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I had a lovely chat with @princey1976 a couple of days ago. Just listened to it again - we hit so many different topics, I'd like to provide some additional thoughts and links in this thread.
1/17 https://anchor.fm/daniel-prince6/episodes/Dergigi-Just-Three-More-Halvings-ecinjv
1/17 https://anchor.fm/daniel-prince6/episodes/Dergigi-Just-Three-More-Halvings-ecinjv
We started off talking about privacy, and why I choose to remain anonymous, not showing my face in photos and videos. Eric Hughes comes to mind: "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."
"Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
The machine learning algorithms I talked about do exist, so if you want to see how faces might be reconstructed from voice inputs check out the work by MIT and others.
https://speech2face.github.io/
https://speech2face.github.io/
We talked about having a baby during the COVID-19 lock-down, and why there are still many reasons to be optimistic about the future (especially now, that Bitcoin exists). https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1143448410097377280?s=20
No other person did a better job of presenting this data than Hans Rosling. He is dearly missed, but his legacy lives on with http://gapminder.org - and of course, his talks are still online. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen
We talked about the parallels of the early internet days and the current bitcoin days. Sooner or later, we will all be bitcoiners, just as we are all "internet people" today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang
However, if you are stuck in the legacy world, you might have a hard time understanding what is currently happening and what is yet to come. I tried to articulate my thoughts on this in "Dear Legacy People." https://dergigi.com/2020/03/20/dear-legacy-people/
We talked about how every technology had its fair share of FUD: electricity, the internet, headphones, books, even writing itself.
https://fs.blog/2013/02/an-old-argument-against-writing/
https://fs.blog/2013/02/an-old-argument-against-writing/
We also talked about the dark aspects of the internet and how technology changes us both individually and on a societal level. Nicholas Carr wrote about that rather eloquently in his book "The Shallows." It's a couple of years old now, but still relevant. https://amzn.to/2XsOnH6
If you are interested in these kinds of things make sure to check out the work of @tristanharris and the Center for Humane Technology. The podcast "Your Undivided Attention" is well worth your time as well.
We talked about exponential technology and exponential trends a bit, and how the exponential growth in price-performance - the law of accelerating returns - is responsible for a lot of humanity's progress and a lot of our economic growth.
While we are starting to hit some of the hard physical limits, we still have some ways to go. As Feynman liked to say, "there's plenty of room at the bottom."
3D printing is another topic we touched on. Another technology that allows the potential for human ingenuity to flourish, as evident thanks to the current crisis.
https://www.plasticstoday.com/medical/italian-hospital-3d-prints-medical-valves-covid-19-patients/65999176962640
https://www.plasticstoday.com/medical/italian-hospital-3d-prints-medical-valves-covid-19-patients/65999176962640
We also talked about other communities that might have a large overlap with bitcoin: from homeschooling to personal responsibility and extreme ownership, many such communities exist (h/t @bquittem). https://twitter.com/Bquittem/status/1246113623803678731?s=20
I believe that things will change drastically in the next decade. The smart thing to do is to start stacking sats today. And, if you can, familiarize yourself with the technologies of the future.
In any case, every day new blocks are coming in. And every day new blocks are coming in, Bitcoin is fine. Everything else is just noise.
We got this. https://dergigi.com/2020/03/31/dear-bitcoiners/
We got this. https://dergigi.com/2020/03/31/dear-bitcoiners/
