cyrus

@cyrus

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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction. A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay. After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom. https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering

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apparently Professor doesn’t like her hat

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gm - may or may not have gone a bit too hard last night

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Cruising on the puget sound and just saw an Osprey dive into the water for the first time

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Visiting a lab and I was really exited to see a machine I’d read about in Nature that demonstrated end to end DNA data storage Little did I know that this much hyped demo now lives under a desk. The reality of science. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41228-8

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The view outside vs. The view inside

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Sitting at the Molecular Programming 10-Year Flightplan Conference. We're talking about how we could get to the point where programming matter becomes commonplace. A vision so enormously transformative I don't think anyone can fully fathom what it would imply. Then I see a notification on my phone about 'content coins' or something and it just makes me in equal parts dismayed and motivated. The opportunity cost of our attention and capital misallocation is really staggering if you think about it too much. Things that are so ephemeral and flimsy they barely meet the designation of vapourware are sitting on billions maybe trillions in value. Meanwhile genuinely transformative research work that could fundamentally restructure (literally) everything operate on fractional budgets. I do think there will be a tipping points where capital will naturally start to flow toward substance. We need more bridges between researchers and allocators, more stories about what becomes possible when we fund things that matter. When that connection happens, we unlock futures where programming matter is as routine as programming software.

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enjoying this time-zone

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Usyk looking good here

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Been reading and writing all week so at 6pm on Friday I had that urge to do something with my hands… Prototyped an NFC system for a game I'm developing. Realised I could get a LCD display and NFC board wired to a (tiny) XIAO ESP32S3 microcontroller which has JUST the right number of pins 🤌🏽 Got this done in time to make it for dinner 😇

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I don’t post food pics I take post-food, food pics (this was once a dosa)

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"The tree comes first, the island second."

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I would love to have Husserl's take on crypto I think he'd see the quantification and financialization as the ultimate example of the meta crisis he diagnoses, insofar as estranging us from embodiment and the living world But i also wonder if he'd find something redemptive in crypto's strange new rituals, social forms and 'vibes'.

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I think McDonald's France thought to themselves "we can't call it poutine because people might think we're serving Putin fries”

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Everywhere I go, every organization I end up being part of, it feels like everyone keeps talking about a "vision for the future" but then we spend all our time debugging the present. Every grand plan gets derailed by some misconfigured setting. Endless small decisions that get in the way, and no one has any idea of how to deal with any of it apart from more talking and more bureaucracy in some Graeberish nightmare. I think we keep looking for systematic solutions to problems that are fundamentally about systems consuming themselves.

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https://x.com/buzzingpop/status/1945814211235328294?s=46&t=PYrTBRBcheJgjOuKFw1acQ ☕️

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This made me wonder: What is something today that many are convinced is valuable but will likely go the way of virtual land? https://x.com/zubic_eth/status/1945519848567583222?s=46&t=PYrTBRBcheJgjOuKFw1acQ

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What a time to be alive

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Sometimes it helps to see things from another perspective 🟠

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