Tela Network

Been thinking about AI a lot recently. Had a discussion with a friend, which I then turned into an article. Start: ----- StJohn Piano: A thought i am circling around a lot recently, which has relevance to your career: StJohn Piano: There is value in synthesis. StJohn Piano: With AI, the value of the raw production of information, e.g. an article or a code module, is approaching zero, or at least a very small amount. For example, the physical and mental cost of typing and grammar checking has dropped precipitously. StJohn Piano: However, difficulty and scarcity and therefore tradable value always remain, somewhere, somehow. ----- Read the rest here: https://telablog.com/there-is-value-in-synthesis

Tela Network has become significantly become more interesting with the introduction of Tela Network AI. Query: Explain the ruling class Answer excerpt: / Short synthesis: In this network, the ruling class is the minority that can organize violence, command courts and legislatures, and coordinate elite interests - whether framed as Mosca's "man of violence," Turchin's ruling elites, or the faction controlling the money supply. The open question in several posts is whether that class still believes in itself enough to rule effectively [#13]. / Full answer: https://tela.network/ai-answers/published/a4bbc82a-8422-4f2f-9ef6-291c6d327cb9/ The AI builds its answers from the published posts written by network users. This answer is already much more interesting than a stock response from a normal AI. Posts are cited and linked. Authors are credited. This, to me, is the good future of AI: Amplified Intelligence

Bitcoin is the first modern monetary system that is outside of the political control of any state. In the pre-modern era (earlier than the French Revolution), gold (and to some extent silver) was above the state. If the state issued too much currency, its value would visibly decrease relative to gold. However, tech advancement caused gold to become too difficult to protect on a small scale. Gold centralized into a few major locations inside states. It became impossible for an individual to escape the effect of money printing. Inflation is effectively another tax. (It also destroys the measuring stick that we use for value, and therefore for business.) For most young people, a house is out of reach. This was one of the only remaining ways to escape (somewhat, and badly) the debasement of inflation. For the next 15-30 years, despite the scams / fear / uncertainty / doubt, I think that Bitcoin will remain the most achievable method available to a young person to save for the future.

" These are the last days of social media as we know it. ... Social media was built on the romance of authenticity. Early platforms sold themselves as conduits for genuine connection: stuff you wanted to see, like your friend’s wedding and your cousin’s dog. Even influencer culture, for all its artifice, promised that behind the ring‑light stood an actual person. But the attention economy, and more recently, the generative AI-fueled late attention economy, have broken whatever social contract underpinned that illusion. The feed no longer feels crowded with people but crowded with content. ... The difference between human and synthetic content is becoming increasingly indistinguishable. Earlier this year, CEO Steve Huffman pledged to “keep Reddit human,” a tacit admission that floodwaters were already lapping at the last high ground. " https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media

Viewpoint = what someone thinks Mythos = the story-world that makes those thoughts feel true / Re: 'silver is an industrial metal and has no monetary value'... The awakening is spreading and everyday people are looking for a place to keep their cash. They are getting priced out of gold - silver is their only option. It is ultimately the people who will decide what has monetary value and what doesn't. / Source: An (edited) comment from: https://youtu.be/tQa6mNXcM4s We can see an underlying doctrine: People can decide the monetary standard. And another one: Gold is too expensive for the average person, therefore it can't be the primary monetary standard. What is most interesting to me is that it is a democratic inversion of the goldbug mythos, which says: 1) People must adapt to the most powerful monetary standard. 2) The best monetary standard will have the highest price. Summary: Goldbug mythos: monetary truth is discovered. Silverbug mythos: monetary truth is ratified.