Nostr notes by AHWhite

Well, it's been almost a year without anybody cracking the ...

2026-03-16T19:18:40Z

Well, it's been almost a year without anybody cracking the seed phrase hidden in my book. So here some straightforward clues: the book contains the words to a 24-word see phrase in the right order.

So far, no one has discovered or deduced the access to the ...

2025-11-21T09:47:22Z

So far, no one has discovered or deduced the access to the bitcoin wallet that is hidden in my book Walking Banks...so here a new hint for those that want to give it a try:
- Did you know that word repetitions are actually allowed in a seed phrase?

#books #reading #bitcoin #treasurehunt

Fantastic news for Huntington's Disease patients: ...

2025-09-24T12:17:03Z

Fantastic news for Huntington's Disease patients:
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/09/24/3155348/0/en/uniQure-Announces-Positive-Topline-Results-from-Pivotal-Phase-I-II-Study-of-AMT-130-in-Patients-with-Huntington-s-Disease.html

36 month data from Uniqure trial shows a strong slowdown of disease progression for all measures. For the first time, we seem to have a treatment that can really treat this devastating brain disorder.

#science #brain #medicine #positivenews #huntington

Thanks Chris for the opportunity to drop my book here: ...

2025-08-12T07:48:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…ea69
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Thanks Chris for the opportunity to drop my book here:
"Walking Banks" is a bitcoin thriller with a hidden real bitcoin wallet inside.

When a high-ranking U.S. Embassy official is killed in Beijing, seasoned security officer Jack Decker is reluctantly dragged back into action to unravel the mystery. Teaming up with Zheng Lei, a prodigious Beijing police officer, he uncovers a startling link between the murders and the disappearance of Liang Wei, a business tycoon who publicly opposed China's Central Bank Digital Currency before vanishing into thin air.

https://www.walkingbanks.com/

nope, still there. When I look up the address on a desktop it ...

2025-08-12T07:44:10Z

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nope, still there. When I look up the address on a desktop it shows the existing balance correctly. Not sure why it doesn't on mobile. Will look into it.

Hm...weird. I don't think it has been discovered because ...

2025-08-06T10:31:52Z

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Hm...weird. I don't think it has been discovered because there are no transaction connected to the address for some reasons (also not my original transactions to "load up" the wallet). I'm traveling and just with my phone this week so unfortunately I cannot check in more detail this week but will report back once I have full access again.

A confession: I rarely post anymore on Nostr because of two ...

2025-07-26T07:55:13Z

A confession:
I rarely post anymore on Nostr because of two reasons:
A) I'm a pretty private and introverted person and never saw the need nor desire to share my everyday thoughts with the world.
B) I still struggle to find interesting posts & people to follow on Nostr to be honest. When I joined I tried to find interesting discussion and exchange around science, consciousness, pharma,etc and also posted in that direction but failed.
I am still trying to figure out how to get more engaged on Nostr and try to contribute more to the network (e.g. see having my book and audiobook for free on nostr/fountain) but it should come naturally and as an enjoyable experience. Nkt feel like work or pulling teeth. To be honest, the twitter algorithm works very well for this purpose (follow some relevant accounts,block some annoying ones and set up some keywords you don't want to see and my Twitter feed is full of interesting posts and news that are relevant to my interests)

Yes, I know it is because it is free on Kindle right now but I ...

2025-07-15T12:11:52Z

Yes, I know it is because it is free on Kindle right now but I must admit I am quite proud that my bitcoin thriller 'Walking Banks' is #1 in the financial category on Amazon right now (and surprisingly in Monetary Policy as well).

Thank you!

2025-06-29T06:06:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…45x4
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Thank you!

Hi Latricia, not yet. I've just now only finally managed to ...

2025-06-27T07:33:24Z

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Hi Latricia, not yet. I've just now only finally managed to get it out on Audible so I'll wait and see what the reach is.

Finally, my bitcoin novel "Walking Banks" is available on ...

2025-06-27T07:32:48Z

Finally, my bitcoin novel "Walking Banks" is available on Audible and as an audiobook on Amazon:
https://amazon.com/Walking-Banks-A-Bitcoin-Thriller/dp/B0FFHLJKCS/
https://www.audible.com/pd/Walking-Banks-Audiobook/B0FFHMX6T8

(you can still listen to it on Fountain of course as well)

#bitcoin
#books
#novel
#nostr

Thanks again for the encouraging words. A first hint would be ...

2025-06-02T07:36:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…wsjc
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Thanks again for the encouraging words. A first hint would be that it is a 24 word seed phrase but I think I mentioned this before, didn't I?

Follow-up on the #Zapvertising experiment! 11 days ago I made a ...

2025-05-30T13:03:09Z

Follow-up on the #Zapvertising experiment!
11 days ago I made a Zapvertising post to promote my Bitcoin novel "Walking Banks" here on Nostr.

Here’s a little update on how it went and if it was worth it:

Short answer: Yes... but not quite in the way I expected.

From a commercial or distribution angle, frankly speaking, it was a disappointment.
I zapped 28.000 Sats. The results 11 days later are: 2 book sales that I can trace back to this experiment, no audiobook sales, and no Sats earned on Fountain streaming. Wavlake stats tells me that 4 people streamed the full audiobook by now so some little interest was there but nobody used sats on Fountain to support it. And just to be clear, I was not expecting big earnings and I am absolutely fine with it. As mentioned in earlier posts, both the audiobook and ebook are free to read or stream for those interested.

But I was honestly hoping that the audiobook/book finds more interest and that the concept might reach further, especially since the book hides a real Bitcoin seed phrase that leads to a wallet with 800,000 sats in it. So in that regard I must admit, these total numbers are disappointing and might reflect that the book and story is not as interesting to people as I had hoped it would be.

