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Aug 31 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
@fuserleer @PiersRidyard @radixdlt @AI_Radix @OpenAI
With thanks to @RobDenBleyker
The limits of being amenable to reason. 1/n n = 16
You (that's me)
How many R's are in the word strawberry?
2/n The same question automatically repeated at my request with GPT-4o
GPT-4o
The word "strawberry" contains two 'R's.
You
How many R's are there in the word "straw"?
GPT-4o
There is 1 'R' in the word "straw".
Mar 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
@fabgenovese 1/n, n=11
I do not want to spam you.
But it obviously would be helpful to me to understand these issues better.
Radix will offer a different approach to atomic finality of transactions that will hold in the composition of arbitrary components (SCs).
2/n I have tried to discuss this in their main TG group, but somehow the topic is neither developer - there is another channel for that, while too deep for main.
Abbreviating I said:-
Nov 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
@fabgenovese@fuserleer@radixdlt 1/n In my other replies I have outlined some of the tensions found in this area.
The point being made here is both about compliance and knowledge surfacing.
One hypothesis is that it is better to have few profitable CEX as they will have funds
@fabgenovese@fuserleer@radixdlt 2/n
With funds they attract clients so serve more who (might) otherwise get caught up in the nefarious
We can already see it’s a weak argument
Another, not mutually exclusive, argument is to have an automatic vetting regime.
Nov 18, 2022 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
@fabgenovese@fuserleer@radixdlt 1/n It is very difficult to step back to gain perspective. 1. It is conceivable that any sort of exchange as we think of it is not needed 2. We are balancing opposites, areas of intrinsic tension
i. The DLT/dApps on top
ii. Mechanical laws/human preference
@fabgenovese@fuserleer@radixdlt 2/n
And 3. false opposites e.g.
i. Trust/trustless
Possibly also
ii. Decentralisation/law
Each huge subjects
I trust the entity on the other side of a code as contract if I understand there incentives and disincentives
There are other forms of more human trust that bring up
@IntuitMachine I followed Carlos down his threadreader roll page.
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Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine
23 Jun 19
It's ironic that Von Neumann described the circuits of his new invention (i.e. the computer) in terms of McCulloch-Pitts logic for neurons.
@IntuitMachine Walter Pitts was homeless at 13 and hid in the local library. In the library, he read all 3 volumes of Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica. nautil.us/issue/21/infor…