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Truth and beauty. Entrepreneur with the heart of an artist. Advise startups and large companies. Writing a book about blockchain.

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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
I like freedom because I am an animal. I like order because I am a human.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
When a politician faces a scandal, the right thing to do is to tell the truth and to apologize if there was any wrong doing. "Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die." (Yi Sun-sin) More importantly, that's the right thing to do.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
The most important principle for all of us in this age. Morality over (your own) profits. The tragedy of our age is that the power elites are the reverse. And the average people are gradually resembling them.
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I get your point. But this machine may have been invented in Korea. m.news.nate.com/view/20101204n… "In the meantime, the product's creator, President Lee Jong-dae, mentioned that the idea came to him when he thought back to how the older generation used to scratch their cows' backs one by one."
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Dr. Ricardo Duchesne
Dr. Ricardo Duchesne@dr_duchesne·
Only whites could possibly build a machine like this for cows to be happier. This is inconceivable in the rest of the nonwhite world.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@AGDugin Two questions to clarify. 1. Aren't you, Russians, whites? If not in your statement, what do you mean by whites? 2. Isn't Russia capitalist? Isn't even China? If not in your statement, what do you mean by capitalism?
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Alexander Dugin
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin·
Whites have installed the liberalism and the capitalism worldwide and among themselves. That was a suicidal invention. The worst perversion of the tradition. The fate of whites is sealed. Guénon was absolutely right. It is the end, my friends.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
I think you misunderstood me. I haven't said that a society run by elites is not good or an exception. All societies are run by elites. My point is about what kind of elites run the society. All countries are run by formal authorities, like the head of a state, cabinet members, law makers, judges, etc. And we tend to equate them with a country. The US does this, China does that, etc. But neither does a good explaining in some cases. That's why I think understanding what kind of people really have power in the society is important.
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Hutontiber
Hutontiber@hutontiber·
@slowblogger @scientificecon I would say this is a bit of a child like delusion. First and foremost, all functional peoples in the world are hierarchical. The people at the top of that hierarchy are, by definition elites, relative to their society. The only people not run by Elites are defeated peoples. 1/
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Richard Werner
Richard Werner@scientificecon·
Iran is an intermediate target. The ultimate target is China. Bombing the Chinese railway connection is the continuation of the British strategy a century & a bit ago, to prevent Germany from building its Berlin-Baghdad-Basra railway, under construction in the years 1905-1910 onwards... Considered a lethal threat to UK dominance via the seas. Indeed a key reason why Britain wanted to make war on Germany (& hence started WW1). China is the new Germany, peacefully focusing on innovation & economic prosperity, building up a trade surplus & hence being considered a deadly threat to the powers that want to subjugate & dominate, the powers that want to destroy everything excellent & good.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Col. Wilkerson confirms the Pentagon and Israel are actively bombing China's strategic railroad to the Persian Gulf. Washington is destroying global infrastructure because their maritime dominance is collapsing. They are recklessly provoking Beijing to protect their hegemony!

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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
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It's more important that I am richer than others, than I become richer in the future than I am now? I guess that's one explanation, which I sometimes hear. But it is not satisfactory to me. I am not sure power is an independent variable. First of all, explaining a country as one interest group very often falls short in explaining the world. I think we need to see how power elites think and act. My hypo is if a country is run by money elites, they run the country to protect their wealth. They think "is this policy good for my wealth?", not "is it good for country/people?" or "is it good for our country and the world?" I don't deny power has some aspect of an independent good. But for the money elites, it is less so. I think they are more of a tool for their money (or more broadly hedonistic goods). I think the rich people, especially when they didn't build their wealth themselves, have much anxiety or fear of losing their wealth. And because they don't have particular skills to do so, they tend to be obsessed with controlling people. They reward, starve, threat, negotiate, spy, manipulate, divide, unite, etc. They become good, extraordinarily compared to normal people who have never felt such needs, at them. So, reflecting this tendency of theirs, a state run by them makes policies that are hard to understand for normal people. I am probably not explaining myself very well. But I hope you get what I am trying to say.

