skoolkidd
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STEPHON CASTLE POSTER OH MY GOODNESS 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Category researchers and collaborators received a Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P conference (@IEEESSP) for their paper related to private mempools. The techniques introduced were ultimately leveraged in BTX, our latest state-of-the-art Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme. Congratulations to our researchers: Amit Agarwal, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, @KushalBabel, @sourav1547, @PeterRindal
Please stop. Dont do this anymore: “If it’s not X, it’s Y.” “This wasn’t just a product. It was a movement.” “We’re not here to compete. We’re here to change the world.” “Not just an app. A revolution.” “More than a brand. A lifestyle.” “Not building for today. Building for the future.” Let me introduce you to the AI antithesis. I hear this cadence everywhere now. Radio ads. Founder videos. Netflix dialogue. VC pitch decks. Twitter threads. You can instantly tell when someone handed their brain to an LLM. There are two major problems: 1.) It’s obvious slopification. It makes your brand feel cheap. It signals creative laziness. It shows a lack of taste. A lack of originality. A lack of pressure-tested thinking. The irony is that everyone thinks AI makes them sound smarter, but in reality it compresses everyone toward the same median tone. Same sentence structures. Same faux-philosophical contrasts. Same pseudo-profound framing. 2.) It’s eroding your cognition. Wharton coined the term “cognitive surrender.” Every time you outsource the articulation of your thoughts, you weaken the very muscle responsible for producing original ones. The human mind flourishes under cognitive resistance. There is immense value in: -searching for the exact word -restructuring a sentence 15 times -interpreting tone and dialect -synthesizing first, second, and third-order implications -wrestling with ambiguity until something precise emerges The value of a unique perspective is usually proportional to the resistance it took to arrive there. More friction → deeper synthesis. Deeper synthesis → sharper insight. Sharper insight → originality. Creative genius was never supposed to feel frictionless. Stop outsourcing one of the most beautiful aspects of human intelligence to a machine for the sake of a short dopamine hit disguised as sophistication.
