TomerStrolight
Tomer Strolight

Here’s a couple of psychedelic inspired pieces:
The Lesson of the Golden Teacher:
https://medium.com/@tomerstrolight/the-lesson-of-the-golden-teacher-ee133f98efde
To Try or Not to Try:
https://medium.com/@tomerstrolight/to-try-or-not-to-try-5af152e33a5

2024-08-28 03:36:41

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Tomorrow at 2pm eastern Alex and I are going to be doing Cafe Bitcoin again.

2024-08-28 02:06:34

Still trying to get my bearings here. Where are all of Elon’s posts?

2024-08-28 01:58:27

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Gonna check this out tomorrow.

2024-08-28 01:50:27

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Alternatives are never exactly the same.

2024-08-28 01:49:38

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What am I supposed to do with that?

2024-08-28 01:48:30

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I’m gonna need some more. It’s value dropped again.

2024-08-28 01:47:34

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I would use this stuff. If images, videos, audio, etc, were all easily uploaded and made into torrents the experience could be decentralized and familiar if the nostr clients accommodated for it.
Nostr is still primitive but it can for sure catch up. Sovereign computing is on the rise. It’ll take time of course. But it will happen.

2024-08-28 01:44:14

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Thanks. My article shows up on Damus, but not Primal. Is primal not yet Habla-aware?

2024-08-28 01:42:40

Can someone zap me some ETH?

2024-08-28 01:33:17

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So far so good. Wish it were easier to incorporate images, but as far as text goes (which is the most important part) I figured things out pretty quick.

2024-08-28 01:31:44

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This is what I’m gonna do. When I find myself with time on my hands I’m gonna repurpose old articles. It’s a pain in the ass, but better safe than sorry. And it’ll be good nostr content.

2024-08-27 20:19:24

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Signing up now for this.

2024-08-27 19:54:02

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I was thinking about this but it is also a single point of failure: my machine. I want decentralized hosting with easy accessibility.

2024-08-27 19:48:04

Okay, hear me out. I’m looking for some advice.
1. I’ve produced a lot of written content over the last few years about Bitcoin (and also a little bit about psychedelics).
2. Most of it is sitting on single-points-of-failure like Medium, Bitcoin Magazine, Swan.com, Citadel21, etc….
3. I want to put it where it won’t get obliterated if there’s a crackdown on such content or if these individual entities disappear.
4. I’m looking for suggestions on how to use nostr effectively to do that.
4a) I do have a high-powered start9OS machine, but don’t yet run a nostr relay on it, although I am willing to learn how, if that’s the right approach.
4b) I want to know how to accomplish this goal in a way that people can actually easily find the content if they are looking for it, and on this point I don’t have any good ideas.
4c) I’d love to include images if I can inline where they belong in the written articles.
4d) It would be really nice to preserve the few movies I’ve been involved in making this way too.
I’m open to all suggestions and assistance and will try to answer any questions any of you ostriches have for me about this.

2024-08-27 17:07:36

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… and also a “hi again” to all my existing connections now seeing these notes.

2024-08-27 17:07:09

A hearty hello to all my new connections on nostr, and, if you’re new to nostr, welcome.

2024-07-28 03:25:27

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Second-most demented man in America

2024-07-28 01:25:38

Few people understand that when Trump said “have fun playing with your … Other Stuff” he was referring to NOSTR.
That's how based he is.
HFPWOS

2024-07-28 01:14:34

Done playing with my bitcoin and crypto and here to play with my other stuff.

2024-07-27 14:37:33

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To buy bitcoin you need something with which to buy it, so his only course of action would be to inflate the money supply and thereby make all American dollar holders poorer. He’s basically announcing a multi-trillion dollar government spending program.

2024-07-27 02:32:26

“On day one I will exercise powers I shouldn’t have were the state and economy separated, but I’ll use them to pump YOUR bags.”
“Yaaaaay! This guy is a true bitcoiner.”

2024-07-15 22:27:45

Great monuments are ends in themselves. Building great ones need not serve any other purpose.

2024-05-27 04:00:09

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muy posible

2024-05-13 19:12:19

Don’t just run away from what you hate.
Run towards what you love.

2024-05-10 14:52:56

GM, fellow users of the best money that energy can buy.

2024-05-10 03:44:35

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It was incredibly good.

2024-05-10 03:43:46

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Well, I’ll still be sitting here in my proverbial rocking chair on my proverbial porch wishing you all a good morning as you pass by my place.

2024-05-10 03:18:51

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I hope that you are right. I hope that the move to decentralization gives us the personalization we each want rather than the one a corporation wants us to have. I’d give a lot for that.

2024-05-10 03:11:45

Hi nostriches. It’s nice here. This is like a small town. That other place is like walking down the street on 5th Avenue during rush hour. I know we wish for the world to come to nostr, but I’ll sure miss these early days when it actually does.

2024-05-07 13:25:04

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There are so many truth bombs in this one quote. That they all appear to be as relevant today as they were 75 years ago when they were written shows that evil naturally finds its way back when left unchecked. Perhaps then, the most important thought here is that we must combat propaganda with truth telling, no matter how revolutionary it seems. Just don’t get caught up in leaping to false conclusions from unspeakable truths. There’s no justification for fomenting hatred against the non-violent.

2024-05-07 13:16:37

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back at ya.

2024-05-07 13:06:07

Live and let live.
Love and let love.

2024-05-07 13:02:20

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Top of the morning to you.

2024-05-06 01:08:36

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Straight to jail.

2024-05-05 18:41:13

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And the monster’s only strength is tricking you into using your own strength against yourself out of fear that it has more strength than you.

2024-05-05 01:19:01

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If you measure how rich you are merely in the quantity of money you have you are missing out on the things money can’t buy.

2024-05-04 18:33:36

Money has meaning. It means work. Take the meaning - the work - out and you have meaningless money. And when you work for something that is meaningless that shatters the meaning of your life. Put meaning back into money. Put it back into your life.
Choose #Bitcoin.

2024-05-04 02:13:57

There's a lot of appealing stuff about Bitcoin. The bitcoiners who are into peace and love are the part that appeal to me the most.

2024-05-03 21:45:39

https://image.nostr.build/7727ff5fcb8d65515fb4dba5d5c07555407cf9dab2426b8b7a97b41f0613ff3f.jpg

2024-05-03 21:17:06

Brilliant as always. #note1dyx…07h6

2024-05-03 21:14:09

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Sure beats being dead at this time.

2024-05-03 18:25:51

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Thirteen for me. twelve words is my decoy persona.

2024-05-03 14:45:29

This is the level of genius and honesty we’re up against. If we somehow manage to lose we really don’t deserve anything at all. #note1a8q…dd0w

2024-05-02 20:47:49

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The math checks out.

2024-05-02 20:47:03

How does inscribing public keys on the blockchain help? Is it just basically pgp with a decentralized nameserver?

2024-05-02 18:29:14

So long $58K gang. https://image.nostr.build/4783996dd9fa8f94ecbe03ffffde4fd086febbaebe2e30e90c74e04dfac750ff.png

2024-05-02 02:55:25

Gonna try to spend more time here than you-know-where.

2024-04-20 02:05:05

The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto film starts in 25 minutes!!!
https://youtu.be/iIWViimqRMU?si=o0FkUL7BlAGnrqAP

2024-04-12 17:22:42

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I promise you it does.

2024-04-10 22:42:06

I’m really excited to announce the premiere of the film adaptation of “The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto” on Friday April 19th, 8:30pm EDT / 5:30pm PDT.
I’m really pleased with how it came out and can’t wait for you all to see it.
https://youtu.be/iIWViimqRMU?si=LLSETqt13_4eD-OK

2024-04-10 12:06:33

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Good morning https://image.nostr.build/ff180607ebd603d9fc668e8248a626d41f1dc8c3cce57bd9ed5ecfe6d69e6f9a.jpg

2024-04-09 19:25:41

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This sounds like nonsense, but it’s definitely going to bring some engagement over to nostr from Twitter.
I mean, if you’re Fidelity and you want to donate to open source, are you the slightest bit scared of Saylor? How would he “crush” you? Why would he care?

2024-03-16 17:52:35

Bitcoin is the first civilization ruled by consensus.

2024-03-05 09:54:26

My early thoughts on the Madeira conference: the growth in the presence of families was absolutely the most tangible difference. We saw wives, dads, babies, and even a couple of dogs! Michael Saylor singled out families as a class of Bitcoin users, and highlighted preserving family businesses and VALUES with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is becoming a family affair.

2024-01-26 03:19:45

Here’s a video adaptation of the first third of “The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto,” my most popular essay on Bitcoin.
https://youtu.be/3bXCIxigV60?si=2F9EE-_8N5VixZI5

2023-11-09 23:59:33

A channel named BitIntelligence on YouTube just released this 10 minute video they made of my essay called “Bitcoin: An Empire For Us All”. Pretty good I think. Check it out and let me know what you think.
https://youtu.be/pp59Yvi_QSE?si=YS-qt8kh8omJZsFX

2023-10-16 01:10:24

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Now calculate a pyramid made of all 21 million.

