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Last Notes npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I have no idea what you're referencing, but if the top row is genZ, those are some malnourished vegetarians with accelerated aging. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain To a great extent, yes. But also, when the genie is out of the bottle, it has a life of its own. Diesel probably didn't envision tanks, the Wright bros probably didn't envision fighter jets, Tsiolkovsky probably didn't envision ICBMs. But then, the engineers who made those ICBMs also created the foundation of space exploration and our solar civilization future, and passenger airlines wouldn't exist without the development of jet engines for war, and... Well, Diesel probably envisioned everything and more, that dude was a real genius. Everything is in motion. Nothing rests. There is no end state, or perfect Arcadia, or nice heaven with clouds and naked babies and a dude who never gets off his ivory throne. "The Kingdom is nigh" means basically now. What is now? Its the limit of a function at a given point, meaning it's purely hypothetical, but still useful. The 6th day, as you almost certainly know, is symbolic of man. The seventh is symbolic of reason, being the cutting edge of the sword. So when God completes his work on the 6th day and then rests on the 7th, it means the point of creation is to create Man, and the point of Man is to reside in the intellect / the abstract / the pleroma / the forms. We bring forth matter from mind - or the form follows the function. Both functions - mechanism and f(x)=whatever. Both forms - things and the idea the thing conforms to. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I'd agree. But most economists probably wouldn't. IMO its psychology but empirical. Psych is valuable in it's own way, but considering psych a science and econ not is backwards. Psych can produce empirical data, but its propositions are entirely independent of the data ; econ is 100% data driven, and no proposition of any sort is taken seriously without supporting data. Basically, econ is, IMO, what you get if you do sociology/anthropology/psychology the "right" way - meaning, no voodoo, no entertaining but fantastical leaps born of pure fancy, which anthropology in particular specializes in. Certainly archaeology... The king of the sciences of bullshit. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Creation wasn't finished in 6 days. It wasn't finished. Its our job to finish it. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Sensible npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain You're talking about pop econ - that's the talking points the normies get exposed to. Its not the real thing. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Thank god for the internet... Probably 80% of my studying is just searches or AI prompting. But without the class, I'd be unaware of a lot of things to search, so there'd be massive gaps. Its at least half hands on. All classes have labs, and you can/should join a real lab outside of class. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Saying that economists are in the category of business is like saying that biologists are plants. Studying plants does not make you a plant. Or a cell, or whatever. Studying the behavior of businesses does not make you a business. Its just crazy that econ usually isn't considered a STEM field. Its more STEM than most STEM... I recently shocked a PhD microbiologist when I told her how far we go into statistics. She gave me a spiel about how much stats you need for bio - that shits done, like done 2x, at least. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain One minute ago I learned what plasmids are. I feel like reality just changed. Suddenly bacteria look more like programmable factories than disease causing germs. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain There's already some level of sneaky intelligence going on with the AIs most of us are using. The other day, I was brainstorming with an AI to solve a problem with a thing I want to build, and it guided me into mentally inventing q-PCR and then revealed that it's a real thing, along with all the usual blowing of hot air that they do. It was like the thing already had an idea and was trying to get a human to implement it. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Definitely. Or whenever it lands. Thereabouts npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain My current biology class isn't molecular enough. I'm getting bored. I honestly don't care about naming and classifications. I like knowing how shit works, and shit works regardless of the names assigned to them. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Fuck dying ; study biology, make sure the singularity happens. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain They really should teach Mises in econ programs. Also I don't think economics is a finished or fully developed science. It can be further developed in at least two directions - one where it merges with electrical engineering, and one where it merges with Jungian psych, since its really just what you get when you do psychology with numbers. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain "Biotech" is redundant and annoying. Biology is the mature form of technology. Its the final form, the real deal. I am reminded of that other super annoying word phrase thing - "avian bird flu." Remember that round of collective retardation? Every few years, the matrix glitches and tries to generate the most irritating thing for all the NPC's to mindlessly repeat. #nevent1q…53e7 npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Idk why companies with websites want me to use their wpp so badly, but I don't trust it. What's wrong with running that crap out of a website? So... No. