i encountered this issue exactly a couple years ago while working for a shitcoin project. the "smart contract" programmer could not understand why it bothered me so much this business of all the data being online and some "smart contract" doing things that should only be done by humans. shitcoiners main damage is they do not understand the concept of self custody. the whole trajectory of shitcoins has been about slowly, quietly, rugging the users of their agency and ownership. and imagine how much worse it is now, during that 2 years, 2023-2024, as LLMs were starting to mature enough to be useful, they were all champing at the bit to shove all of the "work" to agents powered by LLMs that are basically black boxes, we still don't even fully understand how they work, btw. the first step was segwit: creating a way to increase block size and shove arbitrary crap in it. second step was taproot: with no push limit for witness, they were able to put media filles onto the chain third step, the shit they shove into the witness is binary code compiled from some Rust based "smart contract" language like the ones i was being nagged to learn how to code, which are the most convoluted, useless programming languages ever made. literally glorified database programs. these require a mechanism like OP_CTV to enable. why they are so excited about all this shit is that shitcoins are all at step 3, and with agent scripts controlling LLMs it's all woo magic fully autonomous, doesn't need humans to click buttons or write code. and then they can sit on their thrones, paid for by the wealth they rugged from retail, and wave a magic wand and watch numbers go up and pretend they are billionaire central bankers. and that's what's the most toxic thing at the center of the shitcoin impulse. they are role playing themselves as Rothschilds and Rockefellers and Bushes and Clintons, fantasizing about getting all their fetishes satisfied. they don't care about people having sovereignty. they believe in MMT and don't understand the purpose of saving. they don't belong in bitcoin. but bitcoin, as i just described, is now 50% of the way to shitcoin, and the last part is right in front of us, while people who are now known to have been at those "wild parties" and getting involved with creepy flesh trading and eugenics shit. just like their heroes. View quoted note →

one of the things i am looking forward to, in the even that the global disaster does strike while i'm still alive, is applying all of the science i know, especially chemistry, i want to learn how to make ceramics, glass, refine and forge metals, and similar, as these will be very necessary things to be able to know how to do, and not many people have the memory for the general principles and a sufficient amount of this knowledge that i can "rediscover" how to do things, and help my tribe re-establish the required technologies in order to survive better and be able to live healthy. of course, if i had the money right now, i'd already be learning these things, and i have in mind that the first priority is animal husbandry, because, like Noah, i'm gonna have all the small ruminants and land fowl (maybe pigeons too) which have so many uses, the meat, the fats, the bones, the hides and the hair and feathers. this is where i'm going to be focusing first, with sheep for meat and milk and insulating wool for clothing and padding and liners. after that, i want to start learning how to build furnaces and kilns, i want to learn how to make charcoal for purification, and carbonise natural fibres to use to strengthen cements and polymers for non-metal reinforced construction, and start to learn how to recycle and reforge metals. mostly copper, tin, zinc, lead and iron, as especially iron and copper, are critical materials for tools and weapons, and yeah, furnaces can be used to extract fairly pure potassium hydroxide, which can be used to make soaps, and other materials too, like making lime for cement, out of bones. i don't want to see out the end of my days, and not see a forge, soap making, and all that other cool stuff, not already into process with all the babies being born and people learning how to hunt, cook, forge and craft local materials into essentials for life. i also have realised i really really really need to get better with calculus and number theory. i watched a great presentation that explained number group theory, and i was like, oh, it's about symmetry and stuff like commutability, identities, and such. so i'm gonna be digging into that too. and i want to build a collection of physical books, and make sure they are secure, and amply redundant copies so that when we have no more market or big human population to provide us with education, i can do somehing towards propagating that. i want to do it anyway, even if the disaster doesn't my lifetime. i want to be able to be in such isolated places, and for our tribe to thrive. that's why i talk about the science stuff so much, especially chemistry and physics. our modern world is what it is because of all the curiosity and questions of smart guys, and it would be terrible if for whatever reason, too much of that gets lost. this is also why i feel blessed with this crazy good memory, and visual thinking ability. i will be indispensible to anyone needing to find ways to solve problems and make life better when there is no more factories or mines or shops to buy things. for that all to be useful, i have to prioritise what i acquire strong experience in too, so that with that most concretely useful part of my knowledge, enabling actual survival...