[-] brighthurst@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 1 points 11 months ago

Paying for posts, relays is better incentive alignment for users and maintainers than twitter or the fediverse

[-] brighthurst@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

The overlap between crypto nerds and tech early adopters is pretty high

[-] brighthurst@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

While people have a point that it shouldn't matter whether your shit stinks, I appreciate knowing about this now. 🙂

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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

For what its worth. GameStop now has no debt, $1Bil in cash reserves, an insanely dedicated customer base, is successfully pivoting into web3 gaming (not the scam kind), had positive earnings Q1 and continues to improve its earnings YoY. Insiders have bought 10’s of thousands of shares recently (insiders only buy for one reason: they think value will increase).

So basically. GameStop isnt going to die. Shorts still have to close. Not to mention all those “dumb” investors got educated and discovered that Directly Registering your shares pulls those shares out of the rigged system. So if all the shares can be pulled out, those covered (hidden) shorts can be exposed— and theyre pretty close.

[-] brighthurst@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

What's evidence is there that the mods in Superstonk are compromised?

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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!

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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?

brighthurst

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