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a place for wizards, fractalism, and things that make you grin

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lesson in there

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when inspiration and opportunity meet, get to work immediately and go as fast as you can momentum overcomes procrastination follow the fun

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wisdom in action https://farcaster.xyz/androidsixteen.eth/0x6f70ce03 https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0x7155b37e

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read this if you’re thinking you may someday have a kid (or another kid). you can thank me later https://grin.io/due-date

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> Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

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we were promised flying cars but instead we got fully autonomous AI trashcans with a sense of humor

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the USA is probably conscious https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140721.pdf

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One of my weirdest beliefs is that complex entities are literally alive and conscious. Companies, cities, AIs, memes. They all have qualia (aka internal conscious experience) We control them, and also they control us to a higher extent than most ppl believe.

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really loved this pod with @shawmakesmagic and @linda. a few things really caught my attention: one, i love the opensource ethos of contributing to the future you want to live in. both shaw and linda emphasize how if you want decentralized social to win, you gotta pitch in. it won’t happen on its own (or maybe at all), and if it does happen it will be a grind. you’re the ideal person to help the grind because your values are represented here and nowhere else. as @visakanv says, spent your time and energy on what you want to see more of. two, shaw's vision for an agent-powered social future aligns with what ive been working towards at neynar. i want agents to be proactive -- to find me collaborators, opportunities, friends, etc. connecting with ppl on social has already been insanely valuable in my life, and it could be so much better. and tbh fc is the best place to build this today finally i resonated with shaw's legal battle cuz its very similar to what i went through at LBRY vs the SEC (our shitposts did show up in court but the judge loved em so dw bb). its ironic when you consider how much Elon hates the SEC but in this lawsuit he's playing their part https://pinetree.so/video/0x8d4721001f4f372baf4e43ddbc2b22bc0fd0e946

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IRL is the the antimeme of URL > We need move away from the abstract/virtual world where information is only something that we take in through our eyes and maybe ears, sitting by ourselves in front of a screen. If we treat ourselves as artificial beings embedded in a low-dimensional landscape of pixels, as game- and information-theoretic agents engaged in stimulus-response or at best strategic/computational optimization, we ignore the fact that we are bodies. > We are human bodies ... The “densest” form of communication would be something that involves our entire sensorium. > the meme is (potentially) the densest form of communication **within** the degraded artificial space of a feed-based social media platform. But these platforms’ antimemes are the **embodied, social processes** that cannot be encoded as digital media, and they are far more information-dense than anything that happen on a screen. https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antimeme-is-the-message-of-the

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> Appreciation is a form of taste. Creation is another. They are often intertwined, but don’t have to be. Someone could have impeccable taste in art, without producing any themselves. Those who create tasteful things are almost always deep appreciators, though. https://www.are.na/editorial/notes-on-taste

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something i've had to learn over time is to "fold pre" -- a poker term for folding early and not playing a hand at all. this is standard advice for hands that need to go just right for you to win more generally, this means not to get involved in things that are marginally good or that i feel meh about a good reminder to myself https://www.scimitar.capital/p/the-jackpot-age

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good post from @jonathancolton > But even this MVP-first approach kept the hardest part—finding customers—pushed to the back of the journey. That gap is what a new type of founder is closing. These are distribution-first founders. https://paragraph.com/@jonathancolton.eth/the-rise-of-the-distribution-first-founder

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Spent most of last week at PorcFest, the libertarian burning man. Overall I had a great time. Met very cool ppl, got to see Ross Ulbricht talk about buddhism and prison, was offered exotic currencies and recreational bacteria, ate bacon produced via child labor, and heard enough outrageous theories to last all year My biggest takeaway is that I don’t spend enough time with ppl outside my bubble.

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