Chris Liss on Nostr: So much info on Twitter, find myself spending time there, but my account is throttled ...
So much info on Twitter, find myself spending time there, but my account is throttled af, mainly because all the prominent people in my former industry have likely muted me — they definitely do NOT want to hear about what I’m posting. So I’m playing this rigged game of posting only for the accounts that are actively engaging, preaching to the choir, and there is no transparency, no recourse whatsoever. It’s the algo, and that’s the way it works to “maximize unregretted user seconds” or whatever.
But it just occurred to me that’s the future with AI. It’s going to optimize for some metric, there will be no recourse from it, and you will play a losing game trying to exist within its restrictions that do not benefit you, but are deemed necessary for some aim, some “greater good.”
It makes me want to delete my account, but then I feel like I’d be missing out on the network effect and the follows there. Glenn Greenwald isn’t on nostr, neither is Ashton Forbes, nor Macroscope, nor the MSTR animals, nor the Ethical Skeptic, nor PD Mangan, etc. I’ve gotten so much signal from many of these accounts.
It would be like converting all your dollars to BTC now. Admirable in a Kantian sense — *act only on that maxim you would will to be a universal law* but impractical. Now I want to buy steaks at the butcher, I have no fiat, and he has no idea.
But I am increasingly resentful that I’m being throttled and yet contributing to this fucking bullshit network. I’m playing a rigged game. Same way people who work in the fiat system feel when they understand inflation.
The solution IMO is to stop playing the game. Post less there, more here. Contribute less, take from it what value it has. Like mining fiat to stack. But it still makes me ill that I’m contributing to its network effect, giving it my energy and time.
But it just occurred to me that’s the future with AI. It’s going to optimize for some metric, there will be no recourse from it, and you will play a losing game trying to exist within its restrictions that do not benefit you, but are deemed necessary for some aim, some “greater good.”
It makes me want to delete my account, but then I feel like I’d be missing out on the network effect and the follows there. Glenn Greenwald isn’t on nostr, neither is Ashton Forbes, nor Macroscope, nor the MSTR animals, nor the Ethical Skeptic, nor PD Mangan, etc. I’ve gotten so much signal from many of these accounts.
It would be like converting all your dollars to BTC now. Admirable in a Kantian sense — *act only on that maxim you would will to be a universal law* but impractical. Now I want to buy steaks at the butcher, I have no fiat, and he has no idea.
But I am increasingly resentful that I’m being throttled and yet contributing to this fucking bullshit network. I’m playing a rigged game. Same way people who work in the fiat system feel when they understand inflation.
The solution IMO is to stop playing the game. Post less there, more here. Contribute less, take from it what value it has. Like mining fiat to stack. But it still makes me ill that I’m contributing to its network effect, giving it my energy and time.