However, in terms of reach and response? That’s where it worked.
72 reposts from a pretty diverse bunch of nostriches which is much more than I imagined. Even more important for me: every single comment was kind, encouraging, and genuinely supportive. That meant a lot to me. So thanks to everyone who commented or reposted!

So what I’ve learned about Zapvertising so far:
I'll probably try another round but with a tighter focus. Reposts are great, but it makes a difference whether the reposter has 5 or 5,000 followers. Might look into targeting more precisely, or using a Zapvertising service to dial in the reach.
Still experimenting. Still learning. Still zapping.

And if you’re curious, the treasure is still out there...
https://www.walkingbanks.com

#bitcoin
#books
#novel
#story
#art
#zapvertising
#nostr

Interesting cyborg-modification reported in Cell: ...

2025-05-24T19:51:36Z

Interesting cyborg-modification reported in Cell:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4

"Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision in humans enabled by upconversion contact lenses"

#science #cyborg

It rarely happens but if it does, no, I don't finish it.

2025-05-20T17:47:20Z

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It rarely happens but if it does, no, I don't finish it.

Nostr event nevent1qqsyxasvag9pc8k9turuj2naa67myhn7ljnhe5mfd56jnvh6udg4wjczyrpgdsmtnyhn9m7k32mqtpycg4e242py202hnua43t49k9w35xev2vvugjd

2025-05-20T16:56:01Z

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Hi Cristalina, I looked into it since your repost didn't ...

2025-05-20T05:51:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…faat
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Hi Cristalina, I looked into it since your repost didn't appear in my notifications at all. You indeed didn't repost the original post but made a repost of the repost which also came after the first 35 reposts were done already. Sorry. But let me zap you a little bit anyway, thanks for your engagement and help in spreading my post !

Thank you

2025-05-19T20:14:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…3h9f
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Thank you

And of course a big shout out to the fantastic Adrian M Lopez who ...

2025-05-19T18:03:38Z

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And of course a big shout out to the fantastic Adrian M Lopez who is not onlybthe great narrator of the audiobook but also gave me the idea for the Zapvertising: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsyqxz5h0qpgn706yq5suy46s9watklt4nt9skzrk632nmmyvn6ewqphrcmq

Giveaway 1,000 sats for the next 20 reposts, 500 for the next 15! ...

2025-05-19T15:42:47Z

Giveaway 1,000 sats for the next 20 reposts, 500 for the next 15!

I'm doing a Zapvertising experiment to promote my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ / https://www.walkingbanks.com on Nostr and test if one can broaden an audience this way .

In addition to the Zapvertisment Zaps you can unlock 800000 sats:
If your up for a treasure hunt, the book contains a real Bitcoin seed phrase hidden within the story. So if you can piece the right string of words together, it leads to a wallet with 800000 sats in it. No funny business, all real. The first one to figure it out gets the bitcoin.

The book is out as on audiobook, e-book and print on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Banks-Mystery-Novel-White/dp/B0DCNZLV6H) so go and check it out.
Also, if you're using Nostr you can listen to the audiobook for free on Fountain (fountain.fm/album/JYWZOPSrol8fvWpjNt8q) or search for „Walking Banks“ in the music section.
Otherwise the audiobook is also available now on Spotify, Apple Books, Google play, Kobo, and pretty much everywhere else too.

#bitcoin #books #novel #story #art #zapvertising #nostr

Thanks,hope you enjoy the story

2025-05-15T20:08:57Z

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Thanks,hope you enjoy the story

I'm really excited to share that my Bitcoin Novel „Walking ...

2025-05-15T13:26:16Z

I'm really excited to share that my Bitcoin Novel „Walking Banks“ is now out as an audiobook!

It’s been a wild ride getting this story out into the world, and hearing it come alive through the voice of Adrian Lopez, @adrianmlopez (who absolutely nailed the narration) has been surreal.

If you're using Nostr (and since you are reading this you are), you can listen to the audiobook for free on Fountain (fountain.fm/album/JYWZOPSrol8fvWpjNt8q) or search for „Walking Banks“ in the music section.
Otherwise the audiobook is also available now on Spotify, Apple Books, Google play, Kobo, and pretty much everywhere else too... I just cannot get it placed on audible yet but am working on it.

Also…I hid something inside the book: The information for a real Bitcoin seed phrase can be found across the story that leads to a wallet with 0.008 BTC in it. Yep, it’s real. The first one to figure it out gets the treasure.

More info is up at walkingbanks.com. I would love for you to check it ouvand if you do, let me know what you think.

#bitcoin #books #novel #story #art

My dog doesn't approve

2025-04-04T18:24:52Z

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My dog doesn't approve

#bitcoin https://m.primal.net/PRMY.jpg

2025-03-02T16:49:02Z

#bitcoin

It was dark, the moon shone bright, the green meadow was covered ...

2024-12-26T19:25:06Z

It was dark, the moon shone bright,
the green meadow was covered in snow,
when a carriage sped by lightning-fast,
slowly turning the corner.

Inside, people were standing seated,
deep in silent conversation,
when a shot rabbit
went ice-skating on the sandy bank.

And a blond-haired young man
with coal-black hair
sat on a green box,
which was painted red.

Next to him, an old spinster,
barely sixteen years old,
held a butter roll in her hand,
which was smeared with lard.

#poetry

Good Morning and Merry Christmas ! #nostr

2024-12-24T07:03:41Z

Good Morning and Merry Christmas !

#nostr

Another unfortunate clinical trial failure for a CNS indication ...

2024-12-18T07:44:16Z

Another unfortunate clinical trial failure for a CNS indication (Parkinson). All primary and secondary endpoints were missed:

https://www.ucb.com/newsroom/press-releases/article/findings-from-minzasolmin-proof-of-concept-orchestra-study-shape-next-steps-in-ucb-parkinson-s-research-program

#science #parkinson #neurodegeneration #brain

This is really interesting: ...

