"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."

Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.

Books & articles mentioned:

• AI 2027
• DVMs were a mistake
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Takedown by Laila michelwait
• The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon
• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
• Momo by Michael Ende

In this dialogue:

• Pablo's Roo Setup
• Tech Hype Cycles
• AI 2027
• Prompt injection and other attacks
• Goose and DVMCP
• Cursor vs Roo Code
• Staying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation 
• Is YOLO mode here to stay?
• What agents to trust?
• What MCP tools to trust?
• What code snippets to trust?
• Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments 
• Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments natively
• Minimalistic & open usually wins
• DVMCP exists thanks to Totem
• Relays as Tamagochis
• Agents aren't nostr experts, at least not right now
• Fix a mistake once & it's fixed forever
• Giving long-term memory to LLMs
• RAG Databases signed by domain experts
• Human-agent hybrids & Chess
• Nostr beating heart
• Pluggable context & experts
• "You never need an API key for anything"
• Sats and social signaling
• Difficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanism
• Certificate authorities and centralization
• No solutions to policing speech!
• OAuth and how it centralized
• Login with nostr
• Closed vs open-source models
• Tiny models vs large models
• The minions protocol (Stanford paper) 
• Generalist models vs specialized models 
• Local compute & encrypted queries 
• Blinded compute 
• "In the eyes of the state, agents aren't people" 
• Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both 
• "It's gonna be permissionless or hell" 
• We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other things
• Most great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc) 
• Zapstore shows that this is already working 
• At scale, central control never works. There's plenty scams and viruses in the app stores. 
• Using nostr to archive your user-generated content 
• HAVEN, blossom, novia 
• The switcharoo from advertisements to training data 
• What is Truth? 
• What is Real? 
• "We're vibing into dystopia" 
• Who should be the arbiter of Truth? 
• First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred 
• Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy 
• Suicide rates & the meaning crisis
• Are LLMs symbiotic or parasitic? 
• The Amish got it right 
• Are we gonna make it? 
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Takedown by Laila michelwait
• Harry Potter dementors & Momo's time thieves 
• Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents 
• Zapping as a conscious action
• Privacy and the internet
• Plausible deniability thanks to generative models
• Google glasses, glassholes, and Meta's Ray Ben's
• People crave realness
• Bitcoin is the realest money we ever had 
• Nostr allows for real and honest expression 
• How do we find out what's real? 
• Constraints, policing, and chilling effects 
• Jesus' plans for DVMCP 
• Hzrd's article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)
• Don't believe the hype
• DVMs pre-date MCP tools
• Data Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.
• Self-healing vibe-coding
• IP addresses as scarce assets
• Atomic swaps and the ASS protocol
• More marketplaces, less silos
• The intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeks
• If you can vibe-code everything, why build anything? 
• Time, the ultimate resource 
• What are the LLMs allowed to think? 
• Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical 
• Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too