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24 Nov, 24 tweets, 5 min read
Trying out the wombo dream app, ended up generating some interesting images!
Aurora over snowy hills
Laura Palmer in the black lodge
“Blue moon… you saw me standing alone”
Blue Moon, reprise
Cherry Pie
Laura Palmer
Dale Cooper
Dale Cooper II
David Lynch Eats a Cheesecake
Jony Ive designs a car
Dyson designs a spaceship
Cancer Factory
Jungle Temple I
Jungle Temple II
Robot Cat Stalking Midtown Manhattan, 31st Century
Ancient Robot Helmet
Baby (as a) Robot
Baby Robot
“This is my jam”
The owls… are not what they seem
Black Lodge
Hiro Protagonist in the Metaverse
The AI is surprisingly good at generating aesthetically pleasing (if somewhat impressionistic!) art.

Have a feeling it’s doing a Google image search and then applying some kind of style transform to it afterward.

It works best (unsurprisingly) on anything Twin Peaks.

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23 Nov
Classic sign of someone who can’t think straight: you tell them something, and they ask, “is there any evidence for X”, as if science exists to confirm evidence instead of falsify hypotheses.
And then they will say “well since you can’t produce evidence for X, I shall believe in the inverse of X”

They’ve gone one full circle and invented the null hypothesis

Without, of course, the means or the desire to falsify said hypothesis

But with every desire to confirm it
I wonder why people develop such strange heuristics.

The heuristic to believe in the inverse of popular theories that haven’t yet been falsified might have to do with the desire to front-run scientific discoveries… without spending the necessary cognitive labor?
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Andric Profile picture
18 Nov
Cynical optimism is like the barbell strategy here

Cynicism to protect short term downside (negative black swans)

Optimism to capture long term upside (positive black swans)
Works in nascent fields like crypto where going full 🦍 degen might lead to total ruin, but total cynicism will cause you to miss out on gains or sentiment shifts

The key is: Even if you don’t agree with the direction things are developing, you can bet against your beliefs
Be comfortable betting against your beliefs, because it’s almost impossible that society will converge on a Schelling Point that is optimal for you or even optimal for society.
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Andric Profile picture
17 Nov
Say anything critical about the externalities of a certain group’s actions, and you’ll be labeled an X-phobe, where X is said group.

Your reputation will be tarnished as an out-group heretic, as if that matters, since filter bubbles have splintered into ever-so-small pieces.
The irony is that the group doesn’t realize only an out-group member can comment on externalities.

If you “cancel” voices external to your filter bubble (well, filter them out), maybe you can feel psychologically safe 🙉 in thinking your actions are completely moral.
It’s worth noting that the group can be any group. I’ve seen this dynamic play out across various groups.

Name anything that exists in this world, and as long as a subreddit exists for it, you can bet someone’s been cancelled for voicing perfectly sane thoughts.
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16 Nov
DAOs make it possible to coordinate globally, like an Internet-native limited-liability partnership.

But it seems to be incomplete: right now it depends on good faith & trust. What it’s lacking are legal concepts (liability, partnership, fiduciary duties, ownership)
If smart contracts execute on a “runtime”, legal contracts execute on a jurisdiction.

The key here is that the jurisdictions are *separate* from the contracts.

Aragon Courts are a good start.
I hear talk of DAOs replacing VC partnerships, or even firms.

But firms are not just a cap table and a governance structure (i.e. the board & shareholders), they exist in a larger context of a legal jurisdiction.

A fish needs water to swim in, a planet needs an atmosphere.
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11 Nov
DAOs need their “Silk Road” moment.

Will be good to establish baseline expectations for the naïvely optimistic, as well as the ignorant.

Every new technology faces a reckoning, when society begins to understand its potential danger.
Before COVID, it was easy to be laissez-faire about gain of function research.

Before Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the atomic bomb.

Before Chernobyl, nuclear power.

Before Tahrir Square, social media.

Before Silk Road, Bitcoin.

Before BitConnect, ICOs.
When people dismiss the hype around “web3” (NFTs, DAOs, DeFi), they’re dismissing technologies that don’t yet have their Silk Road moment

This is rational behavior

Once the other edge of the sword becomes apparent, markets usually correct & technologies go into a long “winter”
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11 Nov
@benedictevans The governance problem with Facebook might not actually be a “problem”, to the extent that a problem only exists when the tech doesn’t fit the environment.

Facebook’s design is extremely fit for the current social/economic/technological environment.
@benedictevans We all know the Sovereign Individual thesis by now:

Centralized governance fits situations where the rewards of violence is higher than the cost. The higher the cost, the more centralized

Decentralized fits situations where the cost of violence is higher than the rewards
@benedictevans If nobody can articulate a thesis for why the environment has now shifted to one with a low cost/reward of violence, they can’t make the same argument they made with Bitcoin & monetary assets.

The logic of violence for money is not the same as the logic of violence for speech.
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