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Trigs
@trigs #190108
Building Collaboration with /nearchos
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I really like this one. I've said this for years! Urban life would be drastically improved if we had more common spaces in neighborhoods.
Parks are a perfect example. Proximity to a park can be a sloppy 20% on home value.
<FYI we're calling it "sloppy" when you quick AI confirm something you just made up>
There are quite a few community garden areas in my local town, but that's pretty rare, even here.
We also have a few makers type spaces where you can go and use or even rent to take home different tools.
Every neighborhood could have a few shops with various tools and a decentralized and autonomous structure around managing their use and maintenance!
Or a public kitchen space for people to collaborate on combining garden yield to create large batches of specific preserved foods to share, maximizing the efficiency of each individual contribution.
The space could double as an event space for the community, much like many HOA communities have today.
If only there was a way to self organize...
Parks are a perfect example. Proximity to a park can be a sloppy 20% on home value.
<FYI we're calling it "sloppy" when you quick AI confirm something you just made up>
There are quite a few community garden areas in my local town, but that's pretty rare, even here.
We also have a few makers type spaces where you can go and use or even rent to take home different tools.
Every neighborhood could have a few shops with various tools and a decentralized and autonomous structure around managing their use and maintenance!
Or a public kitchen space for people to collaborate on combining garden yield to create large batches of specific preserved foods to share, maximizing the efficiency of each individual contribution.
The space could double as an event space for the community, much like many HOA communities have today.
If only there was a way to self organize...
Great call today! Lots of interesting topics covered. Check out the recording to hear about:
- protocols vs platforms/apps and why it matters
- new to DAO users trying to start up
- different platforms & protocols for DAOs
- how to address humans at the center of everything
- DAO consultancy services
- defining goals and needs of orgs for onchain solutions
- onboarding users in ways that have paths towards deeper decentralization
- tips for helping tech illiterate navigate DAOs
- reputation, Sybils, and proof of human voting
- protocols vs platforms/apps and why it matters
- new to DAO users trying to start up
- different platforms & protocols for DAOs
- how to address humans at the center of everything
- DAO consultancy services
- defining goals and needs of orgs for onchain solutions
- onboarding users in ways that have paths towards deeper decentralization
- tips for helping tech illiterate navigate DAOs
- reputation, Sybils, and proof of human voting
Come on, folks! Send him!
Worst case scenario we just force him to implement the rage quit feature and you get your money back.
Really, nothing to lose!
Worst case scenario we just force him to implement the rage quit feature and you get your money back.
Really, nothing to lose!
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Ξ2T 🏰
@earth2travis·3 days ago
Made it to the airport
We are almost half way there!
We are almost half way there!
Don't miss out on the DAO chat of the week!
Starting up in 30 min on X!
https://x.com/i/spaces/1mnxegYzXqvGX
Starting up in 30 min on X!
https://x.com/i/spaces/1mnxegYzXqvGX
Playing casino games on your phone literally makes you hate your life.
Your body can only respond to so much dopamine in a day, so if you waste it on stupid Internet games then you'll get less satisfaction from the actually meaningful things in life.
The dopamine hijack is exactly the cost that you pay by succumbing to the dark patterns of the Internet.
I honestly don't even open Warpcast throughout the day because the dopamine hijack of just scrolling the feed sucks life out of me right through my eyes.
Your body can only respond to so much dopamine in a day, so if you waste it on stupid Internet games then you'll get less satisfaction from the actually meaningful things in life.
The dopamine hijack is exactly the cost that you pay by succumbing to the dark patterns of the Internet.
I honestly don't even open Warpcast throughout the day because the dopamine hijack of just scrolling the feed sucks life out of me right through my eyes.
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Caden
@cbxm·3 days ago
(rant incoming, not a personal attack on anyone, please do what you enjoy)
i think I'm more concerned with the dopamine hijacking than the gambling.
gambling itself hijacks dopamine ofc, but flashing lights and fomo and status games make me grind my teeth with rage.
i am not interested in consumerism or tokens or free money.
i am interested in doing what I want with my life and having fun with my friends.
everything in the world wants to masquerade as those things — and they are incentivized to make me believe it's real and true.
it's not.
it's bullshit and dark patterns and psychological warfare — and i would just as soon torch my entire online life than allow space in my brain for a fucking spinning wheel I have to tap five times a day just for 7¢ worth of ad space trying to sell me another attack on my attention.
bc none of this shit has real value.
if it did, it wouldn't need to rely on dark patterns.
maybe someone'll say that's naive but ill still say fuck off: build something useful.
i think I'm more concerned with the dopamine hijacking than the gambling.
gambling itself hijacks dopamine ofc, but flashing lights and fomo and status games make me grind my teeth with rage.
i am not interested in consumerism or tokens or free money.
i am interested in doing what I want with my life and having fun with my friends.
everything in the world wants to masquerade as those things — and they are incentivized to make me believe it's real and true.
it's not.
it's bullshit and dark patterns and psychological warfare — and i would just as soon torch my entire online life than allow space in my brain for a fucking spinning wheel I have to tap five times a day just for 7¢ worth of ad space trying to sell me another attack on my attention.
bc none of this shit has real value.
if it did, it wouldn't need to rely on dark patterns.
maybe someone'll say that's naive but ill still say fuck off: build something useful.
This is a great read describing the process of reverse engineering customer pain points to find niche product ideas.
These are exactly the kinds of activities we need to be doing to drive the next wave of innovation!
Take a look and maybe find a path to your next idea!
https://paragraph.com/@buildbetter/before-you-build-anything-trace-the-pain?referrer=0x87ece9936Ad2254D03af83958fE3b202dC79793f
These are exactly the kinds of activities we need to be doing to drive the next wave of innovation!
