Mikerah

ANNOUNCEMENT: @HashCloakLabs is not @hashcloak. It's an impersonator. @hashcloak is a consulting company and under NO circumstances will we be launching a coin. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm pretty generally anti-shitcoin (with nuances of course). If you bought a token supposedly associated with hashcloak, you've been scammed.

@catmcgee @TACEO_IO 🙏

@badcryptobitch @TACEO_IO oh wow this is very very cool. thank you for sharing

I'm convinced that AI and crypto are perfect for each other in many ways - verifiable compute - verifiable training - AI resistent sybil defence (proof of humanity etc) - agent payments & micropayments - decentralized training & GPU markets So I went down the rabbit hole to see how I could - train a model in a decentralized way - while still keeping some weights private - and zk proving that it was trained humanely/ethically That last one ran into a whole lot of problems and led me down an even deeper rabbit hole until I arrived at mechanistic interpretability From the outside, AI weights do not appear to correspond to how they act in any meaningful way Mechanistic interpretability (mech interp) is about opening up neural networks and discovering why the weights do what they do It basically says "don't just trust the black box of AI" which reminds me a lot of the philosophy of crypto Anyway, Claude and I wrote a curriculum mainly for myself to help me understand mech interp. Thought I'd open it up for other software engineers If you can't read AI papers or PyTorch but would like to, this is for you. It walks through 6 interpretability papers and replicates them in PyTorch. You can run them directly in the browser (using my huggingface space) Check it out yourself and let me know what you think! learnmechinterp.mcgee.cat

@inner_concerns There are already scams in AI. It's actually insane

@badcryptobitch By the by, there will be just as many if not more scams in AI.

Been going through my cold DMs from the past 3 years. Several observations: 1) Many people have stopped using X completely 2) Most crypto projects are dead or were a scam 3) Those left are doing AI

@inner_concerns Both of those can be separated though. Perhaps I should have done that in my tweet 😅

@badcryptobitch As I said, objective for others. There were many scams. There were also many projects that failed to materialize.

@inner_concerns No, many were indeed scams. Like in the objective sense of the word.

@badcryptobitch Many died because they ran out of funding in a low liquidity environment and could not fund continuing operations. Scam-ness is a subjective perception for some, objective for others.

@kassandraETH 🥁🥁🥁

@badcryptobitch ok but u a bad crypto bitch ;)

I'm such a bad project manager

@luhelminger @EliBenSasson Lol. If you fundraised then you should burn the money getting adoption

@badcryptobitch @EliBenSasson Yes for fundraising. Now everyone is hoping for adoption szn

Privacy szn is ZK szn

@EliBenSasson @luhelminger Wasn't it ZK szn a few years ago?

@luhelminger I am still convinced: ZK szn is coming.

Most of us aren't trying to outrun intelligence agencies. Just trying to keep scammers and criminals out. And big tech and corpos from deciding my life.

It's crazy seeing Fred Kerley here after watching the Spring Netflix documentary where he was gunning for the Olympics

I see many people complaining about how a privacy tool aren't private enough, but what I never see is the privacy model being used. Not everyone is trying to protect themselves from mossad. Some people just don't want their data bought and sold by data brokers

I might start experimenting with cold emailing more Entering my adulting arc...

@TomerAshur Many companies still do it though😂

@badcryptobitch As far as my experience goes, not worth the effort

A big reason why a lot of cryptography companies don't bother with an actual product is because their business model is to hire a ton of PhDs and then apply to grants so that they can do research Rinse and repeat and alas, there's very little commercialization of advanced cryptography

friendly reminder that most of the actual cypherpunks are either under indictment or in jail. everyone else is larping to pump their token price.

@TomerAshur I dunno. The EU?

@badcryptobitch Where are these grants?

Got distracted, went down memory and found some old writing of mine about mixing as a DeFi primitive Turns out I was right 😅 @mikerahqc/mixing-as-a-defi-financial-primitive-49ecf77a2d5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@mikerahqc/mix…

I won't go to sleep until I use up all my ChatGPT agent credits