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X = some place the goalposts once were For AI, X = formal logic, theorem proving, automated planning, chess. image recognition, NLP For decentralized communities, X = p2p permission/access protocols, leaderless management, token-based economies, DAOs
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I’ll eventually do a thread about what we’ve learned 1.5 years into the but it’s a bunch of negatives of the form “Decentralized X is not Y” Like “decentralized projects is not co-authoring” The trick is to survive each lesson with energy left for the next try
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I think the DAO stuff is getting interesting at a painfully slow rate, but tapping into the capabilities of the tech without getting sucked into managing speculation dynamics as Job One seems to be more than just a hard problem. It seems to point to a fundamental limit.
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The closest thing we have to a decentralized community, which is not coincidentally also the closest thing we have to an AGI, is the American-style free market. And that has speculative boom-bust as a defining feature since tulips.
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Hypothesis: All apparently well-posed problems featuring moving goalposts are equivalent to each other. Goalposts-complete problems You can’t define them in terms of platonic ideals of what they are, only as a series of Cauchy-convergent approximations away from what they’re not
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