Violet Ninja

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| 🦋✨Pura Vida!🦋🌿                                                                 |
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| Some yummie fluffy melodic morning beats to start the day. 😃                   |
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| https://on.soundcloud.com/y2eRtH2PcfoJuiM79                                    |
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| I think you may enjoy this read about AI in the music industry, lots to ponder |
| here about attribution and compensation for content creators.                  |
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| https://www.goethe.de/prj/k40/en/mus/machine-music.html                        |
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| This is a great video, thanks for sharing! In your post above, I think you     |
| raised some really fascinating questions to ponder about impact n role of AI   |
| in the creative arts.                                                          |
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| I think one of poignant marks you bring up is about the collaboration of human |
| and machine. This has a where I believe a beautiful synergy can be achieved    |
| unleashing inspiring new applications of machine learning across a variety of  |
| disciplines from healthcare to creative arts where AI augments and enhances    |
| the facets of human intelligence rather than replacing it outright. Figuring   |
| out the dance of synergy between human intelligence and machine intelligence   |
| these next few months and years will be fascinating to witness.                |
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| I think this video clip from the book Age of AI raises lots of thought         |
| provoking things to consider when thinking about this next technological       |
| transformation.                                                                |
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0OCPwo9gA&feature=youtu.be                     |
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| Did you see this? This is great to see some of the concerns and messy history  |
| of OpenAI being brought to the public dialog.                                  |
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fm04Dvky3w8&pp=ygUJRWxvbiBtdXNr                  |
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| Mmmm. I find it challenging to separate the two at this point, as the          |
| individuals, organizations and corporations at the helm of the generative AI   |
| markets will shape the fundamental systems redesign that will incentivize and  |
| shape the systemic implications of AI.                                         |
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| I think to fully evaluate the risks and opportunities with “unleashing an      |
| intelligent entity on humans” we first have to evaluate from a wholistic       |
| systems theory and invent totally new systems and economic models for healthy  |
| human engagement in an era of AI.                                              |
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| I think it will be important to prioritize fully auditable AI and transparent  |
| algorithmic practices.                                                         |
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| In the case of addressing all the data harvested artists, I think we will need |
| to invent new IP and Copyright structures so that we can more effectively      |
| engineer new systems to incentivize humans to create, engage and collaborate.  |
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| We have an opportunity to unleash an AI Renaissance, or quickly entrap         |
| ourselves in a digital serfdom. I think it is important to evaluate how do we  |
| steer ‘super intelligent AI’ from systems engineering perspective to unleash a |
| sovereign and creative Renaissance?                                            |
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| 🌿Pura Vida!🦋                                                                   |
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| https://on.soundcloud.com/762up7LfpRy71mpZ7                                    |
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| 🦋Pura Vida!🌿✨. Wishing everyone a beautiful inspired start to the week!✨       |
| Here are some bubbly morning tunes. 💜                                          |
| https://on.soundcloud.com/Lg4Wa4MMcjbB4jYZ9                                    |
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| Wow!!! This is heartwarming and inspiring. Thank-you for sharing. 💜💕           |
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| Hachi- A Dogs Tale is one of my favorite movies. Such a heart warming true     |
| story about the bond of friendship, devotion and undying love.🥰✨.              |
| https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/                                            |
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| One of my concerns is looking at the inception evolution of OpenAI and it’s    |
| initial goal of “Open” AI development and how over time it pivoted from its    |
| founding philosophy, ethics and values and in 2018 prioritized                 |
| commercialization and in 2019 set up a capped profit structure. Given Sam      |
| Altaman’s incredibly questionable ethical and transparency practices with      |
| World Coin, his power unchecked is of absolute grave concern as there is       |
| nothing “Open” about OpenAI today. Maybe it should be rebranded “Sam &         |
| Microsoft’s AI?”                                                               |
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| “Now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively         |
| controlled by Microsoft,” Elon Musk posted to Twitter. “Not what I intended at |
| all.”                                                                          |
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| “OpenAI's transformation from an open-source champion to a closed-source,      |
| profit-driven company is a cautionary tale for the AI industry. “              |
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| There are many lessons to learn from the early history of the internet and the |
| consolidation of corporate control that you elucidated to. It is important to  |
| observe the foundational terrain that is established in the generative AI      |
| ecosystem these next few months.                                               |
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| I would feel a lot better if there was a decentralized open source generative  |
| AI solution that is fully in line with the values of both Bitcoin and Nostr    |
| protocols. I think such a solution would be integral to helping preserve the   |
| future of digital sovereignty and collaborative innovation for future          |
| generations as we can very quickly end up in a form of digital serfdom if only |
| select corporations dominate the generative AI market.                         |
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| https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/openai-not-so-open/                           |
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| https://fortune.com/2023/03/17/sam-altman-rivals-rip-openai-name-not-open-arti |
| ficial-intelligence-gpt-4/amp/                                                 |
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| https://fortune.com/2023/02/17/chatgpt-elon-musk-openai-microsoft-company-regu |
