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@gokhan
your daily reminder that i am the semi technical cofounder you are looking forward to meeting especially if you are liquid and/ or a proper risk taker
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@gokhan
your daily reminder that I am selling gokhan.eth for 1 eth and casting it everyday till I get that 1 eth.
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@gokhan
trying to raise a microgrant of 1 eth by flipping this gokhan.eth ENS domain anyway hello Maslow
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@yerbearserker
"Compassion is the basis of morality, and its truth is immutable."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer asked a simple question:
What actually motivates a person to act morally?
He rejected three common answers:
Self interest
Religious reward or punishment
Abstract duty alone
He argued that none of these explain genuine moral action. If you help someone because you benefit, that is strategy. If you help someone because you fear punishment, that is obedience. If you help someone only because a rule says so, that is formalism.
For him, morality required something deeper.
His answer: compassion as the real foundation
Schopenhauer’s claim was that true moral action happens when another person’s suffering becomes meaningful to you directly. Not as a rule. Not as a calculation. Not as reputation management.
Compassion interrupts ego.
In his system:
Self interest = egoism
Malice = cruelty
Compassion = morality
So when he writes that compassion is the basis of morality, he means it literally and structurally. It is not one virtue among many. It is the root from which all moral behavior grows.
What he meant by immutable
Immutable here does not mean socially agreed upon. It means metaphysically grounded.
Schopenhauer believed reality underneath appearances is unified by what he called the Will. Because all beings share this deeper unity, compassion is not invented by culture. It is discovered through insight into that unity.
So his claim is stronger than:
Compassion is good
He is saying:
Compassion is the only stable foundation morality can have, because it reflects something real about the structure of existence itself.
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@gokhan
LinkedIning Farcaster:
Looking for a role that pays alright, min 3.5K per month
> power user anything
> gtm, bd, networking, technical writing, copywriting, docs
> can build product prototypes/ MVP with proper agentic coding pipelines
> generalist, dedicated nerd
> can work at any hour remote
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@gokhan
I have deployed a Clanker with the ticker $NEWSLETTER just to experiment via agentic pipelines, aimed at x402 flows, might integrate it into a few agentic services, anyway, felt the need to share it https://clanker.world/clanker/0x1DD78F5F189C0F555B98C87b092898c775128B07
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@gokhan
indeed people will want a Farcaster token. many people are just not making any money nowadays. a few years ago, they got hooked on making easy money because they were just noisy and disposable income by others had to find a niché.
some of them are just too afraid to spend that last 3K USD, too.
the moment the protocol or any client will ship any token, it'll be carnage. it will go to zero in 3 days only to make some volatility rides for a few years thanks to some market making procedures.
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@jolan
Weed thoughts:
Since I was a kid I have had this intuition that time is not real in any sense at all, only the movement of objects in space.
This sounds trivial, it’s not.
I disagree with Einstein and much of the world. I’m saying something even more fundamental almost everyone missed
The universe is an infinite, timeless lattice of all possible configurations. Consciousness is a self-referential pattern within this lattice. Identity is meaningful only in terms of pattern, not stream, and the illusion of continuity emerges from local structure within these configurations. From this single radical insight, timelessness, qualitative identity, teleportation, and immortality as pattern all follow.
Take a snapshot at any point in existence and look at the ridiculous series of events that were necessary for the string of life to reach that exact state. Zoom into the systems in a single cell. Multiply that by every atom and quantum field that had to find its own separate improbable path. For me to be alive typing this there was an exact sequence that had to play out perfectly.
The obvious unlikelihood and absurdity of life is proof to me that all people, all lives, all paths must exist at the same time. Infinitely or bloody close to it.
Yes it is survivor bias. But this survivor bias proves something most people never follow through. Either this is the only way anything could ever exist, or all configurations exist simultaneously and out of sheer inevitability complexity like ours has to appear. I call this quantum inevitability. Life is not unlikely against a backdrop of one universe. It is inevitable against the backdrop of all possible configurations happening at once.
Take teleportation. Most people think it means you die and a copy appears. That fear only works if identity is a stream. It’s not. Identity is pattern. If the pattern exists somewhere else then you exist somewhere else. There was never a continuous thing to begin with. The copy is not a copy. It is just you.
Death works the same way. I coined the term quantum inevitability immortality paradox for this. Death is impossible to experience. If nothing exists it can exist that way until it is recreated an infinite amount of time later. Conscious experience can only ever be experienced individually but it is the only thing that is always possible. Only life is possible. We are immortal not as individuals but as pattern. All of it is already happening. It is just not accessible to this pattern. But we are all of it, simultaneously.
All things are happening at all times. Always. All things that could have happened, will have happened, have ever happened are always happening. Just in different or the same space in a different form.
Free will is where most people tie themselves in knots because they are still thinking in time. Is the future determined or open they ask. But that question assumes time is real. The real question is whether your pattern genuinely authors its own configuration. And the answer is yes. The pattern that can examine itself and respond to itself is by definition the origin of its own next state. The will is free not because the future is open but because the pattern that is you is the origin of itself.
All of it is happening simultaneously right now overlapping on each other. Not branching. Not parallel. Overlapping. My structure is what creates the illusion of time out of that. I am the filter not the film.
What I did not know as a kid is that my core intuition is almost exactly what Ernst Mach said. That time and space have no absolute existence, only the relations between moving objects. Barbour took Mach seriously in a way Einstein never did and followed it through. Before that Plato, then Spinoza said there is one infinite eternal substance and time is what it looks like from inside a finite piece of it.
They all stood at the edge of time. None followed it to its logical end.
Julian Barbour’s: ‘The End of Time’ is a great read. He also has quite a few video interviews that are worth watching if you’re not much of a book reader. I’m not.
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@gokhan
all i need is a 5K to 50K USD microgrant that i won't lie to be spending on decentralized blockchain marketing efforts
if any VCs are willing, I am making my agentic hamster will write personalized short stories in the most Bataille centric phantasmagoric way possible for you
then you wait 5 months
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@gokhan
You can follow me on. I'll do my best to help you amplify your secular views.
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@gokhan
I am ready to wager Farcaster will close the shop by Q1 2027.
https://manifold.markets/gokhan/will-the-official-farcaster-client?r=Z29raGFu
till then you know where to find me https://x.com/goekhan
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