“The human spirit should remain in charge.”
Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.
In this dialogue:
- Wind
- More Wind
- Information Calories, and how to measure them
- Digital Wellbeing
- Rescue Time
- Teleology of Technology
- Platforms get users Hooked (book)
- Feeds are slot machines
- Movie Walls
- Tweetdeck and Notedeck
- IRC vs the modern feed
- 37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!”
- “You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
- Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
- Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views
- Long videos vs shorts
- The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention )
- “Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it
- Questr : 2D exploration of nostr
- ONOSENDAI by Arkinox
- Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
- DAUs of jumper cables
- Gossip and it’s choices
- “The secret to life is to send it”
- Flying water & flying bus stops
- RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests
- Nostr is high signal and less addictive
- Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape”
- Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
- The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96
- Blossom (and wind)
- Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
- ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
- SaaS and the DAU metric
- Highlighter
- Not caring where stuff is hosted
- When is an edited thing a new thing?
- Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits
- NIP-60 and inconsistent balances
- Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching
- Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing
- Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
- Helping your uncle jack of a horse
- Can we fix it with WoT?
- Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr
- Linking to hashtags & search queries
- Advanced search and why it’s great
- Search scopes & web of trust
- The UNIX tools of nostr
- Pablo’s NDK snippets
- Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI
- Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter )
- Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD )
- “Speed itself is a feature”
- MCP & DVMCP
- Monorepos and git submodules
- Olas & NDK
- Pablo’s RemindMe bot
- “Breaking changes kinda suck”
- Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
- LLM-generated sticker styles
- LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email )
- “AI-generated art has no soul”
- Nostr, zaps, and realness
- Does the source matter?
- Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1
- Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
- Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book)
- Is more context always good?
- Vervaeke’s AI argument
- What is meaningful?
- How do you extract meaning from information?
- How do you extract meaning from experience?
- “What the hell is water”
- Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
- “Bitcoin is singularity insurance”
- Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
- Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
- 10min block time & the physical limits of consensus
- Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post
- Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids?
- All you need now is motivation
- Upcoming agents will actually do the thing
- Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality
- Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution
- Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art
- Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
- Joe’s songs
- Hyper-personalized stories
- Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau)
- Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
- Agency, free expression, and free speech
- Edgy content & twitch meta , aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming
- Using attention as a proxy currency
- Farming eyeballs and brain cycles
- Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait
- “You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
- Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
- The importance of speech & money
- What should be done by a machine?
- What should be done by a human?
- “The human spirit should remain in charge”
- Our relationship with fiat money
- Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom
