Hivemind: Ideas from the Edge

Andrew and I sit down for a fun conversation while overlooking the San Francisco Bay. There are a few sound/wind issues with my mic (mostly towards the end), but hopefully nothing too disruptive.

We focus a lot on energy, but touch on a number of interesting ideas from the edge, including:

* The declining cost of solar and batteries

* The commodification of solar and Bitcoin miners 

* The interconnection process in ERCOT 

* Opening new markets as the cost of solar continues to decline 

* Bitcoin Mining vs. AI compute mar...

Max and Tony cover a lot of ground, including:

- Music and its role in society: “He who controls the music controls the mind” 

- Why the ad model for monetizing the Internet is not only a panopticon, but also extremely ineffective

- How to find under appreciated long tail Internet content 

- How to improve Nostr on-boarding for noobs 

- The role of the curator on Nostr

- Permissionless identity creation means evolution can happen much faster

- How Tony uses AI 

- How to...

Christopher and Max explore:

* The influence of Swarmwise and the Pirate Party on Chris’ approach to building

* Lessons learned from the Ron Paul Campaign in ’08 and ’12 

* The state of open source AI

* Plans for openagents.com to unlock bottoms-up market intelligence

* What exactly is the singularity? Is the future gray goo or Star Trek? 

Keyan and Max jam on several topics including:

* What is the singularity?

* The future of AI and the coming intelligence explosion

* Does the brain create or receive consciousness? 

* Can machines have souls? 

* Do we live in a simulation? 

* Keyan’s learnings from 7+ startups prior to Stacker News

* How to balance intuition and feedback from reality

* Why Jack is a 🐐 founder

* Using bitcoin to create physical constraints in digital space

* The future of Stacker News territories (end-to-end encryption?!)

* Kagi and...

Keyan and Max jam on several topics including:

* What is the singularity?

* The future of AI and the coming intelligence explosion

* Does the brain create or receive consciousness? 

* Can machines have souls? 

* Do we live in a simulation? 

* Keyan’s learnings from 7+ startups prior to Stacker News

* How to balance intuition and feedback from reality

* Why Jack is a 🐐 founder

* Using bitcoin to create physical constraints in digital space

* The future of Stacker News territories (end-to-end encryption?!)

* Kagi and...

Stu and Max jam on a wide range of topics including: Terence McKenna, the world of language, evolution, Web of Trust, and the future of Nostr. At least two big ideas really clicked for me: 1) Nostr as the substrate for digital evolution (i.e. forking with checkpoints) and 2) Nostr as an API for market intelligence.