We’re on the front page of HN for srcbook!

Wrote an expanded version of "how to ship fast" over the weekend.

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2024/08/17/how-to-ship-fast

fc-updates

Warpcast Experiment: X-Posting 

A few users who were active on X but not FC were invited to cross post. 

We want to see if cross posting makes them more likely to engage with Farcaster (beyond the cross post). 

If that happens, we'll roll it out more broadly. If it doesn't we may pause it.

went fishing with my son tonight. a few hours by the water, pulling in catfish and just hanging out on n a beautiful night with a beautiful moon and beautiful sunset. nothing else i’ve ever experienced in life gives me this amount of happiness and fulfillment. not even close.

Geopolitics

This is such a strange "Trends for You" list that I'm seeing on the other app.

Feed Update: Channel casts get more views! 

Casts in channels you follow, but from people you don't follow, are now more likely to show up in your home feed. 

We ran an A/B test and it was mostly positive. This should be rolling out to everyone over the next day.

was just walking around soho and had the most bizarre thought: i preferred this city — nyc — to the internet 

as in, somehow, at some point, i’d internalized the sense that i was mostly living in a mostly digital world. and i found myself daydreaming about moving back home.

icebreaker

Excited to announce our $5M Seed round led by CoinFund to build the world’s first open professional network. 

This round helps advance our goal of creating a networking supertool that puts trust, identity, and interoperability directly in the hands of professionals, in web3 and beyond.

One of my favorite posts from @robinhanson: "Spaceship Earth Explores Culture Space"

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/spaceship-earth-in-culture-spacehtml

By inventing, trying out, and having competitions between different cultures, we're doing something that's every bit as meaningful as space exploration.

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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Base

Discover what's been incubated and built at @backdrop on @base and OP Mainnet: https://backdropbuild.com/builds?tags=Optimism,Base&cohorts=v4

Founders

If you are launching an L2 or L3 with custom gas tokens, @syndicate will be able to help you launching it on the /op-stack. 

Can't wait to see what you build!

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