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Balkanslinktr.ee/0xpetraJoined February 2012

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How do you build a high-performing company? Frank Slootman has answers. He’s led three companies to their IPOs: Data Domain, Service Now, and Snowflake. Slootman turned around these high-potential companies by implementing his “Amp It Up” philosophy. Amp It Up has three… Show more
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I predict AIs hooked with a good feedback loop, will be better skilled at solving problems than humans soon. This will happen before AGI and potentially based on GPT-4 level AI.
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Seeing many political candidates voice their support for crypto. I think it's great but hope crypto voters evaluate the candidate's other policies too. Speaking only for myself, I'm not a single-issue voter on crypto and won't support someone just because they are pro-crypto
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We recently saw how Ethereum's client diversity helps avoid network partitions or downtime. A layered approach to protocol development (w diverse security-critical services) has potential for similar benefits in DeFi, so issues can be isolated & only affect a subset of users.
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3/ This is a complicated topic, I have some views on it, but they are not for today. I would like instead to discuss the one user who does not need privacy at all. In fact, the user for whom privacy is a bug, not a feature. And that user is the government.
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Did apple just lowkey launch a v1 brain-machine-interface into the Vision Pro? One of their ex designers just tweeted this: “One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something… Show more
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These stories can include things like laws, religions, nations, corporations, and even money. Despite their intangibility, they exert a profound influence on human behavior and society.
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An interesting concept I just recalled from Homo Deus: intersubjective reality human societies are built around shared belief systems or stories that exist in the collective human imagination, rather than as tangible, concrete realities.
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And while the revolution had not yet been won, the seed had been planted, growing in the minds of millions, preparing to bloom into a future yet unwritten. fin.
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The world was changed that day, not just by the advent of augmented reality but by the idea that cyberspace, the new frontier, should be free from the shackles of the old world.
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Their message, much like the technology itself, was an open invitation to a new world, a brave new frontier that humanity had only begun to explore.
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And just like that, two worlds that had never been meant to collide had merged, igniting a philosophical wildfire. The ideas of the Cypherpunks were no longer confined to the dark corners of the internet.
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Eventually, a curious user stumbled upon the hidden trigger. Suddenly, the Manifesto filled their field of vision. The message spread like wildfire. People everywhere discovered it. Discussing it in forums and its ideals sparking heated conversation worldwide.
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Upon release, the Apple AR headset was an instant success, selling millions in just weeks. As people donned the headset, stepping into a world of holograms and hyper-connectivity, they also unknowingly stepped into the crossfire of a philosophical battle.
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Martin couldn't resist the temptation. He embedded Cypherpunk's Manifesto into the code of the AR headset. A seemingly insignificant line of code, barely noticeable amidst the digital sea.
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An Apple employee, a brilliant but disillusioned engineer named Martin, found himself drawn to the Cypherpunk cause. His was a life split between the polished clean lines of Apple's world and the gritty, pixelated ethos of the Cypherpunks.
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It was at the intersection of these two worlds, between the shining towers of Cupertino and the dark corners of the Internet, that the seed of revolution began to sprout.
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In the Apple labs, they were dealing with light and lenses, matrices, and algorithms. Each day brought them closer to perfecting a device that would transport its users into a digital world overlaying the real one. The perfect bridge between atoms and bits.
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At the same time, in the polished and gleaming headquarters of Apple Inc., a different kind of revolution was underway. Engineers and designers, armed with their own sophisticated weapons of creativity and innovation, created the world's first AR headset with mass adoption.
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A group of anonymous revolutionaries, known only as Cypherpunks, were engaged in a technological arms race against the powers that be. Their weapon? Code.
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A short story about #WWDC23 , AR and Cypherpunks by ChatGPT. At the dawn of the 21st century, one could almost hear the keyboards clacking like a symphony of rebellion in the basement.
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There's a new programming language in town - it's Mojo! I'm more than a little excited about it. It's Python, but with none of Python's problems. You can write code as fast as C, and deploy small standalone applications like C. My post is below, and a 🧵 fast.ai/posts/2023-05-
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Listening to someone who has created programming languages explain his perspectives on creating a new one specific to work on AI is super interesting. Mojo is a programming language inspired by Python, built by
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Art is as much about the piece as the context. This applies to so many other things out there. Which context we're in shifts all perspectives.