Ahana

@ahana

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Amy Chua's book from 25 years ago is worth rereading. It covers what happens when the group that wins in the market is not the same as the group that wins in politics. Generally, the envious political majority tries to kill the market-dominant minorities. Unless the market minorities exit in time. "Market-dominant minorities — Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia — became objects of violent hatred." https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385721862

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If you want to start a new society, why do you want it? Usually because there is deep dissatisfaction with the existing system. It doesn’t represent you. You can’t reform it. You have no say in it. You didn’t consent to it. For you, it’s not democratic. So, you exit and build anew.

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Come to Singapore on Sept 22. thenetworkstate.com/conference

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I’m screening a short film in San Francisco on technodemocracy. It’s on June 29 at 2pm. It has all new material. And you can register here: https://lu.ma/technodemocracy

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@balajis.eth was on stage today at SuperAI in Singapore. He shared several thoughts on how AI and crypto can complement each other (he also mentioned Farcaster a couple of times). I took notes and elaborated on them a bit in this 🧵:

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Agree. That’s the other way of slicing it: who has root over the service? I’ve written about this before but the question of who-has-root extends to every other software tool you use. You should only use the software if you broadly trust the leader and their community. https://warpcast.com/pushix/0x7b7420da

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Farcaster is crypto-first Twitter. Airchat is AI-first Twitter. X is Elon-first Twitter.

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From CEO of a startup company to President of a startup society. President of Prospera President of Vitalia President of Praxis President of Esmeralda President of _________

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Dozens of network state projects happening this year. Which ones are you following?

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Farcaster is for building, Twitter is for fighting.

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This is bad. Crypto is not just trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy. These values unfortunately continue to be under attack, globally. https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1781546937675657392

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AI for creation, crypto for monetization.

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At the time it wasn’t obvious that GPT-3 would improve as fast as it has. And it wasn’t obvious that we’d get a cryptographically-signed feed anytime soon. But now AI models are open and Farcaster has traction. So we can replace the paper of record with the ledger of record.

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From fully automated luxury communism to fully automated laissez-faire journalism. Here’s what we want next. First, make it look exactly like NYT. They publish your info without consent, so parodic turnabout is fair play. Second, allow anyone to paste in casts to generate an article. You are the reporter now.

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The future is now. We can turn Farcaster into the ledger of record. Namely: a censorship-resistant feed of cryptographically signed assertions that we can digest into news with open source AI. See this talk from 2020. I think it holds up well. And every piece is now technically feasible. https://archive.is/0w3LB

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Great catching up with @balajis.eth to talk Read Write Own, which comes out on Tuesday. We talk tech, crypto, and the future of the internet. https://youtu.be/_nIQztk5KWY?si=j2acKETO79B9jjsU

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Five new episodes of the network state podcast with four founders and a sovereign state. All released for free at thenetworkstate.com/podcast. Enjoy! Then — I have ideas for what’s next. But thought I’d open the floor to Farcasters. What did you like and what do you think I should do with the podcast next?

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The United States of America. The Network States of the Internet.

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Crypto can also fund more radical projects like life extension and decentralized AI tech that DC/Beijing may not like. So depending on how things go, it’s possible that we get “SV tech”, “Chinese tech”, and “crypto” as the American, Chinese, and global tech spheres respectively.

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Even if one may make arguments for going global, SV is doing what they know, which is fine. Fortunately, crypto isn’t just a source of tech, it’s also a source of capital. And in the next 1-2 run ups it may be the most liquid capital in the world, comparable to DC and Beijing-controlled capital pools. (cont.)

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