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Thesis: a company should serve its shareholders Antithesis: a company should serve its community Synthesis: the community should be the shareholders

I am very impressed by how well Discord has executed recently. The slew of new features they’ve added — from Reddit-style forums to Substack-style subscriptions — has really leveled up the platform. It's truly a private social network.

Cryptographically verifiable feeds > content feeds.

Like companies, governments overspent. California now expects a $22B+ deficit. They will aggressively pursue residents for money. And may ask the feds to print more...

Replit India just launched. New servers with low latency for Indian devs. Build your portfolio here to get hired globally. Quickly becoming as important as GitHub. https://t.co/KeVLsYXh6S

DEI means God in Latin. Also in American.

Btw, this wasn't in the clip, but the original concept of the prime number maze is from Noam Chomsky. He poses it as a constraint, but it's also possible to understand it as a challenge. https://t.co/3HUDlJMTEQ https://t.co/rPwhJ3Yxaa

“This is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next decade...Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022.” https://t.co/RT37i4KPBr

The better version of everything can be found on the internet. So can the worse version.

IPOs are down, but acquisitions are way up.

It’s evidently ~5X more expensive to build a fab in the US than it is to build one in Taiwan. And fabs are already expensive to build. https://t.co/mEIL44o71w

Hearing rumors that Google is lobbying DC to shut down other AI efforts, by scaremongering about how unsafe they are.

An emerging new model for API design: smart contracts for on-chain code, NFTs for on-chain data. It’s a different way to build highly stateful applications. Instead of hitting a traditional API many times to query a hidden dataset, you see the whole thing on chain.

No cryptography, no sovereignty.

What are the best tools for web3 Discords?

Many things happening at the same time: - Hollywood itself is in decline - Millions of new English speakers now online - Social has decentralized distribution - AI is decentralizing creation - AR/VR is making media more immersive Even more soft power moves to the internet. https://t.co/5C0BwW0ppe

The statelicker is a bootlicker, but for the state

If you're interested in DAOs and network states, here are some good concepts to read about: - community organizing - mutual aid - dual power - shadow cabinet Media is the air game, but organizing is the ground game.

In the 1800s, the talented became captains of industry By the 1950s, technology favored a giant centralized state — and talent gravitated to institutions because entrepreneurship became so hard By the 1990s, talent began brain draining out of institutions & back to the market https://t.co/BRX9gSX6nS

Email lists are good ENS lists will be better

Don’t tell me about your fake conspiracy theories I want to hear about your successful conspiracy practice

Atomic habits = prompt engineering for humans https://t.co/c1sOfPIR1J

1776: we hold these truths to be self-evident 2023: citation needed

First, orchestrate a decade of insanity, culminating in ideological capture of the commanding heights. Then cool things down, allowing now powerless opponents to blow off steam. A little speech for the liberals, a little sanity for the technocrats. That’s how you lock in gains. https://t.co/IB1WkmJsmd

Today the world is divided mainly by territory. But in the past it was often divided by community. People clustered in ways that didn't make sense with respect to territorial borders. But the clusters *did* make sense with respect to community borders. For example: https://t.co/S8lmrkhvOa

It's not about fact checkers, it's about checkable facts.

After the Russian Revolution, Lenin eased up a bit. He allowed some capitalism with the New Economic Policy. This took the fight out of the remaining Russian anti-communists and gave the Bolsheviks breathing room to consolidate power. Then they resumed. https://t.co/3HXYGOBkgX

Win off Twitter to win on Twitter.

Adjacents are often allied, diagonals don't get along.

This is correct within the span of 280 characters. And we need both. Both the sovereign individual and the public good. The right-and-left libertarian coalition against the surveillance states. https://t.co/W3noXMU65n

so amazing that - the universe gave us an infinite energy glitch - the US decided to use it to power giant underwater Gods (Ohio class submarine), enough to power it straight for 30 years - then entire society collectively chose not to use this energy source for anything else

I'm super thrilled to announce VitaDAO has raised a $4.1M funding round led by strategic contributors including @pfizer @ShineCapitalNYC @balajis This empowers VitaDAO to continue pushing the boundaries of longevity research and further our mission to extend healthy lifespan. https://t.co/ISfZ2NV2GZ

🤩 We are excited to announce that we've closed a $4.1m fundraising round🌱 from strategic members including: • @pfizer Ventures • @ShineCapitalNYC • @L1Digital_ • @beakerdao • @SpaceshipDAO • @balajis • @bettslacroix and many more 🧵 https://t.co/vjPKmAP3Wh

Today, we learned that Skiff has been banned in Russia. There is an urgent need for more privacy-respecting communication tools. In 7 months since we launched Skiff Mail, we're lucky to count over half a million users 💌

I wonder how many parents would vote to continue giving that $20k or so per student per year to the system vs. controlling it themselves. https://t.co/giek82imN0