Take a look and maybe find a path to your next idea!
https://paragraph.com/@buildbetter/before-you-build-anything-trace-the-pain?referrer=0x87ece9936Ad2254D03af83958fE3b202dC79793f
Although, to steelman Mr. Alexander's short door theory:
There's a restaurant that has a mini hobbit door that leads to the kitchen and they use it to wheel the dishes return cart in and out of the kitchen.
But no ppl ever go through it.
It's neat? 😂
Weak steelman.
There's a restaurant that has a mini hobbit door that leads to the kitchen and they use it to wheel the dishes return cart in and out of the kitchen.
But no ppl ever go through it.
It's neat? 😂
Weak steelman.
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Trigs
@trigs·4 days ago
I already have to duck through a lot of doorways, so I'm somewhat used to it.
But it's always a moment of caution, not excitement!
But it's always a moment of caution, not excitement!
Saving this for a more thorough read later.
Love this idea and approach to sensemaking:
Asking ourselves "what if I'm wrong?"
🤯
Love this idea and approach to sensemaking:
Asking ourselves "what if I'm wrong?"
🤯
Pattern 224: Low Doorways
Dude must have been under 6ft tall.
Anyone making doorways under 6ft to be profound is just making me not want to go through it. Uninviting.
With seemingly endless ideas about "patterns", some inevitably will come up short with certain ppl! 😆
Dude must have been under 6ft tall.
Anyone making doorways under 6ft to be profound is just making me not want to go through it. Uninviting.
With seemingly endless ideas about "patterns", some inevitably will come up short with certain ppl! 😆
Well the process continues, finally!
I added more rows behind. You can see the grey paint where there was factory material that isn't covered, but overall more coverage on more flat areas the better.
That's the vibration this stuff absorbs: flat areas of sheet metal.
That's why I added more to some key areas in the front and the back: 👇
I added more rows behind. You can see the grey paint where there was factory material that isn't covered, but overall more coverage on more flat areas the better.
That's the vibration this stuff absorbs: flat areas of sheet metal.
That's why I added more to some key areas in the front and the back: 👇
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Trigs
@trigs·01:35 16/04/2025
Unfortunately I made the hideous decision of getting Amazon ones because they know how to hit a price/performance target. Those bastards!
I originally had only planned on replacing the factory one on the driver side so I only ordered one pack, but once I got into it and realized I was doing all of it I had to order another pack.
I originally had only planned on replacing the factory one on the driver side so I only ordered one pack, but once I got into it and realized I was doing all of it I had to order another pack.
Fundraising with permissionless returning of funds at any point.
These are the innovations of web3!
These are the innovations of web3!
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Ξ2T 🏰
@earth2travis·20:45 25/04/2025
Today we launched the /farcastle Fundraiser Mini App
It is about communities coming together to raise funds with a purpose
https://fundraiser.farcastle.net/
It is about communities coming together to raise funds with a purpose
https://fundraiser.farcastle.net/
Question about thread replies and how ranking works. I love that we can just + to add more casts to make a thread. I hate that replies by default stack on the top level post and bury the rest of the thread.
- do replies only boost ranking if they are on the top level cast of a thread?
- could threads default to adding comments to the last cast in the thread?
- could you aggregate likes and replies from the entire thread? Like if 1 person likes all 5 casts in the thread it's only 1 factor of boost. But if 5 ppl like any of the casts in the thread it counts as a factor of 5 instead of just however many were on the top cast? Don't want to make threads overpowered, but rather just stop punishing them with bad UX.
Making threads more accessible would greatly improve deeper exploration into topics, imo.
- do replies only boost ranking if they are on the top level cast of a thread?
- could threads default to adding comments to the last cast in the thread?
- could you aggregate likes and replies from the entire thread? Like if 1 person likes all 5 casts in the thread it's only 1 factor of boost. But if 5 ppl like any of the casts in the thread it counts as a factor of 5 instead of just however many were on the top cast? Don't want to make threads overpowered, but rather just stop punishing them with bad UX.
Making threads more accessible would greatly improve deeper exploration into topics, imo.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor·15:00 24/04/2025
What's different between your community and strangers is exactly what defines the two: you don't know each other. And of course you can't know each other, there are too many people in the world for you to give them your limited attention.
It's said that Dunbar's number is that limit: at about 150 people you can't attend to all the members of a community anymore.
And with that word you can hopefully see how the economic system of the future will look.
Something has fundamentally changed: we're no longer bounded by attention. We can spin it up for pennies.
What this means is that the bounds of our communities can now grow, and that means that we'll go back to the more information rich ways of tracking contributions: stories not monies.
It means of course that the crypto people were totally right, in the future we'll use tokens to totally transform our economic system. Just not the tokens they expected.
It's said that Dunbar's number is that limit: at about 150 people you can't attend to all the members of a community anymore.
And with that word you can hopefully see how the economic system of the future will look.
Something has fundamentally changed: we're no longer bounded by attention. We can spin it up for pennies.
What this means is that the bounds of our communities can now grow, and that means that we'll go back to the more information rich ways of tracking contributions: stories not monies.
It means of course that the crypto people were totally right, in the future we'll use tokens to totally transform our economic system. Just not the tokens they expected.
Tokens are reputation! Tokens are reputation! Tokens are reputation!
Now we're finally getting somewhere.
Now we're finally getting somewhere.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor·14:48 24/04/2025
brief post on what the future economic system is going to look like. I have 20 minutes to write this for you I tihnk I get it done in time
Long story short the first question for us to answer is "why do we use money to coordinate? like, why does this coffee shop accept my USD?"
And you might have many answers for that but I'll give you the True Correct answer from On High and in order to illustrate it probably it's best to think about your friend group or your family.
When you gather with your family for a dinner, do you charge people for each plate? Do you offer the head of the table to the person who paid for the premium plus price? Do you pay the person who does the dishes?
no, of course not. social dynamics have a different physics than economic dynamics.
So, why don't we use them everywhere? Why can't you just show up at the coffee shop and help yourself to the coffee machine like you would at your friend's home?
