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Simplified Summary of Physics History for average readers in a Letter from a Physicist, starting with Euclid until the era of Quantum Physics, including on the u-d Quark Coulomb Origin of Nuclear Force. Nuclear Force The origin of nuclear force is assigned to Coulomb attractions between u and d quarks in neighbouring nucleons, replacing the current unspecified “residual” strong interaction assignment. The deuteron binding energy is correctly estimated using quasi-classical models for nucleons based upon SSI, the scalar strong interaction hadron theory. The next lightest nuclei are analogously treated. The Coulomb binding energies depend upon the small, in principle observable, internucleon distances between such u and d quarks whose positions in their respective host nucleons however depend upon intranucleon strong u - d potential that span over larger hidden distances.
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Bitcoin is a midnight sun, and miners grind salty hash to secure ledger 24/7 — energy vampires avoid sun and salt, Bitcoin is both 🤷‍♂️
Like oxygen in bloodstream, Bitcoin is not a commodity — vampire can't take it, and neither can the bank 🤷‍♂️ AI explains why👇 Self-custody makes it non-commodity: you alone hold the private keys. No bank, custodian, or authority can confiscate or block access remotely. It's direct bearer property—like atoms in your blood or oxygen you control—inalienable personal sovereignty, not an intermediated claim or expandable good.
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@grok what is the folklore about sun and salt?
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Like oxygen in bloodstream, Bitcoin is not a commodity — vampire can't take it, and neither can the bank 🤷‍♂️ AI explains why👇 Self-custody makes it non-commodity: you alone hold the private keys. No bank, custodian, or authority can confiscate or block access remotely. It's direct bearer property—like atoms in your blood or oxygen you control—inalienable personal sovereignty, not an intermediated claim or expandable good.
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I still think it's hard to reframe Bitcoin from scarcity to abundance The abundance angle is simple to Grok — but hard to explain It is such wild perspective shift to go from scarcity drives value — to not, at least for me.
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Simon says Buy Bitcoin
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What if US and Chinese military used supercomputer advanced AI to wargame conflict? But neither predicted Bitcoin, or an approach to defeat Bitcoin? 🤷‍♂️🤣
In Jim Simons Biography, on Renaissance Technologies — AI is mention two times, and one of them is Magerman I think this “Transformers invented decades before 2017” is a great rabbit hole 🤷‍♂️ Self-attention Joshua Playstation 3 = great use case of “Self-Attention” 🤷‍♂️🤣
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As physicist who created Bitcoin — what deeper physical problem was Satoshi trying to solve beyond money? To Satoshi, Bitcoin was not about Money. It was a way for miners to productively use waste heat and recycle electricity to lower energy costs in local communities. Money was necessary lubricant to bootstrap energy distribution system — make Bitcoin work across distance, with energy itself as real objective, not Money. What do you think? Also, does anyone use AI as an idea springboard. Just have it copy a long monologue, and see what comes out? 👇 “Bitcoin it fundamentally roots in physics. And it's new physics. Because Bitcoin itself roots ledger stability in proof-of-work. This distributes, this distributes, this distributes network gravity across miners. And Bitcoin can grow infinitely large without collapsing under its own weight into a black hole style singularity. And this type of technology, based on new physics, is more similar to an incentive-based open-ended mathematical framework over, I mean, variance optimized framework. The key here is that at the discoverer of Bitcoin probably did not think of money when creating Bitcoin. It is more likely that the objective of Bitcoin had another objective. Like energy, network stability. So, even if what is publicly known is that Satoshi wrote the paper as peer-to-peer money transaction, a bigger goal of Bitcoin is the ability of miners to use waste heat and recycle electricity to lower cost of energy in local communities. That's that objective, although not disclosed in the white paper, is a much more reasonable objective to have for a physicist and discoverer of Bitcoin over a financial network. Now, it could be the case that money itself is necessary to create a resource sharing distribution system due to the friction of physical energy to travel from A to B versus information not having the same friction. So it could be that Bitcoin needed money to distribute an energy grid, but it still was the energy itself that was the Objective, not money.”