2024-12-10T21:32:42Z

This is really interesting:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02046-9

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results"

A study on how well trained LLMs can predict the "correctness" of a new neuroscience study/claim based on looking into the associations of the mentioned claims/words in the new study compared to a reference set of thousands of previously published neuroscience papers. The idea here is that there are associations hidden in the vast amount of literature out there that humans in general and singular scientists in particular just cannot read, remember, grasp and comprehend anymore due to the exponential growth in studies.

Importantly all thus trained LLMs outperform a large panel of human expert in predicting whether or not a new study or a fake study is true.

This is really fascinating and could have major implications to identify new disease MoA hypothesis, target validationa nd dicovery, discover hidden connections and low-hanging treatment option fruits that nobody has yet considered or simply just weed out fake or irrelevant new er publications.

#ai #science #neuroscience #drugs #future #LLM #nostr

Thanks for sharing

2024-12-08T21:39:09Z

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Thanks for sharing

#bitcoin #nostr #memes https://m.primal.net/MoCQ.jpg

2024-12-05T06:16:38Z

#bitcoin #nostr #memes

My favorite euphemism from corporate world is "let's take ...

2024-12-03T09:51:07Z

My favorite euphemism from corporate world is "let's take a bio break"

Today, I experienced a first: someone told me they got interested ...

2024-12-01T14:51:48Z

Today, I experienced a first: someone told me they got interested in Bitcoin after reading my book and now plan to buy some. Made my day to know I finally managed to orange pill someone!

#bitcoin #books

Another ALS clinical trial failure: ...

2024-11-28T13:02:54Z

Another ALS clinical trial failure:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/ptc-fails-phase-2-als-trial-axes-utreloxastat-program

Unfortunate but sad reality when it comes to CNS disorders. The problem mostly stems from our fundamental ignorance (in the classical meaning) when it comes to these disorders. We truly mostly still don't understand what is the underlying key mechanism of action that needs correction in order to treat these diseases.

#science #als #brain #motorneurons

Are LLMs better doctors? LLM model on its own far outperforms ...

2024-11-19T06:07:07Z

Are LLMs better doctors?

LLM model on its own far outperforms physicians when giving the correct diagnosis. Funny thing is, even when physicians are allowed to use AI as support, their correct diagnosis ratio basically does not increase, indicating a tendency of the physicians to cling to their own diagnosis and ignoring the LLMs advice.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825395

#ai #science #health

playing around with AI-generating video for scenes from my book. ...

2024-11-18T13:31:24Z

playing around with AI-generating video for scenes from my book. I wanted an intense fight in hotel room between a middle-aged US agent and two Chinese bodyguards.

I received a beautiful choreographed modern dance triplet of a Chinese Christopher Walken and two supporting dancers.

Long way to go.

#ai #art #artstr #books #funny

ok,this is just beautiful #sun #universe #science ...

2024-11-10T08:18:19Z

ok,this is just beautiful

#sun #universe #science

Great to hear & thanks for the zap!

2024-10-27T19:59:05Z

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Great to hear & thanks for the zap!

There is „Broken Money“, there is "The Bitcoin ...

2024-10-24T12:52:00Z

There is „Broken Money“, there is "The Bitcoin Standard“ but the most interesting I've so far read about the monetary system is „The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve“ by G. Edward Griffin.

I can only encourage every bitcoiner to read it. It is excellently written, very engaging & goes in many ways to the core of what the problem with current fiscal policies and banking system is about.

For example, right from the 1st chapter:

"The purpose ... was to come to an agreement on the structure and operation of a banking cartel. The goal, as is true with all cartels, was to maximize profits by minimizing competition between members, to make it difficult for new competitors to enter the field, and to utilize the police power of government to enforce the cartel agreement. In more specific terms, it was to create a blueprint for the Federal Reserve System.
Here were representatives of the world's leading banking consortia... driven together by one overriding desire to fight their common enemy. The enemy was competition.
Competition also was coming from a new trend in industry to finance future growth out of profits rather than from borrowed capital…between 1900 and 1910, seventy per cent of the funding for American corporate growth was generated internally, making industry increasingly independent of the banks.... What the bankers wanted … was to intervene in the free market and tip the balance of interest rates downward, to favor debt over thrift. To accomplish this, the money supply simply had to be disconnected from gold and made more plentiful … ."

This is just from the 1st chapter and it continues to be enlightning and revealing. In my view it shows even better than Lyn's or Saif's books how the creation of the debt-based money supply system, the creation of the FED and the move away from the gold-standard was not a natural development that simply had to occur for a modern society to function but was instead driven by the influence of a few conspiratory bankers.

#nostr #bitcoin #books #bookstr #money

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/66499.The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island

quite interesting and promising results for a potential new ...

2024-10-22T19:41:25Z

quite interesting and promising results for a potential new therapy for diabetes 2 patients.

"Remarkably, at the 6- and 12-month follow-up, 86% of participants (12 out of 14) no longer required insulin therapy, and this success continued through the 24-month follow-up. In these cases, all patients maintained glycaemic control, with HbA1c levels remaining below 7.5%."

https://ueg.eu/a/360?origin=serp_auto

#science #diabetes

What did he say this time?

2024-10-21T05:21:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…gljh
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What did he say this time?

What about "sovereign vault"?

2024-10-20T05:15:18Z

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What about "sovereign vault"?

unnerving to see this put in numbers #note10d0…r3sv

2024-10-19T15:30:54Z

unnerving to see this put in numbers

quoting
note10d0…r3sv
Bureaucracy: The Illusion Of Eternal 'Growth'

This is the path society takes when it increasingly nationalizes tasks: once created, bureaucracy justifies its existence by creating new demand for its services and thus emanating more bureaucracy from itself. You can observe this phenomenon quite well in the steady growth of the welfare state in general.