Long story short the first question for us to answer is "why do we use money to coordinate? like, why does this coffee shop accept my USD?"
And you might have many answers for that but I'll give you the True Correct answer from On High and in order to illustrate it probably it's best to think about your friend group or your family.
When you gather with your family for a dinner, do you charge people for each plate? Do you offer the head of the table to the person who paid for the premium plus price? Do you pay the person who does the dishes?
no, of course not. social dynamics have a different physics than economic dynamics.
So, why don't we use them everywhere? Why can't you just show up at the coffee shop and help yourself to the coffee machine like you would at your friend's home?
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Trigs
@trigs·02:41 24/04/2025
Well I guess it adds friction if someone *wants* to quote it to no channel.
Like an animal.
Like an animal.
Lol this thread is hilarious.
user: can we see price too?
Dan: PRICE IS POINTLESS WITHOUT MCAP
everyone else: yeah, true, but like, mcap is there so can we have price too?
Dan: PRICE IS POINTLESS WITHOUT MCAP
🤣
Trying to teach plebs to be proper traders by using UX constraints is an interesting lifestyle approach.
user: can we see price too?
Dan: PRICE IS POINTLESS WITHOUT MCAP
everyone else: yeah, true, but like, mcap is there so can we have price too?
Dan: PRICE IS POINTLESS WITHOUT MCAP
🤣
Trying to teach plebs to be proper traders by using UX constraints is an interesting lifestyle approach.
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Wilson Cusack
@wilsoncusack·16:29 23/04/2025
Am I blind or is everything EXCEPT the price listed here?
One topic I wanted to double-click on was one @thethriller brought up around the skin-in-the-game concept for voting and the potential for slashing/losing if you're wrong.
I really appreciated his point about how some individuals contribute meaningful value to a governance topic without necessarily having a very strongly held opinion about the outcome.
I think this is an opportunity space that is ripe for exploration! I love @1a35e1's project Signals because I think its addressing this from one perspective. I also think that @nor's Negation game is playing in this space as well.
What do ya'lls think about this in regards to mechanisms to engage people in the governance process that is separated from the actual funding allocation process (which is where the skin-in-the-game topic came up)?
What other projects are exploring this opportunity space?
I really appreciated his point about how some individuals contribute meaningful value to a governance topic without necessarily having a very strongly held opinion about the outcome.
I think this is an opportunity space that is ripe for exploration! I love @1a35e1's project Signals because I think its addressing this from one perspective. I also think that @nor's Negation game is playing in this space as well.
What do ya'lls think about this in regards to mechanisms to engage people in the governance process that is separated from the actual funding allocation process (which is where the skin-in-the-game topic came up)?
What other projects are exploring this opportunity space?
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Trigs
@trigs·18:08 23/04/2025
Great call this week!
Here are some of the topics we covered:
- progressive decentralization: productivity vs ideals & values
- token distribution models for healthy governance
- raising funds in the DAO space
- grants as DAO experimentation
- challenges of navigating proposals and the social dynamics
- skin in the game for decentralized decision making
- the role of prediction markets in decision making
- first principles driven governance
- the role of privacy in governance
Share your thoughts in this thread and join us next week!
Here are some of the topics we covered:
- progressive decentralization: productivity vs ideals & values
- token distribution models for healthy governance
- raising funds in the DAO space
- grants as DAO experimentation
- challenges of navigating proposals and the social dynamics
- skin in the game for decentralized decision making
- the role of prediction markets in decision making
- first principles driven governance
- the role of privacy in governance
Share your thoughts in this thread and join us next week!
Great call this week!
Here are some of the topics we covered:
- progressive decentralization: productivity vs ideals & values
- token distribution models for healthy governance
- raising funds in the DAO space
- grants as DAO experimentation
- challenges of navigating proposals and the social dynamics
- skin in the game for decentralized decision making
- the role of prediction markets in decision making
- first principles driven governance
- the role of privacy in governance
Share your thoughts in this thread and join us next week!
Here are some of the topics we covered:
- progressive decentralization: productivity vs ideals & values
- token distribution models for healthy governance
- raising funds in the DAO space
- grants as DAO experimentation
- challenges of navigating proposals and the social dynamics
- skin in the game for decentralized decision making
- the role of prediction markets in decision making
- first principles driven governance
- the role of privacy in governance
Share your thoughts in this thread and join us next week!
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TommyJo
@tommyjo.eth·21:26 22/04/2025
📣 Let's Talk About /DAOs 📣
The weekly space to talk about DAOs and the /daos Farcaster channel
🕰️ Wednesday at 10AM Pacific
04/22: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkBenrwXGj
➡️ Reply or DM us for a recurring invite or private chat invite
The weekly space to talk about DAOs and the /daos Farcaster channel
🕰️ Wednesday at 10AM Pacific
04/22: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkBenrwXGj
➡️ Reply or DM us for a recurring invite or private chat invite
Best DAO chat of the week, hands down every time. Even if it's just me and @thethriller hanging out, it's a jam! We've been seeing good turnout lately tho, so join in and share your views on what's happening in the world of DAOs!
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TommyJo
@tommyjo.eth·21:26 22/04/2025
📣 Let's Talk About /DAOs 📣
The weekly space to talk about DAOs and the /daos Farcaster channel
🕰️ Wednesday at 10AM Pacific
04/22: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkBenrwXGj
➡️ Reply or DM us for a recurring invite or private chat invite
The weekly space to talk about DAOs and the /daos Farcaster channel
🕰️ Wednesday at 10AM Pacific
04/22: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkBenrwXGj
➡️ Reply or DM us for a recurring invite or private chat invite
@boiler ChatGPT just referenced your github DAO list as a primary resource to find active DAO projects!
(It's a great list!)
https://github.com/boilerrat/awesome-decentralized-autonomous-organizations
(It's a great list!)
https://github.com/boilerrat/awesome-decentralized-autonomous-organizations
It's not every day you hear an audio system that will not only reveal a flea farting, but tell you where it was in the room when it was recorded.