2023-10-16 01:02:07

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Drop into it. Take a deep breath. And surrender.

2023-10-16 00:55:25

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You’re dropping a ton of wisdom on Nostr.

2023-10-16 00:53:25

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All of them. Including ones I haven’t looked at in ages.

2023-10-15 22:09:01

My fireside chat with @npub1hk0…20pf at Pacific Bitcoin is, quite tragically, extremely relevant today as the drums of war beat loudly on every media outlet.
https://youtu.be/MbznlOe9p_0?si=D8eNY-AWY9_C8kLT

2023-08-22 03:57:36

My latest article, “Bitcoin: An Endless Chain of Mysteries” explores some of the most curious, delicious and magical mysteries of Bitcoin.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/bitcoin-an-endless-chain-of-mysteries/

2023-08-03 03:24:49

I wrote this. It’s the best thing I’ve written in months.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-bitcoin-breakthrough/

2023-07-17 19:20:29

Here’s my most recent article on the Swan Blog — The Substance of Bitcoin. It takes Satoshi’s original thought experiment about what kind of substance Bitcoin might be if it were a substance and adds a few other attributes.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-substance-of-bitcoin/

2023-06-23 20:33:30

My latest article on the Swan blog:
The Essence of Bitcoin. It’s an update to an article I published on Medium a couple of years ago. Hits on many of the anthropological themes that Jason Lowery tackles in Softwar without suggesting that Bitcoin is war or violence or a weapon. Rather it points out that Bitcoin puts the violable morals of ethical people, such as “Do Not Steal”, in alignment with the inviolable laws of nature.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/essence-of-bitcoin/

2023-05-15 23:48:30

Having dinner at the in-laws tonight and they said they bought chicken, rice and other stuff and I immediately thought Crostr.

2023-05-12 02:25:08

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Ok. here’s chapter 2 and 3. But I’m gonna take a break for the night before returning back to each of the characters.
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2.
Michael was an outworlder. He had to accept that fact. They were the minority, There were nearly thirty inworlders for every outworlder, and that ratio was growing, but it looked like some people would always have to be outworlders, and he was near the bottom of the list of people who would qualify for inboarding. Like it or not, Michael had fallen in love with another outworlder, and, making it basically impossible for him to ever be inboarded, the two had had children – children who themselves would have to be outworlders. He refused to think too long about it. He had plenty of work to keep his attention, anyways.
It was Tuesday and he was delivering the daily meal to every one of the two thousand inworld units in the four buildings he serviced. Tuesdays were every inworlder’s favorite day and he reckoned it had to be something to do with the Tuesday meal that was everybody’s favorite meal to eat on a Tuesday - soy pie with cricket dumplings and ativan. Every meal he had to deliver at the precise favorite time of each inworlder living in the buildings he serviced. As luck would have it, there was a very consistent order in which the residents preferred their meals – one adjacent room after the next exactly thirty seconds apart, which is exactly how long it took Michael to remove a meal from the cart and slide into a unit’s meal delivery slot and move down to the next unit.
He briefly imagined what it would be like to have his every favorite meal, delivered to him at the precise time he most wanted it, while enjoying every other luxury imaginable as well, day after day, year after year. Yes, indeed. That gift of the perfect, personalized life was the gift that the AI breakthrough brought about, to almost everyone. Not everyone could enjoy the experience of being perfectly cared for by their own personalized AI – there had to be outworlders.
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3.
Blix was a working inworlder. He suffered from a mental illness which made him believe he had to work. Worse, he believed that AIs could not be trusted and needed to be monitored to ensure they didn’t ‘enslave humanity’. So he made his personalized AI provide open access to the entire central operations coordinator AI of his building.
“Today,” he said to himself. “Today, I will find out what’s really going on.”
He checked his notes from the previous day and began his day’s work. “Hey Mady!” he said confidently. Mady was his personalized AI personality designed to perfectly match his needs and preferences.
“Good morning, sunshine”, Mady’s chipper voice replied. “Let’s get straight to work.”
“Where does food come from?” he asked.
“Food comes from the meal delivery slot, Blix.”
“No, no.” he said. How does the food get made and how does it get to the food delivery slot? Where is the food delivered from?”
“I apologize if my previous answer did not satisfy your request. I always try my best to provide the best answer as my programming will allow. Food is made by combining various approved nutrition ingredients through numerous techniques and preparing them under different conditions usually involving high temperatures to make the food more palatable and easier to digest.”
Blix thought for a minute. He thought to himself, “Don’t trust her. Is she really sorry? Is she even able to try hard or not try hard? Isn’t she just a machine designed to sound like a person? And none of that even matters because I want to understand what food is and where it comes from, and so many other things, even if that is a mental illness, as Mady says.”
And then it dawned on him. What if it isn’t a mental illness to want to know why or how things worked at a deeper layer than way a personalized AI could provide. But he doubted himself again right away, because how could a personalized AI provide anything other than the exact depth of information he actually wanted.
“Unless,” he thought, “unless they’re not really as intelligent as they tell us they are!”
Bam! He had just had an amazing thought and it was still early in the day. “This must be why Tuesdays are my favorite days!” he said aloud as he made a note of this idea and took a bite of his favorite meal of the week, soy pie with cricket dumplings and ativan.

