Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2025-04-23 21:35:12
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Gzuuus on Nostr: 🫡 If you have any doubts or questions, feel free to ask at any time. There’s ...

🫡 If you have any doubts or questions, feel free to ask at any time. There’s also a pod where we discuss these stuff a bit

“It’s gonna be permissionless or hell.”

Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.

Books & articles mentioned:

In this dialogue:

  • Pablo’s Roo Setup
  • Tech Hype Cycles
  • AI 2027
  • Prompt injection and other attacks
  • Goose and DVMCP
  • Cursor vs Roo Code
  • Staying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation
  • Is YOLO mode here to stay?
  • What agents to trust?
  • What MCP tools to trust?
  • What code snippets to trust?
  • Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments
  • Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments natively
  • Minimalistic & open usually wins
  • DVMCP exists thanks to Totem
  • Relays as Tamagochis
  • Agents aren’t nostr experts, at least not right now
  • Fix a mistake once & it’s fixed forever
  • Giving long-term memory to LLMs
  • RAG Databases signed by domain experts
  • Human-agent hybrids & Chess
  • Nostr beating heart
  • Pluggable context & experts
  • “You never need an API key for anything”
  • Sats and social signaling
  • Difficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanism
  • Certificate authorities and centralization
  • No solutions to policing speech!
  • OAuth and how it centralized
  • Login with nostr
  • Closed vs open-source models
  • Tiny models vs large models
  • The minions protocol (Stanford paper)
  • Generalist models vs specialized models
  • Local compute & encrypted queries
  • Blinded compute
  • “In the eyes of the state, agents aren’t people”
  • Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both
  • “It’s gonna be permissionless or hell”
  • We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other things
  • Most great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc)
  • Zapstore shows that this is already working
  • At scale, central control never works. There’s plenty scams and viruses in the app stores.
  • Using nostr to archive your user-generated content
  • HAVEN, blossom, novia
  • The switcharoo from advertisements to training data
  • What is Truth?
  • What is Real?
  • “We’re vibing into dystopia”
  • Who should be the arbiter of Truth?
  • First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred
  • Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy
  • Suicide rates & the meaning crisis
  • Are LLMs symbiotic or parasitic?
  • The Amish got it right
  • Are we gonna make it?
  • Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • Takedown by Laila michelwait
  • Harry Potter dementors & Momo’s time thieves
  • Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents
  • Zapping as a conscious action
  • Privacy and the internet
  • Plausible deniability thanks to generative models
  • Google glasses, glassholes, and Meta’s Ray Ben’s
  • People crave realness
  • Bitcoin is the realest money we ever had
  • Nostr allows for real and honest expression
  • How do we find out what’s real?
  • Constraints, policing, and chilling effects
  • Jesus’ plans for DVMCP
  • Hzrd’s article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)
  • Don’t believe the hype
  • DVMs pre-date MCP tools
  • Data Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.
  • Self-healing vibe-coding
  • IP addresses as scarce assets
  • Atomic swaps and the ASS protocol
  • More marketplaces, less silos
  • The intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeks
  • If you can vibe-code everything, why build anything?
  • Time, the ultimate resource
  • What are the LLMs allowed to think?
  • Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical
  • Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too
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