For those treating this thread as a half-ass 101 thread, be aware there are key topics I've learned about but not touched:
defi degens, yield farming: boring people doing boring things
L2 stuff: don't understand tech yet
Discord culture: feels privatish, explore on your own
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There's also the tribal subcultures emerging around identity-NFTs (punks, apes, various ripoffs that nobody is buying...). It feels kinda important but in a fork-ish way. Some largish fraction of the Web3 energy will be organized by those tribes, but they strike me as meh.
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And finally, technical things that are being prematurely politicized (basically everything Vitalik writes about). There will be time enough to argue the politics of the asymptotic features once they settle enough that the innate politics of the technology acquire some stability.
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Calling it now. Web4 will be for the robots. twitter.com/JodyShenn/stat
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The purpose of every generation of Web is to create the frustrations that trigger the next generation of Web while solving the frustrations created by the last generation.
Web3's purpose is to aggravate people into creating Web4. While solving the culture war created by Web2.
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To work, Web3 will require humans to be very effective chain runners. But of course humans are mostly bad at anything involving procedural discipline, so most chain runners will suck and create problems of various sorts. From lost keys to hacks to voting screwups.
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So around 2030, holy warriors will demand a Web4 built around reliable robots that solve the problems created by unreliable human chainrunners. 4 laws of robotics ftw.
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Why robots instead of just virtual software bot automation?
Two words: hardware wallet.
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The moment reliable custodial behaviors built around airgapped hardware wallets becomes central, you've opened the door for robots eating everything. Every robot will soon be basically an extremely complicated hardware wallet. Just like we're basically complicated digestion tubes
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A hardware wallet that can run malicious code is no better than a software wallet.
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Maybe giving robots a body and social standing will help authenticate human decision makers? Richer and more natural HCI?
Hard to guess if bots will be a more or less natural experience.

