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There is a Network State Camp in Austin on October 11-14. I’ll be speaking and you should apply. tns.camp

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There is a Network State Camp in Austin on October 11-14. I’ll be speaking and you should apply. tns.camp

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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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I don’t think of Farcaster as being directly political like those other services are. (Threads is meant to be normie but normie tints blue.)

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Many Twitters now with 100k-10M users. Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky on the left. Gab, Parler, Truth Social on the right. Nostr is Maximalist Twitter. Lens is also crypto Twitter. Probably many more I’m missing. It’s a testament to how well-designed the original Twitter was. And how much people wanted alternatives.

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

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@balajis.eth made this pop culture reference in a random meeting in 2018 and it's been living in my head rent free ever since. True for building anything, but especially true when building protocols.

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@bountybot complete @stringtheory69

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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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The approach we’d like is 100% building. But that loses to someone who is doing 50% writing and 50% fighting. They’ll write about how evil you are and then use the law to fight you. Example: Tornado Cash. So we need ~70% build, 20% write, 10% fight. A defense department. Still, good to have a forum for builders!

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Farcaster is for building, Twitter is for fighting.

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Once you start seeing both criticism and regulation as special cases of binary classifiers, much becomes clear. First, you can have both false positives AND false negatives. Second, without any constraint on negativity towards new things, it becomes the default. https://warpcast.com/balajis.eth/0x94c25770

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If you make a bad criticism, what is your penalty? Yet that is actually very common. In fact, the normie’s off the cuff reaction to new things is extremely hostile. And that’s why VC is hard: good new things aren’t obvious. Still, see below for what I *think* we want: https://warpcast.com/balajis.eth/0x51995a06

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I disagree but have an alternative proposal. First, there is already an abundance of hate from outside tech. Elon gets attacked for launching rockets. You will too. However, I get the rationale within crypto. Still, what we want is more like star ratings and reviews of projects. Namely, decentralized regulation.

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In this case antitrust is a way for the US establishment to try acquiring big tech companies. They don’t care about consumer harm. Indeed Lina Khan rejects that as the framework. They care about alternate power centers — they care about the Network potentially contesting the State. But it may not work this time.

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Will review submissions soon. Please reply below if you have one, and tag @bountybot too.

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It’s now $6000 for the best AI NYT! Thanks to @fehrsam and @plante.eth. Just imagine the dream project. Earn crypto, build robo, beat journo. You don’t have to imagine it. It’s here.

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AI for creation, crypto for monetization.

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I want a content feed curated by vibe I want to choose a mindset and receive videos and posts and pics accordingly Give me motivation Give me hilarity Give me grit I don’t want to choose “NFT” or “finance” or “skiing” for topical content I want to feel something

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