over them." I just wrote a post about wisdom practices and Vervaeke has made a study of how self delusion (opposite if wisdom) can be avoided

That's probably how this simulation will end 😀

Agree - I was in startup onboarding and retention and these stats are not a good look. Nostr may be a protocol first but users need to see products first and great product people and iron fisted QA.

"targeted at the C language, so much too rich for my blood" 😂. I used manually mem page on 80286's, not fun. I hope that has gone away now.

and investors. But the nostr system relies on the generosity of relay operators who continue to fund the infra (or entities who give grants). We can hope that their generosity continues because when <0.1% are retained, then usually only 1-10% convert to paid, which means that charity will be needed. Sustainable monetization for relays is needed before the music stops.