| lator-oversight/amp/                                                           |
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| https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/07/1049133/the-download-deception-exp |
| loited-workers-and-free-cash-how-worldcoin-recruited-its-first-half-a-million- |
| test-users/amp/                                                                |
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| Wow must be interesting teaching students 1984 these days!                     |
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| I’m reading Creativity Without Law- Challenging the Assumptions of             |
| Intellectual Property by Kate Darling and Aaron Perzanowski. #bookstr          |
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| https://nyupress.org/9781479856244/creativity-without-law/                     |
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| “when the paper is landfilled, it releases up to 398 ml of methane per dry     |
| gram, contributing to three-quarters of the total climate change emissions     |
| from the paper life cycle [178]. Others incinerate PPI waste. However, this    |
| entails high costs and creates environmental risks due to the compounds        |
| released into the atmosphere [204], the large quantities of acid, or the       |
| infiltration of organic materials into the soil resulting from anaerobic       |
| digestion [205].”                                                              |
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| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122005950            |
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| 🦋Pura Vida!🌿✨. Here are some yummie fluffy morning vibes.                      |
| https://on.soundcloud.com/7aFF3ivddwYnpW6r9                                    |
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| Welcome! Pura Vida! 🦋✨                                                         |
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| Great quote and insight, thanks for your eloquent and poignant reflection.     |
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| I can’t help but worry that we are racing towards a new form of digital        |
| serfdom consolidating greater power in the hands of a few who yield the market |
| dominant generative AI tools.                                                  |
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| “Much depends on the assumption that controlling the potentially dangerous     |
| developments and effects of AI can be left to trustworthy, ethical human       |
| beings. These would of course be people not influenced by greed, power, profit |
| or sociopathic tendencies. Which leads me in conclusion to a quote from German |
| ethicist Immanuel Kant, who said presciently in 1784, ‘Out of the crooked      |
| timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’”                         |
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| https://www.timesgazette.com/2023/04/04/ai-utopia-or-dystopia/                 |
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| So their 2022 annual report has no information about their sustainability      |
| strategy and mitigating their environmental impact. There is also no mention   |
| of %of recycled pulp used in their magazine or newsprint divisions in their    |
| raw materials statements.                                                      |
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| In 2022 their combined news and magazine divisions used 74,700 tons of raw     |
| pulp. Which emits about 1,427,000,000 pounds of CO2 emissions consuming        |
| 168,390 acres of forest.                                                       |
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| These calculation do not account for fact 80% of paper is not recycled and     |
| ends up back in landfills. “Decomposition of the paper in landfills produces   |
| methane, a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat-trapping power of carbon      |
| dioxide (CO2). U.S. EPA has identified landfills as the single largest source  |
| of methane emissions in the U.S., and the decomposition of paper is the        |
| largest contributor to the methane being generated.”                           |
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| https://www.paperrecyclingcoalition.com/policyissues/how-recycling-paper-fight |
| s-global-warming/                                                              |
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| At 80% that would mean, 51,770 tons of news and magazine print end up in       |
| landfills. Would be interesting to calculate methane generate from NYT news    |
| and magazines that end up in landfills.                                        |
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| This calculator is cool. Gotta figure out calculating their methane impact     |
| cause the irony is Bitcoin mining off displaced methane should be an integral  |
| part of mitigating their environmental impact.                                 |
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| https://reports.environmentalpaper.org/1fc8c368893067655eef346756bf980e.pdf    |
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| Cool, I was quickly scanning last night and it appears the NYT appears to be   |
| the media epicenter for last 15- 20 years of industry sponsored ‘green         |
| washing’ attacks.                                                              |
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| Ironically, for a company at the epicenter of sustainability transformation    |
| dialog for so long, their annual reports contains no information about their   |
| sustainability strategy nor how they plan to offset the environmental impact   |
| of their print industry.                                                       |
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| https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/03/The-New-York-Times-Company-2022-Annua |
| l-Report.pdf                                                                   |
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| Their annual reports contain their raw paper pulp metrics and would provide    |
| some insightful data driven points about environmental impact of their print   |
| industry alone. Additionally, 80% of newspapers are not recycled and end up in |
| landfills as significant contributors to methane.                              |
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| (Figuring out some quantifiable metrics on their methane pollution would help  |
| bring the debate full circle pointing out that Bitcoin mining is helping to    |
| capture their methane emissions.)                                              |
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| This is great paper industry environmental impact calculator.                  |
| https://c.environmentalpaper.org/group.html                                    |
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| If there is anyway I can be of help, please let me know. I am a big fan of     |
| quantifiable data driven insights in a debate.                                 |
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| This is welcome news, I hope more contenders with the means n drive throw      |
| their hat into the generative ai arena do so.                                  |
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| Given Sam Altman’s questionable ethical practices with World Coin, I would     |