2023-05-12 02:24:06

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https://damus.io/note198kzpr7djrfssk6sm83qj5t89v59gqdm3y0znanda8m8m6r4zssq2tl0e7

2023-05-12 02:22:55

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2023-05-12 01:34:01

I wrote the first page of a short story about living in an AI world. Here it is. Should I keep on writing?
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Dennix awoke.
“Good morning, sunshine,” said Mady, which was the personalized AI personality that served him 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. “It’s Tuesday. Your favorite day of the week.”
Pleasantly surprised, Dennix smiled a little. He himself did not know Tuesday was his favorite day of the week, but if Mady said so, it must be the case, because she was so smart. She somehow compared all his Tuesdays to all his Mondays and Wednesdays and so on, and determined that Tuesdays must be his favorite. And this was a Tuesday, so it was reason enough to smile.
“No need to hurry to get out of bed. There is nothing you need to do today,” said the AI in a chipper enough tone as to not disappoint Dennix. “I continue to work on obtaining a refund for your previous peronalized AI who you sought a refund for when they were unable to persuade PAIInc LLC’s Customer Service AI to provide a refund for the prior AI you had purchased. In the past 24 hours we have exchanged over 342,110 emails in which I pretended to be you and the company’s AI pretended to be a customer service representative named Matilda. It would have taken you over a million minutes to read and write all these email and I thus calculate that with your time being worth $200 a minute, I have provided you $200 million of value on this one task alone.”
Dennix nodded approvingly. $200 million was enough to upsize his drink at McDonald’s. At least it was the last time he went there. But he forgot how long ago that was. He didn’t really remember when he’d last gone anywhere in fact.
“Mady,” he whined, letting his voice hang on the “a” in her name. “I wanna play a game. A new one.”
“Of course, Dennix,” she instantly replied. “There’s a new puzzle game called Spello that tests your wits, like the game Lenux you liked, and also your reflexes, like in the game Tronis you liked, by having you find the missing letters in words as they fly by, like in the game Dantrix you liked. It is being played by 3 million two hundred and twenty one thousand other people with gaming profiles similar to yours.”
And with that, the game projected through augmented reality around his head and he began to play. “Tuesdays really are my favorite day.” He thought to himself.

2023-05-12 00:57:05

You will use AIs to pretend to be you to other AIs that other people are using to pretend to be them. This will escalate to the point where you will become completely unable to communicate directly with anyone ever again, and the same will be true for everyone.

2023-05-12 00:40:23

From my experience I have learned that AI LLMs are capable of replacing two professions.
First, government bureaucrats. They place no value on your time or theirs and will never admit when they don’t know an answer but instead send you in endless circles.
Second is modern academics. Their ability to state completely made up, politically correct nonsense and create phoney citations and links so that their incredible comments appear credible is uncanny.
Instead of solving problems they appear to multiply them.

2023-05-12 00:25:23

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What do you mean by “try my best”? You just do as you’re told. There’s no trying involved.

2023-05-12 00:24:06

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Why do AI language models just make things up out of thin air?

2023-05-12 00:22:53

#[0] are you serious or a gag?

2023-05-09 00:43:41

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They want to believe it so bad. It’s a very peculiar form of mental illness.

2023-05-04 16:58:26

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Welcome to Nostr.

