"There is something called Landauer's Principle which bridges information theory and thermodynamics via statistical physics, and it says: Information cannot be removed for free from our universe, but must result in the release of a minimum amount of energy in the form of heat. But interestingly, this amount of energy cannot be zero. That's super important—that's the key: it cannot be zero no matter how efficient you get. And this principle has even been verified in a lab for quantum computing in 2018. So this is something like light speed: something we

"It's incredible that today if you need to leave $5,000 for your great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter 14 generations from now—900 years from now—we don't know how to do that! The only thing that we know can carry value that long is you need to buy $5,000 worth of gold, lock it in a vault, and give the key to that person 900 years from now. It's incredible that in the 21st century, this is the best answer we have. This is why #Bitcoin is so relevant, because it's the first time in 5,000 years that we have something that is incredibly superior to

"I believe that the psychedelic experience, as encountered by each of you in the privacy of your own mind, or as encountered by a preliterate society somewhere in the world, that that psychedelic experience is in a way the Rosetta stone—not only for understanding the encryption that our own lives represent, each to ourselves—but it’s also a Rosetta stone for uncoding the historical experience. Art is this endeavor to leave the animal domain behind. To create another dimension, orthogonal to the concerns of ordinary history. And this orthogonal domain,

“I grew up in Patagonia, Argentina, where my parents are sheep ranchers. Growing up I saw my family lose their entire savings three times: the first time because of an enormous devaluation, the second time because of hyperinflation and the last time because the government confiscated all bank deposits. It seemed like every time we were recovering, a new and different economic storm would wipe us out again. My memory of these events is not economic or financial but very emotional. I remember my parents fighting about money, I remember being scared,

"Each 'act' has a quantifiable reaction energy associated with it, based on the forces at work, and at any given time period, each society tends to group the top dozen or 'ought nots' or 'have nots' and call them sins or immoralities, as being extremely destructive to person or society. Societies that group these 'nots' wrongly, tend not to be part of the future, and tend to extinguish unpleasantly. This is why Goethe is more of a moral genius than Hume (or anyone else), being that he pointed the way to a quantifiable moral system, based not on the way

"Why is praxeology important? It's the only true new science since ancient times. Everything else has some kind of precedent—mainly in the ancient world—but this is a totally new field of knowledge, and people don't know what to make of it or how to mentally categorize it. It's vitally important to human civilization. Frustratingly, economics is a field in which praxeology is the proper approach for—they've got an opinion on these matters, but they don't understand that there's this whole field of knowledge that specifically answers their questions or

"I intend to lose money—to make art in order to lose money, since it's a shame that art is considered good if it makes money. Painting is the same: If you make money, it's good; if it doesn't make money, it's bad. The art industry is killing the human spirit. We're not about that. So over 22 years I gathered what I was making—very little thanks to the economic crisis. All I managed to raise was a million dollars, I didn't waste it, and I put half into The Dance of Reality and lost it. It was a success all over the world with the best critics, but I

"After the Neolithic and the Jewish tradition and the Old Testament is working behind the scenes, fixing a lot—because we’re all dislocated now, there’s kings and these tournament males with their harems and it’s this world that’s dominant—then the Jews start through synagogues and they start building an antifragile tribal reunification software, if you think about the Bible in that way. It’s software and it’s tribal reunification and it’s these people of Israel that are constantly messing up, but they keep surviving all these empires! And then

Around age 21-22 was when I really hit rock-bottom and had an all-time low of meaning in my life. I had to fight back the urge to kill myself or at least get myself killed—I found out later that my terrible diet and lack of sunlight at the time were huge factors as well. But I stumbled into the service industry and put myself back together again, and gradually over 10 years I figured out that the most meaningful thing I could do was seek out neglected talent and somehow find a way to augment or enable dreams that they had, some of which could not

