#10: Walking with Jesus w/ gzuuus — No Solutions

"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."

Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.

Books & articles mentioned:

AI 2027
DVMs were a mistake
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Takedown by Laila michelwait
The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Momo by Michael Ende

In this dialogue:

Pablo's Roo Setup
Tech Hype Cycles
AI 2027
Prompt injection and other attacks
Goose and DVMCP
Cursor vs Roo Code
Staying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation
Is YOLO mode here to stay?
What agents to trust?
What MCP tools to trust?
What code snippets to trust?
Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments
Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments natively
Minimalistic & open usually wins
DVMCP exists thanks to Totem
Relays as Tamagochis
Agents aren't nostr experts, at least not right now
Fix a mistake once & it's fixed forever
Giving long-term memory to LLMs
RAG Databases signed by domain experts
Human-agent hybrids & Chess
Nostr beating heart
Pluggable context & experts
"You never need an API key for anything"
Sats and social signaling
Difficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanism
Certificate authorities and centralization
No solutions to policing speech!
OAuth and how it centralized
Login with nostr
Closed vs open-source models
Tiny models vs large models
The minions protocol (Stanford paper)
Generalist models vs specialized models
Local compute & encrypted queries
Blinded compute
"In the eyes of the state, agents aren't people"
Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both
"It's gonna be permissionless or hell"
We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other things
Most great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc)
Zapstore shows that this is already working
At scale, central control never works. There's plenty scams and viruses in the app stores.
Using nostr to archive your user-generated content
HAVEN, blossom, novia
The switcharoo from advertisements to training data
What is Truth?
What is Real?
"We're vibing into dystopia"
Who should be the arbiter of Truth?
First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred
Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy
Suicide rates & the meaning crisis
Are LLMs symbiotic or parasitic?
The Amish got it right
Are we gonna make it?
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Takedown by Laila michelwait
Harry Potter dementors & Momo's time thieves
Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents
Zapping as a conscious action
Privacy and the internet
Plausible deniability thanks to generative models
Google glasses, glassholes, and Meta's Ray Ben's
People crave realness
Bitcoin is the realest money we ever had
Nostr allows for real and honest expression
How do we find out what's real?
Constraints, policing, and chilling effects
Jesus' plans for DVMCP
Hzrd's article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)
Don't believe the hype
DVMs pre-date MCP tools
Data Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.
Self-healing vibe-coding
IP addresses as scarce assets
Atomic swaps and the ASS protocol
More marketplaces, less silos
The intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeks
If you can vibe-code everything, why build anything?
Time, the ultimate resource
What are the LLMs allowed to think?
Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical
Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too

Recorded at 892,372.