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Philosophy

What Nietzsche do I need to read to form an educated opinion on the Nietzsche memes in tech right now?

I don't know how you navigate X without a follow graph now.
So many "verified" accounts sending me scams.

Zora

(art + design), dev // curating in /blank // random goods in /screenshot // WIP @444437 // blankspace.net

imagine if every cast was a coin by default

aichannel

farhack

proxy studio

Base and Farcaster apps are getting better, Zora feels smoother than I remember, Ponder is super breezy

Good inspo for us guys who haven’t leaned into our app arc much yet 

Still looking for something that sparks a bit more joy and makes me want to come back tomorrow 

Maybe something that involves flirting? Didn’t linda suggest an fc dating app? I too am on record that we need to begin loosening our collars a bit to scale this ol’ network

Would love to see a team build a dating mini app at farhack.

Women probably have an edge here as the hard side of the network.

Interesting theory for why many senior engineers aren’t embracing AI, and it’s the same reason why most senior engineers are terrible managers

Old CTO-friend.. "Quietly, a majority of senior engineers still resist AI coding, even in AI co's, claiming it doesn't work. 

It's because AI coding is closer to the messyness of managing a human than writing code, and most of them were never good at managing humans either." 😜

Nabeel Hyatt

Interesting theory for why many senior engineers aren’t embracing AI, and it’s the same reason why most senior engineers are terrible managers

https://x.com/nabeel/status/1914077781861736495

Fitness

You’re only allowed to hog an area of the gym if it seems like you’re a good person clearly working through something.

ready to RISC it all

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/long-term-l1-execution-layer-proposal-replace-the-evm-with-risc-v/23617

Music

Charlie XCX won’t get enough credit for healing party culture post COVID, but at least she has broken out now.

The Nouns proposal integration app can now also display the proposer’s NNS name.⌐◨-◨

I struggled a bit with displaying it on the frontend, but I managed to get it done.

Even on days when I’m fully occupied with my kid, I had a new experience—giving instructions to the AI agent from my phone during spare moments.

Who else can’t stop coding on their phone this weekend?

Consumer Crypto

the other issue

"one of the biggest problems in the world to solve is that there's hundreds of millions of creators who are creating in a broken economy, where the vast majority of the value they create is captured and taken away by large corporations"

it's just not the case, there's never been a more democratic and fair time in the history of the world to be a creator

you have the opportunity to make money by building an audience and reputation online across multiple platforms with massive distribution where it's 100% free to post

social media isn't broken

it's working fantastically for billions of people globally, which is why it's the biggest and most successful product on the internet

zeroing in on THIS as the thing that crypto can fix doesn't make sense when the pain point of "I don't earn enough on social media" is far down the list of modern qualms about life

+1 web2 is still better than the Hollywood studio system. 

The actual problem is most creators do not know how to build businesses online.

So if we provided 10x better ways for them to do so they’d come onchain.

I've been bullish on editable agent context for a while because I think human secrets will be the remaining alpha we feed agents.

However, I am now EXTRA bullish because I am seeing o3 covertly hallucinate context a lot to devastating ends.

I would love to be able to double check and edit the context it's using for a given answer.

Somewhat related but more safety heavy:

Big raise for mechanistic interpretability this week
https://www.goodfire.ai
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-invests-startup-decodes-ai-models

Some loosely held beliefs on how money will flow to creators:  

- "sponsor" - get status, appreciation or access.
- "collect" - acquire aesthetic artifacts for status
- "invest" - get upside from being early 
- "buy" - get useful services

@v frames these as social contracts that are hard to change.

This is a smart way to look at how to figure out creator monetization onchain.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Established creators still get penalized by their fanbase, peers, and the internet when they go onchain.

Onchain will be the best mechanism for creators to monetize, but not until we overcome this cultural hurdle.

Respect Base and Zora for trying to make progress on this.

@SHL0MS @_proxystudio yes I would. have you tried coining something? it's safe

i have yes. it hit $175m and i got harassment and death threats around price action and various decisions i did or didn’t make

i’m not hypothesizing or virtue signaling here i’m concerned about this because i lived it myself and think creators should be aware what the risks are

𒐪

Established creators still get penalized by their fanbase, peers, and the internet when they go onchain.

Onchain will be the best mechanism for creators to monetize, but not until we overcome this cultural hurdle.

Respect Base and Zora for trying to make progress on this.

https://x.com/SHL0MS/status/1912950635148058658

farcaptive

Today I learned that Alpha means something different in crypto than in does in my large collection of romance books and fanfiction

Not just a dungeon, it may be the world's biggest human slaughterhouse.

The Salvadorian prisons we are sending non-citizens, and soon to be citizens, may be extermination camps. History and satellite imagery make it too high a probability.

This is underreported.

I like that we’re trying to figure out content coins, but I don’t think we get to define what they are.

The market will decide and then a narrative will emerge.

Multiplying onchain economies. Working on interfaces /comint and intelligence @tenfold
Past: AI and crypto rubinovitz.com

JB Rubinovitz

@rubinovitz