Memes

working on meta.matcha.xyz, yc alum, @orangedao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_6_(horse_racing)

I cant stop thinking about this painting and the story it tells

Catherine Murphy
Double Bed (2022)
oil on canvas, in two parts

I rediscovered an old talk of mine (2019) through doing research today, which was strange. The questions were right but the rest was naive.

I rediscovered an old talk of mine (2019) through doing research today, which was strange. The questions were right but the rest was naive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuKs_lc26M

Opacity

How Opacity x Digg happened solidified why i’m so bullish Farcaster. Here’s the story.

@yb wrote this banger article on zkTLS and Opacity last year. Def subscribe to him.

Kevin Rose came across it and randomly DMd me on Warpcast and Twitter. We quickly hopped on a call and he conveyed excitement about zkTLS and that he could use it. 

I sent a slack invite and Lo and Behold Digg joined on the other end. Will post an update when I can share more details 😉.

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@yb, a farcaster native, wrote an article that landed me a deal of a lifetime. Cherry ontop, i had no idea who Krose was or the history of Digg 😂.

Thanks @yb for your great writing 

Thanks @v and @dwr.eth for making a network where i could shit post my way to PMF 🫡

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Open Source and DeAI deep dives at terminallyonchain.xyz

How Opacity x Digg happened solidified why i’m so bullish Farcaster. Here’s the story.

@yb wrote this banger article on zkTLS and Opacity last year. Def subscribe to him.

Kevin Rose came across it and randomly DMd me on Warpcast and Twitter. We quickly hopped on a call and he conveyed excitement about zkTLS and that he could use it. 

I sent a slack invite and Lo and Behold Digg joined on the other end. Will post an update when I can share more details 😉.

——-

@yb, a farcaster native, wrote an article that landed me a deal of a lifetime. Cherry ontop, i had no idea who Krose was or the history of Digg 😂.

Thanks @yb for your great writing 

Thanks @v and @dwr.eth for making a network where i could shit post my way to PMF 🫡


https://terminallyonchain.xyz/zktls

july

Research, economics & memes at dria.co & /swan

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

I’m using “build” in a loose sense, by the way — I know it tends to be synonymous with coding in these parts, but I also mean hardware (like you do with @faust), or intangible (like @joanwestenberg.eth with her writings), etc. Essentially, people who are committed to realizing some sort of vision, whatever that may be

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

Yes, materializing from the liminal into the real whatever form it may take

Everything and I mean everything is a convexity problem if you squint hard enough

Here’s the deal:
- Reality isn't linear but systems behave linearly around operating points 
- it’s turtles all the way down and the turtles all have Jacobians on their backs
- Convexity is a hammer, everything is a nail
- Linear Transformations Rule Everything Around Me
- Everything is a convexity problem if you squint hard enough 
- Yes, everything

Yeah convex optimization is the pinnacle of applied math / engineering

memebuilding • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

Yeah convex optimization is the pinnacle of applied math / engineering 

https://warpcast.com/july/0xb06757e4

thomas

One thing I enjoy about Farcaster is the large presence of people who build things.

Half of the time, I don’t understand what they’re trying to build, don’t get the vision, and/or don’t think there’s any viable business case.

But that hardly matters — partly because I may be wrong in my assessment, and partly because the bigger picture is that these people have skin in the game.

It’s easy to partake in an online community of circle-jerkers that engage in abstract philosophistry, drop vacuous platitudes, and vaguepost their way to strategic ambivalence. In fact bots can now do that faster and cheaper than humans, expanding milquetoast content to a singularity.

At least builders put their money where their mouth is — that brings a degree of authenticity and grit to the network. Even if they are wrong, they’ll remain true.

Notice that not tractable is being reduced to useless

This is surprisingly counterintuitive because everyone thinks like this:

So:
- If it is rewarding, do it -> Someone will game the system
- Game the system -> Follow the gradient
- Gradient reaches the local minima - > collapse the system because proxy minima reached
- The optimizer figured out the 'surrogate intent' even if the designer's true intent was something else

Then:
- Essentially tokenomics or economics or even AI alignment in general works (unless value extraction before system collapse is your objective) only works when the 'intent' is opaque or does not have a uniquely global minima
- You need to setup a non-convex problem, where the intent is explicitly unlearnable

So the goal should be:
- Don't make the intent fully learnable, ever

was thinking about something around this

https://warpcast.com/july/0x85f7eb07

Making modes of optimization inaccessible in human institutions -- not because they're locally unrewarding -- but exactly because they are socially, morally, or spiritually unacceptable to make the intent learnable

is actually really interesting

July

@july