Tim Bouma | Independent Thinker | Pug Owner | Published Author | #SovEng Alum | #Cashu OG | #OpenSats Grantee https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/ 3000 posts
chatgpt A #ChatGPT summary of a concept I am exploring - conscious agency. I am not so much concerned about the nature of conscious agency but rather how I can extend my own conscious agency into to digital realm. #Nostr is the perfect protocol for this. ——————- Conscious agency refers to the capacity… Tim Bouma Jan 20, 2025, 11:24 AM
nostr Your ultimate agency or root of power rests in knowledge that you alone possess. More practically, it’s your private key, or nsec. This is #nostr… Tim Bouma Jan 20, 2025, 10:57 AM
nostr I just finished a real zinger of a book, "Case Against Reality" by Douglas Hoffman. I am now getting into the math in the appendix. Full disclosure, I am an engineer and look for cool things to apply. #Nostr piqued my interest a couple of years ago due Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 1:00 PM
Said player donated unneeded organ to science. Still alive and well, retired in the state of Florida.… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 12:28 PM
nostr Same goes for #nostr events. That's the genius of NIP-01 #nostr… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 12:25 PM
nostr Sucks to be a digital platform vendor these days. Seems like the nation-state no longer has your back. Build on unstoppable protocols, instead. Tick tock. Next block. #nostr #bitcoin… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 12:23 PM
The theory of Conscious Realism, proposed by cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman, suggests that consciousness is the fundamental reality of the universe and that what we perceive as the physical world is not a direct reflection of objective reality, but rather a construct of conscious agents. Core Principles of Conscious… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 12:18 PM
nostr The genius of NIP-01 is that it specifies the data structure for sovereignty. This is #nostr… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 12:11 PM
Philosophers create theories. Scientists test theories. Engineers build with theories. Authoritarians want to control all of the above.… Tim Bouma Jan 19, 2025, 10:48 AM
Credit: I did not write this, it comes from an industry colleague I respect who published this on another platform. I felt it important to share. ——— Putting a backdoor into the telco systems was originally a bad idea and contested by security and crypto experts. It started by Bill Clinton… Tim Bouma Jan 18, 2025, 9:06 PM
nostr The only thing that can extend your conscious agency into the digital realm is a self-generated private key. This is #nostr… Tim Bouma Jan 18, 2025, 5:59 PM
I spent the last month internalizing async programm................ing… Tim Bouma Jan 18, 2025, 5:47 PM