Great chart from @spargles containing considerations for each of the four contenders of the age. https://t.co/HZL1ozsKWy

it is impossible to change the world for the better without a compelling story about a better world. tech bros: you need to be culturemaxxing. https://t.co/0sWkIKSuTR

One hypothesis about what's wrong with America right now is that we collectively lack a purpose. I've been thinking a lot lately about community, purpose, & mission, & I have a proposal -- not for everyone, but for some of us: https://t.co/WtClq8PbnV

1/ Introducing AI-first image editing to Playground—a way to instruct an AI to synthesize spectacular yet subtle edits Try it here: https://t.co/ox9QV94A7O We are blown away by the creative possibilities with this. Example: "Make it summer" (More examples in a thread)

Crypto is here to stay. I will keep advocating for policies that advance crypto innovation and adoption in the United States because crypto is more than a financial investment: it’s about restoring liberty and choice to individuals. https://t.co/XpAgqcZHpH

Have an idea I’m playing around with called “.1btc” It’s a namespace reserved for Bitcoin fullcoiners only Could be interesting to have a network of pseudonymous BTC fullcoiners…who value signal rather than virtue signal…with their own gated chat, names, and avatars… Wdyt? https://t.co/T1JryG8Vt6

I think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found ChatGPT clearly passes some of the most challenging American professional exams: 🩺United States Medical Licensing Exam 🎓MBA-level Operations exam 🧑‍⚖️The Bar Exam (based on typical exam questions) https://t.co/SIEAVWdf9j

Pretty absurd that chatGPT has passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Today, it takes 4 years of med school and 2+ years of clinical rotations to pass. It tests ambiguous scenarios & closely-related differential diagnoses https://t.co/oGdKXhEnUt

Government in the modern era functions primarily as a way of preventing people from helping themselves. With narrow exceptions, it's illegal to build houses, illegal to move, illegal to make food and sell it, and god help you if you try to prevent your store from being looted. https://t.co/nEfRmQWz29

Yup, we had supersonic jets, lunar landers, and nuclear reactors in the 1970s. But we lost our way—and for half a century we didn't build much of them. We need fast airplanes, vacations on the Moon, and clean atomic power—in big, sustainable ways that improve our lives. https://t.co/OerZShkc1j

wen network state? soon enough, maybe a couple of years

I'm excited to announce the launch of Spectra, an open-source project to build cities for the future. After 18 months of quietly building, today we launch our website, VR scenes, and library of CC0 assets. The project was developed in partnership with @andreeavr and @numenavr. https://t.co/UAqEiWvS49

Calling it now: SpaceX is going to be one of the biggest companies of all-time, and almost nobody realizes how big it will be. Short version: Best team of all-time Biggest market of all-time Deepest moat of all-time Fastest-growing revenue of all-time.

“It seemed absolutely crazy. The idea that an Iowa housewife, equipped with the cutting-edge medical tool known as Google Images, would make a medical discovery about a pro athlete who sees doctors and athletic trainers as part of her job?” https://t.co/iELohgpQHH https://t.co/kIQH6ip8nA

Infra ⬆️ Empowerment ⬆️ Development ⬆️ https://t.co/giU2tiRyoq

Blockbuster laughed us out of their offices. We were crushed, desperate and out of options. But sometimes, the only way out is through.

the degrowthers are the true racists in disguise — masquerading their disgust for third world countries under pseudo-scientific “peer reviewed” literature. the real twist ofc is that Delhi/Bangalore today are much nicer/safer than parts of SF run down by drug addicts. https://t.co/B2CwCQRPzD

Part one of my review of THE NETWORK STATE by @balajis is here: https://t.co/i2X1R7UNyV

I’ll give $1000 in BTC for the best 140 second film about Satoshi Nakamoto using AI. Submit your vid in the replies. Best video wins. 1/31/23 midnight PDT submission date.

Over the last decade, India has increased the proportion of its population with access to electricity from 80% to 99%. I hadn't realised it was quite that dramatic! https://t.co/LgWlqQhLL4

The NSA maintained a $250m/year “SIGINT Enabling Project” that inserted vulnerabilities into US cryptographic technology, and we only learned about it because an IT contractor downloaded all their PowerPoint decks. https://t.co/wSqCdX8CnI

3/Why is it important? Take a look at this video where a robot performs the task of “bring me the rice chips from the drawer” - https://t.co/GAJx2hIHxW. This robot has NEVER seen this kitchen before. Isn't it mind-blowing?

@elonmusk On what true science is, by @balajis "Everybody's optimizing citations. What you actually want to optimize is independent replication. That's what true science is. It's not peer review, it's physical test." cc: @PierreKory https://t.co/NlrYh1mWpe

Most people don’t realize that construction in California isn’t 10% slower than the state of the art, but more like 100X slower. https://t.co/HEKa4savhU

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