shrewdstone
@shrewdstone
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Collector of fine JPEGs. Digital nomad looking for a tribe.
Joined January 2010
We are deeply unconscious of ourselves. When humans get super intelligence, will we have the courage to look at ourselves in the mirror? Will we be ashamed of who we once were?
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Books are long not because the key points can’t be summarised in single paragraph. They are long because humans need time and a memorable narrative to integrate the knowledge contained in them.
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@zerohedge True. That is why Bitcoin is based on energy: you can issue fake fiat currency, and every government in history has done so, but it is impossible to fake energy.
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Crypto tokens are the new commodities. Gold, iron, copper, and oil were consumed to build the physical world; BTC, ETH, SOL, and LINK etc. will be consumed to build the digital one.
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Someone needs to pick up and continue forward the work of Jung, we still don’t really understand ourselves.
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X algorithm is so bad right now, feels like it’s amplifying the very worst human behaviour.
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The internet used to feel vast, lately it’s been feeling small.
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@elonmusk @IBM Based on 2025 assessments from NIST, IBM, and expert surveys, the probability of quantum computing cracking SHA-256 (via Grover's algorithm, reducing preimage search to ~2^128 operations) is near 0% in the next 5 years and <10% by 2035. It requires millions of error-corrected
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✅ GENIUS ACT SIGNED INTO LAW "The GENIUS Act creates a clear and simple regulatory framework to establish & unleash the immense promise of dollar-backed stablecoins. This could be perhaps the GREATEST revolution in financial technology since the birth of the internet itself."
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My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s. I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very
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Still amazed that LLMs take up only about 1TB of space. The internet is >100 zettabytes. That means most of machine learning is just about culling slop.
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Something you can’t do with traditional art, earn a passive yield from it.
Take My Ape is out! Try it at https://t.co/lzVTi2tHc2. Own a Bored Ape for 15 minutes with one Ethereum transaction. Ownership ≠ rental. It means copyright license, access to BAYC spaces, and your address on chain as owner. TMA's goal? To demo the power of Liquefaction.
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Bitcoin as a time chain, a lossless communication channel through time. Send a message further through time than a stone tablet.
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LLMs are a kind of neural interface, right now they are very constrained but they will soon multi-modally understand our intentions and act on our behalf in a symbiotic way.
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