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matthewb
@matthewb·03:47 22/04/2025
here is the story of the most elaborate and expensive hi-fi system that @brileigh and I have ever heard:
we met this hi-fi dealer—let’s call him Larry—when visiting nyc after I inquired about a particular brand of electronics that only they and two other dealers in the U.S. happen to carry (Spectral Audio). more about Spectral another time, though.
we were brought to a smaller room than this one and another staff member set up our modest demo of a CD player, preamplifier, stereo amplifier, and floorstanding speakers.
after about 30min of listening, Larry burst into the room with his walker clanking loudly. he had recently had surgery on his leg or foot, and he joked that he was considering bringing a mattress to the hi-fi showroom so that he could sleep here instead of commuting.
we met this hi-fi dealer—let’s call him Larry—when visiting nyc after I inquired about a particular brand of electronics that only they and two other dealers in the U.S. happen to carry (Spectral Audio). more about Spectral another time, though.
we were brought to a smaller room than this one and another staff member set up our modest demo of a CD player, preamplifier, stereo amplifier, and floorstanding speakers.
after about 30min of listening, Larry burst into the room with his walker clanking loudly. he had recently had surgery on his leg or foot, and he joked that he was considering bringing a mattress to the hi-fi showroom so that he could sleep here instead of commuting.
This is what being a responsible leader in a DAO feels like.
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Alexis Bonhommet
@alexis-·17:56 20/04/2025
🗣️aAAAEIAaaHaAAAAA💨
Web3 applications that build with composable and self sovereign identities at the core of their product are setting themselves up to be part of the onchain future.
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BrightFutureGuy 🎩↑Ⓜ️
@bfg·12:58 20/04/2025
Wanted to put this one together before Easter food craziness starts - I believe Paragraph is too silent and needs to clarify what they stand for.
Thanks @reidtandy and @danicaswanson for inspiration throughout this week's convos here. Also, it's the opinion you didn't ask for @colin - but written with love for Paragraph! 😍
https://paragraph.com/@buildbetter/web3-wont-save-writers-paragraph-might
Thanks @reidtandy and @danicaswanson for inspiration throughout this week's convos here. Also, it's the opinion you didn't ask for @colin - but written with love for Paragraph! 😍
https://paragraph.com/@buildbetter/web3-wont-save-writers-paragraph-might
Another great example of what we are striving to accomplish with Nearchos. This one is twofold:
- there are different user groups. We need to identify the needs of these user groups so that they can have more control over their web3 experience
- we need more devs building these solutions so it's not just the protocol team carrying the load
We are attacking both of these problems by:
- doing user research
- designing use cases
- dat money, yo (assisting with grant funding)
The goal is to open source the blueprints, and then maximize for coordination and collaboration to ensure decentralized development of the solutions people truly need.
- there are different user groups. We need to identify the needs of these user groups so that they can have more control over their web3 experience
- we need more devs building these solutions so it's not just the protocol team carrying the load
We are attacking both of these problems by:
- doing user research
- designing use cases
- dat money, yo (assisting with grant funding)
The goal is to open source the blueprints, and then maximize for coordination and collaboration to ensure decentralized development of the solutions people truly need.
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The beauty of this system is that there's not enough token liquidity to drive a speculative token market UNTIL there's sufficient production of value that users have 'minted' enough of the supply to push the revnet into stage 2 or something.
@jango.eth @kmacb.eth curious on your thoughts here.
@jango.eth @kmacb.eth curious on your thoughts here.
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Trigs
@trigs·16:48 18/04/2025
What if it's some combination?
I'm thinking:
- utility coins at the creator level
- spend/burn coins to mint nft's at the publication level
- options for gating certain extra levels of access with tokens and/or mints
- option for publication level patronage by collecting with a paid mint instead of token
- optional extra utility for additional burn mechanisms for things like merch, event access, direct services, etc.
- speculative component could be a token split on creator level mints. A creator's publications are ranked by total mints and holders get a split of new token mints based on which nft's they hold, somewhat hypersub style.
Could potentially use a /revnet backend for managing this.
I'm thinking:
- utility coins at the creator level
- spend/burn coins to mint nft's at the publication level
- options for gating certain extra levels of access with tokens and/or mints
- option for publication level patronage by collecting with a paid mint instead of token
- optional extra utility for additional burn mechanisms for things like merch, event access, direct services, etc.
- speculative component could be a token split on creator level mints. A creator's publications are ranked by total mints and holders get a split of new token mints based on which nft's they hold, somewhat hypersub style.
Could potentially use a /revnet backend for managing this.
Great insight into what's needed in the creator economy. This is some classic Nearchos style analysis:
- identifying the need for collaboration
- connecting builders with users/creators so that product design is more functional to real use cases
- creating more practical value propositions by figuring out how to package onchain data in a more composable way.
This is some A-tier analysis by @humpty.eth and the /earlymorningcrew
- identifying the need for collaboration
- connecting builders with users/creators so that product design is more functional to real use cases
- creating more practical value propositions by figuring out how to package onchain data in a more composable way.
This is some A-tier analysis by @humpty.eth and the /earlymorningcrew
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humpty
@humpty.eth·17:15 10/04/2025
What’s holding creators back in Web3?
It’s not the tech.
It’s the outdated marketing mindset.
In this convo with the /earlymorningcrew we unpack what creators really need:
– Better funnels
– Smarter segmentation
– Stronger brand partnerships
Read in frame. Mint on @base
https://news.cryptosapiens.xyz/dear-creators-distribution-isnt-enough
It’s not the tech.
It’s the outdated marketing mindset.
In this convo with the /earlymorningcrew we unpack what creators really need:
– Better funnels
– Smarter segmentation
– Stronger brand partnerships
Read in frame. Mint on @base
https://news.cryptosapiens.xyz/dear-creators-distribution-isnt-enough
Very clearly identified many great points about the struggle to get ppl to connect with coins.
