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Fixed it

@xenocosmography Nah that's bad math. The way the distribution works, tail effects are much more dramatic than the mean. The mean might drop a few points while the tail, according to that analysis, gets cut by half.

Mean global IQ chart makes this one look positively encouraging by comparison, btw (and it's very arguably even more relevant). x.com/jonatanpallese…

@OfficialS2G It’s run by Europeans

Can someone explain why F1 has gone down this battery/EV route? We already have Formula E for that. Why not just let F1 be about the best and most powerful combustion engines?

@AdamSinger @AlecStapp "Drop the bio... it's cleaner"

@AlecStapp Bioethicists in shambles

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

@alexhooketh Permissionless P2P access is gold standard (and with ENS, at least possible. Brave could add Helios for example). But in practice ENS-over-RPC is still much better than DNS.

@alexhooketh It's very different in the sense that there's no custodial controller. annasarchive.eth would last forever in practice, while each annas-archive.<small country TLD> lasts about a month or two.

Is ENS dead? 1. Nobody uses it for apps. Bad UX in Brave. Looks like Opera removed support. vitalik.eth is the only working page I can find. Other core .eth researcher pages & even ens.eth are broken 😬 2. Nobody uses it for payments, either. What's the plan?

There is no place like California.

@BrantlyMillegan That would be great. How do we make it useful? x.com/dcposch/status…

ENS will win

@ValidatorEth Nice list.

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> At least take the step of marking all path-dependence concerns down to zero 100% yes for "wallets" etc. Usage rounds to zero in any case and many baked-in product decisions are totally wrong. Burn it down. 100% no for path-dependence with respect to offchain finance. The "Signal of money" that actually delivers liberatory value to 100m users will involve smooth integration with fiat rails and issuer-based assets, full stop. It doesn't have to end there, or be locked into *only* those things. It can be open source and materially better on privacy, accessibility, censorship. But it does have to respect that particular dependence or it's stranded with us on nerd island.

I think it's healthy for us in the Ethereum world to have a more bold and open mindset to many things, particularly on the application layer and on how we see ourselves in the world. We should not compromise on core properties: censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security (CROPS). We should not have "open mindedness" of the type that leaves people with no confidence of what security properties the L1 will still have one year from now. We should not ask ourselves questions like "do we really need light clients to be able to trustlessly verify correctness of the chain?". But especially on the layer of applications and Ethereum's interface to the world, we should be more willing to radically rethink various concepts and step outside our comfort zone. This includes issues of technological direction, eg. "what if AI basically means that wallets as browser extensions and mobile extensions are dead within a year?" One example last year was the shift to thinking about privacy as a first-class consideration, something we value equally to the other types of security. This implies a radically different Ethereum application stack, because the entire stack so far has not been built around privacy. Great, let's build a radically different Ethereum application stack! An example this year is the growing work on the networking side of privacy, both inside the EF and outside. It includes application-layer issues, eg. "what if the rest of defi is basically just universal futures markets on top of a good decentralized oracle and letting users self-organize on top of that?", and "what if the ideal decentralized oracle is just a SNARK over M-of-N small LLMs over zk-TLSes of some major news sites?" (BTW this is interrelated with the AI issue: one consequence of AI is that it moves "applications" away from being discrete categories of behavior with discrete UIs, and more toward being a continuous space, so "build fewer apps and rely on users to self-organize around them" should inevitably expand as a pattern) One example this year is rethinking from zero the role of L2s, and what kind of L2s are actually most synergistic and additive to Ethereum. It also includes culture. This is a big part of "the whole milady thing" for myself, @AyaMiyagotchi and others. Yes, it's a silly meme. Yes, I find the political takes of some milady partisans cringe and sometimes outright bootlickerish (though other milady partisans are quite the opposite). But the core underlying subtext, the message behind the message, is: rip off the suit and tie. If you have your suit and tie on, be willing to grab the nearest wine glass and spill it all over your suit and tie, so you have no choice but to rip it off and reclaim your body's full flexibility and freedom. Actually imagine yourself doing this the next time you get invited to a richpeopleslop formal gala dinner. Take the preconception that you are "respectable", write it down on a piece of paper, crumble it up and burn it. The psychological baptism of doing this leads to the intellectual baptism of unlocking greater creativity and expanding overton windows. For too long, our algorithm in Ethereum has been: we have this existing ecosystem, what's the logical next step to make it one step better? Now, our algorithm should be: we have this L1 that is amazing and will become more amazing, we have a growing array of tools, both those built within our ecosystem and outside it, what are the most valuable things to build, knowing what we know now? If YOU had to write the section of the 2014 Ethereum whitepaper that talked about applications, and take a first-principles perspective of what makes sense in defi, decentralized social, identity, and elsewhere, what would you write? At least take the step of marking all path-dependence concerns down to zero, pretend for a brief moment that the Ethereum chain today has exactly zero usage and you're the one suggesting or building the first apps, and see what comes out. Do this even if you're the one building today's existing apps. This is how Ethereum can grow back stronger.

@Alts_Anonymous Exactly

@dcposch Names attached to a wallet are just soo limited. It’s gotta be a profile people own for them to actually care

A permissionless name that lasts forever is clearly valuable. But you have to make it actually useful in practice, which ENS hasn't done yet.

work in progress but: bannedincalifornia.org

@VitalikButerin @ameensol @Anthropic Respectfully this is a weak argument. Just bc China has medical-ethics laws doesn't mean they aren't max accelerating AI for industry and military.

@ameensol @Anthropic Yes This is the country that arrested he jiankui, US discourse overstates how "accelerationist" it is

It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences. (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of "no fully autonomous weapons" and "no mass surveillance of Americans". Actually a very conservative and limited posture, it's not even anti-military. IMO fully autonomous weapons and mass privacy violation are two things we all want less of, so in my ideal world anyone working on those things gets access to the same open-weights LLMs as everyone else, and exactly nothing on top of that. Of course we won't get anywhere close to that world, but if we get even 10% closer to that world that's good, and if we get 10% further that's bad) CC @DarioAmodei firefly.social/post/bsky/pv7f…

We just hit $100M in total volume! Every dollar is someone getting into a stablecoin app with a better onboarding experience.

And this "they're holding back" argument is nonsensical. China is accelerating hard in industrial and military capability. Nuclear, manufacturing ofc, AI, everything. Just bc they have...basic limits on medical experimentation (human cloning is illegal everywhere) doesn't change that, & doesn't relate to their AI buildout at all. x.com/VitalikButerin…

The one time in history greta-types have actually "10-100x" reduced an industry's output, it was German nuclear. How's that working out? (If you're Russia it is working out great.)

Disappointed to see it. Siding with American sierra club nimbys without even mentioning China is just greta-ism.