It is therefore relatively easy to answer the question of how it is possible for educational or social costs and treatment costs to become ever more expensive despite technological progress. Bureaucratic large-scale institutional apparatuses are not only the apron organizations of political science, which will generate, consolidate their power and error potentials are the maxip material justification of existence.

It is therefore relatively easy to answer the question of how it is possible that, despite technological progress, educational and social costs and treatment costs continue to rise. Large bureaucratic institutions are the front organizations of the political parties within the social force field. With their drive for internal growth, politics fulfils its own goal of transferring power to the product sector openly to itself and its own organizational structure.

How long will this continue? That depends to a large extent on the extent to which the bond markets are saturated and whether politicians succeed in 'rolling' the mountain of debt intertemporarily and at the same time forcing the freshly issued delta into the increasingly clogged channels of banks, insurance companies and parastatal bond dumps in order to maintain the illusion that parasitic bureaucracies can be expanded at will until the end of time.

#ampel #eu #usa #socialism #inflation #freedom #mises

thanks! hope you enjoy the read. cheers!

2024-10-19T13:27:31Z

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thanks! hope you enjoy the read. cheers!

that is weird. no idea why this happens for you? I know other ...

2024-10-19T12:17:12Z

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that is weird. no idea why this happens for you? I know other have been able to buy the normal Kindle ebook version. this whole kindle select timeframe ends on November 10th though, so maybe you can get it the normal kindle way then?

thanks! fyi , I uploaded the PDF of my book to Nostr if you want ...

2024-10-19T11:02:51Z

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thanks! fyi , I uploaded the PDF of my book to Nostr if you want to get it for free, hosted on nostr.build:
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

Yeah,especially since Brave New World is the better book and is ...

2024-10-19T09:33:54Z

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Yeah,especially since Brave New World is the better book and is even more dystopia to me imo. I always "liked" Bernards fate to be send to an island to experience real life. I wanted that too back then.

Both were mandatory reading when I was in high school a while ...

2024-10-19T08:38:00Z

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Both were mandatory reading when I was in high school a while ago. Guess the school did something right back then.

Am I officially old if the only acceptable breakfast #music is a ...

2024-10-07T10:57:10Z

Am I officially old if the only acceptable breakfast #music is a Playlist with oldies like Aretha Franklin's "I say a little prayer" or "Happy Together" from The Turtles?

Music on modern breakfast playlist grinds my nerves and the typical breakfast/morning coffee shop music makes me want to go back to bed.

#asknostr #oldies #morning #breakfast

100% correct. There are many reasons why bitcoin is unique and ...

2024-10-05T18:54:51Z

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100% correct. There are many reasons why bitcoin is unique and successful and one of them is being the first of its kind and always leading the pack in terms of network effect. Like it or not bit Nostr does not have this advantage but instead plays the role of altcoin no.1000 vs ethereum/twitter. A superior selling point or technology alone is not sufficient. you need the network effect to work with a more rapid acceleration to work for you compared to more established alternatives.

Eliezer Masliah, a top scientist in neurodegeneration and top NIH ...

2024-10-01T07:27:34Z

Eliezer Masliah, a top scientist in neurodegeneration and top NIH official has likely manipulated hundreds of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's paper and findings over the last 2 decades, potentially leading to billions of misallocated funds and research focus in the broader scientific community. He might get shunned for this in the community but will ultimately fall softly and continue to work in the field. It's a pity that there are no larger repercussions for falsifying data in research given the large implications this can have.

https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion

#science #alzheimer #brain #neurology #NIH #neuobiology #Parkinson #fraud

If anybody is looking for an interesting read, give "The ...

2024-09-25T08:13:17Z

If anybody is looking for an interesting read, give "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a try"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit

I was expecting yet another boring "marketing book" when I picked it up but it goes surprisingly deep into #cognition, #psychology and #society in general. I enjoyed it.

#books #science #brain #neurobiology #psychology #reading

Great article from "The Pessimists Archive" about the hot ...

2024-09-25T08:09:19Z

Great article from "The Pessimists Archive" about the hot legal debate about "Fake News" and fake photography >100 years in the US. This is just as much applicable to today's AI discussions and the just starting controversy on AI generated deep fakes and the likes. Nothing is really new, history repeats itself & hopefully we as a society can learn and improve from it in the long run.

On a side-note: the pessimists archive is a great website in general if you want to read about the worries and fights of the past against new technologies. Pretty much every new technology (electricity, phone, bicycle, cars, planes, etc.) had been vilified, people have been afraid of it and did not understand it before it became common reality. #bitcoin and #nostr are just another link in this long chain of this techno-pessimism.

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1912-war-on-fake-photos?r=iougu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"Concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated...

Portrait photography gave rise to an industry of photo ‘retouching’ - analog ‘beauty filters’ - to flatter subjects in a way portrait painters once did. This trend lead to questions about technology distorting our perceptions of beauty, reality and truth"

#nostr #fakenews #photography #deepfakes #ai #bitcoin #regulations #freespeech

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I was listening to @npub14mc…frlx 's recent podcast with ...

2024-09-19T17:24:18Z

I was listening to petermccormack (npub14mc…frlx) 's recent podcast with Matthew Pines and their discussion about consciousness as an underlying component of the universe. Interesting on many levels.

