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@andrewklavan If any of this is accurate, this is the first Nolan film I'll pass on. I don't understand why he would "gin up interest" by making his movie look so ridiculous. Typically you want to "gin up interest" by making it look, um, interesting, not ridiculous. Off to watch Tenet again.

Are we sure Nolan isn’t rage trolling everyone to gin up interest in the film? I don’t want to break the rules of social media, but can’t we wait till the movie comes out before we trash it? No, huh? Never mind.

@BobMurphyEcon I work with Claude on a massive corpus daily. It's wonderful. Ot automates cognition. But anyone calling it conscious is delusional and too easily impressed.

I understand why everyone is dunking on Richard Dawkins, but fairness compels me to speak up: If you took a complex project you were working on, uploaded it to Claude, and had a 3-day conversation about it, you wouldn't be making fun of Dawkins for saying it's conscious.

@CalebJenkins I don't see a problem.

I created a feedback form for my entire team to fill out (required). I included this required question... with all of these available options. (I know... I'm a monster)

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@jimmysong Been using it for a while now. Developers who won't use AI to write code will fall behind REAL fast. AI won't replace developers, but developers who use AI will replace developers who don't.

Claude more or less one-shotted the ARCTIC signatures (like FROST, using Schnorr) from the paper. I've done this from CS papers before, it's 4-5 days of intense coding and debugging and banging your head. The fact that it took 15 minutes is blowing my mind right now.

@MattWalshBlog I don't think anyone is interested in an "AI story." That is not the point. I would be interested in stories that Hollywood won't produce. I think the point is, more people will have the opportunity to tell stories without the gatekeepers in Hollywood getting in the way.

I don't understand how anyone can be impressed by this. Okay, wow, an algorithm spit out some images that look kind of real. Okay cool. The fundamental problem with AI content -- and why I will never be interested in an AI movie, no matter how realistic it looks -- is that I just have no interest in the stories that an algorithm tells. I don't want to watch an AI story any more than I want to sit around and listen to ChatGPT tell me about its hopes and dreams. If the story has no soul then it lacks the one and only thing that can make it worthwhile or interesting.

@DougTenNapel The comments are so clueless. it took half a century to go from black and white to surround sound in movies. AI has been at this for a couple of years. The content may not be "good" yet, but that's hardly the point.

Only jaded, spoiled brats will discount this. It's the most amazing break through in mass media arts in my lifetime. I'm in shock... and this is waaaaay early.

@RapidResponse47 Looks like a good start! But 0.1 is still a long way down...

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@orthodoxbitcoin The nodes are the network. You don't like that, go to etherium and play your stupid games where top-down tells everyone what's right. Bitcoin is messy, always has been. Live with it or get lost.

The current state of Bitcoin discourse is beyond unbearable. Nonsensical garbage, utter bullshit, and outright lies, day in and day out. D-tier influencers like Bechler who do not understand dick about Bitcoin, leading brigades of retarded plebs supporting BIP444. It’s all so tiresome. I am fatigued.

@FieldNas Well, only if people actually take the update. Core is lost. Let's hope node runners are paying attention and just don't take the update.

Even no-coiners get it.

@FieldNas You're assuming there is general knowledge and understanding about what is happening. There is not.

Why isn't anyone talking about this? Core is killing our bull-run. If by miracle they delay the update, I bet price will fly.

Beside the obvious fact that Core devs have blocked these kinds of comments in the past, the reality is that most people considering upgrading their software are not going to scour comments on PRs. X is a perfectly appropriate way to engage discussion -- especially since the SOP of Core on Github is to gatekeep and not engage.

@jimmysong Sir, this is X. It looks like you never actually reviewed / commented on the PR in the appropriate venue.

