Superintelligence
Superintelligence is taken for granted. Or, at least, there is a form of organized, productive intellect that is often spent on marginal impact. Crypto forms an adversarial surroundings, with trustless intelligence as cryptopunks know it, and corporate intelligence as venture capitalists know it, tends to congregate into a pretty lucrative soup. Now, with the advent of agentized LLMs and the cultural shift that accompanies those, there’s a forcing function for us to cooperate for more lucrati...
Superintelligence
Superintelligence is taken for granted. Or, at least, there is a form of organized, productive intellect that is often spent on marginal impact. Crypto forms an adversarial surroundings, with trustless intelligence as cryptopunks know it, and corporate intelligence as venture capitalists know it, tends to congregate into a pretty lucrative soup. Now, with the advent of agentized LLMs and the cultural shift that accompanies those, there’s a forcing function for us to cooperate for more lucrati...
Troughs of Discovery
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote down some thoughts about “the Singularity”. This was, in no small measure, influenced by the novelty of ChatGPT at the time. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/NKOGDH8o5lUgCcW8YBz9MUHTz0cIPmc3He0n_TqhnrY A lot has happened since then, and due to several flashpoints of drama, as well as the information cascade in machine learning and the maturation of a several components of the Ethereum ecosystem, I think the moment calls for a recap of the state of the art in both...
Troughs of Discovery
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote down some thoughts about “the Singularity”. This was, in no small measure, influenced by the novelty of ChatGPT at the time. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/NKOGDH8o5lUgCcW8YBz9MUHTz0cIPmc3He0n_TqhnrY A lot has happened since then, and due to several flashpoints of drama, as well as the information cascade in machine learning and the maturation of a several components of the Ethereum ecosystem, I think the moment calls for a recap of the state of the art in both...
The Possibility of a Seldon Crisis
AI is going to kill us all. Ethereum can’t multitask meme season and public goods funding. Bitcoin is overwhelmed with congestion due to BRC-20. There’s an infestation of rugpulls and pump&dump schemes. https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1653508862631084036 There are protests in France. There’s a growing teacher shortage. There are mass murders in the US. Bakhmut has become a meatgrinder. Several banks have failed, and possibly 700+ regional banks have significant unrealised losses. Reserve cur...
The Possibility of a Seldon Crisis
AI is going to kill us all. Ethereum can’t multitask meme season and public goods funding. Bitcoin is overwhelmed with congestion due to BRC-20. There’s an infestation of rugpulls and pump&dump schemes. https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1653508862631084036 There are protests in France. There’s a growing teacher shortage. There are mass murders in the US. Bakhmut has become a meatgrinder. Several banks have failed, and possibly 700+ regional banks have significant unrealised losses. Reserve cur...
Public Economics
Recently I wrote some thoughts about two buckets of economic concepts. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/1NVf8Q_g4tPedWq7-7qzak-MU7NCQGnhKovsQvW2_ic In this piece I describe a metaphorical ziggurat, not unlike Plato’s “theory of forms”. Simply described, economics is an upper layer of a structure with ecology forming the lower layer, and both ecosystems contain sublayers as fractal of sorts. The key point of this was arriving at the conclusion that some economic functions serve as a broad & strict...
Public Economics
Recently I wrote some thoughts about two buckets of economic concepts. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/1NVf8Q_g4tPedWq7-7qzak-MU7NCQGnhKovsQvW2_ic In this piece I describe a metaphorical ziggurat, not unlike Plato’s “theory of forms”. Simply described, economics is an upper layer of a structure with ecology forming the lower layer, and both ecosystems contain sublayers as fractal of sorts. The key point of this was arriving at the conclusion that some economic functions serve as a broad & strict...
Intermediate Economics
TL;DR - skip down to Current Intermediate Implementations for what I’m looking at in crypto-based economics, the preceding passages are for historical context & defining firms, markets, & estates. Earlier this year, I wrote some thoughts down around the current trends of artificial intelligence & geopolitics. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/NKOGDH8o5lUgCcW8YBz9MUHTz0cIPmc3He0n_TqhnrY https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/1NVf8Q_g4tPedWq7-7qzak-MU7NCQGnhKovsQvW2_ic Last year, I wrote some thoughts around ...
Intermediate Economics
TL;DR - skip down to Current Intermediate Implementations for what I’m looking at in crypto-based economics, the preceding passages are for historical context & defining firms, markets, & estates. Earlier this year, I wrote some thoughts down around the current trends of artificial intelligence & geopolitics. https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/NKOGDH8o5lUgCcW8YBz9MUHTz0cIPmc3He0n_TqhnrY https://mirror.xyz/m-j-r.eth/1NVf8Q_g4tPedWq7-7qzak-MU7NCQGnhKovsQvW2_ic Last year, I wrote some thoughts around ...
