Jaime Rodriguez Jr

@web3jaime

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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Plane be like... Me be like... We really need to clean up our indoor air, but until then thank you @zhouliang_mask!

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Wallets are getting smarter and smarter for Ethereum 💎 But your session is still requiring to sign every transaction 😅 Soon that will no longer be the case... thanks to Smart Sessions! 🎉 Check out the spec for ERC-7715 and give your feedback 👇 https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/436

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And it's only going to harder to detect.

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Is #AI boosting AI 😱😱😱 #nvidia

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It’s time to end passwords and cookies. Forward. https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/05/20/how-web3-marketing-changes-the-game/

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SOL is breaking out to new cycle highs 🚀 Will the pump continue? Find out 👇 bankless.cc/SolanaPump

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Five years ago: cheering each other on, could not imagine any other way Today: lawsuit The safety vs eacc schism should not be underrated as a limit to how much SV tech can actually remain a single tribe. I continue to wish for more balanced ways forward.

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Being early to FC is like being early to Tiktok. There's an unparalleled opportunity to grow a net new following that will have all sorts of future benefits that are hard to fully conceive today.

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i don’t know who needs to hear this but design is more psychology than it is aesthetics.

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sf is back, baby

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stop listening to users. observe them, instead. people either give answers they think are expected, cant accurately remember what they’ve done in the past, or under/overestimate what they’ll do in the future.

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