Within the datacarriersize/OP_RETURN change is hidden a change to how many OP_RETURN outputs are allowed. Previously, it was 1. With the datacarriersize change, it's now as many as the user wants. The technical justification for multiple OP_RETURNs now being standard is completely unconvincing. To quote @theinstagibbs: "The motivation for doing this is for situations where you cannot commit to all data efficiently otherwise. Think SIGHASH_SINGLE | ACP scenarios. The datacarriersize argument applies to payloads themslves, so yes, if someone wants to do ~80 bytes of payload and can do it in one output, they should just do that." To paraphrase, he's saying there might be transactions where multiple people sign one input and have one output that they get to control, which are each OP_RETURN. No wallet I know of even supports SIGHASH_SINGLE/ANYONECANPAY constructions. I'm not sure if you get 10 Bitcoin seasoned developers together that they'd be able to construct a transaction like this together without a lot of debugging. I have never seen any transaction like this in the wild (multi-op-return, sighash_single), and I have not seen anyone even ask for something like this. This justification was never brought up until I specifically asked this question in the un-deprecation PR. The multiple OP_RETURN becoming now standard was pointed out in the original PR, asking if this was an intended effect, to which no one responded with anything like the quote above. Thus, the rationale quoted above looks like to me an elaborate post-hoc justification for bad code. This modification is going into v30. Honestly, I'm not too concerned about the consequences of this particular aspect of the PR as the effects of it aren't too great (the 100k default is far more consequential), but the fact that this flimsy rationalization was accepted without much question is what makes me question not just the user-alignment, but code quality of the datacarriersize PR.

@jimmysong This whole thing is amateur-hour. This is not how you handle a 2+ trillion asset. These people are not serious. Or if they are, they are serious about an unstated motive. Either way, nobody should be installing their code any more.

Well, I've been coding for a living for 30 years. Believe me when I say that the vocal Core developers come off as completely ignorant and inexperienced. They don't have even the most basic understanding of what they are doing on a macro level. They completely miss the fact that software is developed for people to use, and the users of the software matter far more than the designers of the software. They are utterly clueless about the purpose of the software they develop.

@parman_the Absolutely exactly. Thank you for putting this on paper - sometimes we need permission to break with conventional mode/habit. You're so very right.

Do not be in awe of people and their opinions just because they can code, or know cryptography, or specialise in privacy tools. It's not that hard, I taught myself on the side, seperate to my unrelated profession - some people devote their lives to cryptography, of course they would be proficient, but it doesn't make them special. INVENTING cryptographic methods, now that's genius. Studying and applying it, that's just a career path. Think for yourself. Don't be in awe of anyone's profession. No one has the superior position over you when logic is involved. If it feels like you're being gaslit, you probably are.

@boomer_btc @btcmackc Unfortunately, using a phrase like "low time preference" puts you squarely in the derided "non-technical" camp and ignored by Core. They have no understanding of the reasons why people actually run the software they develop. Anyway, thank you for being principled.

The ethos of my company is to protect the mothership, Bitcoin, above all else. I couldn’t ever justify doing something that is good for me at the expense of damaging Bitcoin. Plus, I believe as time goes by I will make more money with a healthy Bitcoin ecosystem, not by trying to optimize profit in the next block. As Bitcoiners we should all believe in the power of living with a low-time preference - miners should be no different.

This is what Core likes to pretend doesn’t exist: Principled miners who are happy to filter garbage and take slightly less fees. I think we will see more miners adopt this strategy to preserve the integrity of the network as time goes on. Not every miner is greedy.

@jordanbush Self-custody is not just for Bitcoin.

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@jimmysong The patent has expired.

You get a DCMA takedown notice for harboring an illegal prime (the decryption key for DVD players) on your Bitcoin node, embedded in this transaction: b96af3b69b48a82c5eae3e44ebb6ef93f30d7764b1d5b40243e11b0d374ac1b7 What do you do?

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@FieldNas Saylor has been saying for years that funding developers to work on Bitcoin is a bad idea. Now we see the dangers of having people working on Bitcoin not because they want to protect their savings but because they are being paid to churn out code.

Saylor doesn't like v30

@greg16676935420 We have one. Sorry you can't patent this idea. Amazon search FTW. :-)

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