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PaganTech@PaganTech·
@slowblogger @scientificecon Europe only started to preach free trade after it got to the top of goods production. America only started to preach free trade after it got to the top. Only recently it dawned on America that it isn’t in the top spot anymore, it’s trying to rectify this by curtailing others.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
It's more important that I am richer than others, than I become richer in the future than I am now? I guess that's one explanation, which I sometimes hear. But it is not satisfactory to me. I am not sure power is an independent variable. First of all, explaining a country as one interest group very often falls short in explaining the world. I think we need to see how power elites think and act. My hypo is if a country is run by money elites, they run the country to protect their wealth. They think "is this policy good for my wealth?", not "is it good for country/people?" or "is it good for our country and the world?" I don't deny power has some aspect of an independent good. But for the money elites, it is less so. I think they are more of a tool for their money (or more broadly hedonistic goods). I think the rich people, especially when they didn't build their wealth themselves, have much anxiety or fear of losing their wealth. And because they don't have particular skills to do so, they tend to be obsessed with controlling people. They reward, starve, threat, negotiate, spy, manipulate, divide, unite, etc. They become good, extraordinarily compared to normal people who have never felt such needs, at them. So, reflecting this tendency of theirs, a state run by them makes policies that are hard to understand for normal people. I am probably not explaining myself very well. But I hope you get what I am trying to say.
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Hutontiber
Hutontiber@hutontiber·
@slowblogger @scientificecon Of course, they would choose Future 2. Material conditions are not everything, and reasons of pride, vanity, and privilege people would much rather have power than greater material abundance, if it means equality. The masses and the elites alike. To say nothing of System Dynamics
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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@hutontiber @scientificecon Why do they (or anyone) want power independent of your well-being? Implicitly, I guess it means something like this. Current national wealth of countries A and B. A 100, B 60 Future 1 A 110, B 100 Future 2 A 100, B 50 Elites of A prefers Future 2. Yes? Why?
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Hutontiber
Hutontiber@hutontiber·
@slowblogger @scientificecon All countries economically benefit, but some things are above money. Wealth is created, it is unlimited, the power is always relative and thus finite. The rise of China erodes Western hegemony, thus is an existential threat.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@clashreport It's visually misleading. I thought it was a ranking graph.
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Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹
Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹@MosiniElisa·
Péter Magyar has stated that adopting the euro is in Hungary’s national interest and has indicated a target for its implementation around 2030. Wonderful! The euro means stability, trust, and stronger economic integration. One of Europe’s greatest successes. Let’s go! 🇪🇺🇭🇺
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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
I am even fine with some down time. I only want data to be preserved, that is, stored unchanged by independent nodes. If Arweave survives together with the data on it, everything else is forgivable.
Only Arweave@onlyarweave

After almost 8 years of uptime, @ArweaveEco's protocol works exactly as it was designed to. There's a beauty to the reliability of permanence. In a world of constant change, the Arweave philosophy ages well.

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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt I may change my mind, but I feel simple non-ai clients, as well as AI agents, can do well. More broadly, perhaps Arweave should not try to be a better web. Rather, it should a different thing, because it is.
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djwhitt
djwhitt@djwhitt·
@slowblogger Agents are interesting because they represent a paradigm shift away from browsers.
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djwhitt@djwhitt·
Do this instead - index offsets, let agents access locally verifiable Arweave chunks directly, and cut out the middle man. The best gateway is no gateway.
xy.ar 🐘@xylophonezy

.@aoTheComputer HyperBEAM nodes are now indexing millions of dataitems directly from miners and serving them to the new .net gateway NASA has been live less than a week and we're already seeing redundancy in what was the weakest link of the stack (and the most expensive single line item for @fwdresearch) How it works: ao.arweave.net/#/blog/nasa What lead here: hyperzine.xyz/at-stake

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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt Which one will be better, a generic ai agent, or a non-ai client specifically designed to do this? I assume the same offset indexer will be used for both. Of course, we can have both. But I am trying to understand the case for AI.
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djwhitt
djwhitt@djwhitt·
@slowblogger However, OpenClaw still needs to know where to find the chunks for the data you care about. That's where an index comes into play. An index maps a name or ID to the location in chunks so OpenClaw knows which chunks to retrieve.
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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt Can you give me an example? One that shows how your new way works (vs the old way),
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djwhitt
djwhitt@djwhitt·
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing wrt agents. When I say "agents" I just mean that something like Claud Code or OpenClaw doesn't really care about how the data is accessed. It can look up offsets and retrieve chunks to accomplish its goals. Agentic use cases decouple storage protocol adoption all the browser client historical baggage. The agents themselves aren't important for retrieval. They're important because they're a different type of client.
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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt So, I guess the reader should find the offset index for the data its user wants. Is this the role agent play?
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djwhitt
djwhitt@djwhitt·
@slowblogger Readers need an offset index to find most data (data items) on Arweave. Once they know that, they can figure out all the rest themselves client side and directly request the relevant chunks.
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Slowblogger
Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt Actually, that was my next question. Is that what agent does? How?
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@djwhitt I was thinking of a structure like this. Your agent is the reader here, unless it is a nonsensical structure? Reader - sends txid and offset to offset server Offset server - sends offset to node(s) Arweave node - serves data to reader
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djwhitt
djwhitt@djwhitt·
@slowblogger Browsers need gateways to serve contiguous data. Agents, arguably, do not. They do need something to tell them the offsets for data item IDs though so they can read the right chunks.
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Slowblogger@slowblogger·
@nxt888 Most Koreans have been in favor of the US forces' presence in Korea. But you are right that Korea was authoritarian during the early development.
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Sony Thăng
Sony Thăng@nxt888·
Japan and South Korea are the case studies they never want to examine too closely. Both countries rebuilt under American military occupation. Both countries developed under American security umbrellas. Both countries became wealthy and are now offered as proof that American presence is good for you. What the story leaves out: both countries industrialized through protectionist, state-directed economic models that violated every principle the Washington Consensus preaches to developing nations today. Both countries had American bases imposed, not chosen. Both countries had political systems that America managed, tolerated authoritarianism in, and shaped to suit American Cold War requirements. The lesson they teach: be like South Korea. The lesson they hide: South Korea succeeded partly because of what it did economically against American advice, and exists geopolitically within an American strategic architecture it never voted for. The example is real. The explanation of the example is a fabrication.
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