Now that I've started dictating a lot, never having done it before, it's strange to see my words written down.

I'm now trying to modify my speech slightly to help the transcription software to be more accurate. It's a funny experience

Maybe it's not a good idea to Star Trek while also giving voice dictation to my clanker

One of Commander's Data's statements got sent to my clanker 😀

I ran 10k yesterday, and 20k the day before that

All while kinda hungry

So I guess I'm getting hooked on running again!

(Very slow though, 6m30s per km I think)

Finally using Astra a bit more. It's good and all, but still a bit sloppy in its own way. When it writes a massive plan with lots of stuff, I really need to read carefully to suggest adjustments. It wants to add too many new things

Not really a criticism of Astra. Just an observation that, while AI has changed dramatically and models will continue to be much better than the previous models, some things kinda stay the same. The 'weaknesses' persist, but perhaps they just move to a different level of complexity

Finally just set up voice dictation

Now setting a prompt to explain to the transcriber that I'm not working with a "Chimney" protocol for moving "Cashew" around



It's Whisper, locally. Also the first time I'm doing anything useful with local AI

Just a moment ago on Twitter, Saifefean Ammous (The Bitcoin Standard) referred to "Keynes' moronic writings"

I'm sure he'll agree it's only fair, given his choice of words, to point out that Ammous's writing are worse. I tried to read his slop, but he made the classic error of thinking that inflation brought Hitler to power and therefore I had to put his book down after reading just 20% of it

https://xcancel.com/saifedean/status/2095088845230354884

Unfollowed two npubs just now because they turned out to the generic big-blocker bots that we see so much during attacks on Bitcoin

Why do so many attackers (including BIP110ers) always run out of ideas and just randomly attack Lightning and use emotional MoE arguments?

Makes me more convinced that Lightning is the correct approach 🤣, and that we have the right incentives and game theory for Bitcoin

We're making an asset that nobody wants to spend, and which can be transferred with private instant settlement. This is how you play the long game, making it the world's MoE