Ethos
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. An evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” - Cormac McCarthy If you grew up in the 90s and, like me, spent nearly every waking, non-school-related hour in front of the television, then you know that the truth used to come from a single, controlled, regularly scheduled source. Then the int...
Ethos
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. An evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” - Cormac McCarthy If you grew up in the 90s and, like me, spent nearly every waking, non-school-related hour in front of the television, then you know that the truth used to come from a single, controlled, regularly scheduled source. Then the int...
Logos
Blockchains exist because Bitcoin solved the Byzantine General’s Problem. The thought experiment is this: imagine a city under attack by four generals. If all the generals attack at the same time, they are guaranteed to win and capture the city. If they attack at different times, they lose. They can send each other messages, but one of the generals is a traitor. There is no way to tell whether a message is legitimate and from one of the honest generals, or if the message is, in fact, a trick ...
Logos
Blockchains exist because Bitcoin solved the Byzantine General’s Problem. The thought experiment is this: imagine a city under attack by four generals. If all the generals attack at the same time, they are guaranteed to win and capture the city. If they attack at different times, they lose. They can send each other messages, but one of the generals is a traitor. There is no way to tell whether a message is legitimate and from one of the honest generals, or if the message is, in fact, a trick ...
Permission
Coins and tokens tend to get all the attention. Everyone wants more money and the modern world is all about incentives. But permissions are more primal. The social order of animals depends on who is allowed to do what. There is permission by force: top ape makes young ape eat last so young ape beats top ape and eats first. There are soft permissions set by example: Rick Rubin likes pro-wrestling so it’s okay for me to like it too. Then there are collective permissions, the subject of this ess...
Permission
Coins and tokens tend to get all the attention. Everyone wants more money and the modern world is all about incentives. But permissions are more primal. The social order of animals depends on who is allowed to do what. There is permission by force: top ape makes young ape eat last so young ape beats top ape and eats first. There are soft permissions set by example: Rick Rubin likes pro-wrestling so it’s okay for me to like it too. Then there are collective permissions, the subject of this ess...
WTF are NFTs?
NFTs are objects that last forever in the Ethereum universe. It’s easier and more fun to think of Ethereum like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The difference is Ethereum lives on the internet, involves real money, and in this universe, no one controls the story. Each NFT is a kind of Infinity Stone. There can be many versions of an Infinity Stone, but each one has its own history. Each one has its own timeline and its own path, interacting with different characters. The World Heavyweight Cham...
WTF are NFTs?
NFTs are objects that last forever in the Ethereum universe. It’s easier and more fun to think of Ethereum like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The difference is Ethereum lives on the internet, involves real money, and in this universe, no one controls the story. Each NFT is a kind of Infinity Stone. There can be many versions of an Infinity Stone, but each one has its own history. Each one has its own timeline and its own path, interacting with different characters. The World Heavyweight Cham...
New Millennium Homes
Sam Altman, the guy behind the company behind ChatGPT, also helped start a project called Worldcoin. The purpose of Worldcoin is to support Universal Basic Income (UBI), which is the concept of giving money to all people on a regular basis. Maybe it’s obvious A.I. will replace most jobs and without jobs, even soul-crushing bullshit ones, there would be chaos. Or maybe, even though some people would work less, they would also have a better chance to practice that, much promised pursuit of happ...
New Millennium Homes
Sam Altman, the guy behind the company behind ChatGPT, also helped start a project called Worldcoin. The purpose of Worldcoin is to support Universal Basic Income (UBI), which is the concept of giving money to all people on a regular basis. Maybe it’s obvious A.I. will replace most jobs and without jobs, even soul-crushing bullshit ones, there would be chaos. Or maybe, even though some people would work less, they would also have a better chance to practice that, much promised pursuit of happ...
