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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
Some days I question what Iām even doing in this space. I believe that the tech itself is neutral. But turns out the only real well proven use case is speculation, the capital is excessive venture funding, and the core demographic is mid 20s male libertarians. What keeps you going? What are you optimistic about?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
IMO people get hung up on "speculation" and don't see the actual use cases past it because everything in life involved some amount of speculation: - Bread is on sale today? I'll buy two - Looks like it might rain on Sunday, so let's go to the beach today - Let's pivot to AI - They sound crazy, better swipe left
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I mainly focus on solution/design space, I want us to have more optionality on how we solve problems (and create new problems). IMO technology that expands this kind of space applies to nearly everything. https://warpcast.com/binji.eth/0x5d525679
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I find it really exciting to discover a new way to do something that wasn't possible before, even regardless whether it unlocks new use cases (it usually does but it can be hard to tell what they are until we've thoroughly explored it). Provable computation in an adversarial environment, for example.
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
I appreciate this take, and I understand that excitement. In some similar form it's what has kept me going as well. But I find myself increasingly noticing that I recoil at much of the context (market, media, culture) in which this work happens. Can't shake the sense that crypto as a "space" is often overtly toxic.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
IMO it's mostly growing pains and mainstream cycles. AI is going through the same things now, tech getting accused of being toxic/extractive/apocalyptic. VR went through the same thing, criticisms of being dystopic, meta verse "scam" etc.
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