The philosophy he described from Philipp Goff about the meaning of life that Matthew mostly seems to follow (with some modifications), reminded me a lot about the philosophy described in Gregory Roberts 2003 novel Shantaram that he expresses in the person of Khader Khan which can be summarized maybe as "everything that contributes to the complexity and richness of existence is meaningful" and that the "the universe is driven by the need to evolve, grow, and expand its possibilities"

In his words, the whole point of everything in the universe is that the universe becomes more interesting. If one leads a life that maximizes the probability to make the universe more complex, one has lead a good life. Every act of goodness or evil, every choice we make, adds to the complexity and interest of the universe which is how he justifies his role as a mafia leader, as he sees even crime and violence as part of the greater purpose of making the universe more complex.

I have not read Goff's book "Why" yet but I wonder if there is some overlap and references to these viewpoints. Would be interesting as Robert's book predates this by 2 decades and comes from a spiritual/religious viewpoint whereas Matthew Pines seems to come more from a rationalistic approach.

#books #philosophy #consciousness #universe #purpose #podcast #religion #spirituality

What happened a couple days ago on September 14th that Nostr saw ...

2024-09-19T14:22:53Z

What happened a couple days ago on September 14th that Nostr saw such a spike in new users? Was there an announcement of someone famous that they switch to Nostr?

#asknostr #nostr #stats

I would laugh if it weren't so frustrating. Just as bitcoin ...

2024-09-19T07:26:09Z

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I would laugh if it weren't so frustrating. Just as bitcoin was starting to distinguish itself from 'crypto' and all the worthless shitcoins in mainstream discussions, we have grifters like Trump lumping them together again, confusing the narrative for anyone who isn't well-informed. This is a setback for establishing bitcoin as an honest and alternative option to fiat.

True. As a side note, I really need to proofread my posts when ...

2024-09-18T17:16:32Z

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True. As a side note, I really need to proofread my posts when typing on mobile. So many typos in my text. Autocorrect and typing while moving is a bad combo.

I've finished the podcast today and I am not sure were really ...

2024-09-18T13:53:49Z

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I've finished the podcast today and I am not sure were really the controversy is.

In Saylor's view, the yield clearly comes from lending the money to an individual/entity that will amplify the value of the original loan amount. His comment ton the 65y old that wants his money to receive a yield and so he lends it out a 22year old with a great business plan etc. On an individual level, this is associated with high risk and uncertainty but once you bundle multiple of these events, the risk becomes more easy to manage and basically a bank is born. The alternative would be a VC that forms and instead of expecting a yield, they want equity. Both forms are well established principles and will continue to be so even with a fixed, deflationary money. This is a simple concept and will forever be a valid argument to loan out money to another party with the expectation to receive a yield on this loan.

And I think Saifadean's view is actually not that different, it's mostly were he sets the baseline. He argues that a "yield" will be 0 when you lend your bitcoin will be zero. But then he argues that this is better then the alternative because zero is better than a negative yield (which would occur due to cost of keeping this capital as he said over and over again).

So Saifadean's argues from a scenario where with a loan you get zero % yield but keep the value of your capital fixed but without a loan you get a negative yield (say -0.5%). How is this conceptually different from saying with a loan you get 0.5% yield and without a loan you have 0% yield? it's just moving the baseline by 0.5% one direction or the other and in a scenario that Saifadean envisions keeping your 1 bitcoin buying power constant if you loan it to someone is still better and an incentive than not loaning it out and slowly have your buying power eroded. Saylor's argument that there will always be benefits from a credit/loan system no matter the underlying monetary system is still valid either way.

thanks for explaining!

2024-09-17T17:09:43Z

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thanks for explaining!

Interesting new study looking into the intracellular molecular ...

2024-09-17T13:05:08Z

Interesting new study looking into the intracellular molecular basis for "Collateral fattening" . which is a reason why you might get fatter than you were before when you start excessive eating habits again after a prolonged diet period.

#fasting #fat #diet #obesity #science

quoting
note1fk8…7twz
Refeeding after #fasting can lead to a "#FatOvershoot." @goldstein_lab @cumminslab &co examine the kinetics of #refeeding-induced transcriptional & chromatin changes, revealing a #lipogenic overshoot program regulated by the TF LXRα #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4eukvi5

Talk to the teacher, talk to the teacher, talk to the teacher. ...

2024-09-17T12:54:15Z

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Talk to the teacher, talk to the teacher, talk to the teacher. Don't make it a bigger deal than it is at the moment.

Talk to the teacher to get her/his perspective and what their exact words were.

It's totally fine that your sister has been told that she needs to improve to join the orchestra and it's also totally fine that she didn't get voted into a committee. There is really no reason to have an issue with either unless

a) the teacher was being a dick about how it was communicated and was really harsh (but please talk to the teacher to get their perspective first; there are always two sides to a story and what might sound harsh to your sister might just have been a normal statement - being told straight up that you are not good enough yet to join is not harsh, being told that you suck and you are a joke for even asking is harsh).

b) you believe your sister's musical skills are good enough that you think she should be able to perform with the orchestra. If it is, ask the teacher if she can try out again or ask for tips what she needs to improve to try again in a couple of months

But being upset that she has not been voted into a committee is ridiculous. I mean its fine if she is upset. She is 10. But that you are upset is weird. What do you expect? If there are limited places and more applicants, there will always be children who are not voted in and being upset is a natural reaction to it. She will get over it and maybe learn from it, that's life.

Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation in ...

2024-09-14T20:01:42Z

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Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation in today's world between % of bitcoin uptake in the population and child mortality in a country. I guess the data will be muddied by a dominating correlation between how advanced a nation is in terms of technology and thereby allowing for knowing about, having access to & buying bitcoin in the first place and health care development but if one could correct the dataset for this kind of likely dominating correlative factor, maybe one could at least get a glimpse into whether or not there is any credence to the theory.

A kind of convoluted thought about child mortality, #science, ...

2024-09-13T13:09:36Z

A kind of convoluted thought about child mortality, #science, #religion, #bitcoin and #fiat. Bear with me.