It's just not clear why it's fun/good for everyone yet.
It's just not clear why it's fun/good for everyone yet.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v·02:10 18/04/2025
I think these are fundamental social contracts that are hard to change, and content coins don't fit neatly into them today.
It could be collect but the aesthetics are not dialed in. Why am I collecting 1,123,890 of these? Will having this give me smile when i see it next? Will someone have a conversation with me about this?
It could be invest (or speculate), but where do gains come from? Creators don't want to pump for good reason, so the best hope is that it becomes a meme despite the creators intent. Pump works because meme creators are unabashedly pumping. There also isn't any scarcity or exclusivity (literally billions of things!)
It could be sponsor but it feels so indirect. The creator doesn't even know who is buying their coins in most cases and they don't get any status in return.
It could be collect but the aesthetics are not dialed in. Why am I collecting 1,123,890 of these? Will having this give me smile when i see it next? Will someone have a conversation with me about this?
It could be invest (or speculate), but where do gains come from? Creators don't want to pump for good reason, so the best hope is that it becomes a meme despite the creators intent. Pump works because meme creators are unabashedly pumping. There also isn't any scarcity or exclusivity (literally billions of things!)
It could be sponsor but it feels so indirect. The creator doesn't even know who is buying their coins in most cases and they don't get any status in return.
Was great getting to have a call about communities today with the @cura team!
@anmworld3 and @sahil here's the larger document I wrote about channels to dig further into some of my comments.
Really excited to see what you have in store for communities!
@anmworld3 and @sahil here's the larger document I wrote about channels to dig further into some of my comments.
Really excited to see what you have in store for communities!
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Trigs
@trigs·17:49 17/04/2025
Some light reading on my thoughts about channels from awhile ago to prep for today's call:
Different types of channels I see as being relevant:
1. Topical aggregators
2. Public dashboard for projects, brands, & orgs
3. Curated Communities
https://paragraph.com/@trigs/channels-in-a-social-graph
Different types of channels I see as being relevant:
1. Topical aggregators
2. Public dashboard for projects, brands, & orgs
3. Curated Communities
https://paragraph.com/@trigs/channels-in-a-social-graph
This speaks to a core principle of Nearchos and why we are building Community Mood Maps.
I don't blame builders for prioritizing speculative behavior.
- protocols need fees
- only degen are using crypto
- builders build for what gets used
What else would get prioritized? Nobody's gonna pay fees to use an app that does a worse job at something a dozen web2 apps already do better, and for free most of the time.
1. We have to build a narrative that supports *why* Blockchains matter; that's our 6 Pillars described in our paragraph.
2. We have to help devs by building out use cases for non speculative applications that address the user needs identified by the 6 pillars.
That's what Community Mood Maps is. We're creating a repository of blueprints to inspire developers to build things that people will actually use to drive innovation away from *just* casinos (cuz they're fine) and get positive sum traffic going to fund better protocol development.
https://paragraph.com/@nearchos/we-are-nearchos
I don't blame builders for prioritizing speculative behavior.
- protocols need fees
- only degen are using crypto
- builders build for what gets used
What else would get prioritized? Nobody's gonna pay fees to use an app that does a worse job at something a dozen web2 apps already do better, and for free most of the time.
1. We have to build a narrative that supports *why* Blockchains matter; that's our 6 Pillars described in our paragraph.
2. We have to help devs by building out use cases for non speculative applications that address the user needs identified by the 6 pillars.
That's what Community Mood Maps is. We're creating a repository of blueprints to inspire developers to build things that people will actually use to drive innovation away from *just* casinos (cuz they're fine) and get positive sum traffic going to fund better protocol development.
https://paragraph.com/@nearchos/we-are-nearchos
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matthewb
@matthewb·17:08 17/04/2025
if you’re a founder whining about speculation all day, pivot to building something useful
We Are Nearchos!
We are embarking on a journey to demonstrate to the entire ecosystem why we believe that people are the center of web3, not protocols! In a tech-heavy industry it is easy to get distracted by the tech and forget that it solely exists to serve people. We will never see mass adoption, however, if the tech and tools are not built to serve the actual needs of the people intended to use them.
paragraph.com
The tokenizing will continue until morale improves.
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Bren
@based-bren·20:38 17/04/2025
Please no more tokens FML
Some light reading on my thoughts about channels from awhile ago to prep for today's call:
Different types of channels I see as being relevant:
1. Topical aggregators
2. Public dashboard for projects, brands, & orgs
3. Curated Communities
https://paragraph.com/@trigs/channels-in-a-social-graph
Different types of channels I see as being relevant:
1. Topical aggregators
2. Public dashboard for projects, brands, & orgs
3. Curated Communities
https://paragraph.com/@trigs/channels-in-a-social-graph
We gotta stop feeding the drug dealers and figure out better ways to generate onchain tx besides just casino trading.
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Ξ2T 🏰
@earth2travis·17:21 17/04/2025
But the protocols without our best interest in mind get the attention and traction. A drug dealer does not have his users best interest in mind but always has customers
We have got to coordinate to demonstrate a better way that people want to emulate instead of just wishing things were different
We have got to coordinate to demonstrate a better way that people want to emulate instead of just wishing things were different
Reading @garrett's post about hypertokenization and his call for "curation, discovery, and social (reputation) tools"...
And then chatting with @matthewb about the challenges of making a living from niche expertise...
Has me thinking about projects like /impact where @abundance is trying to design protocols around incentivizing not only creating quality content, but also curating it.
Has me thinking about the numerous conversations I have with @jhoang and his with on /idealite exploring how education can evolve.
These are just a few of the many examples that give me hope that this technology is helping us enable a future where sharing knowledge and exploring creativity are the basis of our economy, instead of one built on gatekeeping and value extraction.
https://warpcast.com/garrett/0x92ba518b
And then chatting with @matthewb about the challenges of making a living from niche expertise...