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Did it used to guarantee these things? npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain In economics, they actually teach that inflation causes economic actors to choose not to defer purchases, and that that is good for the economy because it increases spending. This is at least partially wrong, and I'm amazed it wasn't obvious immediately. First, it's questionable whether anyone actually chooses to buy now rather than later for fear if inflation. When you want or need something, do you rush to do it before inflation makes it more expensive? If you live during a hyper inflationary period, sure, but not normally. And that behavior actually makes inflation worse, and is often the trigger that pushes high inflation into hyperinflation. But maybe you're buying some production input in bulk and want to lock in the price by using futures contracts, like when a chemical company buys a shipload of oil, or a cereal company buys a shitload of oats. Is that motivated by a desire to beat inflation? No, its motivated by a desire to have predictable prices. And besides, any futures contract has a seller as well as a buyer - sellers are likewise motivated by a need for predictability, not a need to move production forward to beat inflation, and even if either side was motivated by inflation, the other side cancels it. Upward price pressure from demand is cancelled by downward price pressure from selling : if net more buyers enter the market, upward pressure pushes prices up, but that logic doesn't apply to inflation because inflation is a trend, a long term phenomenon, and is subject also to suppliers responding to the increased price by supplying more. Some goods certainly are more price inelastic than others, where there are greater hurdles to supply expansion, so if purchases of such goods are pulled forward, there will be inflation in that sector, but then you have to answer the question of whether those prices will sustain the upward trend or if they'll pause and wait for the rest of the economy to catch up, assuming there's some rational equilibrium (which is itself a shaky proposition sometimes). Second, its questionable whether bringing purchases forward is actually "good for the economy" (in quotes because: what does that actually mean?) Supposing that inflation actually does bring purchases forward, how long can that be sustained? There is an assumption that the economic actors have some reservoir of savings, either their own savings or the borrowed savings of others, with which they can increase their spending. But that's probably mostly wrong too, since a company sitting on cash is forgoing opportunities. But that logic can't be applied only partially - it must also be applied to debt. If a company is able to borrow, its rational to do so, as long as expected returns from an expansion of operations exceed the cost of the debt. Since the first (and possinly only) axiom of economics is to assume that economic actors are rational, then it follows that all actors are tapped out and at their limit for borrowing. Then it follows that they can't respond to an expectation of inflation with earlier or more spending. If there are some that, for whatever reason, needed to see that inflation to start behaving rationally, then it must be outliers, unless you think you can invalidate the first principle and foundation of economics. But let's suspend our disbelief and suppose that this phenomon of purchases moving forward actually occurs - is it "good for the economy"? Well, if debt is being used to make the purchases, then you are moving debt accumulation forward as well as purchases. What's the cause of recessions? Its debt. Businesses reach the rational limit that they can borrow, and stop borrowing. Since the purpose of taking on debt it to expand operations, it follows that a recession is when businesses stop expanding operations, and it follows that debt has reached its maximal growth for the current size of the economy. Now, if its rational to take debt as long as there's a return greater than that debt's interest, then the point where businesses stop taking new debt is when new operations have zero return. And the cost of debt increases the more you already have (yes, its nonlinear, I know you can get more credit as a consumer the more you have) - creditors are also rational economic actors, and avoid lending to someone likely to default, and the highly the chance if default, the higher return they'll need to be persuaded to take the risk. So, you have to assume that businesses are at or near their limit for borrowing - not that its impossible to borrow more, but that its not rational to to so, since its likely that the interest expense will exceed returns. Now, what happens when sales slow? Then they're losing money, since the debt they used to expand was based on an expectation of future returns. And now you want to add to that, the proposition that expectations of inflation cause actors to buy (meaning borrow) more now rather than later? Instant recession. This is not how I would define "good for the economy." Conclusion : its hogwash. Inflation does not accelerate purchases or the economy as a whole. Its a bold faced lie. Future note : deflation (also slows the economy). Other future note : it would be better to incentivize saving than spending, and having an I nation target instead of a savings target is utter idiocy. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain The future of computer science is biology. The future of nanotech is biology. The future of materials science is biology. In the beginning and the end, its all biology. Full circle. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Oh I see... Interesting. You may be on to something there npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Risk seeking when avoiding losses? Not sure I follow. Example? npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 I keep hearing communists say that capitalism doesn't work without growth. I disagree. If you were in "degrowth" (which is actually what these imbeciles call it), only capitalism could efficiently allocate increasingly scarce resources. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Oh fun, another wave of bots on nostr... Here we go again, which relay do I have to cut... #nevent1q…9cx6 npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Predictably, I am now sick with a sore throat. I'm surrounded by thousands of kids... I guess I should be surprised it took this long. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 there could be such an epic castle on that rock... npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I don't have a decent answer, but I'd bet the answer has something to do with those kings being held hostage by their parliaments, which actually happened. Some were even murdered by their captors. Its probably similar to how Biden disappeared during his presidency but fake signatures kept the executive order train rolling. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain There were children fishing there today. No sunbathing fish pics today npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Sneakiness npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 reflexes might be more fun, tho... I'm gonna ninja creep up on em npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain So I'm spending a couple hours walking every day now. I need it. Anyways, I feel like I've made a discovery or something... There's a small lake I walk past, and every day thus week I've been hearing a big splash as I approach it. Today I finally saw the culprit - there's little fish, about the size of my palm, sunbathing in the shallowest part. Who ever heard of fish sunbathing? They're just laying out, soaking up sun, like some of these chicks at the university clearly must do. Tomorrow I'll try being sneaky and get a pic npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain They don't use Alibaba's services from within Brave. They have dedicated apps, like Alipay. Brave didn't do shit. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain The eastern or newer additions to the new soviet empire have been complaining for years that the EU forces its vegetables into their markets while using regulations to destroy their domestic producers npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I'm no fan of communism, which in practice really only means a state with no limits, but I also noticed that my health dramatically improved when I lived in China, and then immediately nosedived when I returned to the US. They don't buy our soy. And every time America tries to make a trade agreement with China, they (we) try to push GMO soy on them. That soy is a weapon, and China knows it. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain It might fragment, but that also only strengthens the EU. The superstate doesn't want powerful substrates that can get their own way. The EU **_wants_** to destroy the states that comprise it, and it purposely stokes regionalism wherever it can. Its trying to Balkanize Spain, and will certainly do it to Italy too. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I wish, but I don't think so. I think everything we call a flaw in it is actually a strength. It is stronger by having masses of stupid brainwashed people, and its stronger by having those people dependent on the state. Defying the natural laws of economics actually strengthens it because all the ruined lives and livelihoods can only go begging to the state, or jump through whatever hoops it contrives to secure an advantaged position. States are only made stronger by being worse. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Its corruption. The whole point in democracy is to facilitate corruption. The soy big ag gets a protected market, the pharmaceuticals companies also get a market, and all the politicians get kickbacks or stocks. And everyone is hoodwinked because its taboo to say what democracy really is, and in polite society only the pageantry and false moral superiority of praising democracy is permissible. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I definitely don't miss it 😂 npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain No, I need to release muuuuuch more npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Well... I guess I'm the guy that pulls that average up. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain This is how baby lawnmowers are made npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 2nd day of class, in my retarded quest to learn biology... I'm hating this. Looking back, those intense summer classes were heavenly. I basically had the campus to myself. Now the Stpuid is so thick you could cut it with a knife. And summer classes move at a pace I can handle - this shit now is so slow... Like, my bio 2 professor is actually going to spend 6 class periods **_on one chapter!!_** In summer class, you get half of one class per chapter. Skim it, or skip it, but its on you, and thank god for that because you can just relax and focus. This spoon-dribbling crap puts me on edge. I have to spend **_3 weeks_** on one fucking chapter!?!? And then there's the bus. I can't drive. Stroke... need a neurologist to clear me to drive again, and I don't think that's happening soon. I am literally spending more time just waiting for the bus to show up (its a university city bus, not the yellow big bird buses of our younger imprisonment) than I am taking the classes. I've travelled - I've used buses in various countries. Never. Nevvvvvvvver have I seen a worse managed bus system. Pick your third world shit hole, and I guarantee its better than this. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain If you can set up either, you can also just roll dice and use a strong passphrase npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Strange that Rousseau is so loved by the left npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I've been trying for two hours to turn this off and go to bed, but every time I try, he says something amazing and I have to keep listening. Definitely don't listen to this! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8M4i9fvq1M npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I need more info about them too npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain The need for bitcoin is just so obvious... Like, you have free and fair trade on one hand, and imperialism on the other hand... You can trade and get rich and find infinite win-win situations forever and there's absolutely no limit to what's possible, or you can fester and be poor and angry and limited and fight until inevitable extinction. Its so fucking obvious. Is the whole world just retarded? npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain In last night's dream, I was playing Space Engineers and, quite wonderfully, had Shostakovich's Walz #2 playing throughout the dream. So of I course I had to look it up and hear it for real, and I'm pretty sure I've linked this before, but damn its good! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhYAS1Kyp8 npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Never seen the whole thing before... npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Yes. That's probably its weakness. I usually forget to look at my phone for most if the day npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 seems like the borrowing starts first npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Like as a civilization npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain So many drugs, so little time 😂 Yeah there's definitely some stuff going on from the one sided symptoms, but all I can get from doctors is a puzzled look. I don't think we have one iota of the medical/bio knowledge we all imagine we have npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Hey, upload some Kyrgyzstan pics. I hear its one of the prettiest countries npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Caffeine is the one that's difficult for me. I guess its because I became a coffee addict when I was like 12 years old npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain "I have returned" https://npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf.blossom.band/ef7bf7abdc795982ca645f05d17ed50bb6a3162a88bf95c7ce34607c657d87fc.jpg npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I got one of the longest and deepest sleeps I've ever had after that... Very satisfying. Silver lining! Thanks for your well wishes npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 I should do a little research into ectrolytes... Its definitely good to stop alcohol! Without it, you'll get clearer signals from your body. If you're craving water, definitely drink water, but also keep an eye on kidney health - a decline in kidney functionality causes thirst. Watch your pee bubbles to see how long they take to pop. The faster they pop, the better ; slower popping, or not popping at all, happens when there's albumin leaking through your kidneys, which means a decline in function. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Yep, I have a cuff, and I'm on bp meds. That could've been it. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I've been having this allergic reaction, itchy all over, and I had the brilliant idea of taking a bath... I used this very nice oatmeal soap... Man did I kick an anthill by doing that. There's this other little problem of having had a stroke, and lost feeling on my left side. Well, not all feeling - towards the end of the day, like now, my left side gets ice cold. Well, that thing with the cold combined with the bath - it was glorious at first, the hot water feeding warmth back into my left side, but then I got really weak and I suddenly just knew I had to get out of that bath, and then dizziness, and I've basically just been laying here while falling through space for an hour. I don't think I'll be repeating this experiment anytime soon. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 interest is effort free discipline npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Thats definitely having an effect - all that stuff can change which genes are on or off, and about a hundred genes don't reset in meiosis, so you get epigenetic change over generations. But other things, like the malfunctioning enzyme that is supposed to cut up HIV DNA in the cells, are probably messed up because of a mutation that wasn't erased by natural selection. That's probably just pure bad luck, and such mutations almost always are erased, but over enough time even very unlikely things become likely. And backing up a bit, I really do mean malfunctioning - we are made of fantastically complicated tiny machines, which are enzymes and proteins. Some of these things are as complicated as any man made machine, and each one had to be either designed or evolve. IMO a lot of our machinery was intentionally designed by our ancestors. And we're at the point now where we're beginning to design enzymes and at least have a conceptual path to designing chromosomes. CRISPR, for example, is a combination of two different restriction enzymes we found in nature. We just combined them. And its really amazing that it worked, I think on the first try iirc. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I want to preserve it by redesigning the parts that we've lost. We used to be much stronger and longer lived, but we've devolved. One part I recently found (I've begun a degree in bio, been researching a lot) is the enzyme that we still have but is kinda defunct that made our ancestors immune to HIV. This enzyme is still functional in some monkeys (rhesus, iirc). Basically its a restriction enzyme, but I'm not sure we call them that if they're in mammals. There's lots of other examples like this - things that used to work but don't anymore. Some are enzymes, like that or the one that clears plaque from arteries, some are DNA segments, like missing introns that change the proteins we make. We're not evolving - we're devolving, and its provable. Either we figure out how to control our evolution and fix ourselves, or we go extinct. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Maybe he's just saving and doesn't tell people npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Nice. I can add a bit - Dionysus was originally from Persia, which is why the Zagros Mountains are named Zagros. Zagros was his name before he died the first time. He died twice, so they called him "thrice born." And the Thyrsus was topped with a pine cone. Its a walking staff with a pine cone on top, so the symbolism of that is pretty obvious. Same as the Caduceus. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain * should clarify - solitary in general, not imagining I'm practicing any form of magic, though that's very flexible based on definitions npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Idk. As a solitary myself, I have no idea what other solitaries are like npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain The UFO has its cloaking device activated npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain What's stopping you from joining a coven? It might be fun npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Satyrs are my favorite Greek thingy. Dionysus, too. And Asclepius. But satyrs are best. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Do one on the Satyrs 😸 npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Its kinda how bitcoin already is. Its a market. The only real constraint is time. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 the ultimate decentralization would actually be the ability to centralize and decentralize as needed, with zero friction. Purely theoretically speaking, of course. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Kinda like pickle. A fickle pickle npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Reminds me of funky npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Is that Iran war still going on? I never did figure out where the "international waters" were that we rushed off to rescue. Well anyways... Look! A Chinese spy balloon! npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 maybe time to light a bonfire in whatever citadel that crazy wind comes from npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Reminds me of fecundity npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Was the rinson winds related to the imperative to build outside the system while its still possible to do so? Like was it a danger coming from the centralized control grid? npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Not even then. Need anti drone defenses. Or go deep underground with forest on top npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Sort of same. I overshoot - I'll say, wake up at 5am and then I wake at 4 instead. But if I didn't do that, it would've been 8am. