Remco
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Remco
@recmo
🪩 World | Math & Engineering @ 2π.com
Earth Katılım Ekim 2009
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Abuse prevention is real and necessary. It forces services to lock down their ecosystems and collect data. Nobody wants this, but allowing abuse is worse.
zk-Identity and proof-of-human provide an alternative here. Effective fraud prevention with open ecosystems and privacy.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Every consumer-facing API client that we’ve allowed has 100x the spam reports of our iPhone app. We would need the client to send us device telemetrics, attestation, and much more. It would be Manhattan Project of API engineering. And upon achieving this incredible feat, we would be rewarded with “X Mailer: Send mass DMs and AI-generated replies”
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Every cautionary tale about not trying to do too much is eventually won over by better engineering.
We have better wings than Icarus, taller skyscrapers than Babel, larger boats than the titanic.
sigfig@sigfig
people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now
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The biggest fumble in business ever might be Philips spinning off ASML, TSMC and NXP
Philips co-founded ASML in 1984, then co-founded TSMC in 1987, then they founded NXP
They sold each of them for short term profits in the 2000s
ASML is now worth $545B
TSMC is worth $1.76T
NXP is worth $50B
Philips today is worth just $27B
If they'd never sold, Philips would be the largest company in the EU today, worth $650B
Philips CEO Cor Boonstra called it "making money with the success of the past"
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@dcbuilder Payment channels scale even better than Hubble, but in a constraint setting of repeated interaction between two parties. Good fit for service providers, less for p2p payments.
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Payment channels are the obvious solution for automated micropayments.
There's no payment processor currently that wants to take this volume. Instead service providers need to build their own account balance systems ⇒ trust issues ⇒ hard to scale.
This solves all of that.
Liam Horne@liamihorne
I’ve spent most of my career scaling payments. From 2017-2021, we poured years into building state channels on Ethereum The tech worked, but nobody used it. People used blockchains for trading tokens, not for making payments, and that's why L2s had to come first Agents are the users we were waiting for, and that's why we're stewarding the launch of the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with channels baked in
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/r/mildlyinteresting
In Portugal you pay up to €7.50 when you buy a laptop called a "copyright levy"
You pay €4/TB of storage in the computer, so for a MacBook Neo 13" with 512GB that's €2.05
It's regulation made in 1998 to compensate artists for you illegally sharing MP3 files which nowadays of course doesn't make sense anymore since we have Spotify and YouTube
Much of the money doesn't even arrive with artists btw, 30% is taken by the organization collecting the tax and lot of it remains unclaimed and some of that goes again to the organization collecting the tax as "operational costs"
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The majority of these taxes are going towards preventing the removal of this ineffective tax.
Pournelle’s Law: over time the main goal of a bureaucracy becomes to continue and grow the bureaucrazy.
Doubly so if the original mission of the bureaucracy is no longer relevant.
@levelsio@levelsio
/r/mildlyinteresting In Portugal you pay up to €7.50 when you buy a laptop called a "copyright levy" You pay €4/TB of storage in the computer, so for a MacBook Neo 13" with 512GB that's €2.05 It's regulation made in 1998 to compensate artists for you illegally sharing MP3 files which nowadays of course doesn't make sense anymore since we have Spotify and YouTube Much of the money doesn't even arrive with artists btw, 30% is taken by the organization collecting the tax and lot of it remains unclaimed and some of that goes again to the organization collecting the tax as "operational costs" 🤡
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Remco retweetledi
for the past few weeks, I've been working on a way to tell human-backed agents apart from regular bots
with more and more agentic use-cases popping up soon, "block all bots" will no longer be the best strategy
with agentkit, you can let bots acting on behalf of humans through
World@worldnetwork
As millions of agents start to come online, the internet needs to distinguish bot armies from the agents acting on behalf of humans. Introducing AgentKit, the human layer for agentic automation. Built on World ID, the AgentKit beta unlocks human-verified automation, a new primitive for the agent economy.
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@badcryptobitch The Cramer-Damgard-Buus Nielsen book does this well.
It’s not entirely trivial as linear codes have no notion of multiplication, but they add the missing structure cleanly.
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@valkenburgh The PDF format is unimaginably bad. Think of all the ways it could be horrible. It has all of them. And then many more ways that are beyond any sane man’s imagination.
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If anything's going to boil the oceans, it's the delta between giving chat a long PDF to analyze versus plain text.
What the hell. How is the PDF file format so bad that even the sand gods can't figure it out?
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@real_philogy @alpeh_v I would have to figure out what this mess is actually trying to achieve to answer that question.
But you could create a combined `trait Trait: TraitA + TraitB {}`.
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Would dyn traits really cut down on the slop in this case? Wouldn't you just get a phat `&dyn TraitA + TraitB + ...`?
But totally agree, this is why despite looking nice some libraries like chumsky are totally unusable, when you get a type error it's just a massive 20 line nested generic struct.
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> Product teams don't reach for privacy tools while building. They reach for them when they're already at scale and something broke or a regulator arrived.
This a bit harsh, at least in my experience: Applied cryptography is incredibly expensive and time consuming. You can not find product market fit if this is part of your iteration loop.
Instead cryptographers should provide some guidelines on what is hard or impossible (but make sure to stay very optimistic to not kill creativity; this is the #1 failure mode). Then identify some common problems in products that appear to get traction and invest in (ideally several, covering the pareto frontier) solutions for those.
Then when something does take off, you’re ready.
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A lot of ideas like touchbar fizzled out because the required software ecosystem never materialized.
Now that code is free, such experiments are much more likely to succeed.
Louis Anslow@LouisAnslow
People are vibe coding touchbar apps and making me regret getting rid of my MacBook Pro with touchbar
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Counterintuitive:
The better AI gets at doing work, the more work I want to do.
Because the leverage of each minute of effort keeps rising.
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