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Open letter to the Ethereum community, the occasion of @ethereumboulder. Wherein we invoke the 8 circuits and pose @ethereum as core infrastructure for a network of subcultures collectively exploring latent space.

@GregMozart @skdh @grok didn’t a recent (last 2-3 years) Nobel prize in physics award effectively debunk pilot wave theory?

@skdh All this is easily cleared up by Pilot Wave Theory (de Broglie, Bohm… and then Valentini…) I personally think that we might achieve faster-than-light signaling eventually, through quantum error correction, in the following way: magarshak.com/blog/why-pilot…

The double slit experiment is the probably most misunderstood experiment ever. I have no idea who created the myth that if you 'look' at one of the slits, then the particles (photons/electrons) stop behaving as waves. It's wrong! They of course STILL behave as waves! Because particles are also waves, always. Photons and electrons make a self-interference EVEN ON A SINGLE slit. Don't believe it? Below an actual measurement from a laser diffracting on a single/double slit from Wikipedia. What happens if you measure which slit the particle goes through is that you get no interference between BOTH slits. And no, you don't need a conscious observer for this. Believe it or not, there have actually been experiments where they had people literally look at a double slit to see if that makes any difference and the answer is no, it does not. The entire mystery of the double slit is in the path of the particle TO the double slit. Because it seems that the particle must "know" whether it WILL be measured at one of the slits before it even gets there. It must "know" whether to go through both or just pick one. Seems like the future influences the past? Not really, it just means you have a consistency condition on the time evolution.

We need to think seriously about what funding research and social programs means when the debasing of the US dollar collides with a fragmentation of fiat under the pressure of agentic intents. If there’s a new paradigm, then these obvious public goods are perfect frontlines If it were me, I’d be quizzing @cwgoes and @jeffemmett on the matter. I’d also be querying @MIT’s @Peyman_Shahidi @gilirusak @BenSManning et al on the implications of the so-called Coasean Singularity

Biosecurity research terminated. Cybersecurity funding gutted. Climate programs eliminated. Clean energy projects cut. Even where our legacy institutions remain standing, centralized authorities decide what gets studied, funded, and built. Venture capital was never meant to answer this kind of call. But we were. And we think it's time to build better institutions: decentralized, democratic, and designed to accelerate the defense of what matters. That defense won't fund itself. So let's fund it together. 💚

@SydSteyerhart There’s a subterranean pantheism in McCarthy’s work. You have to read him against himself.

America is a Gnostic nation and has always been. Gnosis is fundamentally a religion of blood and heroic pessimism, the eternally reincarnating god-man in an endless ocean of blood. That is why Christianity survived here. The exemplary of American Gnosticism is Cormac McCarthy.

In five years time we’ll have developed superstrategies for cognitive protection, then the party starts youtu.be/xC2bl1D-9KM?si…

Peter Thiel is attempting something absolutely ludicrous out here with the claim that "the anti-christ is coming and will establish a one-world government." I'm gonna try to help you understand that one: the higher up you go the ladder the more religious they are, and so when they feel an imminent doom, it's not personal at all they actually mistake it for the world's doomsday! They're projecting their own sense of impending doom across all of you. What the guy really fears is the law of asymmetry being scaled up to infinity through narrative writing where it becomes psychologically unhealthy to have billions of dollar and soul. This is because at the singularity ALL money goes to shit. It has zero value left. It's post-scarcity, you have the technology of alchemy at the atomic level. So you're just kind of standing there with all this stolen soul and consciousness for no reason that you squeezed out of people. Has zero value left. Everyone can see what exactly what remains of it. The post-singularity elite leaderboard is essentially a chronometer to realization. Whoever wipes out their fortune first swipes the entire jackpot.