| prefer to have a scope of choices in generative ai tools to use.               |
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| 🦋Pura Vida! ✨ Some light bubbly vibes to ring in the morning. ☕️                |
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| https://on.soundcloud.com/2phKiuRjhuZcWx5q9                                    |
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| I just love that when the mascot is used… it’s running. 😁. Cause it’s soooooo  |
| much fun to play chase with giant ostriches! Having a giant bird flapping it’s |
| wings running faster than you, at you, is a totally exhilarating experience!   |
| Dam they are fast, fun and hilarious! Kind of like NOSTR!🤪                     |
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| Omg!! Your bunny matches your cat! Cuteness overload!!! 🤩😻🐰                    |
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| I agree, I think decentralization is the key to securing the future of digital |
| sovereignty for generations to come.                                           |
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| According to their 2021 annual report, in 2020 they consumed 71,600 metric     |
| tons of pulp for their newsprint division alone which is about 148,000 trees,  |
| emitting 1,380,000,000 pounds of CO2, consuming 2,970,000,000 gallons of       |
| water, emitting 100,000 pounds of hazardous pollutants. This just factors in   |
| production impact, when papers are not recycled about 80% there are additional |
| impacts in landfills to calculate such as production of methane.               |
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| Would be fun to calculate a data driven estimate of their total environmental  |
| impact since 1851. Given scale of their podcasting and magazine ventures,      |
| their data center consumption would be quite substantial too, in addition to   |
| all their transportation costs too.                                            |
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| Upon quick glance the 2021 annual shareholder report doesn’t include anything  |
| about their sustainability strategy and mitigating their environmental impact. |
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| This environmental paper network calculator is pretty cool.🤓                   |
| https://reports.environmentalpaper.org/23369c38beed7bb1cddfa7df5617b6e5.pdf    |
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| Great to read about this ! Thanks!                                             |
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| “Schlemmer noted decentralization provides resiliency in times of crisis.”     |
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| Something I’ve been contemplating for a few years now, is how to reinvent new  |
| economic models that compensate Open Source Developers. I think the            |
| opportunity to build a decentralized social coding solution on Nostr with      |
| lightning integration, we are at the threshold for inventing totally new       |
| economic models for coding and creative collaboration.                         |
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| Playing with Zaps these last few weeks has totally changed my framework of     |
| thought process about the types of frictionless systems that could be built to |
| incentivize and empower Open Source developers and creatives of all mediums.   |
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| I am excited to see what types of conversations and solutions emerge about     |
| inventing new economic models to support Open Source developers and creatives  |
| of all mediums.                                                                |
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| 🤙 Morning! Looks like you have a fascinating matrix of interests. Great to     |
| meet you virtually in the Nostr mayhem. Have a beautiful Friday! 🦋✨            |
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| Morning vibes… 😁 caffeinating for a productive day. ☕️                          |
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| https://on.soundcloud.com/y67p8CnijiP4Z9ZQA                                    |
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| Currently I’m in the middle of a big move, so nothing too exciting to report   |
| just yet. Still dipping my toes into Nostr ecosystem to develop a terrain of   |
| the foundational tech and what people are currently creating and motivated by, |
| there is so much I have yet to explore. Looking forward to allocating more     |
| time soon as I get settled.                                                    |
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| I’m particularly motivated to explore new economic models that facilitate      |
| frictionless collaboration to ignite an empowered sovereign creative           |
| Renaissance. I have some projects that I’ve been incubating for a couple of    |
| years that may be totally adaptable to Nostr.                                  |
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| As I reflect of the sovereign opportunities Nostr opens, I am also evaluating  |
| current risks to the Open Source developer ecosystem in light of regulatory    |
| and legal challenges on the horizon. So as much as I am reflecting on what I   |
| am inspired to build; I am also reflecting on what kind of systems would be    |
| helpful to help secure the future of Open Source Innovation which will be key  |
| helping secure the future of Digital Sovereignty.                              |
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| “London Stock Exchange Group to launch a service enabling institutional        |
| clients to take leveraged bets on bitcoin.                                     |
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| The bitcoin-denominated futures and options would be bought and sold by        |
| investment banks, hedge fund managers and asset managers.                      |
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| By using a clearing house like LCH, the risk that counterparties to a trade    |
| could go bust and renege is largely eliminated.                                |
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| The LSEG/GFO-X move follows a scramble to offer bitcoin trading to wholesale   |
| investors, with US rival CME Group already offering bitcoin futures and        |
| options, while another US exchanges group CBOE has acquired a digital asset    |
| exchange, ErisX. Deutsche Boerse’s Eurex platform is also due to launch        |
| bitcoin related derivatives trading shortly.”                                  |
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| https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d1efc2c4-da24-11ed-89ad-19e3cfc05db4        |
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| I think this video clip from the book Age of AI raises lots of thought         |
| provoking things to consider when thinking about this next technological       |
| transformation.                                                                |
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0OCPwo9gA&feature=youtu.be                     |
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| Did you see this? This is great to see some of the concerns and messy history  |
| of OpenAI being brought to the public dialog.                                  |
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fm04Dvky3w8&pp=ygUJRWxvbiBtdXNr                  |
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