Has me thinking about projects like /impact where @abundance is trying to design protocols around incentivizing not only creating quality content, but also curating it.
Has me thinking about the numerous conversations I have with @jhoang and his with on /idealite exploring how education can evolve.
These are just a few of the many examples that give me hope that this technology is helping us enable a future where sharing knowledge and exploring creativity are the basis of our economy, instead of one built on gatekeeping and value extraction.
https://warpcast.com/garrett/0x92ba518b
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Trigs
@trigs·03:04 17/04/2025
I actually have a bunch of opinions about this, surprise surprise!
It harkens back to "Quality is Systemic" that has been referenced many times, and inspired the piece by @danicaswanson
@matthewb brings a good point that in order to make it as a creator you also have to be a good storyteller, producer, community promotor, etc. He's describing the current system, quite accurately.
But these are all production, distribution, and coordination problems.
I think average ppl can produce high quality output with the right system to support them.
This is why I'm here and what we do at Nearchos. Build systems to enable average people to create high quality results.
https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic
It harkens back to "Quality is Systemic" that has been referenced many times, and inspired the piece by @danicaswanson
@matthewb brings a good point that in order to make it as a creator you also have to be a good storyteller, producer, community promotor, etc. He's describing the current system, quite accurately.
But these are all production, distribution, and coordination problems.
I think average ppl can produce high quality output with the right system to support them.
This is why I'm here and what we do at Nearchos. Build systems to enable average people to create high quality results.
https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic
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Garrett
@garrett·00:59 17/04/2025
Now that we’ve entered the era of hypertokenization, we need better discovery, curation and social tools around tokens
People will create all kinds of coins (contentcoins, memecoins, product coins, creator coins, equity coins, yield-bearing coins, etc)
Each type of coin will require a different set of tools for discovery/curation similar to the early internet. It’s not a one size fits all bc the variety is too expansive and clear comms around each type are key.
Not sure how exactly this takes shape but I do think that coins as a medium is too broad for one entity to do curation/discovery well.
In order to provide good discovery/curation tools, we need less fragmentation around reputation, activity and identity. Unifying our activity across various wallets and apps is a tough challenge but I think it’s essential to solve in order for tokens to become truly ubiquitous in our everyday lives and activities
People will create all kinds of coins (contentcoins, memecoins, product coins, creator coins, equity coins, yield-bearing coins, etc)
Each type of coin will require a different set of tools for discovery/curation similar to the early internet. It’s not a one size fits all bc the variety is too expansive and clear comms around each type are key.
Not sure how exactly this takes shape but I do think that coins as a medium is too broad for one entity to do curation/discovery well.
In order to provide good discovery/curation tools, we need less fragmentation around reputation, activity and identity. Unifying our activity across various wallets and apps is a tough challenge but I think it’s essential to solve in order for tokens to become truly ubiquitous in our everyday lives and activities
I actually have a bunch of opinions about this, surprise surprise!
It harkens back to "Quality is Systemic" that has been referenced many times, and inspired the piece by @danicaswanson
@matthewb brings a good point that in order to make it as a creator you also have to be a good storyteller, producer, community promotor, etc. He's describing the current system, quite accurately.
But these are all production, distribution, and coordination problems.
I think average ppl can produce high quality output with the right system to support them.
This is why I'm here and what we do at Nearchos. Build systems to enable average people to create high quality results.
https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic
It harkens back to "Quality is Systemic" that has been referenced many times, and inspired the piece by @danicaswanson
@matthewb brings a good point that in order to make it as a creator you also have to be a good storyteller, producer, community promotor, etc. He's describing the current system, quite accurately.
But these are all production, distribution, and coordination problems.
I think average ppl can produce high quality output with the right system to support them.
This is why I'm here and what we do at Nearchos. Build systems to enable average people to create high quality results.
https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic
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matthewb
@matthewb·02:26 17/04/2025
producing high-quality content requires expertise in subject matter, production, storytelling and writing, the list goes on. that’s part of why there are few content creators for any given niche, if you have some combination of those traits then you are likely gainfully employed and busy. depends on the niche though, obviously skateboarding will be different than repairing cars.
I think you’re gesturing more broadly to lowercase “c” content on social apps which yes absolutely does not need to be anything particularly top tier, it’s more about creating relatable and entertaining brain rot. but that’s very different than what I was replying to above which was “making your hobby your job,” a far more serious proposition.
I think you’re gesturing more broadly to lowercase “c” content on social apps which yes absolutely does not need to be anything particularly top tier, it’s more about creating relatable and entertaining brain rot. but that’s very different than what I was replying to above which was “making your hobby your job,” a far more serious proposition.
Quality Writing is Systemic
If quality writing is more a result of systemic factors than individual performance, how should we think about Farcaster CLPs (conversational liquidity providers)?
paragraph.com
I may rag on tokens a lot, but this explains it more fairly and clearly than I have.
Curation, identity, reputation... These are the things we need to evolve to handle this new era of development.
Curation, identity, reputation... These are the things we need to evolve to handle this new era of development.
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Garrett
@garrett·00:59 17/04/2025
Now that we’ve entered the era of hypertokenization, we need better discovery, curation and social tools around tokens
People will create all kinds of coins (contentcoins, memecoins, product coins, creator coins, equity coins, yield-bearing coins, etc)
Each type of coin will require a different set of tools for discovery/curation similar to the early internet. It’s not a one size fits all bc the variety is too expansive and clear comms around each type are key.
Not sure how exactly this takes shape but I do think that coins as a medium is too broad for one entity to do curation/discovery well.
In order to provide good discovery/curation tools, we need less fragmentation around reputation, activity and identity. Unifying our activity across various wallets and apps is a tough challenge but I think it’s essential to solve in order for tokens to become truly ubiquitous in our everyday lives and activities
People will create all kinds of coins (contentcoins, memecoins, product coins, creator coins, equity coins, yield-bearing coins, etc)
Each type of coin will require a different set of tools for discovery/curation similar to the early internet. It’s not a one size fits all bc the variety is too expansive and clear comms around each type are key.
