Just collected my Crystal of Unknown Origin NFT!
guild.xyz/magic-newton/collect/polygon/0xcdf1d7c9d00be8d4e84d67b6c70bdfd09b5a5275

Just collected my Decoratoor NFT!
guild.xyz/our-guild/collect/base_mainnet/0xa3aa4d02774caea6bd9d0492ac8523edba33f62f

Welcome

I just voted "For" on "Stargate Deployment on Abstract" https://snapshot.box/#/s:stgdao.eth/proposal/0xc8922029030a23ba3dc03db661786012a47a6b9fa9a0e99b5603386a43a1a3a0

Deep funding combines two ideas:

1. Value as a graph: instead of asking "how much did X contribute to humanity?", ask "how much of the credit for Y belongs to X?"
2. Distilled human judgement: an open market of AIs fills in all the weights, human jury randomly spot-checks them

https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1867600164502089925

(1) has been a growing paradigm recently, for good reason. Contribution is hard to measure in the abstract: if you ask people how much they would pay to save N birds, they answer $80 for N=2000 and N=200000. "Local" questions like "is A or B more valuable to C?" are much more tractable.

(2) is based on ideas in my info finance post: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html#info-finance-for-distilled-human-judgement . Anyone can use any methods (eg. AI) to suggest weights for *all* edges, a human jury does detailed analysis on a random subset. The submissions that are most compatible with the jury answers decide the final output.

https://deepfunding.org/

A warm Farcaster welcome to @moneymaker228!

Reposting this post of mine from 1.5 years ago... I still find this fascinating

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html

Memes

Base

Congrats to the winning teams of the Based Africa buildathon, powered by @devfolio 

Here are the 23 winners who worked to solve problems in their local community, onchain:

Base Sessions, for bringing music and emerging artists in Africa onchain
https://devfolio.co/projects/base-sessions-f0ae

Basepay, for connecting African communities to the global economy to create more economic opportunities
https://www.basepay.link/ 

The Unbound Project, for helping bring businesses onchain in Africa
https://devfolio.co/projects/the-unbound-project-ce0a

AzzaDefi, for making it easy for anyone in Africa to use WhatsApp to start using Base
https://api.whatsapp.com/message/FXAAHAULUSORB1?autoload=1&app_absent=0

Ridebase, for enabling decentralized ride sharing in Africa
https://devfolio.co/projects/ridebase-d185 

Flexclub, to let people save towards common goals
https://flexclub.xyz/

Hi Casters. I have worked with a lot of former lawyers in my career and they have always been terrific business partners. I wrote a bit about that today https://avc.xyz/former-lawyers

Two great new educational songs dropped this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN148WQ2OQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8SdwzlKCQ

gmA warm Farcaster welcome to @lord-maksik!

Ethereum

Highlighting an EVM upgrade idea: combine EVMMAX and SIMD

Hi Casters. We used granola to capture the transcript of our most recent USV weekly meeting on AI and then used Notebook LM to convert it into a 15min podcast.  I just listened to it and its pretty accurate. https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games

Matfey

@maks17