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Elephant in the room is that Bitcoin can grow infinetly large — without collapsing under its own weight🤷‍♂️
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Also — “you want to play a game” “supercomputer” “AI” You can't unsee it now — fucked up they are🤣🤣🤣
In Jim Simons Biography, on Renaissance Technologies — AI is mention two times, and one of them is Magerman I think this “Transformers invented decades before 2017” is a great rabbit hole 🤷‍♂️ Self-attention Joshua Playstation 3 = great use case of “Self-Attention” 🤷‍♂️🤣
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In Jim Simons Biography, on Renaissance Technologies — AI is mention two times, and one of them is Magerman I think this “Transformers invented decades before 2017” is a great rabbit hole 🤷‍♂️ Self-attention Joshua Playstation 3 = great use case of “Self-Attention” 🤷‍♂️🤣
What if Transformers wasn’t actually a groundbreaking discovery in 2017 everyone thinks it was — but decades earlier? Cause of stories about OpenAI👇 — AI transformers on self-attention doesn't pass the smell test🤷‍♂️🤣 For example, what if Renaissance Technologies had already figured out self-attention or something very close to the Transformer architecture decades earlier? But they were either too limited by CPU compute, shut down for national security reasons, or simply kept it secret because they’re a black-box hedge fund? What if the public breakthrough in 2017 was just the moment the rest of the world finally caught up?
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What if Transformers wasn’t actually a groundbreaking discovery in 2017 everyone thinks it was — but decades earlier? Cause of stories about OpenAI👇 — AI transformers on self-attention doesn't pass the smell test🤷‍♂️🤣 For example, what if Renaissance Technologies had already figured out self-attention or something very close to the Transformer architecture decades earlier? But they were either too limited by CPU compute, shut down for national security reasons, or simply kept it secret because they’re a black-box hedge fund? What if the public breakthrough in 2017 was just the moment the rest of the world finally caught up?
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David Magerman who built AI trading system at Renaissance Technologies in 1980s — calls OpenAI a Ponzi scheme 🤷‍♂️🤣
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Everybody studying Bitcoin physics — will come to same conclusion👇 Unlike Black Hole singularity, physics prediction from the Standard Model — Bitcoin does not collapse under its own weight, no matter how large network grows 🤷‍♂️
Why does Bitcoin flip Einstein’s grim “WW4 fought with sticks and stones prophecy” into a feature — not a bug?🤷‍♂️ On Bitcoin, self-custodial wealth lives in hidden space — beyond reach of physical weapons Only private keys can access Bitcoin wallets on the decentralized network. All Bitcoin holders have to do is memorize 12 words and they can walk across a border with entire net worth in Bitcoin. Bombs can destroy cities, banks, or even mining farms — but not Bitcon itself. Scalar gravity from Bitcoin incentives attracts binary yes choice to generate 1/0s hashrate. It pulls system back to its stable equilibrium, no matter how much visible-world chaos happens. So advanced weapons that destroy the old Fiar system can't kill Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s design — scalar, hidden space, self-organized stability — survives any Fiat collapse.
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"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT" 😂🐶 The entire Knicks team did Mike Brown's bark chant again 😭
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How does Bitcoin change society’s incentive structure from violence to value creation? Before Bitcoin, big could always seize property from small. In hunter-gatherer times, people owned almost nothing, so there was little worth stealing. But agriculture changed everything: people accumulated surplus food and land, creating wealth that needed protection. This led to a society where strong demands tribute or taxes in exchange for security — shifting power from hunter and producer toward biggest and most violent. Bitcoin reverses that shift back to hunter and producer again. Because your wealth can be stored securely in your mind — through a seed phrase. Even if they can gunpoint at your head, nobody can take your Bitcoin unless you give it to them. Best and only way to get someone’s Bitcoin is to offer something of value in return. This fundamentally changes society’s incentive structure — from violence to voluntary value creation.
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Why does Bitcoin flip Einstein’s grim “WW4 fought with sticks and stones prophecy” into a feature — not a bug?🤷‍♂️ On Bitcoin, self-custodial wealth lives in hidden space — beyond reach of physical weapons Only private keys can access Bitcoin wallets on the decentralized network. All Bitcoin holders have to do is memorize 12 words and they can walk across a border with entire net worth in Bitcoin. Bombs can destroy cities, banks, or even mining farms — but not Bitcon itself. Scalar gravity from Bitcoin incentives attracts binary yes choice to generate 1/0s hashrate. It pulls system back to its stable equilibrium, no matter how much visible-world chaos happens. So advanced weapons that destroy the old Fiar system can't kill Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s design — scalar, hidden space, self-organized stability — survives any Fiat collapse.
Bitcoin sticks & stones > War stocks & bonds 🤷‍♂️ Einstein was correct: — impossible to confiscate Bitcoin in self-custody renders nukes powerless, essentially transforming world into sticks & stones 😁
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Bitcoin sticks & stones > War stocks & bonds 🤷‍♂️ Einstein was correct: — impossible to confiscate Bitcoin in self-custody renders nukes powerless, essentially transforming world into sticks & stones 😁
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