Author of “Modern Chains.” Catholic. Husband. Father of two. Former Army Officer, AH-64 Pilot. BS in Art, Literature and Philosophy from the US Military Academy. MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary.
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Last Notes npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic mathmatics are our understanding of reality’s ordered expressions. yes, to say bounded is to say ordered, but it’s not “math” doing the binding. it always comes back to vertical “big” world “small” world nesting npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Bitcoin is real. Yes. Bitcoin is reality as-such. I can’t go with you there. The vertical nesting is critical. To equate horizontally is to miss the specific difference, ie. essence. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…qxjp It struck me that these are magnitudes, and the way you use the word “infinite” seems to be the word short circuiting my brain. there is no infinite magnitude. the only coherent way to say “infinite” is to mean by addition or division: no principle preventing a +1 or 1/2. so the framing as “time is either discrete or continuous” puts continuity and and discreteness next to each other, which leads to impasses and absurdity on both sides, first recognized by Aristole. whatever time is, it’s coherent in reality, which necessitates the discrete being nested within the continuous. not either or, but a relational unity. with this relational unity, there is no issue with the “double spend” it accounts for what potential could be and what actually is. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Where does the form come from? ;) npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic that is such a cool idea! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “The healthcare system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed, just not for patients.” 💯 Same as the monetary system. The money is not “broken.” npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 💯 Hurting my back was the best thing that happened to me because it got me started down the mobility path. Looking back at the way I trained. it was inevitable. Consistency is king here. It doesn’t happen overnight, but just like stacking sats, you look backwards after some time, and can’t comprehend how far u have come. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…jj7z @nprofile…wm82 I think the main structural issue at hand when you guys were talking about banks giving loans out is that they are “loaning” out money they just created. it’s not that they have acquired real money, like a pile of gold or bitcoin, and are risking risking it’s loss. like you said, structurally, they make it up, give it out, and charge interest, and any losses can be papered over by the central bank, if the fed so chooses to bail them out. that’s the mechanical process that makes our monetary system inherently usurious. @nprofile…x6pz and I had a great conversation on usury debasement and usury: the twin pillars of economic slavery physical domination vs monetary domination different matter; same form fountain.fm/episode/GbE7Us559aG9FBNLAQFM npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I think the main structural issue at hand when you guys were talking about banks giving loans out is that they are “loaning” out money they just created. it’s not that they have acquired real money, like a pile of gold or bitcoin, and are risking risking it’s loss. like you said, structurally, they make it up, give it out, and charge interest, and any losses can be papered over by the central bank, if the fed so chooses to bail them out. that’s the mechanical process that makes our monetary system inherently usurious. @nprofile…x6pz and I had a great conversation on usury debasement and usury: the twin pillars of economic slavery physical domination vs monetary domination different matter; same form https://fountain.fm/episode/GbE7Us559aG9FBNLAQFM npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…uldl enjoyed listening to you with @nprofile…wm82 Philosophy! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic also, we are finishing up the audio book. it was really good reading it outloud again after some time away from it. hits me hard even now. keeps me driving. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic zaps for books work fine npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I will send anyone a hard copy or pdf at cost. snail mail is a little cheaper than fedex, and email is free :) just DM me a good mailing address, email or both. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Whatever it takes to “justify” printing: to keep the normies nodding along npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I get the temptation for the rhetoric, but it’s not true. https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsdmpd3zakfk4fjc32yvz08kdjye4j3r6gmef5v9tpqfy9agwxdswgekuypp npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic congratz! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic My purpose is to arm bitcoiners with the moral language to talk with their loved ones about fiat and bitcoin. From the newest pleb to the most OG, there is something fresh in to chew on. Big things are coming :) npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i hope ur right i pray to be wrong npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic deploying the 82nd says otherwise npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I like the idea of the bot telling people you have left. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic that’s the most powerful asymetry we have to our advantage advocating bitcoin. it doesn’t take 1000 hours of studying economic theory to get that. hard truth: “economics” is noise, ethics is signal npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic We are all working to make that idea real. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic with the war.. with the dems flipping a +11% R seat in palm beach, i can’t buy it npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic You can also throw dice in an alley to make some cash flow. People have done that for all time and will continue to do so. The important part is to acknowledge it’s participating in a zero-sum game: one person extracts from another. horizontal trading doesn’t create anything new, it’s just redistributes that which was already created. If we get it twisted and lead people to think covered calls are not what they are, that’s where we do harm to ourselves and the community. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Start with the ethics and you will 1000x your progress vs the economic stuff A rake has its uses, but economics is limited to surface lvl descriptions. “Getting bitcoin” is grasping the roots. Sounds like you need a philosophical shovel. It only takes “1000s” of hours of study to get bitcoin, if you are trying to dig a hole with a rake. If interested, I would send you a hard copy of my back-ho of a book at the cost to ship, or the pdf for free. here is a good taste about what you will find inside. let me know https://youtu.be/eWwesp5QgbA npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic add a little bit of mouth tape, and ur golden 👌 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic ^ “you can cite particular X Y or Z, that logic is not going anywhere.” You point at something bad, and don’t address the logic/princple. your response is a non-response. If you want to engage in rational thoughtful discourse so we can both grow, i’m down for that. but if u want to emote rhetorically so you can posture as thoughtful, ggs. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic it always requires more and more energy to keep up the charade. if you think about this particular issue on it strategic “merits” you will be left scratching your head forever. but if you think about this particular issue as a monetary system doing the it has to do, it’s painfully clear. unless war is on our shores or we pay for war with money that cannot be printed, you won’t convince me it’s not just an excuse to print npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic it’s a good one to have in the tool kit. guarantee to destroy anyone’s ego. 🤣 but it builds character, making the decision to commit to the 60 if 60 feels too intimidating, try 30, or even 15. principle still plays once u find ur number and sustain it, 60 by X, the next time you try it you go 60 by X+1 it feels immensly satisfying a nice dopemine drip npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic could not agree more 👏 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic one of my favorite challenge formats was how many reps could i sustain for 60 sets, each set on the minute every minute for an hour. I would do it with my soldiers when I was a commander. pushups is easy, pull-ups more challenging with the group, but everyone has a number, it’s fun to find it, and it’s easy to program progression once u have baseline. the numbers u can hit will 🤯 over time. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic and…? fallible men do bad things. it’s a good thing the Church is bigger than any human. The particulars simply don’t matter. It’s the principle: Was Jesus who he said he was? If not, then he is just some lunatic homeless man pretending to be god and no one should follow him. These two ideas simply are contradictory. It’s incoherent to say “I follow Christ” but “Imma make my own church” It’s saying: Christ didn’t know what he was doing when he founded his Church, didn’t realize fallible men would do bad things, but it’s a good thing I know better and will hard fork for the better” you can cite particular X Y or Z, that logic is not going anywhere. I stand here fully acknowledging all wrong doings of the Catholic Church, and know there will be more in the future, because that is human nature. No hard fork scrubs the fallibility out of mankind. So every fork becomes forked ad infinitum. You want to hard fork Christ, go for it. Just don’t kid yourself it’s not what it is. I pray you consider the principles. It’s true or it’s not. And if not, all christian’s are barking up the wrong tree npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I think your “fall from grace” claim is unfounded. either Christ was the son of God and founded a Church he said he would never let fall, or he was not/did not. He created man and became man. Safe to say Christ knew human nature and its fallibility. To me, the blunders and blemishes of the Catholic church are a testimate that the Catholic church doesn’t stand on the virtue of men, but stands still through Christ’s Grace. every protestant sect that has hard forked away answered “I know better, Christ didn’t know what he was doing, we will enact his vision more perfectly” hence why there are thousands of types of “christians” If Christ wasn’t who he said he was, then it’s retarded to be Christian. I believe he was who he said he was, and did what he said he was going to do. So I’m Catholic and nothing will get to me fork off His chain. no matter what spam humans put on it. I love protestants enough to speak plainly, honestly, and earnestly. I cannot unsee protestantism as the BSV of bitcoin npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic A simple syllogism: 1) If the money is broken, then the train must stop. 2) The train doesn’t stop. 3) Therefore, modus tollens, the money is not broken. Macro is noise. It describes. Advocacy requires prescription. It’s the wrong tool for advocacy. That’s what ethics is for. Will you sacrifice the macro for the moral? npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i need to figure that out.. like yesterday. haven’t dipped my toe into the agentic yet. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic tried to zap but i don’t think ur wallet is set up. but yeah, 🙏 thanks freedom and sovereignty are sometimes messy with humans :) npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic love you, but don’t your hold a correction past when it becomes an overcorrection. it’s not an either or type of issue. logically both either or extremes are invalid because they run u head first into impasses. the middle way is harder, and yes you will never stay perfectly on your heading, so you have to be aware and consistently make adjustments when what brings u back on course takes you off course. this demonstrates the need for our next book 👀 big things coming npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic we all have to course correct, that’s the state of being human. actions that are corrections soon become over corrections in need of correction 🤣 i appreciate when people call me out for being dumb, so i can stop being dumb. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic yeah, it’s a logically invalid position to take philosophically retarded. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Would love to. My plate is rather full, but I can carve out some time to make it work 🫡 Couldn’t agree more, these topics are immensly important npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs02uta6w6hdtwllp4anuax7nllfcuap6x95wm8gyd7h6kzuluj2pqx8wylz npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic or die trying npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic good :) npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i’m slightly terrified 🤣 geozapping your junk to the entire world is now possible 😬 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Sorry, thought the object of comparison was direct enough it didn’t need saying explicitly. Was thinking of people focusing on questioning whether something was written by human hand alone, with AI, or by AI. the “slop or not” meme kind of just leaves the ideas, the principles off in the corner caring moreso about the source than the content npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic did the nail gun destroy carpentry? anyone could argue endlessly on what constitutes “real” carpentry but we can say with certitude that there is a market for amish furniture and a market for bob’s furniture warehouse. i think we can safely assume, if an amish person were to use a nail gun, they probably would make a decent piece is it true? does it hep me fit my actions to the world? these are the more important questions imo. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the logic breaks when u invert necessary relations. The individual is not the prime “atomic” unit. Freedom is not an end itself. The relational nature of human existence means “the state” can never be abolished. That’s why they are impotent in reality; they speak to a fantasy. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the trauma is deep, thinking is hard, and NGU bro npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I can’t even engage with the “particulars” of any war. I just don’t believe the sincerity anymore. I know the monetary system must create pretense to justify the fed printing dollars to buy US treasuries, so until the conflict is literally on our continental mainland OR we have a conflict we can’t fund though printing, I am just going to believe the purpose is just to woodwink the people with a justification to print. Iran is a great success! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Freedom is the flip side of the rationality coin. It’s inherent in human nature. Has nothing to do with privacy or not. it’s like saying without height there is no weight. You may not like the price, but we are always free. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the point of the passed is not “do not judge” for judgment is part of our mode of being. a human being cannot “not” judge. the passage means pay extreme attention to how you judge. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 2 weeks to slow the spread! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i’m know the technicals are mostly lost on me, so i apologize for the dumb question, which one is better? ZapBox and ESP32-S3 2 inch Capacitive Touch Display Development Board or Piggy 2.0 ESP32-S3 2 inch Capacitive Touch Display Development Board i’m not sure what the difference is. i intuit the more expensive one, but also 2.0 is better than 1.0 im just getting this for my 6 year old daughter npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “Time has primacy over philosophy.” Agree. 💯❤️🔥 time, being, knowledge, act, reality itself, all these things have necessary primacy over philosophy, physics, and ever process by which we, human beings, relate to them, including bitcoin that’s the entire point. we cannot scrub out our humanity bitcoin is just another process it helps us understand how we relate to reality, but it does not change the relation itself bitcoin’s block time occurs/exists within reality’s time. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “So if reality preserves truth, how?” This question is asking for a small world answer to a big world question. big world answers are why? questions and we have answers “But that just names the thing, it doesn’t explain the mechanism.” exactly, to explain the mechanics is to create a small world. all we can do is name the thing, acknowledge the necessary relation. You are asking me to make a small world out of the big world. And I’m saying, that’s not possible, and not even a bad thing. that ls the actual defining limitation boundary of our humanity i respect the physics, it answers how questions but philosophy has primacy to physics, and answers the why questions. if bitcoin answers the how, it says nothing about the why. I agree with you that bitcoin is a small world formal system which produces truth equal to that of reality itself. but to say bitcoin is therefor the mechanism by which reality itself produces truth does not follow at all. as a syllogism: 1) that which produces the big world truth is beyond the human mode of being 2) bitcoin is not beyond the human mode of being. 3) MT therefore bitcoin is not that which produces the big world truth npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “What other structure can you demonstrably point to that that preserves truth through time besides Bitcoin that we can both objectively agree upon?” reality itself? npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic if by universe you mean “reality itself” then that breaks the meaning of the term. all the other examples you give are small worlds in a small world, and perfectly valid and coherent. i think the profundity of insights provided by bitcoin about reality are incalculable, but they won’t get me to flip the script on how we relate to reality itself. to me, what you do with time inverts that relation. your website referred to the continuity of time as an “assumed self referential axiom” it’s not assumed, it’s demonstrated and earned though a transcendental argument: it’s a necessary relation, a necessary precondition for anything to be at all. our rational faculty cannot draw a boundary around the big world, that is correct, what the big world means to us empirically is nonsensical, means nothing, beyond our mode of being. but, our rational faculty does recognize the way we relate to the beyond. what’s beyond the horizon of human rationality? not an answerable question, it’s a category error but how do we relate to the horizon? much and more can be known npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic yeah, we are probably talking in different terms. the way I understand and use the terms big world /small world is to point at an A and ~A relation. So to claim both A and ~A invalidates itself. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “How could logic exist without a system?” While we cannot know the “system” the geneisis is, we can know the our relation to the source/genesis. Whether it’s doing, knowing, or being, the relation to gensis, the source, creation, whatever you want to call it, remains absolute. something beyond, some pure act, fully actualized, unmoved mover, some Absolute, God, Logos, Word. reality is inteligible, full of structure and order, logos, because whatever the source of this reality is inteligible, structured snd ordered. that’s the big world behind our small human world of formal systems. if bitcoin explains the big world, then that is in contradiction with the above relation, and why i recognize bitcoin as another small system man made. I do enjoy these back and forths, and agree that real dialog is better. I am rather stretched thin on time, but i would like to make the effort to make it happen 👍 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 🤣 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic cutting someone down doesn’t help anyone stand up. name calling, speculating on the unknowable interiority of another, and chicken little “the sky is falling” type of hyperbole belongs in tabloids. When discourse resembles the dialog of “real housewives of miami” it’s apt to call it kardashian drama. no matter how wrong anyone else is, makes no difference in whether or not you are right. so just persuade people why your actions are right for others. “i like my money being money, so i do X for Y, and Z. I have no use for B and C, and I think they hurt my interest with D and E risk.” that’s how people make affirmative cases for their actions and negative cases against the opposite. speak to the principles not the people not sure if that helps npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic yeah, you correctly articulated our misalignment. which i have always aspired to be able to do with my friends: to pinpoint an exact premise we go different ways with. i, like @nprofile…fp8q pointed out, think there is a circularity of reason which contradicts itself in thinking truth is a byproduct of an empirical instantiation. But i’m compelled by the Thomistic arguments that act has primacy to potency, form to matter, the immaterial to the material. if i were not, then i would probably agree with you 🤣 🤜🤛 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i read your post, then re-read my post, and i have no idea what you are responding to. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic and never will be able to 🤣 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic couldn’t be further from the truth. speak up, advocate for your self interest, make the affirmative case let the principles informing your action stand on their own. be a beacon for others to reflect upon. promoting sovereignty, helping others stand, that’s how bitcoin actualizes itself as the unstoppable force it can be. spending your time and energy speculating about the interior motives of others, trying to tear others down doesn’t help those ends. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I think bitcoin is very anti-fragile. Satoshi knew bad actors would attack it. I think his consensus mechanism is up to the task of sorting through all the conflicts of self interest. The principles of consensus make sense to me, so I’m good with participating in forming the consensus by contributing my vector of action to it, and let the chips fall where they will. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 🫡 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 🤣 one who philosophizes and leads? 🤷♂️ it’s not hubris for the man building a house to say he is a carpenter. I’ve devoted my life to philosophy and leading soldiers. Now i’m in the bitcoin space. if you want to go back to clucking, knock yourself out imma do what i do. 🫡 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…jqr4 ^ npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspxgc6unxajuj2ww4kqhn8pya8t0tf2s0409yy002cxxu2s5xdwyqu7pyf2 I articulates the principles of consensus best as I could here. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I will also say, the entire “censorship” argument is a category error and the “who is to say what is non-monetary” line of thought is non-rational, absurd, retarded. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic As a philosopher and leader, I focus on promoting principles for individuals to apply to their particular lives. That’s why I will alway say, in general, bitcoin works by soverign agents acting in their self-interest, so think about what your interests are, and then act accordingly. Since you ask about my particular interests, here is how I apply that principle to myself. I have no need for arbitrary data. I have never had need for arbitrary data. I don’t care how effecient nodes propogate meme pool data to give me an accurate estimate for fees. I just want my transactions to be secure and decentralized, and am not willing to trade that off for anything. So I run software that serves my interests. I can do that, and stand next to someone who puts monkey pics in arbitrary data, because I believe that Satoshi’s network consensus decentralizes arbitration on contentious matters, and produces a better answer than any individual could. I’m fighting against tribalism, becuse it is antithetical to the individual sovereign You can’t outsource your sovereignty. So I won’t tell you what particular thing to do, just emphasize the principles that make bitcoin bitcoin, and encourage you to be a sovereign. but Im fucking sick of childish name calling and useless drama. Advocate for your interests, make the affirmative case for why X serves an individual better than Y, but i’m done with the overselling of “bitcoin is dead if you don’t agree with me” make the case believe in bitcoin believe in its consensus mechanism participate if consensus allows monkey pics on chain or csam, hate it as much as i do, im not going to leave bitcoin becuase of it. this is how the sausage is made, so let’s just make the sausage the tension is good, but the drama doesn’t serve anyone it just makes a lot of gay retarded noise npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic indeed, forming consensus is profound. so just do that. run your node, explain why it serves your interests, and persuade others. all other behavior rightfully belongs to the category “kardashian drama” npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic kardashian drama is disgusting yet so many people are enthralled with it npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic "Bitcoin evolves only where it strengthens the network’s resilience and growth, and even then, only through the voluntary consensus of its participants. No central planners dictate terms. The protocol thrives on individual freedom: sovereign actors who choose to uphold the system because its rules serve their self-interest, not because they were coerced. No rational participant would run Bitcoin software that undermines their own interest. That is precisely the point: the system is self-re-enforcing." That's the thing about philosophy, when you grasp the principles, you can apply them to any particular. #Knots #Core #BIP110 #v30 Be rational; server your interests. It will be ok. Protocol consensus > you or I #ModernChains #bitcoin #Consensus #MakeButter! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 💯 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic always refining bout to course correct the subjective theory of value 👀 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i did read your entire post but it did not compel me to move off tbe principle that small world empiricism can ground the genesis of itself. 🫡 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I get what you are saying. The relation here is inverted, “we have been trying to understand reality without first grounding ourselves in the empirical process that produces time and durable truth.” no big world grounds out empirically. bitcoin doesn’t do that. anything empirical is a formalized bounded small world we create. you are 100% correct the bounds create intelligibility by accepting that relation, it solves the impasse: no need for an infinite regresss or uncaused cause it’s just an acknowledgment of the finitude of our rational capacity. all small worlds necessarily come from a big world, something beyond time is a small world we understand, and it comes from a continuous big world present we don’t trying to ground the source, origin, or genisis of a thing empirically is using a small world to justify a small world, and that’s impossible npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Align your actions with your interests. Your node is your loudest action. IDGAF if you need uncapped arbitrary data or not. The only thing that matters is that you, the individual, think about what you actually need from the network, and align your actions with your needs. not copy paste someone else’s interest like a NPC and serve their interests. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Bitcoin Vets is awesome npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…tjtx @nprofile…tkpx What’s going to be really cool, is when I’m done with the audiobook, @nprofile…9xys is going to load it into his Jamie AI tool, which clips out answers from the audiobook to your queries. Will be a very unique way to interact with the content. Seeing how it works with podcasts, i think this is going to set a new standard for books. Just talk to the book and the book talks back 🤣 what cool times we live in npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Ethics is to economics what physics is to engineering. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic last half is the best part imo npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “It is a sobering day when a man wakes up and realizes that the only future his children will have, is the one he builds with his own hands” —____— ooooph npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “We call him a fool, because deep down, we know his courage only magnifies our cowardice.” hits me hard #ModernChains npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 🤣 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic if that’s the worse of it, you good to go! npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Bro the play is obvious. Capture the convexity premium embedded in the term structure of leveraged synthetic duration swaps. Rehypothecate the collateral, tranche the exposure, arbitrage the forward curve, and roll the carry into a delta-neutral basis trade. Then lever the mezzanine tranche, hedge the volatility skew, and warehouse the tail risk in an off-balance-sheet vehicle. Boom. Cash money. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic freedom is a means, not an end in itself. A mistake big L “Libertarians” often make. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic ^💯 The protocol still accounts for and secure it, waiting for the UTXOs to be sent npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic best part about being a philosopher is getting attacked by both Libertarians and Statists npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic it came out of my primal wallet npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Mathematically impossible. Whatever the truth is, evolution by natural selection is false. https://blossom.primal.net/56aad7d6e3435316764dce3292e168783a58fa73ead4c86bdba893f82dd8c36d.jpg npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Reading a fiction book has become a fiction for me. 🤣 Sad really npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Harmony stands out in a world of clanging and clamor. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the entire “non-monetary uses of a monetary object make it more valuable money” is logically incoherent. I break down the argument step by step in my book, and give Peter Schiff, the poster child of this line of thinking, his turn through the logical ringer. Somewhere, thousands of years ago, there was a peter schiff crying that gold wasn’t money because it couldn’t be eaten like cows or wheat. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i need to take my girls out shootings. will be 5 and 7 over the summer. definately old enough npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I’m reading it, and @nprofile…f2lt is doing the edit/master. I get chills thinking that I am speaking to my grandchildren I will never meet. I get to share with them my heart and mind, in my voice. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “The debt may be denominated in dollars, but the true cost is measured in broken families, fractured communities, and unborn generations shackled before they draw their first breath.” Recording the audiobook of Modern Chains. That hits me hard every single time.