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Top 10 Most compelling arguments against Superintelligent AI

This is perhaps the most important blog I am writing in a decade. Recently Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, one of the oldest AI safety researchers, formerly an academic at University of London, came on the DOAC show, where he claimed that he had himself helped coin the term “AI Safety”, gave one of the most compelling arguments against Superintelligent AI that I have come across since I began my research in AI Safety. These arguments try to give a clearer picture and answer to some of the most pressing...

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Smashing bugs using Certora Prover: A hands on approach to Formal Verification of Smart Contracts

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Best practice for Upgradeable smart contracts: Mixing the power of immutability and flexibility

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Shanzson AI 2027 Timeline

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How to NOT budget your Web3 project: Lessons from the law of exponential growth

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Jul 13
Shanzson AI 2027 Timeline
After going through Vitalik’s response to Daniel Koktajlo’s AI 2027 and Daniel Kokotajlo’s response to Vitalik’s response to Daniel’s response, and after Daniel challenged him to write his own version of the AI 2027 response of what he thinks actually transpires and what not, I cannot help but write a Vitalik-inspired version of AI 2027, while being grounded in reality as much as possible with my own take on it. Vitalik argues that he feels the timeline of AI 2027 looks much shorter to him an...
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Apr 8
Control AI for Smart Contracts: Can we stop backdoors in Solidity code generated by AI?
IntroductionGenerative AI is being increasingly used for all kinds of tasks as it is improving and mastering every action that a human can do from art to music, from video generation to writing. One key area where AI is excelling at is writing code, especially the latest models released by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 and its Claude Code, or the OpenAI’s GPT-4o. As this AI understands and gets better at coding, it is undoubtedly replacing programmers and developers (at least being used in co...
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Apr 14
Saving the Constitution of India On the Blockchain
As the recent Political, Social and Economic tensions rise in India, the Democracy and Constitution of India has been put under a Big Question. There have been questionable moves from the incumbent government MPs to swiftly pass laws and change the constitution of India, without sending it to the Committees. Something similar has previously happened as well, when 3 farm laws were passed allegedly without consulting the farmers which lead to massive farmers protest and ultimately to the repeal...
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Jun 8
Smashing bugs using Certora Prover: A hands on approach to Formal Verification of Smart Contracts
Why Formal Verification?Most of the bugs in the program turn out to be program specific. Static analysis tools miss out on these bugs and often give false positives. Also these tools are not able to understand the meaning of the code.Formal verification helps to find rare bugs by finding out violation of the invariants, which are usually very hard to find. These invariants are properties that a system should always hold true.It is should be noted that formal verification involves human in the...
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Feb 21
A Beginner's guide to How to Store your Crypto safely
First you need you understand that ultimately there are three ways to store your crypto-Centralized exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, Kucoin, etc.Wallet apps like Metamask, TrustWallet, WalletConnect, etc.Hardware wallets like Trezor, Ledger, etc.As you might have guessed, I have listed the types above in increasing order of safety for storing your crypto. This means 1
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Nov 4
What makes a True Buddhist: Lessons from a Vipassana Practitioner
Lesson 1: Someone is not Buddhist by BirthBuddha himself was not born. Who was born was Siddartha Gautama. The Buddha was someone who was made, through countless hours of deep thinking, meditation, insightful learning, keen observation, startling awareness and sheer hardwork. Similarly the Buddhists are also someone who are not born, they are MADE. Saying that you are a Buddhist by birth is a massive understatement to the tremondous effort made by someone like the Buddha to become a Buddha. Y...
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Nov 3
A White hat hacker mindset: From the eyes of a Smart Contract Auditor
A good Smart contract auditor has to have a hacker mindset. Without the right mindset, you can miss out on bugs, get stuck on a roadblock or run out of time to audit the project. These are the 5 key Mindsets of a white hat, which you must develop in yourself:Mindset Number 1:Hack or get hacked.If you don’t hack the project properly that was brought to you for auditing, then obviously the black hat will hack your project. It is just a matter of time. This not only results in loss of funds but ...
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Nov 2
Best practice for Upgradeable smart contracts: Mixing the power of immutability and flexibility
If you make your contracts upgradeable, you violate a core blockchain principle that code is immutable, and add an additional layer that users have to trust will not get exploited. Three years ago, Consensys security researchers brought this issue to the forefront when this blog written by Steve Marx was published. In this, the upgradeability of code itself was considered as a bug. There are a bunch of examples in which upgrading the smart contracts has led to introduction of new bugs such as...
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Nov 1
How to NOT budget your Web3 project: Lessons from the law of exponential growth
Imagine that you are the owner of a bank. You provide state of the art banking services to your customers and claim to have one of the best technologies on the planet. But regarding the budget of your entire bank, you have allotted just 2 percent of your entire budget for the security of the bank. This security is so weak that even if the largest customer of your bank to whom you lent money can come, easily compromise your security and loot you- all by using just a fraction of money that you ...