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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they deleted the video? what does this tell us?

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this is why people hate crypto. https://x.com/solana/status/1901675230868758895?s=46&t=PYrTBRBcheJgjOuKFw1acQ

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thinking about post plastic futures by @gmo https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/microplastics-without-borders

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less content creators, more cultural producers; less influencers, more community builders; less viral bubbles, more meaningful movements; less algorithm chasing, more context shaping; less digital noise, more cultural resonance, less light content, more dense media.

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is there a channel or group on farcaster interested in internet culture/theory research type stuff? could be fun to start a reading group like the do not research folks https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/do-not-research-reading-group-v2024

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brett scott writes and speaks quite well about why going cashless isn't the liberating achievement that many think it is i met him once at an event we were both speaking at, ironically in Sweden, and we had a good evening chatting about the future of money he had some interesting thoughts on how cash in many ways is more decentralized than crypto, obviously not theoretically or technically but in actual practice. https://alteredstatesof.money/brett-scott/

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and now a word from our sponsors

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creatives, i'm curious if you are seeing more mints/engagement with coins or the previous 'free' mint model? i've only seen one example so far with the coin model that that resonated wonder if any actual cultural producers are seeing success with coins, or if it's just content creators and people with clout monetizing slop.

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then how come everyone was so crazy today? i think the blood moon really hits different

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Builder-Decentralist apparently

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in light of some recent ai tools, think i might add this to any sites i make in the future

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This could be one of the biggest conceptual leaps that stems from AI What happens if we replace the metaphor of DNA as a blueprint or a set of letters, to a full on generative model - like a variational autoencoder The blueprint metaphor has got us this far. But now we need something with a much more flexible texture - that captures an expansive, emergent system which encodes endless possibilities. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/r8z7c_v1

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Front row seats to exchange with the legend Karl Sims today at MIT His computer graphics experiments from the 90s inspired everything you know and love from Disney to Pixar This to me is pure art in modern times. Inspiring and intimidating to hear about a creative process where you had to write you own renderer, invent neural nets, build your own physics simulators, and run things overnight on supercomputers

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Great article on synthetic biology by @gmo The industry feels like it's lost a lot of its lustre, but after reading this I feel a lot more hopeful about some of the amazing breakthroughs on the horizon and our potential "reconciliation with biology"

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I’ve been researching ‘data warming’ for years, including blockchains. Bitcoin’s PoW energy use is rising, while Ethereum’s switch to PoS cut its energy use by 99.9% which is a win worth celebrating Energy use in digital systems is a real issue, but it feels like it's been overhyped for blockchains and embedded itself into the psyche of the public. Meanwhile AI and other computing face little scrutiny. Makes you wonder why?

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as good a day as any to remember that you can either look at things close up or from a distance both are necessary, but if you only focus on the immediate, you will always miss the whole.

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thinking about viruses today and how ridiculously abundant they are just plotted this with Claude to visualise their utter domination of earth. in terms of numbers, they're by far the most successful biological entity by a massive margin. anything apart from viruses or prokaryotes is a rounding error yet, they're not even fully alive, just ruthlessly efficient at keeping things simple. what does this tell us?

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