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Timber ☀️
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr·3 days ago
Talk on swarm-like AI alignment protocols by Emmett Shear in 11 minutes. Future of AI unfolding on the protocol town hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
Join us tomorrow, April 30th at 9am Pacific for a talk on a purpose protocol for AI agents by Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch and OpenAI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
hear ye hear ye ai nerds, we are live
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Timber ☀️
@timber·13:45 21/04/2025
Tomorrow’s guest talk is timely and powerful. What is Public Intelligence?
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Tomorrow’s guest talk is timely and powerful. What is Public Intelligence?
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Toyota’s manufacturing broke a paradox – cost vs. quality – they made things cheaper by making things better.
Digital protocols do something similar. They break the tension between trust vs. transparency. You can have more trust with less interpersonal transparency, because with zero-knowledge proofs, you just need to provide evidence to the protocol, not other people.
Think about how comfortable we are sharing information with Google and chachipiti compared to transacting with strangers. More information does mean better mutual outcomes, but we assume that we need more transparency to get there.
People turned their nose up at Toyota… because it was paradoxical. It’s possible that ZKPs take off and everyone will look back and be like, “uh, doi”.
Digital protocols do something similar. They break the tension between trust vs. transparency. You can have more trust with less interpersonal transparency, because with zero-knowledge proofs, you just need to provide evidence to the protocol, not other people.
Think about how comfortable we are sharing information with Google and chachipiti compared to transacting with strangers. More information does mean better mutual outcomes, but we assume that we need more transparency to get there.
People turned their nose up at Toyota… because it was paradoxical. It’s possible that ZKPs take off and everyone will look back and be like, “uh, doi”.
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JoshD
@joshdavis.eth·15:46 09/04/2025
What happens when a smart city learns to balance perception like bandwidth? Fault Tolerance explores the quiet horror of being optimized out of existence.
tl;dr: I co-wrote some sci-fi. I'd love if you'd give it a read.
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tl;dr: I co-wrote some sci-fi. I'd love if you'd give it a read.
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👁️👄👁️
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr·16:16 09/04/2025
On now @nayafia and @timber talking about Nadia’s new antimemetics book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9pqaIrebY
Protocols are recipes for coordination
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Apex777
@apex777.eth·11:34 05/03/2025
I spent a shocking amount of time going back and forth with others on what timezone they are in, what timezone the call is in, how many hours that is from now.
I vote we all use UTC+0 for calls.
I vote we all use UTC+0 for calls.
babe wake up, it's Trade War Tuesday
This state sanctioned bag pumping is hard to watch
Wordcels too cheap to meter
Issue 003, the premiere sci-fi story of the (re)launched magazine, is out now. Written by the talented @sach
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tailors
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tailors
Wordcel noise is the applesauce that helps the pill go down
The world is full of invisible dams holding back countless disasters
Basketball & football are almost unbearable to watch these days
The ad density is dystopic
The ad density is dystopic
Paul Graham's etymological nightmare
o3-mini + Hemingway Editor
There is a madness to the method
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Every chess gambit is mathematically suboptimal but they still work over the board, and create far more interesting games
Think about how nonsensical a winning strategy can be in the real world, which has no Stockfish equivalent because there are too many dimensions to solve for
You don’t need to be rational and calculate everything to win. You can afford to be wildly daring and creative, and a relatively bad calculator, so long as you have solid fundamentals
Think about how nonsensical a winning strategy can be in the real world, which has no Stockfish equivalent because there are too many dimensions to solve for
You don’t need to be rational and calculate everything to win. You can afford to be wildly daring and creative, and a relatively bad calculator, so long as you have solid fundamentals
"Whether through doing nothing or guardrails, we should all get used to the idea of a new theocracy which will control how we reason about the world around us. If we don’t want this, now is the time to act."
https://medium.com/mapai/ai-and-the-new-theocracies-9b573eb9ab1b
https://medium.com/mapai/ai-and-the-new-theocracies-9b573eb9ab1b
AI and the New Theocracies
A note for those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for safety
medium.com
Fresh essay this Friday
Depends on your cookies 🍪
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How do you know when it’s ok to break protocol?
Protocolized has (re)launched for broader reach and you can read the banger of a first edition now, featuring: Chiang’s Law, Straussian Romantasy, strange women in ponds distributing swords, protocolization debt, protocol fiction workshop in Austin.
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/strange-new-rules
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/strange-new-rules
noise vs. signal fill in the blank problem: excess verbosity is wordcel noise, __________ is shape rotator noise
To delve, or not to delve, that is the question.
Many quests, all pursued idly
Dunning Krug her? I hardly even know her
https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2015/03/17/he-y-come-on-ou-t-a-short-story-by-shinichi-hoshi-translated-by-stanleigh-jones/
