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18 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Let’s play a game called ‘Will I Make It To Dry Pavement Or Will I Lose The Tesla To The Snow?’
My life does resemble a reality TV show sometimes.

If I don’t make it to the Christmas party, @DavidSacks, you’ll know what happened.
Made it to the highway!
To California!

(Through all that.)

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
18 Dec
This piece is making the rounds, and it seems wrong in interesting ways, in that it embodies much of the Web3 critique, particularly from technically savvy people whose thinking is totally Web2.

usenix.org/publications/l…
Taking the compute implicit in the ETH blockchain alone, and assuming that's the overall compute seems like parametrizing the early Internet by looking at the DNS routers: it's just not an accurate representation of the overall ecosystem.
Put another way, if we were to try and quantify the computation going on in the NFT marketplace, we'd have to take all the servers backing OpenSea, whatever compute goes into bidding and pricing etc....not just the chain, which after all simply records ownership.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
16 Dec
My latest for Pull Request!

As someone who straddles various worlds, I often find myself trying to explain one world to another, or at least, mounting a last-ditch defense.

thepullrequest.com/p/there-is-no-…
Still...I felt a bit ambushed at a shabbat dinner in LA last week, when I was suddenly called to account for the depredations of tech.

It reminded me of backpacking in Europe in the 90s and suddenly having to defend America, mostly against a chasm of misunderstanding. Image
If you’d asked a Bohemian peasant in 1618 if the printing press was a good idea—that’s the first year of the Thirty Years’ War, the bloodiest war in European history until WWII—they’d also say it was probably a horrible mistake.

Ditto the internet, but my co-guests disagreed.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
16 Dec
Me attaching a brick of seed to the deck has caused a major disruption in local bird world. There’s now an aviary of birds out there fighting for it, revealing an intersectional maze of power relations. Image
There’s some sort of gang war going on between the smaller but more numerous yellow ones and the larger black ones. Image
The yellow dudes have won. Image
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
8 Dec
My second (unplanned) interview with @nfergus is out!

I had originally called him to get some commentary on the new university he's launching, and it turned into a disquisition on the role of higher education throughout history and in American politics.

thepullrequest.com/p/universalizi…
@nfergus (This image preview is a horror.)

The dark conspiracy theory behind the University of Austin is that Niall and others were fed up with academia, and decided (unlike other academics) to actually do something about it. Image
@nfergus Niall's principal beef was that the culture of both debate and scholarly fellowship that once reigned at the great universities (such as at Oxford in the 80s, when he was a student) is gone, to the detriment of both students and society.

His university aims to bring that back. Image
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
4 Dec
Just got sucked down a rabbithole of TikTok live videos, and my soul died. It's over, there's no hope.
I took screenshots so I won't think I had some fever dream tomorrow. It's the most batshit crazy stuff ever, if this is the metaverse, it's worse than anything in the Mad Max universe.
My theory that most of the world would be reduced to some slobbering existence in an oral-culture backwater, while a minority would remain textual enough to actually function (and actually help architect the oral ghetto) seems to have gathered more evidence.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
3 Dec
Part 1 of my rollicking interview with @nfergus is finally out!

We discuss his new book 'Doom', his doubting atheism and love for Christian choral music, how many children to have, why elites seem so deficient now, and whether we'll beat the Chinese.

thepullrequest.com/p/niall-fergus…
@nfergus Historians are the discerners (or designers) of grand narrative arcs, and I asked Niall if our (post) Christian society can survive as a mostly atheist one. We both were rather skeptical.
@nfergus I proposed Judaism as a countervailing example of a religion that's both a binding social glue, and which doesn't require a very personal and hard-to-fake faith.

That too has some issues.
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