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About this Episode
"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."
Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.
Books & articles mentioned:
- AI 2027
- DVMs were a mistake
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Takedown by Laila michelwait
- The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Momo by Michael Ende
In this dialogue:
- Pablo's Roo Setup
- Tech Hype Cycles
- AI 2027
- Prompt injection and other attacks
- Goose and DVMCP
- Cursor vs Roo Code
- Staying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation
- Is YOLO mode here to stay?
- What agents to trust?
- What MCP tools to trust?
- What code snippets to trust?
- Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments
- Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments natively
- Minimalistic & open usually wins
- DVMCP exists thanks to Totem
- Relays as Tamagochis
- Agents aren't nostr experts, at least not right now
- Fix a mistake once & it's fixed forever
- Giving long-term memory to LLMs
- RAG Databases signed by domain experts
- Human-agent hybrids & Chess
- Nostr beating heart
- Pluggable context & experts
- "You never need an API key for anything"
- Sats and social signaling
- Difficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanism
- Certificate authorities and centralization
- No solutions to policing speech!
- OAuth and how it centralized
- Login with nostr
- Closed vs open-source models
- Tiny models vs large models
- The minions protocol (Stanford paper)
- Generalist models vs specialized models
- Local compute & encrypted queries
- Blinded compute
- "In the eyes of the state, agents aren't people"
- Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both
- "It's gonna be permissionless or hell"
- We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other things
- Most great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc)
- Zapstore shows that this is already working
- At scale, central control never works. There's plenty scams and viruses in the app stores.
- Using nostr to archive your user-generated content
- HAVEN, blossom, novia
- The switcharoo from advertisements to training data
- What is Truth?
- What is Real?
- "We're vibing into dystopia"
- Who should be the arbiter of Truth?
- First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred
- Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy
- Suicide rates & the meaning crisis
- Are LLMs symbiotic or parasitic?
- The Amish got it right
- Are we gonna make it?
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Takedown by Laila michelwait
- Harry Potter dementors & Momo's time thieves
- Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents
- Zapping as a conscious action
- Privacy and the internet
- Plausible deniability thanks to generative models
- Google glasses, glassholes, and Meta's Ray Ben's
- People crave realness
- Bitcoin is the realest money we ever had
- Nostr allows for real and honest expression
- How do we find out what's real?
- Constraints, policing, and chilling effects
- Jesus' plans for DVMCP
- Hzrd's article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)
- Don't believe the hype
- DVMs pre-date MCP tools
- Data Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.
- Self-healing vibe-coding
- IP addresses as scarce assets
- Atomic swaps and the ASS protocol
- More marketplaces, less silos
- The intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeks
- If you can vibe-code everything, why build anything?
- Time, the ultimate resource
- What are the LLMs allowed to think?
- Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical
- Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too
Recorded at 892,372.
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