Science/engineneering and religion/spirituality mostly have an antagonistic relationship and throughout history have always shaped each other. One thing I rarely considered in this reciprocal relationship is the simple fact that the common state for mankind has been that child mortality was around 40-50% before reaching reproductive age. That means that in order to just avoid the vanishing of your family, your tribe, your town, your state, women needed to have at least 4 kids on average, often before the age of 20. And the risk of them themselves dying during child births was high.

Pretty much every parent had had to bury multiple own their own children, every sibling saw the death of a brother or sister as children, many saw their mothers dying when they where still young. The natural state of being for any human was death, loss and uncertainty and exposure to all of these as a regular occurance. How was the mind and perspective on life shaped by this reality?

In such a world, there was likely an inclination to be more cautious, to save both resources and emotional energy, and to prepare for the inevitable hardships that would come. The need to cling to moments of joy created a mindset that prized stability, savety and foresight. Is there be a connection to the preference of hard money in past times? Gold and Bitcoin align with a worldview shaped by loss, scarcity, and a high time preference. It encourages people to save and preserve wealth, knowing that the worst can happen at any time. There is a comfort in something that is solid, enduring, and impervious to external manipulation in an uncertain reality. In the face of death and loss, saving both materially and emotionally was essential.

Only the quite recents developments of the last ~100 years (chemistry revolution, antibiotics, understanding of infections diseases & pathogens, etc.) has really changed our relationship with death. Today, the average person is not exposed to death and loss during their formative years. Now, with increased safety of childbirth, there is less of an instinctive need to prepare for the worst. People may feel less of a need to cling to hard assets or to preserve wealth for a rainy day. Instead, fiat currency takes over because external stability seems more assured (so no need to look for it in hard money).

In essence, a world with lower child mortality rates may have subconsciously on a societal level favor fiat money over bitcoin, as people no longer face the same degree of existential uncertainty that characterized the lives of previous generations. Without the same degree of existential uncertainty that once shaped earlier generations, the mindset of saving and preservation has been replaced by a more speculative approach to wealth, where greater risks are accepted, even in the form of money itself.

Anyway, my point is that beyond the well-documented technological impacts that favored the rise of fiat in the modern world which are explored by LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a), saifedean (npub1gdu…6nak), and others, maybe on another level the scientific and technological revolution in the last ~100 years might have also indirectly favored the invention and rise of fiat, by changing child mortality and - connected to this - people's relationship to their own personal time preference.

(I was listening to a recent Lex Fridman interview with a historian discussion ancient Rome where child mortality was briefly brought up)

#bitcoin #fiat #science #religion #death #nostr

Welcome to Nostr. Thanks for sharing your photography here!

2024-09-12T10:40:19Z

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Welcome to Nostr. Thanks for sharing your photography here!

- Android, newest version - I had the issue that my own new posts ...

2024-09-11T19:42:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…9r5x
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- Android, newest version
- I had the issue that my own new posts and replies to it would not show for about 10h while other posts seemed to load fine a couple of days ago (independent whether I posted via phone or PC)
- right now, things seem to be back to normal

Interesting way to look at this.I have never thought about that ...

2024-09-11T13:24:35Z

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Interesting way to look at this.I have never thought about that way. However, I would throw one consideration in the ring: When they talk about the slowness of human behavior being slow at 10bits/s, they are only using conscious perception examples. The speed of data processing that we are all doing all the time subconsciously - interpreting the thousands/millions of visual stimuli, smells and sounds when racing down a hill with unknown terrain on a bicycle and adjusting posture, direction and steering within split seconds for example - far exceeds this throughput capacity greatly. It's still human behavior but it's just that this happens subconsciously.

A recent paper discussing the framework to understand wjether or ...

2024-09-11T07:37:14Z

A recent paper discussing the framework to understand wjether or not LLMs can be conscious:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03553-w

I don't believe a LLM can ever be considered conscious for many reasons and only other AI approaches could get there but still an interesting read.

#ai #llm #chatgtp #consciousness #neuroscience #science #philosophy

I had the same revelation a decade ago when cooking with some ...

2024-09-10T11:00:07Z

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I had the same revelation a decade ago when cooking with some Italian friends. They also didn't rinse the soap off. Don't know if this was just a peculiarity from then.

I agree. I knew about bitcoin since 2014 and even had some back ...

2024-09-09T16:55:41Z

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I agree. I knew about bitcoin since 2014 and even had some back then. But I did not get it's uniqueness, I did not get how it is fundamentally different from all other shitcoins, I did not get "money". So I played around with other coins, traded and lost most of it. I credit Saylor's thoughts and hours and hours of explaining bitcoin from a more philosophical and economical standpoint and the fundamental importance of proof of work that it clicked.

Quite impressive phase 3 data from Summit's new lung cancer ...

2024-09-09T13:07:40Z

Quite impressive phase 3 data from Summit's new lung cancer drug:

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/summit-wclc-ivonescimab-keytruda-full-results-lung-cancer/726376/

For context, "Keytruda" has been pretty much the gold-standard for a decade now for this indication and has back then revolutionized the immune-oncology field. To now have a new potential drug that performs "twice as good" is really something.

A drawback is that this is based on clinical data from China and there have been some problems in the past with reliability here. But on the other hand, this effect is so huge, they would have really needed to mess up the trial or tinker with the data for this to be not true.

#science #cancer #oncology #drugs

Thanks for giving it a shot.I hope you enjoy it!

2024-09-09T10:47:19Z

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Thanks for giving it a shot.I hope you enjoy it!

can your old meter run backwards (e.g. when you are feeding own ...

2024-09-09T08:38:40Z

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can your old meter run backwards (e.g. when you are feeding own solar into the grid)? If yes and you have the option to generate your own electricity, even just with a small 800w solar setup, I'd keep the old one as I've yet to see a new one that goes into negatives.

welcome home!