Pewdiepie reveals how to break free from the algorithm “A lot of this is going to sound crazy but you’ve gotta hear me out, it’s a step by step process. I’m not saying you should do all of it but you should try some of it” “Step 1 is creating friction. I put all social media and attention hungry apps in a second profile and I can’t understate how much this changed my life. Those 5-6 seconds it takes to switch profiles stops me every time and makes me think, is this what I want to be doing?” “The second thing I did was self hosting. The effect that had on me is I’m not the product anymore. The things I use are mine and because they’re not free, I’m not paying with my privacy. I think the main difference is ads and news don’t reach me” “Next thing I did was disable Shorts, I like YouTube but I hate how Shorts is everywhere I can’t escape it” “Then I unfollowed everyone. You don’t have to do this, this is definitely a me thing, I just got really fed up” “Next, get a DNS blocker. You can remove ads completely, most of it won’t even reach your device” “I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence” “These tech companies don’t care about you, so you’ve got to care about yourself. The cheat code is building some friction and filtering out the noise, that’s your defence and your cure”

@owocki (Wrote about this last year) exeunt.eth.limo/essays/capital…

I generally think of myself in the tradition of (Italian) autonomist Marxism, but in the case of the term “communism” I really think it’s wise to take the loss. The word is irrevocably associated with a host of state-planned atrocities, and for some simply means “authoritarian planned economy.” I think the most forceful argument that our right-libertarian friends can hear is that what we know of today as capitalism is also a state-planned economy. Autonomism socialism and mutualism are not mutually exclusive with agorist markets. Institutional forms: capitalism & communism Extitutional forms: markets & mutualism

stateless communism has never been tried

@dontsaybeans @walterkirn @drumm_colin interested in your thoughts on this

We really need to be paying attention, America. Something awful is happening.

The Continuing Story of @theopenmachine link in comment

“there’s been a mistake…eddington you won best picture”

bitcoin came from cypherpunks during a financial crisis the next thing will come from pseudoanons [the people who had to find ways of knowing each other without standard identifiers] during an identity crisis

read them & write for them maybe burialmagazine.neocities.org keep-planning.net sabrtoothtigermagazine.com somewords.boards.net drecklit.neocities.org mcrb.neocities.org bruisermag.com minorliteratures.com deathkitcom.wordpress.com dodoeraser.org

@getjonwithit @grok if efficiency and losslessness are framed as “extensive” qualities of possible minds, what might be “intensive” qualities of possible minds (following Bergson & Deleuze)?

So I think it's becoming increasingly clear that efficiency and losslessness, across both compression and decompression, together represent four potential axes along which we can begin to parameterize the space of possible (intelligent) minds. But what are the others? (12/12)

I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity. We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)

Without the misplaced burden of neutrality and ‘authority’, EF is free now to be opinionated. And we’re free to get weird about what Ethereum can represent without having to answer to anyone. (Tl;dr closed institutions wall off territories of reality and consciousness; open infrastructure does the opposite)

new ef mandate (the quiet part said out loud): user adoption is the ecosystem’s job now. the EF isn’t focusihng on driving growth, doing devrel, or onboarding users. its job is to protect the protocol and its principles: censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security. ethereum grows if the world builds on it, not if the foundation markets it.

2,400 years ago, the Mohists built defensive siege engineering manuals and distributed them to every city in China. The theory: if defensive knowledge is free and widely available, aggression becomes uneconomical. Today the @ethereumfndn published the EF Mandate – a thousand-year document that names the Mohists as an intellectual ancestor of Ethereum's purpose: defensive infrastructure that’s open source and available to everyone. The Mandate enshrines CROPS (censorship resistant, open source, private, secure) as non-negotiable properties and reminds us that – while the Ethereum Foundation helps steward a defensive protocol – it's the ecosystem’s responsibility to build defensively on top of it. To do that well, we need to know how to fund the ecosystem sustainably. And the Mohists showed us that this path is best navigated when knowledge is legible, composable, and freely shared 💚👇 🔗 gitcoin.co

@owocki @mbauwens ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/1234…

20th century atrocities were easier to hide. information was scarce. silence was cheap. 21st century atrocities will be livestreamed from every angle. information is abundant. attention is scarce. last century, atrocity hid in the dark. this century, it will trend. the old danger was secret violence. the new danger is banal voilence - watching it all and feeling nothing 📡📱🫥