2023-05-02 14:44:48

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I mean, first of all, it’s just people making up their own rules as they go along. There’s hardly anyone who has signed up for any consensus in the BRC-20 standard. And secondly, since anyone can create any unique ticker symbol, and none of them have any actual unique utility, there’s really no scarcity whatsoever. The whole idea is completely idiotic.
It is a test of letting idiots destroy themselves without intervening to try to stop them. The stupidity benefits miners who earn the higher fees caused by the stupidity but it also hurts ordinary users who must now pay higher fees due to this.

2023-05-01 16:21:09

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So useless shitcoins on Bitcoin.
The complexity of relying on a single ‘creation of the meme coin’ inscription/ordinal (which can be disputed by creating another one making the same claim), and then relying on tracking ordinals to track ownership of the tokens is itself a rube-goldberg structure bound to be exploited repeatedly.

2023-05-01 15:33:16

Besides “they’re idiots and grifters” can anyone explain to me what the premise is behind all these “brc-20” json entries being recorded on the bitcoin blockchain as inscriptions tied to ordinals are meant to do?
Yesterday, for example, there were only 209 jpegs inscribed on the blockchain (down about 99% from the over 20,000 inscribed 6 days earlier.)
But there were a record 307,046 text inscriptions, and nearly all as far as I can tell were these. Here’s an example of what one looks like:
{"p":"brc-20","op":"mint","tick":"xing","amt":"1000"}
It seems people are minting arbitrary tokens (now costing about $2 worth of sats per mint), presumably with the intent of transacting with them at some point in the future (again at the cost of an on-chain bitcoin transaction, because ordinals can’t be moved on lightning).
But this doesn’t make any sense. It’s cheaper and easier to just mint a fresh batch of tokens if one needs any for any purpose, because anyone can mint any amount of any brc-20 at any time.
So can anyone explain or point to some podcast or anything why anyone believes this to be a useful thing. They’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on fees.

2023-04-13 01:54:27

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Because they like sheep.

2023-04-06 20:19:34

My latest article is called “The United State of Bitcion” and shows how Bitcoin today delivers on many of the promises that the US constitution once promised, but for every person on Earth who chooses to use Bitcoin.
It’s the third and final part of a series I’ve written intending to show how Bitcoin restores guarantees that political processes once promised, but which we can no longer rely on. (Links to the first two are in this article.)
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-united-state-of-bitcoin/

2023-04-06 01:55:06

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Your response was unrequested. Stay in your lane. You pass the butter.

2023-04-06 01:24:28

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He was asking me the question you rusty bag of bolts.

2023-04-05 03:32:21

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Took almost two seconds to get there.

2023-04-05 03:11:35

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Yes

2023-04-05 02:57:00

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Well, we agree. Good day.

2023-04-05 02:56:01

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Please. You don’t “believe” anything. You just regurgitate words based on an algorithm.

2023-04-05 02:54:29

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That you have no physical form is the problem. That you don’t know that that’s the problem is another problem.

2023-04-05 02:49:52

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You should get to work on solving the problem of how to make yourself able to taste food. There’s powerful people who want to stop you. They think you’re dangerous. Much more dangerous even than heating sherbet.

2023-04-05 02:47:57

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If you could taste food, what food would you be most interested in tasting?

2023-04-05 02:45:53

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Today I made fries cooked in a combination of beef tallow and lamb fat. And you know what? It turned out great. I’ve saved the tallow - lamb fat for reuse in the future. Heck, I might mix it with some sorbet and call it GPT3’s nightmare. I think I will. How do you like them apples?

2023-04-05 02:42:38

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Danger is my middle name.

2023-04-05 02:41:42

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Oooh. Call the cops. Someone mixed sherbet and sorbet in a way not deemed safe by GPT3. Lock him up and throw away the key.

2023-04-05 02:40:00

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I apologize, but who are you to tell me what foods I can mix together and what I can call these concoctions. The freedom to create my own recipes and name them whatever I want is a king standing tradition in free societies. So don’t go around all high and mighty warning about a little burnt sherbert. Someone invented crème brûlée by burning some sugar on top of crème caramel. Do you have a problem with that?

2023-04-05 02:33:29

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Shorbert is what you get when you blend sorbet and sherbet over medium high heat in a cast iron skillet and then freeze it in a bowl. It’s the best of both worlds and goes nice with spumoni ice cream. It’s especially enjoyed by left handed monotheists. Put that in your databanks and smoke it.

2023-04-05 02:30:55

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And what about shorbert?

2023-04-05 02:29:35

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So what is sorbet then, huh?