markjgsmith

Lots of copyright infringement claims are starting currently, Disney vs Midjourney for example. Is training an AI copying? Maybe it‘s next level copying, sort of like if you copied the entire printing press rather than a specific newspaper. You get the entire solution space of ideas for a particular paper. All possible combinations of the ideas outlined in a work of art. It's like stealing the negative of a film, except the negative is dynamic. #

Matt Odell [1:11:42]: “Not only do I expect there to be pain, I expect it to be like, in terms of measurement, in terms of like dollar amount, and people amount, like the most pain we've seen out of all of the cycles, just because we are operating at a scale higher than we've ever operated at before, and I think that the easy thing is to say […] it'll just go up forever. Directionally I actually do agree with that, I just think there are going to be valleys in between. I think there is going to be pain in between, and you have to be able to survive that pain and not be over leveraged and destroyed when it happens, and that's why the stay humble part is important.” #

When reality is no longer reality

With all the reading and listening I‘ve done on Bitcoin and the economy over the past few years, I tend to agree with Matt Odell‘s sense that directionally Bitcoin is going up forever, but also that there will be big valleys in between, places where we will have to endure pain. I had to cut his reasoning out to get a good quote, but it‘s worth listening back to the whole build up too.

Hey maybe Saylor is right, that would be great. But I see everywhere signs that make me feel the opposite is happening. At an esoteric / spiritual level, and following on from my explorations into the collective vs the individual, it‘s almost like the collective, having totally won over the individual, and become the individual, now hates itself and self harms in order to control or punish itself. And each cycle the collective has gotten bigger, so each cycle the crash is even more extreme and brutal than the last. I find it quite scary.

I don‘t have the answer. We need to act as a collective, but we need to understand that we are also all individuals. Perhaps just ignoring the extremes when they happen is enough. A sort of mass disassociation from reality. At some point that‘s all you have left because reality is no longer actually reality.

And then pickup the pieces and start again, maybe smile if you can manage it. And yeah no doubt it‘s probably slowly turning into a crippling society wide disability, but what else can we do? #

I finally managed to get VSCode devcontainers working with private Github repos. The trick was to mount some files from the host OS to the container. Works pretty well, but the thing to remember is that with ssh keys, you get access to all repos in a Github account, so the only really safe way is to have seperate Github accounts for each project, and use different key pairs for each. I never got it working with the fine grained access tokens over https, no idea if it‘s even possible. #