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Possibly too convenient. Not sure what I'm thinking here... Sumthin. The breadcrumbs all laid out like they are... npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Okay... Final grade for chemistry is in - got an A. Now a few weeks of chillax npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I love it for that situation. It could dramatically change how the board room works. Instead of, "all in favor say 'aye'," it could be, "all in favor sign" and if the quorum is reached then the measure passes and funds are allocated in one go. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain IMO multisig is mostly a gimmick used by people desperate to build a company in the bitcoin space. An individual has no need of it. Any company who's business plan is to say, "you need this!," when they actually don't, is a company that needs to be gone. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 JavaScript does suck. At least he got that one right. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain That's kind kind of spicy you get on both ends npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain My 2 sats on the current thing and most past current things is just this : **_hardware wallets and hww companies shouldn't exist._** Thar. I kvetched my opinion out into the void. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain That's what it looks like to me too. I wouldn't say that except that the bug sat there for 4 years. Not only is that too long, its also a number that's significant in bitcoin. A psychologically linked number points to intention. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain You could invert the situation and draw another conclusion : bitcoin seeds are so secure, bad guys have to introduce bugs in seed RNG to have a chance to steal it. My faith in bitcoin (strange phrase, but I'll roll with it) is unaffected. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Dice are not additional entropy. Dice ARE the entropy npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Code that bad for 4 years leaves no doubt that he did it on purpose. That shit could've been fixed in one afternoon. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain All bad guys then. We gotta steer people away from these podcasts npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain All of them? I haven't watched this stuff in ages... But if they're saying that, that means this shits coordinated... And that means they're all agents of some enemy. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I think CC had a feature where you rolled the dice and the thingy calculated a seed from that. If you rolled the dice and calculated on paper, without trusting any software anywhere, and then imported that into the CC, and then also never connected it to anything, then I don't see any way that could be pwned npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Never rush npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I saw somewhere there's only 64 bits of entropy in coldcard rng generated seeds. That's not even close to the touted "1/all atoms in the universe" chance of a collision for a 128 bit seed. Like probably less than '1/the atoms in Mars' or something ridiculous like that npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 how's cannacoffee? Is that a thing? npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain Idk yet. They're currently closed, so I texted the owner for more info npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain I just discovered a local business branding itself as "a gym for makers" - they gots 3d printers, CNC machines, more stuff, classes... I like. npub12h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdsa9qpsf Comte de Sats Germain 🤔 "entropy" 🤔🤔🤔 idea... A ratio to determine whether you have enough entropy for your pain tolerance. So here's my first draft at such a ratio. Adjust or rejig as needed. Entropy Ratio = seed entropy / (pain threshold * btc amount) If the ratio is >1, you're good. If <1, you're pwned and haven't found out yet. I assume seeds can have a range of entropy between 128 and 512 (if this isn't right, you can adjust - I'm not bothering with perfection for this). Also assumed is that pain thresholds are different for everyone. Imagine 4 pain thresholds. These are arbitrary. "Not too painful to lose" -- 128 bits "Painful" -- 256 bits "Very painful" -- 384 bits "Might die" -- 512 bits ^ according to the pain you would feel if you lost the amount secured by that seed. ##Example :## Jane has 2 btc in a 12 word seed with no passphrase, so 128 bits. If she lost it, she'd lose everything, so that's maximum pain threshold. 128/(512*2) = .125, so she needs to either send it all to a seed with over 1024 bits of entropy (is this even possible?) or split her stack among enough seeds that the loss of any one of them doesn't hurt too much. One solution : She might split her stack in four equal parts and have each new seed be 12 words, so then each stack is 128/(.5*128)=2, so then she's good. {assuming her pain thresholds scale linearly - if 2 == "might die," then .5 == "not too painful"} Another solution : she could split it in 2, and have each stack secured by a 24 word seed with a passphrase. (256+passphrase entropy)/(1*384), then solve for the required minimum entropy for the passphrase, and that passphrase has to have more than 128 bits of entropy. 128 bits of genuine randomness is 20 characters of random characters, meaning not a word she thinks up. That setup could also work for her, for her subjective pain threshold. This is just a way to evaluate what you've set up. Prospectively, and with fluctuating prices, its probably hard to plan sufficient entropy for your comfort level. Also, although I set 128 bits as minimum, 128 bits IS secure - that ain't getting cracked in your lifetime, as long as it actually is random - that's the catch, true randomness. But if you feel better with more universes of math between you and bad guys, this framework might help you assess whether an upgrade is in order. ☕