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 🤣 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 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 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 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 🤣 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 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 anytime you copy/paste information without critical though, ur just an NPC npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspxgc6unxajuj2ww4kqhn8pya8t0tf2s0409yy002cxxu2s5xdwyqu7pyf2 exactly: should consensus carve out space for arbitrary data? if yes, how much? what node implementation you run is arbitrary data 🤣 this issue was always going to be arbitrated by protocol consensus npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Brown University puts total cost to 8 trillion. Even at 2.5, the absurdity 🤦♂️ npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic by you logic, every change to bitcoins protocol rules were impossible, because “less than 50% of the node runners” were using the software at some point 🤣 incentives are colliding, that’s how bitcoin arbitrates contention. the dust must settle before anyone can say “what consensus has formed” npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic bitcoin doesn’t give a fuck about “general opinion reached by some group” we are talking about bitcoin, and somehow you think your meaning of the word “consensus” matters maybe most don’t know how to respond to your incoherent lane changing, but i recognize it and call it out. hopefully for ur benefit. my degrees don’t make me right or strong mentally, they are just a testiment to the metal training i have put myself through. don’t cry about not being able to bench 315, just hit the gym. same applies to logic and first principled thinking npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i offer them the same initial grace and benefit of the doubt as i would hope would be given to me. what they do with it, no holds bar after that npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic that principled vein runs all the way down to the metaphysical source. life, liberty, property are incoherent concepts without their other side of the coin responsibility, duty, and stewardship npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic i don’t know why u are talking at all. its incoherent emoting and its not condescending to call people out you are tilting at windmills and it’s embarrassing npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic lol this retard doesnt conflate personal preference with protocol consensus 🤣 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic you don’t know what consensus is… protocol consensus has nothing to do with implementation. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic also, arguing “censorship” is a category error npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I dont hate on spammers or “monetary maxis’s” i see the tension as a good thing, as long as the serve themselves. all moves are valid right now and consensus arbitrates what is valid but people saying they can’t define non monetary is non rational, absurd, retarded. or that working through consensus is an attack on bitcoin. it’s not correct or honest. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic because of trade offs. I would be fine with 0 arb data, because i have never had a need for it, nor do i ever anticipate i would need it. but i understand some find some utility for some arb data, so having consensus carve out a small space for arb data seems perfectly reasonable. but the larger and larger u make the area, the more surface area it introduces for potential harm, so i am against uncapping it. doesnt serve my interests. if you have the need for uncapped arb data, then run a node to build that consensus. my position is to signal your self serving interest, because that is how consumes us is made. if uncapped arb data is consensus, so be it. if 100kb is consensus, so be it if 0 is consensus, so be it. i trust the consensus process even if it doesn’t align with my self interest, because it’s a better answer than any of us individually could come up with. what worries me, is that people won’t serve their interests, and just parrot other people’s interest without any thinking. if every user is a sovereign individual, serving themselves, i trust consensus will find the collective good. if users are going to NPC themselves and copy paste others interests becuse they are too retarded to think on their own, we are fucked anyways npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic both are arbitrary data 🤣 it literally doesn’t matter what is in it 🤣 could be full, empty, bible verse, a program, a jpeg. it’s all arbitrary stapled onto a sent UTXO npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the point of the cucumber example is upon you becuase you are fixating on particular content and completely miss the principles in play. it doesn’t matter what is encrypted or not encrypted in arbitrary data. it’s the category, the function, the essence npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic the sending of thr UTXO is monetary the arbitrary data associated is the monetary transaction is.. wait for it.. arbitrary. Arbitrary means discretionary. meaning it doesn’t matter to the protocol. any non-monetary use of arbitrary is valid, and not monetary. it’s really that simple. stop pretending “no one knows what is monetary and non monetary” you can do anything you want with a cucumber, but it’s insulting yourself if you say you can’t tell the different between culinary use and dildo’ing yourself with it the debate on whether or not the use of arbitrary data is good or bad for the network, is a matter of tradeoffs, and consensus will arbitrate @npub1mad…5vdm npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic and you are a subject in that objective world. wrestling with that necessary relation is not “bullshit” even though it’s inherently messy to operate in “either or’s” is logically incoherent in technical terms, and retarded in rhetorical terms npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Unless you sold 88% of you stack, I think you got the wrong denominator for your net worth ;) Keep crushing you are setting an example for many others to follow npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic 💯 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Stop majoring in the minors. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic Yes, usury gets the full treatment. @nprofile…5gug and I had a great discussion in usury when he graciously had me on. https://fountain.fm/episode/GbE7Us559aG9FBNLAQFM npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…lwfh figured it out. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…yza6 @nprofile…fgqg @nprofile…3424 @nprofile…4t39 @nprofile…dgpe @nprofile…j97l @nprofile…yc8n @nprofile…dw5r @nprofile…lwfh @nprofile…w0s7 @nprofile…hs8c Because I care. #nevent1q…jjkz npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic @nprofile…50qc 🧡 npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic “Every change to bitcoin is an attack on Bitcoin.” This misses the most elegant aspect of bitcoin’s ability to align self interest with common interest. Bitcoin’s design elegance is though consensus of the longest chain, guided by incentives, nothing more. The consensus ossifies that which better serves the individual interests of the many and can adapt in the same way. if someone wants to double the supply cap to 42M and propose that change in the protocol, that cuts against the interest of holder. so 21M is immutable in practice, even though it’s completely possible to do so. if blown out OP return serves you, run 30 if it doesn’t, don’t if you want arbitrary data 0 or infinite, advocate for why it serves a persons interest. do whatever serves your interests Participate in the process of consensus i take actions tbs serve my interests, and regardless of how that consensus aligns with my interests, i don’t give a fuck because i care about being on the longest chain. that’s my ultimate interest in bitcoin. I hate a lot of things the protocol allows as valid. I also hate that the protocol doesn’t give me10% of every transaction. satoshi consensus is good at sorting through self interest to find alignment with common interest. so participate and let the chips fall where they may, listen to the first free market every. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic fun stuff, i enjoy the back and forth. “I’m arguing the opposite” I know. Your film metaphor is epistemic, not ontological. How we know, not how being-as-such comes into existence. Act has to have primacy to potency: continuous to discrete yes, you are arguing the opposite which means that position runs into one of two impasse: infinite regress or something from nothing. those impasses stand invincible, which is why potency is a product of act. why the discrete part is a product of continuous whole. npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I talked with my partner. I’m good to do any pods, I just can’t talk about the book specifically or disclose its structure. but i can get into subjective/objective value cause i already covered that Modern Chains npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic you are in either or mode. reality is a relation between act potency, form matter, subject object, discrete continuous. so for time, a discrete block/measurment in relation to the continuous eternal present the block is not prime, it presupposes the continuous. if there were no humans, how does bitcoin come to be? npub18zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5yslzlyv6 hylomorphic I agree with basically every premise you describe, i think your conclusion is a step too far. “then money is not something humans simply create and apply.” If no people, then no money. Without a subject, there is no aim, and value-as-such is not intelligible.