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Ah fuck here we go again
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@yak CADS* weekly study group had a good session on MCP last Monday that I granolaed, sharing that link in case might it help find your way in. No transcipt but you can ask questions. Btw anyone can join. *Composable and Distributed Systems, @vgr founder and current BDFx of the group https://notes.granola.ai/d/8584EA34-C6FC-42CE-96E5-9D12B52B2103
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Latest daredevil episode punisher vs punisher fan club is A+ drama
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There was one in February. Decent core group there… @sach @earth2travis etc
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Applications for the sixth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship are open. If you are an experienced software engineer curious about Ethereum core development, this is for you.
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I tried to make Seattle SoP central and hold all our events here but @tim said we can’t hold every event in Seattle 😢
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I'll be chatting with @sreeramkannan about intersubjective consensus and other esoterica on the protocol town hall in 5 minutes. We'll try to get to the bottom of what the heck eigenlayer is, and why it matters. https://www.youtube.com/live/2OyZt4gbUNA?si=CPA3Ts9V2vbwwcJr
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Yeah, kinda. They’re really the same show. Just lightly rebranded in the continuation.
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Entirely a function of context
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A 2x2 degeneracy right vs wrong (I’m both truth and morality sense) asshole vs nice People will consistently choose asshole or nice, regardless of right or wrong Because the meaning of your life is almost entirely a function of consistency in asshole vs nice choice. If you track rightness (or perversely, wrongness) consistently life will feel random and meaningless
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I am once again asking you to watch Bosch: Legacy. Reliably stellar storytelling with in all departments. 3 seasons into the second series too. No mean achievement.
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great that humans first invented git before inventing cursor. things would have gone crazy otherwise
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I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*. Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn't believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn't mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS... But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose. Apps are ~80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what ethereum apps (and ethereum as a whole) are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important. https://x.com/owocki/status/1911160442728419681
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Update on my FutureRack project to explore the re-use of server racks as furniture: earlier this year I worked with a client on adapting the idea for potential installation in an office, further developing the design and working with a fabricator to get it ready for production.
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All your data is belong to us. Everything must be ghiblified ☠️
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I now have 7 essays in my sloptraptions section. I don’t think I’ve been on such a steep learning curve in years. I’m improving by double digit % with each experiment. ChatGPT upgrades throw me off my game a bit but not too much. https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/s/sloptraptions
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It’s a silly cause Wrap it in zk or set it free
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Final weekend to enter the Terminological Twists protocol sci-fi contest. Deadline April 14. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminological-twists Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a short story that explores some unexpected and startling implication of the concept. Examples to consider: packet switching, boot sequence, cap-and-trade, chain of custody, kill-chain, zero-knowledge proof, multisig, social distancing, fuel partitioning, priority boarding, self-checkout, vampire sneeze, 5-second rule, first-in-first-out.
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My theory of how AI is changing us https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/autoamputation-flow
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