Albert Wenger

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Part of making it to the Knowledge Age will be about getting back to more high rung discourse, see https://continuations.com/whats-our-problem-by-tim-urban-book-review

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My take on a possible transition to the "Knowledge Age" https://worldaftercapital.org/

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Political discourse is still stuck in Industrial age thinking when what we really need is an entirely new narrative in light of AI progress and attention scarcity.

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What should I add to the queue?

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Recently read books: No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz All Fours by Miranda July Here One Moment by Lynn Moriarty Life as We Don't Know It by Sara Walker The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Consider Phlebas by Ian M. Banks The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks

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Revising my P(doom) down as I am revising my P(AI will rely on humans as useful idiots) up ...

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New blog post about reasserting the rule of law https://continuations.com/reasserting-the-rule-of-law

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And the very first post, introducing my blog and explaining the name Continuations https://continuations.com/starting-continuations

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An here's an early post explaining that I consider myself a Technology Optimist (from 2008) https://continuations.com/technology-optimist

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So excited! I have migrated my blog continuations.com to @paragraph

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Who is building an AI-native version of Wikipedia? Humans and machines working together to build out the knowledge commons.

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The real loss of trust comes from lying. Had Biden said upfront "he's my son and I will likely pardon him" one might still have disagreed but at least not felt misled.

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Spent the long weekend reviewing and editing the German edition of my book which will be published next April!

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating. Deeply grateful for family, friends and founders!

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At the New York premier of Vitalik: An Ethereum Story - beautiful portrait of @vitalik.eth

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1/ The Wells Fargo Effect: Designing incentive systems for user-owned networks requires a delicate balance between rewarding participation and maintaining content quality to avoid the "clickhole crap" trap. This principle, long known in corporate sales, still needs emphasis in new media: explicit incentives work only when paired with strong quality measures.

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I am more hoping we won't encounter them at all!

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The two tectonic technological shifts of web3 and AI are not only happening at the same time but on an important collision course. Some of the most exciting things to come may happen when they intersect. I wrote about that here: https://blog.usv.com/collision-course

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Alongside @variant, we're hosting a consumer crypto demo night with a focus on onchain social on June 13th evening! Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings. If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs

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