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I read history - not to be less pessimistic about the present, but because it make me more optimistic and excited about the future
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During WWII German occupation of the Nederlands, the Dutch used Scheveningen (a seaside town near Den Haag) as a shibboleth to tell Germans from Dutch because Germans Also if you watch Band of Brothers, the Allied forces use "Flash" / "Thunder" as sign/counter sign (call and response) to verify each other. The reason is because Voiceless dental fractives (th) are rare in German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative
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https://x.com/martinmbauer/status/1869763981059228072?s=46
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I’ve often thought of this as: - limit of 1.01^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to ♾️ - limit of 0.99^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to 0 first order and second order effects causing more good than bad (I’ll settle for a Kantian Duty & Universality morals in this context to keep it simple) because in the long run, if it’s 51% it will compound overtime to infinity
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An idea / hypothesis I have: The jobs that are going to be most decimated by this current (and the next few subsequent) forms of AI imo is the jobs that Graeber's talks about in "Bullshit Jobs" Here's the original essay that spawned the idea of the book: https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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Reminds me of the legend of Prester John (Presbyter Ioannes) The Letters of Prester John was a letter that was circulated during The Crusades (I forget? 1165? 12th century I think?) and he was this embellished character who found riches and became a king in Ethiopia or India, or wherever was pretty far away, he was supposedly originally a Christian Monarch, and became this ideal or myth of hey look if we retake Jerusalem in the name of God, you can also get pretty rich too. One of the earliest forms of medieval propaganda and storytelling that worked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John
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Nasreddin Hodja & Matsuo Basho Two writers that I think are famous in their native countries, but deserve more credit, and are more alike than are often thought. Nasreddin Hodja (13th century) & Matsuo Basho (17th century) imo both have a way of describing the world through Hegelian Synthesis. They both like to take a normal idea as the thesis (sitting on a donkey) and add an antithesis (ride the donkey backwards) and then have the synthesis (I am not riding the donkey backwards, the donkey is going backwards and i'm riding the right way) With Basho you see it in his Haiku (he is the father of Haiku after all) has the ultimate thesis (nature, he likes to describe nature a lot) and then there is some disruption: artificial, or human - and it opposes or breaks this nature (antithesis) - and then there is a sort of resolution that comes from this - which ends in wabi-sabi or Yugen (synthesis)
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tldr: yes more detail: - the zk proofs are independent of any contracts - the proof outputs posted to infra like EAS - onchain verifier contract that will demonstrate to others that your photo is real (costs gas) - off-chain verifier SDK (open source) that will demonstrate to you that the photo is real (is local)
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Interested in this idea of building a planetary-level verified physical reality for humans, AI programs, embodied AI, robots, vehicles, IoT devices and anything in between This data doesn't seem to exist on the internet today, I'm often fascinated by things that don't seem to exist on the internet
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I think about this Graeber book from time to time
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https://x.com/waymo/status/1868822192605282473?s=46
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$249 - Jetson Orin Nano Super! 67 TOPs! at half the cost of Jetson Orin Nano - couldn't be more excited https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-launches-new-usd249-ai-development-board-that-does-67-tops
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An earlier prototype of roc.camera
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Incentives only gets you as far as the incentives go Intrinsic motivation, when nurtured, knows no bounds
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We are sold out of batch 1 - Roc Camera preorders! For those that have pre-ordered, thank you for your support and we are excited to get you a Roc Camera in the new year 🪨📸
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Can someone let @balajis.eth know this is exactly what we are building with roc.camera https://x.com/balajis/status/1868366995361800606?s=46
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We're shipping our first Roc.camera device out next week... (what?!) We also have 6 devices left in batch 1 -- so if you've been thinking on getting a device, now is the time!
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Oh man here’s another one I did
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/1h8g14b/comment/m0t8sp5/?rdt=45513
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The curiosity rover looking back
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