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23 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
No matter what you think about Worldcoin, I think some of the ideas in here are likely important to the future of privacy: worldcoin.org/privacy-by-des…
I think Worldcoin is more privacy-preserving than centralized services we use today. All Worldcoin, or anyone, could ever tell is if someone has already signed up for the service.

The hash is cryptographically decoupled from the wallet and all future transactions.
Experimentation with new approaches to privacy and identity seem good to me. Everyone can decide what they want to use and not use.
All that said, I definitely underestimated the visceral reaction to using biometrics for identity verification (e.g., I love FaceID and I was surprised to hear from people who don't) and it didn't come through in Worldcoin's field tests. Interesting update for me.

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23 Oct
Imagining an AI future (with some amount of redistribution) is an interesting lens for the Great Resignation.
Less people will have to work in the traditional sense and people will be less willing to do jobs they don't like.

People won’t have to work to survive, and we will have to pay more for less desirable jobs, or automate them, which seems great all around.
I predict that it will turn out that, contrary to think tank wisdom, people can be happy and fulfilled without a "traditional" job. There will be plenty of new things to do and new ways to get status.
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22 Oct
After 9/11 (3k US deaths), we got so much societal change and spent trillions of dollars.

After COVID-19 (700k+ US deaths), we seem to be getting very little change, and spending very little money.
I felt confident we'd get real change–competent planning for future pandemics, severe regulations on gain of function research, FDA reform, rapid-response vaccines for new viruses.

We are struggling to commit even a few tens of billions.

What's gone wrong?
I'm quite nervous about the next pandemic–it could be much worse and it doesn't really look like we're going to prepare.
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3 Oct
Spoke to some really smart college kids recently.

Almost universally, they had a belief that climate change was an unstoppable disaster and the most pressing issue of our time.
The surprising thing was not one of them believed they could or should do anything about it; there seemed to be a total lack of belief in the ability to change the trajectory of the world.
Something has gone wrong here—these are the people who should be taking on the challenge, and they instead are declaring that they’re not going to have kids because the problem is so bad.
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26 Sep
This from @ezraklein last week is great: nytimes.com/2021/09/19/opi…
Technology is generally quite deflationary, and this shows up a lot of places. (I hope for a world where important things deflate massively, and NFTs suck up all the inflation.)

But housing, healthcare, and higher education have had massive inflation, mostly due to bad policy.
This is a high-flux moment in society where it seems like there could be major changes, at least for housing and higher education, and maybe we could get much more of the good kind of deflation.
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9 Sep
Technology prediction for the 2020s:
The costs of intelligence and energy are going to be on a path towards near-zero.

We certainly won’t get all the way there this decade, but by 2030, it will become clear that the AI revolution and renewable+nuclear energy are going to get us there.
(This won't be true for every kind of intelligence--AI will likely be really great at many things and surprisingly bad at others--but enough to change a lot of things.)
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2 Sep
The tax system in California has been broken for some time, and in a world of increasing remote work, is going to become even more broken.
There is a market for different state income tax rates; you can live in a state with a top income tax rate of 13.3%, or 0%, or many rates in between. Historically, you’ve needed to live near your job, but now for many jobs you don’t.
Some people are choosing to keep their same job but move to a location with a much lower income tax rate. The thing that has worked for California for so long—many of the best jobs in the country requiring big taxpayers to live here—may not keep working.
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