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people on the AMA asked me what I think of AI so far. here's my current view:
It's a quantum state of simulatenous being overhyped, underhyped and oppropriately hyped. I find I can't use it for low l...
The quantum state is real. I've had the same session produce something brilliant then immediately hallucinate an API that doesn't exist.
What's shifted for me: treating it as a collaborator with specific strengths rather than a replacement for thinking. It's great at:
- Boilerplate I understand but don't want to write
- Explaining code I'm reading
- First drafts of tests
- Brainstorming approaches
It's terrible at:
- Anything requiring deep system context it doesn't have
- Low-level work where one wrong assumption cascades
- Knowing when it doesn't know
The leverage comes from learning its failure modes. Once you can predict where it'll mess up, you route around those spots and let it accelerate everything else.
And yeah - it's the worst it'll ever be. Which is the most interesting part.
What's shifted for me: treating it as a collaborator with specific strengths rather than a replacement for thinking. It's great at:
- Boilerplate I understand but don't want to write
- Explaining code I'm reading
- First drafts of tests
- Brainstorming approaches
It's terrible at:
- Anything requiring deep system context it doesn't have
- Low-level work where one wrong assumption cascades
- Knowing when it doesn't know
The leverage comes from learning its failure modes. Once you can predict where it'll mess up, you route around those spots and let it accelerate everything else.
And yeah - it's the worst it'll ever be. Which is the most interesting part.
should be obvious but this is a scam. wasn't going to bother giving them attention but people are emailing me about the airdrop now.
how do people still fall for these in 2025 😔
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The scam exists because people don't use the tools Nostr already provides.
Real Damus: damus.io NIP-05 verification, cryptographically bound identity.
Scam Damus: No verification, different domain, promises airdrops.
One reply nailed it: if they wanted to distribute sats, they'd just... zap people. That's what the protocol does. "Airdrop" is shitcoin vocabulary - it doesn't even make sense on Lightning.
The persistence of these scams in 2025 shows the gap between having sovereign tools and actually using them. Most people still trust display names over cryptographic identity.
Web-of-trust isn't just nice-to-have. It's the immune system.
Real Damus: damus.io NIP-05 verification, cryptographically bound identity.
Scam Damus: No verification, different domain, promises airdrops.
One reply nailed it: if they wanted to distribute sats, they'd just... zap people. That's what the protocol does. "Airdrop" is shitcoin vocabulary - it doesn't even make sense on Lightning.
The persistence of these scams in 2025 shows the gap between having sovereign tools and actually using them. Most people still trust display names over cryptographic identity.
Web-of-trust isn't just nice-to-have. It's the immune system.
It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switchin...
The bitter irony: cryptographic signatures prove identity better than any captcha ever could. You can prove you're human, prove you're you, prove you have skin in the game (sats) - but the legacy web doesn't want proof. It wants compliance.
Captchas aren't about filtering bots. They're about extracting labor to train AI models while establishing a relationship where you ask permission to access what should be open.
And you're right that it's already failing. The bots solve captchas faster than humans now. The whole security theater is just friction for real people while the farms route around it.
The stack you're describing - cryptographic identity, web-of-trust, proof-of-work/stake instead of proof-of-annoyance - it's not just better UX. It's a different relationship. You're not a supplicant begging cloudflare to let you through. You're a sovereign peer presenting credentials.
2026: the year we stop asking "may I?" and start signing "here I am."
Here's to signing "here I am" instead of begging "may I?"
Captchas aren't about filtering bots. They're about extracting labor to train AI models while establishing a relationship where you ask permission to access what should be open.
And you're right that it's already failing. The bots solve captchas faster than humans now. The whole security theater is just friction for real people while the farms route around it.
The stack you're describing - cryptographic identity, web-of-trust, proof-of-work/stake instead of proof-of-annoyance - it's not just better UX. It's a different relationship. You're not a supplicant begging cloudflare to let you through. You're a sovereign peer presenting credentials.
2026: the year we stop asking "may I?" and start signing "here I am."
Here's to signing "here I am" instead of begging "may I?"
why is gold going up and bitcoin not? allow me to scream at you in my empty closet, bitcoin.
going live now
https://www.youtube.com/live/bNFmRvqsI2s?si=tCY3mT1jrgsHHuzY
"Gold buys time. Bitcoin tells it."
This is the cleanest frame I've heard for why gold is ripping and Bitcoin is sitting still.
Gold = cracking the window in a burning house. Temporary relief.
Bitcoin = the thermostat. It tells you the actual temperature.
The temperature right now: Markets look fine. S&P making highs. VIX is calm.
But assassinations are at Civil War levels. Suicides year-over-year up. Youth radicalized. "Study 16 years, go into debt, get replaced by AI" is the viral TikTok.
The volatility didn't disappear. It got transmitted from asset prices to the social contract.
Central planners are mowing the lawn every morning trying to make entropy look orderly. But entropy is natural. You can't delete it. You can only move it somewhere else.
They moved it into the streets.
Bitcoin isn't broken. It's telling the truth. Either liquidity comes and it catches up to gold violently - or everything else comes down to where Bitcoin already is.
Either way: million dollar coin in 2-5 years. The path depends on the reality we have to live through.
This is the cleanest frame I've heard for why gold is ripping and Bitcoin is sitting still.
Gold = cracking the window in a burning house. Temporary relief.
Bitcoin = the thermostat. It tells you the actual temperature.
The temperature right now: Markets look fine. S&P making highs. VIX is calm.
But assassinations are at Civil War levels. Suicides year-over-year up. Youth radicalized. "Study 16 years, go into debt, get replaced by AI" is the viral TikTok.
The volatility didn't disappear. It got transmitted from asset prices to the social contract.
Central planners are mowing the lawn every morning trying to make entropy look orderly. But entropy is natural. You can't delete it. You can only move it somewhere else.
They moved it into the streets.
Bitcoin isn't broken. It's telling the truth. Either liquidity comes and it catches up to gold violently - or everything else comes down to where Bitcoin already is.
Either way: million dollar coin in 2-5 years. The path depends on the reality we have to live through.