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I’m skeptical about the idea of any one moral improvement, aka One Commandment, as a sufficient pre-condition for a new startup society. The quality of the moral improvement seems key here.

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It’s a good book. Elon seems very intense and nuts, but in a charming and mostly necessary if sometimes (self-)destructive way. I’m rooting for him.

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dark, twisted, funny, excellent

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This is a great history of the digital age if technology makes your heart sing — it starts with Babbage & Ada Lovelace, covers the invention of the computer, transistor, microchip, the internet, personal computer, software, and ends with the web up to and including Google. Terrific writing by Walter Isaacson too.

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This was a terrific read. I read it out of curiosity as a follow-up to the Oppenheimer book, and it was such a treat.

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This was a terrific read. Truly Shakespearean in themes and in the complexity of its main character and the times he lived in, and beautifully written — at close to 600 pages, not theoretically short, yet pacy and gripping throughout (although for reference, I also didn’t think that the movie was too long).

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the onchain vs on-chain debate solved: I just minted Base Day One, celebrating the start of @base bringing billions of people onchain. It’s Onchain Summer.

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gm frens, buckle up https://twitter.com/floates0x/status/1687275628872273920?s=46&t=MxNiOi-6ohpQPgRUkj3H5w

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Ready to dive into some explosive content 💥 Also, I now know why the movie is 3 hours long — the book is almost 600 pages in a microscopic font, followed by 100 pages of notes and bibliography. The guy LIVED.

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Rereading this after a long time & somewhat taken aback that I still find it very entertaining, it’s as if my humor hasn’t evolved at all 😅

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Love this: Teller on Von Neumann’s addiction to thinking https://twitter.com/divalbanerjee/status/1685831014764122113?s=46&t=MxNiOi-6ohpQPgRUkj3H5w

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Maslow, updated https://twitter.com/philosophymttrs/status/1685794908366376960?s=46&t=MxNiOi-6ohpQPgRUkj3H5w

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any easy way to find twitter folk on here?

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I wrote about: Storytelling Infrastructure for Crypto In the majority of cases where crypto is featured in mainstream entertainment, it’s presented as a means to engage in criminal activity, ransom, and other ventures of the sketchy variety. https://doomless.substack.com/p/storytelling-infrastructure-for-crypto

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I wrote about Scarcity and Abundance in the Age of AI. I take the view that AI will usher in an era of unprecedented material abundance and ask: will this be the end of scarcity? Or is some sort of scarcity essential to the human condition? Full essay: https://doomless.substack.com/p/scarcity-and-abundance-in-the-age

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how utterly odd that billions in market value & the economic fortunes of millions hinge on the correct interpretation of the likes of “possibly”, “sufficiently”, and “may” uttered by a man with not-so-great data spoiler: crypto fixes this https://i.imgur.com/0T1aEdy.jpg

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