waxwing on Nostr: Had a fun time in Oslo for the Olso Freedom Forum conference last week. Thanks to ...

Had a fun time in Oslo for the Olso Freedom Forum conference last week. Thanks to gladstein (nprofile…lwjj) et al for inviting me. Really well organized event. There were a *lot* of Bitcoiners there (and nostr-ers of course).. I spent most of my time nerding out with people about Bitcoin stuff so didn't pay as much attention (though, a little) to the political talks/reports. Obviously AI is "the new hotness" and it feels like, to develop a theme I occasionally opine about, the real story for me is access to compute: it's defining what power is, more and more, in the new world. I'm probably one of many many people that are spending a lot of time worrying in the background about how communication channels are getting more and more corrupted by the new vector of power which is access to datacenters. I stated here, years ago, that I thought open source software is going to win in this field, but to this day I am doubtful about whether the power asymmetry of data center access is resolvable. Perhaps the answer is in compute power distribution, as it was/is for Bitcoin mining.