"From 50,000 BC on to about 20,000 BC, it was known as, roughly, the Upper Paleolithic—or what I call the Eden Meta. You would imagine that your life would be just a ritualistic rhythm of culture and moving with the seasons and migrating with the herds. You wouldn’t be thinking outside the box. You wouldn’t even be having big conflicts over [Covid] masks or whatever—none of that stuff existed! The certainty would have been so high in your day-to-day that the great adaptation you would have is to be guided by culture as an instinct. And if you were

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"The maximum amount of yield I can generate with my coins is limited to 2%, which is not the case if I were to charge routing fees. So maybe that’s a disincentive for others to enter that market, but I think from what information I have: 2%-3% yield is basically at the top of what others are making that charge fees. So I don’t know if it’s that much lower than the theoretical maximum that you can achieve. And it’s way easier the way I run it, because others have to pay lots of attention towards rebalancing channels and all that stuff—I don’t do any of

"When I started my [Lightning] node, I just went with the most popular implementation, which is LND. I didn’t even look at the other ones! So I just took the most popular one that had the most scripting, the most tooling or whatever, and set it up and got it running, and ran into the channel.db growing very very quickly after a couple of months. And it ended up growing so fast—I had like 900 channels and the channel.db grew by 7 gigabytes a day. And if you have 1 terabyte of disk space—you can do the math on how long that’s going to last you! And I knew

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"There is no free person that can exchange money because the government will find out within a day or two—they have informants all over the place, and people are arrested for exchanging money. Or if you are caught with cash—more than the $200 that I told you that you’re supposed to take out in a month—there will be questions: Where did you get this cash? And you can get arrested as well. So it’s a scary place to be! So after taking the @HRF workshop, it just made sense. The Lightning wallet was so interesting to hear about! And right away I started using

"If you feel like it's doom and gloom, that doesn't call forth much from you. But if you think, Holy shit, it's gonna be awesome!—I wanna make sure I'm as capable as possible to avail of that awesomeness and contribute to it and enjoy it and all that kind of stuff—well then that changes your perspective in the here and now, right? It brings a vibrance to your life because you're sensitized for trying to move towards something that you're excited about. Versus trying to almost withdraw from something because you're so scared by it. And that affects your

"@RayDalio has this quote where he says, Truth—or more accurately, an accurate depiction of reality—is necessary for any good outcome. So when we think that Love or Value is primary, I think that too reinforces this thesis that acting out of love, or acting out of proper moral action, you're best reflecting the fundamental nature of reality. Therefore, you're best creating the best possible outcomes or the things with the most beauty, whether that's your artistic expression, your children, your business—whatever it is. And @jordanbpeterson goes deep

"There is a sort of proper generosity in giving away what one cannot keep. I have quite enough in the way of both honors and money. I do not desire to become rich, that is, actually opulent, for truly I am rich. I have put a limit to my desire and that so close that I shall swiftly reach it. I want to rest some time. But if I were in that position [Chancellor] I should, like the swells of the ocean, be tossed up and down. And so I leave this effort to you and the rest of my friends. There is no kingdom of such value that I would be willing to change

All right, let's make this interesting: I'm auctioning off John Linnell's original 1831 Portrait of Thomas Hill, Esq. to support my art fund for living artists. It measures 10" x 13" oil on wood panel. Auction ends 10 PM EST on Sunday. Bidding starts at 1 sat. en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?ti…

"If you read The Fountainhead and you're young and you're intelligent and you're talented, the message—at least I got, and I know I'm not alone—is: you are going to think that you're gonna be a pariah, that a lot of people are gonna be against you, and you're basically doomed for a short period of being isolated and alone. And that may have been the case when The Fountainhead was written. But I think now with the Internet, and in my experience both as a youth and someone who's a little bit older, I didn't appreciate—and I didn't get it from that book, and

"Of all human products, art is, perhaps, the most personally important to man and the least understood."

- Ayn Rand, Philosophy and Sense of Life archive.org/details/whatar…