2024-09-08T19:50:26Z

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welcome home!

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there ...

2024-09-07T18:28:33Z

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

― Isaac Asimov, 1980

Interesting. I did install the nos2x extension yesterday for the ...

2024-09-07T15:38:12Z

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Interesting. I did install the nos2x extension yesterday for the first time and thought maybe it had something to do with it. But seemed to have been a more general issue then.

I had the case yesterday that Primus didn't load or show my ...

2024-09-07T13:20:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…7gwa
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I had the case yesterday that Primus didn't load or show my own post or replies to them for ~10h. everything else loaded fine.No idea what happened but today it works normally again.

Hi Adrian, I saw your DM and replied today (weirdly I did not see ...

2024-09-07T10:48:03Z

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Hi Adrian, I saw your DM and replied today (weirdly I did not see my own post or your message here in my primal app until just now)

not sure what happened with my primal account yesterday but ...

2024-09-07T10:47:05Z

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not sure what happened with my primal account yesterday but interestingly this post did not pop-up on my profile as posted and I also didn't see any replies to it until just now? (which is why I reposted it today which seems was unnecessary). I wonder what happened, can there be synchronization errors/delays in the relays for something like this to happen?

Sorry for the repost but I'm still learning how to use ...

2024-09-07T10:18:36Z

Sorry for the repost but I'm still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one more try hoping the link and the tags are correct this time:
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Here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.

I wrote this book for two reasons:
a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.
b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.

I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.

Thanks to ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, gladstein (npub1trr…hdpu) whose work at the HRF is inspirational, karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) who told me about nostr.build (npub1nxy…avr7) so that I can host the file and to OT (npub1smr…xn8w), who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!

I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White

#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

it is a bit deflating. I sometimes feel the same way. But seeing ...

2024-09-07T09:00:13Z

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it is a bit deflating. I sometimes feel the same way. But seeing for how long you've already been invested, you've been through worse. It's all a matter of perspective. I have a friend who is just in the middle of his first 4-year tour...he is ~2x up on his investment, yet he is pessimistic about his investment since "everyone is selling".

Still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one ...

2024-09-06T21:20:02Z

Still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one more try hoping the link and the tags are correct this time:
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Here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):

https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.

I wrote this book for two reasons:
a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.
b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.

I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.

Thanks to ODELL (npub1qny…95gx), whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, gladstein (npub1trr…hdpu) whose work at the HRF is inspirational, karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) who told me about nostr.build (npub1nxy…avr7) so that I can host the file and to OT (npub1smr…xn8w), who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!

I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White

#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

Hi everyone! here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking ...

2024-09-06T21:02:17Z

Hi everyone!

here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):

https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.

I wrote this book for two reasons:

a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.

b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.

I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.

Thanks to ODELL (npub1qny…95gx), whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, gladstein (npub1trr…hdpu) whose work at the HRF is inspirational, karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) who told me about nostr.build (npub1nxy…avr7) so that I can host the file and to OT (npub1smr…xn8w), who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!

I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White

#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

Hi everyone! here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking ...

2024-09-06T20:48:00Z

Hi everyone!

here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build). It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.

I wrote this book for two reasons:

a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.

b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.

I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.

Thanks to @`ODELL`, whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, @`gladstein` whose work at the HRF is inspirational, @`Karnage` who told me about @`nostr.build` so that I can host the file and to @`OT`, who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!

I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White

#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

Test Upload, pls ignore ...

2024-09-06T20:22:57Z

Test Upload, pls ignore
https://d.nostr.build/kvbrnDkxscxnQ0nP.pdf

a suggestion: include the donation link that only pops up for a ...

2024-09-06T08:42:37Z

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a suggestion:
include the donation link that only pops up for a small duration in the video in your post in the future for easier access. Or something like "any zaps to this post will directly transferred and donated to strengthen the efforts of the Venezuelan opposition cause"? (or even link the zaps to their bitcoin address if that is possible)

Interesting small Nature paper on how LLMs "perceive" the ...

2024-09-06T06:40:44Z

Interesting small Nature paper on how LLMs "perceive" the user based on the dialect used. Given how LLMs will be more and more commonplace going forward - often without the user knowing that they are interacting with a LLM - this might have relevant implications for how the user is treated by the LLM (e.g. imagine a LLM that filters out applicant suitability for a loan in a first pass black box filter based on dialect assumptions).

"LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English"

https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-024-02527-x/d41586-024-02527-x.pdf

#AI #LLM #chatgtp #future #science

thanks. I'll have a look at it.

2024-09-04T18:10:29Z

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thanks. I'll have a look at it.

Is there a way I can share a PDF on Nostr? I'd like to share ...

2024-09-04T11:08:16Z

Is there a way I can share a PDF on Nostr?

I'd like to share the PDF of my book for free to every Nostr user as a tiny contribution to grow the network and add some exclusive content to Nostr but so far I am not sure how to do this.

Maybe some Nostr experts can show me if&how this is possible?
PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6)

#asknostr #nostr #grownostr #artonnostr #literature #bookstr #books

you can never go wrong with David Mitchell ... actually you can ...

2024-08-28T17:49:12Z

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you can never go wrong with David Mitchell ... actually you can never gobwrong with David Mitchells! Both the comedian and the author are fantastic.

I agree, it is a good analysis and definitely supports the main ...

2024-08-28T07:23:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…7hgc
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I agree, it is a good analysis and definitely supports the main point that this is a problem that needs more attention.
In general, woman's health and just generally considering the differences in man's vs. woman's clinical realities is unfortunately still underappreciated in medical research and physician's training (classical example: knowing the differences in heart attack symptoms). The good news is that it does get better these days and is getting on people's radar more and more.

this is an important issue and the suicide rate and risk is ...