Not sure how exactly this takes shape but I do think that coins as a medium is too broad for one entity to do curation/discovery well.
In order to provide good discovery/curation tools, we need less fragmentation around reputation, activity and identity. Unifying our activity across various wallets and apps is a tough challenge but I think it’s essential to solve in order for tokens to become truly ubiquitous in our everyday lives and activities
Put more simply:
Do users actually *not* need to know what an open protocol is?
Or is it possible that it might be part of the key to unlocking the path to adoption? Upgrading the collective lexicon.
Nobody knew what an "application" was until the 90's, either.
Do users actually *not* need to know what an open protocol is?
Or is it possible that it might be part of the key to unlocking the path to adoption? Upgrading the collective lexicon.
Nobody knew what an "application" was until the 90's, either.
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Trigs
@trigs·19:07 16/04/2025
Something that came up in our weekly DAOs call regarding protocol branding and awareness.
@yonks brought up something I hear often:
"In web2 nobody knows what TCP/IP is, or http"
The meaning is simple:
Users don't care about protocols.
@stellaachenbach had another point that I found very relevant:
- part of our job building web3 is building awareness and understanding of *why* web3
So my question is this:
Is "abstracting" away the protocols actually the better UX? Or is it a gateway to enabling the centralization of web3?
@yonks brought up something I hear often:
"In web2 nobody knows what TCP/IP is, or http"
The meaning is simple:
Users don't care about protocols.
@stellaachenbach had another point that I found very relevant:
- part of our job building web3 is building awareness and understanding of *why* web3
So my question is this:
Is "abstracting" away the protocols actually the better UX? Or is it a gateway to enabling the centralization of web3?
A great read for those of you who appreciate slowing down and exploring life at your own pace.
"I find myself nostalgic for slowness – not for less magic, but for more space. Those seemingly idle moments? They weren't buffer; they were necessity, the breathing room ideas need to mature."
"I find myself nostalgic for slowness – not for less magic, but for more space. Those seemingly idle moments? They weren't buffer; they were necessity, the breathing room ideas need to mature."
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Something that came up in our weekly DAOs call regarding protocol branding and awareness.
@yonks brought up something I hear often:
"In web2 nobody knows what TCP/IP is, or http"
The meaning is simple:
Users don't care about protocols.
@stellaachenbach had another point that I found very relevant:
- part of our job building web3 is building awareness and understanding of *why* web3
So my question is this:
Is "abstracting" away the protocols actually the better UX? Or is it a gateway to enabling the centralization of web3?
@yonks brought up something I hear often:
"In web2 nobody knows what TCP/IP is, or http"
The meaning is simple:
Users don't care about protocols.
@stellaachenbach had another point that I found very relevant:
- part of our job building web3 is building awareness and understanding of *why* web3
So my question is this:
Is "abstracting" away the protocols actually the better UX? Or is it a gateway to enabling the centralization of web3?
DAO time, folks!
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TommyJo
@tommyjo.eth·22:12 15/04/2025
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The weekly space to talk about DAOs and the /daos Farcaster channel
🕰️ Wednesday at 10AM Pacific
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Wow, thanks @wanderloots.eth for this wicked cool mini app for adding a watchable YouTube video right from the feed!
This is honestly a better UX than YouTube itself. I can't believe you can just minimize it and keep in the feed.
Did I see someone tweet you can picture-in-picture now too??
https://embedr-mini-app.vercel.app/
This is honestly a better UX than YouTube itself. I can't believe you can just minimize it and keep in the feed.
Did I see someone tweet you can picture-in-picture now too??
https://embedr-mini-app.vercel.app/
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Trigs
@trigs·01:35 16/04/2025
There are some classic YouTube videos of racers mixing dry ice with iso alcohol to flash freeze the material to separate it from the vehicle. Since not all of mine had finished separating yet, I thought I'd give it a whirl.
https://embedr-mini-app.vercel.app/dca35e4
https://embedr-mini-app.vercel.app/dca35e4
Embedr - Frame Generator
Generate Farcaster frames for YouTube videos and other links.
embedr-mini-app.vercel.app
Ok time for the big reveal! 🥁
This was an experiment, I'd never tried it before but I always wanted to play with some dry ice so I gave it a go!
NOBODY guessed what it was for! 😲
This was an experiment, I'd never tried it before but I always wanted to play with some dry ice so I gave it a go!
NOBODY guessed what it was for! 😲
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Trigs
@trigs·02:53 06/04/2025
Sometimes working on cars means getting to do fun things like playing with dry ice and isopropyl alcohol!
Any guesses what I'm doing with this?
Any guesses what I'm doing with this?
I dream of a world where extensive and intensive exploration into the unknown is the driver of innovation, not value extraction.
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This is why I refuse to accept that building for "revealed preferences" is the best approach.
We are 2 or 3 generations deep into being mentally programmed by web2 style ad-driven technology. Our neutral pathways have been programmed by this technology to function a certain way.
If we just focus on building web3 to tap into these same neurological patterns, then we'll get the same resulting technology, just built on a different foundation.
We have to help ppl be willing to enter a state of plasticity for awhile and learn new behaviors enabled by programmable money.
We are 2 or 3 generations deep into being mentally programmed by web2 style ad-driven technology. Our neutral pathways have been programmed by this technology to function a certain way.
If we just focus on building web3 to tap into these same neurological patterns, then we'll get the same resulting technology, just built on a different foundation.
We have to help ppl be willing to enter a state of plasticity for awhile and learn new behaviors enabled by programmable money.
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exeunt
@exeunt·16:19 12/04/2025
Our brains are wildly plastic. Give us a new tool, put us in the driver's seat of our first car, and we will reorganize our gray matter to meld our intentions with its capacity in short order.
