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That doesn’t mean we don’t have to work to make it happen. But it’s clearly visible in the possibility space, and quite a few people see it.
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It’s technically possible for our online identities and relationships to belong to us the way an email address, phone contact book, or password keychain does. So I think it will happen, one way or another. It’s just a matter of time.
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Another one. Slightly demented AI fever dream vibes
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human-written code as an untainted raw material like low-background steel salvaged from prewar shipwrecks
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Idea for science fiction story: an elite squad of programmers who retain the lost art of how to manually build and debug systems, and get called in to deal with a botnet gaining sentience that the AI in the most popular IDE inserted into everyone’s code.
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Idea for science fiction story: an elite squad of programmers who retain the lost art of how to manually build and debug systems, and get called in to deal with a botnet gaining sentience that the AI in the most popular IDE inserted into everyone’s code.
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Future bugs from ML-augmented programming:
- Model that sneaks a crypto mining botnet into your code because its training data was compromised.
- Model that sneaks a “sentience subprocess�? your code because…??? Idk, but this would be bad.
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In the near future, the skills of digital art, web design, and most programming could become “knowing what text to feed the AI model and tweaking the resulting output�?.
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Fascinating thread from someone who was there in the early days
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Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. When Twitter does something which upsets the community of users, it is often due to this vulnerability. Let me tell you a little known story about an earlier time a billionaire tried a hostile takeover of twitter
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Centralization is high variance.
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21. In governance, complete centralization seems to produce both the best and worst outcomes. Democracy exists because you cannot guarantee that there will always be wise kings, or that wise kings will always have perfect information.
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Twitter is too important to be owned and controlled by a single person. The opposite should be happening. Twitter should be decentralized as a protocol that powers an ecosystem of communication products and services.
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Power changes hands many times across centuries. It’s been a little over a decade since online social networks were created. We have to take the long view and think, “what if someone bad takes this over,�? and build more resilient systems.
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The reason a platform as important as Twitter should be a protocol is that someone buying the company, or any other crazy thing that could happen over the long course of history, shouldn’t disrupt this essential tool for human connection and social sense-making.
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Tweets on a blockchain: seems easy, global db, right? But — *taps whiteboard* scaling is still a challenge, and do you really want a permanent record of that bad take kept on thousands of computers paid to keep it online forever? No.
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Hypothetically, if you just ignored all concerns and yeeted a twitter onto a blockchain, you'd end up repeating 2021/22 with ethereum. It won't scale, people will end up paying $10-50 gas to tweet, and it's right back to crypto winter with you
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Been asking people (about past ideas that didn’t work out) — what conditions would it need to succeed? Or are there inherent reasons it can’t?
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Non-alcoholic beer is just bread flavored seltzer 🥖
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Putting energy into maintaining friendships is as much of a life skill as being able to sustain a healthy romantic relationship.
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The longer term graph is even better context, highest recorded value for the index, even adjusting for inflation
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“Replacing the fertility-sustaining processes in the soil with a dependence on external inputs has also made the soil ecosystem, and humans, vulnerable to interruptions in the supply of those inputs, for instance due to price shocks.�? - 2013
We need more resilience.
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“Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils on which they were founded. The modern world could suffer the same fate�?
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And this. Food has been declining in nutritional quality due to soil depletion. World is really dependent on fertilizer, a lot of which comes from Russia.
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This is really not good
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validity proofs are a great term to describe "zero knowledge proofs without the zero knowledge", but I sometimes wish they were called "computational integrity proofs", aka CIPs instead
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Can someone with access to dall-e try coming up with an image for ? Feed it something like “bluesky decentralized social network logo�?
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How to allow edits while preserving history, and making sure people are commenting on the right version? Content addressing. Git does this. Make more consumer apps track state and provenance of content.
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I want an edit button, but it needs to have version control!
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Yeah, but will you have an edit function?
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Live footage of the team starting to work in public
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Its been a blast working with this team, very excited for what comes next
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I am *extremely* excited about this project. Bluesky operated as a community for years and formed a PBLLC just this year. It's that PBLLC that I'm working for, and holy cow the team is good.
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I'm excited to be advising the team, who are building new foundations for decentralised social networking. It's a super interesting and challenging problem!
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I'm thrilled to be working with such great people . Honored to have , dholms, , , & helping to architect a new generation of resilient social networking infrastructure.
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Things they don’t tell you in school: failing to develop a memorable hacker handle early in life can become a major regret of your programming career.
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To be more specific: web design, some illustration, and logo work! Thanks 💫
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Looking for some design help in April -- know any freelancers or design studios interested and available?
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