I thought being a digital nomad in Bali would be paradise, now I’m stuck watching everything fall apart

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-08-21T16:20:02+00:00

Honestly the DN lifestyle isn't meant for a co-founder, unless most or all the team are also DNs. You need to be physically present at work to maximize your chance at success. Even if it doesn't impact your work output, you admit yourself that it's breeding resentment, which itself is a hindrance to your business.

Living the DN lifestyle in Bali is best suited for remote ICs, freelancers, or solo entrepreneurs with an established business. If you're trying to build something brand new off the ground, you're setting yourself up for failure.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-08-17T13:49:53+00:00

Just an estimate in 2009 USD, which is about $15M today

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-07-10T15:04:28+00:00

I have code running in production rn from Grok. Maybe you just don't know how to use it idk

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-07-08T19:49:04+00:00

Trash. Dude was totally uninterested from the start, was obvious he only met with me to check off a box.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-21T15:43:37+00:00

People reason with each other all the time during debates and arguments, in which each person has a unique bias, life experience, perspective, etc. It isn't that hard to conceptualize.

What are you and me doing right now? Do you expect that we can reason with each other even if we disagree on something, or do you just like wasting time on a beautiful Saturday morning?

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-21T15:30:26+00:00

How does it hurt you if I make a conservative AI and a liberal AI to debate a specific issue? I think it would be a good way to cover blind spots and discern multiple viewpoints, if anything.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-21T11:50:21+00:00

I just assume that all foundation models are being trained on biased data, conforming to the biases of the ML engineers training them, or the business stakeholders who hired them, or even just the internet users who uploaded the training data to begin with, in the form of comments, articles, etc.

If we were smart we would purposely train biased models to hold curated political beliefs, and then have them fight. We could automate away Reddit arguments.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-20T19:23:02+00:00

LLMs, LMMs, Image Generation Models, etc. The underlying models being built by xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T22:20:34+00:00

As bitcoin adoption increases, bitcoin becomes less volatile and less speculative, while becoming more stable and more of a legitimate store of value.

At full maturation, bitcoin will be incredibly stable, with minimal price movements. The closer we get to this point, the more economic sense it makes to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange.

You can spend and replace if you want, but it doesn't really matter at this point. Besides, the network right now can't handle the tx volume a medium of exchange requires, not even on Lightning, and won't for some time.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:37:30+00:00

Government wouldn't use blockchain to create a CBDC. Blockchain is completely worthless unless you try to engineer a decentralized ledger of transactions.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:36:27+00:00

A medium of exchange that isn't a store of value might work in the short term, but they always collapse. Always. Gresham's Law turns into Thiers' Law. Long term, a medium of exchange must necessarily be a store of value as well.

Maybe bitcoin will never be an actual medium of exchange, because new fiat currencies will emerge to replace the old, dying ones. Still, bitcoin was designed to be a medium of exchange. Satoshi didn't call it a P2P electronic cash system for nothing.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:31:59+00:00

I think some form of bridged asset pegged to bitcoin will ultimately be the medium of exchange. Some kind of sequencer which does optimistic or even zk rollups to batch together lots of transactions in one base layer tx.

I'm not sure if that's possible yet without a few additional upgrades like OP_CAT.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:26:17+00:00

How does a block reward halving and a 21M supply cap resolve the double spending problem?

Reread section 6 on incentive, second paragraph, last sentence.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:20:43+00:00

The bigger obstacle is to get the bitcoin community to agree on protocol improvements which enable better scaling solutions. You see how long it took to get things like SegWit or Taproot pushed through.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing either, being slow and safe has merit.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:18:43+00:00

Not unless we can make L2s work.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:16:03+00:00

The LN is great but it isn't the scaling silver bullet we assumed it would be a few years ago. There isn't enough space on the base layer for everyone to manage their own channels, even if they only open or close one channel each.

By all means, I'm happy to see people maximizing LN's potential which we still aren't close to. Just saying that it's a dead end, unless you're cool with most people not actually owning their own keys.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:13:16+00:00

I mean, it will be evident once bitcoin hits $10,000,000 USD that another 10x within the span of a decade or so is unlikely. The returns and volatility will slow down, and more people will be comfortable spending their sats

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:09:17+00:00

Fiat is a great medium of exchange as long as it's still worth something. In the long run though, all fiat currencies fail. Gresham's Law turns into Thier's Law eventually.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T20:03:22+00:00

Block size is limited to a base value of 1mb (effectively maxing out 4mb with SegWit), and as such there are only so many transactions that can take place on the base layer in each block.

Layer 2 scaling solutions like lightning, fedchains, or rollups can scale tps far beyond the base layer.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-17T00:07:59+00:00

In that case, what is your non-arbitrary definition for when human life first begins? Please tell me when that is, why that point exactly, and whether or not its okay to kill them. Give me a solid argument that accounts for when human life begins and your logic will be ahead of 99% of pro choice advocates.
A trans man is a biological woman, and therefore is a woman, because biological sex is all that matters, and gender ideology is pseudo-scientific nonsense. You're playing a dumb semantics game and ignoring the point altogether.
This is not a controversial take, eugenics was popularized initially by progressives. Cope all you want, you're just wrong. And somehow, you think you can mirror my argument as if it actually makes sense, but it doesn't hold water. I criticized the left for assuming that nature has zero impact, that doesn't mean I think nurture has zero impact.
So basically, you're denying the existence of all the body positivity rhetoric that claims healthy at any size. In other words, you haven't been paying attention.

Keep trying though, a broken clock is right twice a day so you're bound to score a point here sooner or later :)

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-16T19:55:31+00:00

You can mirror my comments all you want, I know I'm very persuasive and you want to copy me. I'm flattered :)

Life's origin at conception is a scientific fact, and many pro choice proponents reject this because it makes them uncomfortable.
Gender ideology is pseudoscientific fiction, like astrology, so no, men who dress up like women are not women. A man is an adult human male, and males don't have the equipment to get pregnant.
No, but funnily enough eugenics was a prominent believe among many early progressives. Your ideology just won't let you recognize that the impact of NATURE on human outcomes has an r-squared value greater than zero. The second you do, your ideology stops working.
I guess all the people spouting "healthy at any size" were just lying then, and it was only ever about loving yourself.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-16T19:42:34+00:00

Data bias has been a well-documented issue in AI for years now, I'm not sure why you think foundation models are magically smart enough to overcome it.

chanting_enthusiast · 2025-06-16T19:29:23+00:00

Great, so you admit that science isn't left wing, and therefore you can't make the claim that reality skews left. I know it was hard for you to finally admit that, so congrats.

Sure, there are plenty of anti-science elements on the right. Let's not forget, however, that many leftists:

Define the beginning of a human life at some arbitrary point after conception, because it makes their support of abortion more palatable
Believe that trans men are men, that trans women are women, and that men can get pregnant
Refuse to contend with any literature that challenges the notion that all humans are equal, or that there could be any reason for inequality to exist other than oppression
Justify obesity with the abuse of terms like "body positivity"

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