2024-08-27T18:09:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…pqpx
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this is an important issue and the suicide rate and risk is definitely increased for PMDD sufferers (for systematic review and meta-analysis see e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721500/) but your absolute numbers are way of. Probably by a factor of 50-100x.
There are not ~700k American women dying of PMDD related suicide every year. That would imply that almost half of all women that die in the US each year die because of PMDD related suicide (see e.g.https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db492.htm). Still a very important issue!

you mean because everyone could see them and would thus know how ...

2024-08-27T17:21:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…hfma
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you mean because everyone could see them and would thus know how to game them (whereas no one knows twitter's algorithm)?

About the dopamine fix: I am not the biggest fan of dismissing ...

2024-08-27T11:14:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…5z5x
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About the dopamine fix:
I am not the biggest fan of dismissing this as something negative and without value. As Paracelsus said "The dose makes the poison". There is something incredible important about regular dopamine fixes for staying engaged and motivated. Having too much dopamine fixes (=twitter) is just as bad as not getting enough (=potentially Nostr). A healthy middle.-ground would be nice.

We (Nostr-advocates) like to point out that Nostr is different from all other social medias in that the user is the algorithm and kind of responsible for making sure he sees the content that interests him/her. Imo, this is not the best way forward and is self-serving but does not lead to the biggest Nostr-gowth. There is a reason why products that offer the best convenience mostly win in the marketplace of ideas.

I thus believe that we actually do need content algorithms for Nostr. But make their rules transparent, make them free to opt-in or out and switch between different algorithms. What I would like to see is a Nostr client like Primal or Damus giving me a menu option to activate "Content algorithm A vs. B. vs C" with each of them providing a different experience (e.g. A=wide net based on all recent posts that have similar content/topics as the posts I liked the most in the last month, B=net based on all the followers that overlap between the people I also follow and have posted the most in the last week, and so on ) . If one is inclined to so so, maybe even provide a checklist of aspects a Nostr-user can activate that then result in a user-specific algorithm that the client software generates.

#damus #primal #nostr #algorithm #engagement

Interesting new neuroscience study shows how memories are stored ...

2024-08-27T10:53:18Z

Interesting new neuroscience study shows how memories are stored within differently aged neuronal populations for different purposes and with different plasticity:

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-brain-creates-three-copies-for-a-single-memory.html

#memory #brain #science #neurobiology #neurons #memories

A meaningful, insightful stand against the lunacy that is ...

2024-08-19T14:55:53Z

A meaningful, insightful stand against the lunacy that is happening in the UK by Rowan Atkinson:

https://youtu.be/xxWMhB4Cfm0?si=vm9A2fVJkPBGxQ3r

#freespeech #uk #england #section5 #freedom #nostr #mrbean

Putting LLMs capacities into context: ...

2024-08-18T17:52:43Z

Putting LLMs capacities into context: https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/

long story short: let's not overestimate what they are capable of. The main danger might in fact be that we as humans begin to overestimate their ability to reason (of which there is none) and begin to trust or follow their guidance.

#AI #ai #LLM #science #intelligence #chatGTP #cognition

For anyone who is interested in how the brain works and what ...

2024-08-18T11:52:11Z

For anyone who is interested in how the brain works and what perception and consciousness might me: give this old but fascinating and groundbreaking book from Oliver Sacks a try. Reading about these weird disorders of the brain set me on the path to study ndurobiology later in life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat

#consciousness #books #science #brain #psychiatry #neurobiology

New study reports on massive amounts on water within Mars' ...

2024-08-17T18:46:32Z

New study reports on massive amounts on water within Mars' crust. Hard to get to but if their models are right this would be good news for future Mars missions and a potential long term settlement independent from the water at the poles.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121

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I think with Elon's takeover of twitter and the continuing ...

2024-08-17T18:25:57Z

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I think with Elon's takeover of twitter and the continuing alienation of people, Nostr is at the right place at the right time but I agree that it would be great if it could capitalize on this opportunity more rapidly. The "gradually then suddenly" mantra is not wrong but maybe it is too idealistic.

Apart from the no-brainer to capture as much of the bitcoin crowd as possible and - for lack of a better term - better marketing, two aspects could also be considered:

a) similar to bitcoin's value proposition, not looking at it from a western perspective but thinking about the long term appeal of Nostr to people living under authoritarian regimes. It should be immediately obvious to anyone living under such a regime how Nostr differentiates from Twitter & co in many regards (e.g. doxxing risk from the central authority, shutting down their account because the government said so etc.). Make Nostr better known to those people and maybe we see a rapid rise in participation. I realize many good people like gladstein (npub1trr…hdpu) are working that angle already but could we do more in that direction?

b) that might be controversial but I strongly believe if one could convince a major celebrity to switch to Nostr exclusively from twitter, you will have a big portion of their following joining along. Imagine if Taylor Swift tomorrow declares that she quits twitter and will continue on Nostr! Nostr would immediately gain millions of users. Question is, if/how to convince a celebrity with a strong following to become exclusive? Apart from idealistic arguments, maybe purely financial motivation is needed? I realize this is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way but what if instead of jack (npub1sg6…f63m) supporting Nostr development work with the next round of money, Swift gets paid $5M to become Nostr exclusive for 3 months? This might have a bigger impact on Nostr' popularity and uptake than anything else.

Not the morally best way to do it and the numbers might be off but I'm more playing devils advocate a bit here for brainstorming reasons.

thanks! I hope it can entertain for a couple of hours.

2024-08-17T09:48:53Z

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thanks! I hope it can entertain for a couple of hours.

Would you say it is similar in tone to The Expanse?

2024-08-17T08:19:42Z

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Would you say it is similar in tone to The Expanse?