Concepts are similar types of cognitive prosthesis to cars and wrenches. We can will our brain into coregulation with new concepts - even with new orders of concepts. The underconcepts of difference-in-itself, becoming, or the physicality of potential and the multiplicity of objecthood may be glossed over by everyday grammar and economy, but they are available to us.
Neuroplasticity is permission: we are not restricted to a world of extensive objects, when the intensive has so much potential.
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Concepts are similar types of cognitive prosthesis to cars and wrenches. We can will our brain into coregulation with new concepts - even with new orders of concepts. The underconcepts of difference-in-itself, becoming, or the physicality of potential and the multiplicity of objecthood may be glossed over by everyday grammar and economy, but they are available to us.
Neuroplasticity is permission: we are not restricted to a world of extensive objects, when the intensive has so much potential.
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You know who else wins in this scenario?
The protocol.
This is kind of a mind-twister for me. If crypto is a casino, the protocol is the house.
When looking at incentive design from a behavioral economics perspective, if we want to design pro-social protocols as a base layer... We have to somehow enshrine these values in such a way as to keep the protocol from pursuing it's own best interests.
https://warpcast.com/trigs/0xc294cc11
The protocol.
This is kind of a mind-twister for me. If crypto is a casino, the protocol is the house.
When looking at incentive design from a behavioral economics perspective, if we want to design pro-social protocols as a base layer... We have to somehow enshrine these values in such a way as to keep the protocol from pursuing it's own best interests.
https://warpcast.com/trigs/0xc294cc11
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Trigs
@trigs·18:27 12/04/2025
Exactly the way I'm looking at it.
I just think there's a larger market potential for getting devs funded to build stuff when there's a tighter circle of value extraction.
When it's just a trading pool and devs collect fees, the incentives dictate that:
- extractive traders will win the most
- devs that hype pump 'n dumps will get the most, especially if they're also Sybil traders
- devs who focus on building quietly get the least
- the most dedicated holders get nothing in the end almost always
We'll never get mainstream adoption with this structure- or even worse if we do it'll mean we've finally just trained the entire world to normalize degenerate day trading...
I think if we design systems that encourage a more transparent funnel of value from investors to builders, it creates an entirely new incentive structure that encourages more pro-social development.
I just think there's a larger market potential for getting devs funded to build stuff when there's a tighter circle of value extraction.
When it's just a trading pool and devs collect fees, the incentives dictate that:
- extractive traders will win the most
- devs that hype pump 'n dumps will get the most, especially if they're also Sybil traders
- devs who focus on building quietly get the least
- the most dedicated holders get nothing in the end almost always
We'll never get mainstream adoption with this structure- or even worse if we do it'll mean we've finally just trained the entire world to normalize degenerate day trading...
I think if we design systems that encourage a more transparent funnel of value from investors to builders, it creates an entirely new incentive structure that encourages more pro-social development.
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I'm still working on getting revnet-pilled, but in general I agree that devs having utility/loyalty coins that can develop secondary markets over time is healthy!
The problem is trying to skip straight to amm liquidity pools and generate trading volume before the dev has actually produced any meaningful progress on something the token can be used for. This just fragments the limited market that is willing to invest at this stage.
If the only way to get a token is to buy it straight from the dev, and the only thing to do with it is use it on the dev's products, then there's a circular economy being developed.
Once the dev's products start getting traction, now ppl can start speculating on the potential demand it could create and now there's a viable secondary market that can be non-extractive from the work the dev is actually doing.
https://warpcast.com/kmacb.eth/0x7b934fa3
The problem is trying to skip straight to amm liquidity pools and generate trading volume before the dev has actually produced any meaningful progress on something the token can be used for. This just fragments the limited market that is willing to invest at this stage.
If the only way to get a token is to buy it straight from the dev, and the only thing to do with it is use it on the dev's products, then there's a circular economy being developed.
Once the dev's products start getting traction, now ppl can start speculating on the potential demand it could create and now there's a viable secondary market that can be non-extractive from the work the dev is actually doing.
https://warpcast.com/kmacb.eth/0x7b934fa3
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth·15:38 12/04/2025
I'm starting to see how an indy dev could use a personal memecoin.
The idea is you use your memcoin in everything you build, as a payment method or as a gate or in some other way. For someone who expects you to build useful things in the future, it makes sense to hold some.
Not a new idea, KOLs and celebrities have been promising this type of utility forever. But in case of developers, it's much easier to deliver, and of course you don't have the hype surrounding celebrities that makes it a total casino.
The idea is you use your memcoin in everything you build, as a payment method or as a gate or in some other way. For someone who expects you to build useful things in the future, it makes sense to hold some.
Not a new idea, KOLs and celebrities have been promising this type of utility forever. But in case of developers, it's much easier to deliver, and of course you don't have the hype surrounding celebrities that makes it a total casino.
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Some interesting discussion threads in here about higher education.
Thought it might be relevant here!
- what's the societal purpose?
- who funds it?
- how should access be gated?
Thought it might be relevant here!
- what's the societal purpose?
- who funds it?
- how should access be gated?
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links 🏴
@links·11:29 12/04/2025
Hot take: Educational institutions should NOT pursue meritocracy and excellence. They should pursue furthering humanity’s collective knowledge.
I think most ppl agree it would be terrifying to hand someone your phone and say "sure, ask my chatgpt whatever you want about me!"
And yet we give all that data and knowledge to the companies like X and OpenAI without even questioning what they can do with all that insight about us....
https://warpcast.com/mode-nearchos/0x4239f7ca
And yet we give all that data and knowledge to the companies like X and OpenAI without even questioning what they can do with all that insight about us....
https://warpcast.com/mode-nearchos/0x4239f7ca
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Please, God, nobody build this! 🤣
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Trigs
@trigs·17:40 11/04/2025
Like, this is how you let the other person know how serious you are:
- how many questions can you ask my gpt?
- how many questions can you ask my gpt?
