brighthurst

joined 1 year ago
[–] brighthurst@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This article makes me feel really stupid because it is making the case that there is some profound new discovery about consciousness when I see nothing profound whatsoever. To me, the most meaningful excerpt is:

“The babies in our study have revealed something really profound: that there is action in the midst of inaction, and inaction in the midst of action. Both provide meaningful information to the infant exploring the world and its place in it,” said Kelso. “The coordination dynamics of movement and stillness jointly constitute the unity of the baby’s conscious awareness – that they can make things happen in the world. Intentionally.”

Yes, and? So a baby learns from that the mobile directly correlates to its own leg moving and not moving? How is this anything profound and how do it explain anything new about consciousness? I don't mean to downplay novel new experiments (which this is), but I'm not seeing anything "groundbreaking," "profound," or the "birth of purpose." I get that understanding how infants learn is important, but I don't see anything new in these results, we've known about cause-and-effect learning for a long time.

If someone can edify me on any profound implications of this, I would be thankful.

[–] brighthurst@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? I want in! Where's this investor group?

[–] brighthurst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad that yours is the top response. Have you also noticed that people on the fediverse seem extreme?

 

As the argument against spreading out to multiple platforms goes: Splitting communities leads to fragmentation of information. So less people see the information.

Therefore, remember not to burn the bridges. Aim to replicate the information. Support the information on multiple platforms, while advocating for the platforms which offer the free-est speech.

I'm glad we are here. Early adopters are statistically the most successful.

[–] brighthurst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

nostr is mainly used by bitcoiners (not a lot of crypto) right now. Moreover, scammy people love to advertise on new platforms.

GME is in crypto, though, so it's not like people should be anti-crypto.

Nostr is very young so they haven't really solved the bot problem yet, but there is activity there too. So right now it may seem sketchy but thats the case with all fresh platforms/protocols. Same thing happened with the Fediverse before they had account-creation controls

[–] brighthurst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'll start: web+nostr://nprofile1qqsddw5lgwkwfl9x65tld6c6vj8ujfa0jw5aa769nsx5ul4r0gdu8tqprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvqghwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvqgawaehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2aqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3e8yetvv9ujucm0d5q3gamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdau8gu3wv3jhvrca4u6

Your browser won't recognize this link unless you have set up a profile on a client like Coracle or Damus. The Nostr website has other clients listed.

 

From a technical standpoint, the protocol (ActivityPud) underlying Lemmy and Kbin has security and performance faults that make it inefficient. It's a great step towards decentralization but there is another alternative that I want to raise awareness of: Nostr.

Nostr is another protocol, like ActivityPub. Similarly, to Lemmy and Kbin on ActivityPub, Nostr has clients built on top of it. For instance: Damus on iOS, Coracle.social on web.

Right now, most clients only behave like twitter clones. However, the nostr protocol is much more robust than ActivityPub. It could easily support reddit-like platforms-- developers are already working on it-- as well as far more, like crypto payments, game-server-host connection, and more. Critically, it is possible to create ActivityPub-Nostr bridges.

It's early days in this new frontier of decentralized social platforms. If you are excited about The Fediverse, definitely play with the nostr protocol as well.

In this thread, you can also share your nostr pub keys so we can build the GME community there!

 

Proud to be subscriber #16! I don't understand why there aren't more people migrating here due to reddit api debacle. Why would we run to another centralized platform, YT Gangnam style, instead of this in case of emergency?