Sina Habibian

Here is my conversation with @VitalikButerin. We talk about micro prediction markets, social networks, the world as a dense jungle, brain computer interfaces, and more. Timestamps: - 00:00 intro - 03:19 micro prediction markets, community notes - 15:15 social networks, zk identity, DF and Frogcrypto - 26:55 the dense jungle - 32:31 political instability, technology - 35:15 coordination and technology in climate - 37:15 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security - 45:03 timeline for the singularity - 53:38 living to a 1000 years old - 55:01 brain-computer interfaces - 01:03:17 Lojban Hope you enjoy, podcast links in my bio.

congrats pantograph on the launch! hanging out with this team is inspiring. they're building the full stack from hardware to software to the physical environments robots spend time in as they learn to interact with reality and each other.

@jwmares @truemed 🙌

Today, 90%+ of healthcare spend (all $4.5T of it) goes towards treating chronic conditions after someone is sick. Less than 3% of that spend goes towards prevention. @Truemed exists to get more people investing in True Medicine. Exercise, food, supplements, movement, sleep, toxin removal… lifestyle interventions that help people treat and prevent disease, not just treat the symptoms of underlying sickness. We’re building tools that allow qualified individuals to unlock the $160B in tax-free HSA/FSA funds, and use them on these root-cause interventions. Since launching just 2.5 years ago, we’ve helped almost a million individuals pay for these interventions, and we’re just getting started. If we want to fix healthcare in America, we fundamentally have to help Americans get healthier. I’m extremely proud to announce our $34M Series A led by a16z, and am excited to continue our work to end the chronic disease crisis.

@sternhenri @shaunmmaguire @zcabrams ooo this is good

This will without a doubt be my most important tweet this year — freestyleusa.com/collections/sh… Brought to me by @shaunmmaguire and surprisingly also worn by @zcabrams — could be said to be a Stripe crypto watch.

@colton_art @jessepollak Happy you liked it!

I loved @sinahab podcast with @jessepollak A few takeaways 👇

@robbiebent1 epic video

This is the best piece of content ever done - it’s raw and captures the Othership experience. The haters say it’s culty, but its a masterpiece and will make you feel something. --- (use headphones, full screen, and MAX VOOLLLUMMMMEEE) Tag your NYC friends in the comments for a complimentary journey at our new Williamsburg location live today - or retweet your favorite Othership moment in a repost for a complimentary journey for you. I'll DM everybody that shares.

@nopranablem lfg

Pranab bicoastal NYC/SF tour when (soon) Lmk if you've been wanting to meet! Will do park hangouts in both cities

@david_perell this is going to be great. also "memorize poetry on daily walks" hits hard.

I’m starting a service to match writers with companies. Writers: I’m building a roster of whip-smart writers. The plan is to open my network to you and match you with the boldest, highest-paying, and most interesting projects I know. The work will be intense, intellectual, and high-stakes. You’ll be writing for people who demand excellence, and pay accordingly. In addition to being good at writing in other people’s voices, you must be comfortable working with demanding people with tight deadlines and high standards. Because of that, you must be a superb writer and also a clear communicator and buttoned-up project manager. You’ll be a good fit if you: - Write fast and work fast. - Once started a company, but just want to write now. - Have published 50+ pieces of writing. - Have read more than 250 novels. - Majored in the Liberal Arts at a top-10 university. - Memorize poetry on daily walks. - Keep Buffett’s Berkshire letters in a special shoebox. - Maintain a list of killer opening sentences. - Have your own style guide, because why not? - Got in trouble for reading all the time as a kid. - Have an online audience of at least 5,000 email subscribers or Twitter followers. If that’s you and you’re ready to apply, check the link in the first reply tweet. To companies: If you need an especially talented writer, contact me and I’ll find you one.

@SalvinoArmati well said

working theory: the conclusion that all memecoin trading is a “slot machine” is one of CTs laziest mischaracterizations, equivalent to those that dismiss poker as a game of pure chance to the untrained eye, poker looks random. so much so that it was lumped in with “gambling”, despite overwhelming evidence that long-term profitability is skill-based the poker world has fought this misclassification for decades the same might be true for attention assets today yes, there’s randomness but skilled participants (those who can read social signals, front-run consensus, and manage risk through narrative cycles) consistently outperform the fact that names like Cupsey / Gake / Cented keep showing up at the top, week after week is more evidence this might be true just like WSOP. thousands enter, and variance is high and yet, phil ivey, bonomo, and negreanu keep making final tables is that a slot machine? or is it edge?

@aliciakatz welcome to canada

there is a bear in my back yard

@robbiebent1 i like this format 😆

An agency just pitched me six figures for a launch video with actors, lighting, scripts, models… that’s the old way to launch your brand. Instead we just pointed a camera at my cofounder. Funny, authentic, different and weird. Othership should feel human - messy and magic. You don’t always need to listen to professionals. Do it yourself and have fun.

@jniset @EliBenSasson @jniset thanks for the kind nudge. @EliBenSasson i've been a long time admirer of your work with starks and starkware. i'm on a hiatus with the podcast atm but would love to do this when back!

@EliBenSasson @sinahab I hope so! @sinahab when an episode with @EliBenSasson ?

GM world. Which crypto podcast is your favorite? Share your recommendations pls 🔥

two of my favorite things about interface0: - andy is ai-native, and i get to use the tools he's building for himself - andy is building in an ai-native way, which means the product evolves super quickly, in a way that's both fun to be a user of and also maybe gives a peek into what the future of product is going to be like more generally

@SalvinoArmati @uninsightful lol

@uninsightful lmao

no this Cursor/Anthropic thing is way different. this all happened in the span of a week or so not 5 years this is much more like the time Deandre Jordan left the Clippers and verbally agreed to join the Mavs but his Clippers teammates literally held him hostage in his own home and wouldn’t let him leave until he re-signed with the Clippers. one of the most insane moments in nba history they even bragged about their tactics: x.com/blakegriffin23…

@binji_x amazing!

i work for ethereum at the ethereum foundation now. more soon.

@shafu0x @Merit_Feed i believe this is @sina_eth_ btw, not the first time we're getting mixed up :)

@Merit_Feed @sinahab nice

$3.50 has been funded to Vectorized/solady by @sinasab 🚀 terminal.merit.systems/sinasab

@tomhschmidt @robindavidji @olivertang_ agreed, @robindavidji is an execution machine

Huge congrats to @robindavidji and @olivertang_ on this! Genuinely two of the hardest grinding founders I’ve had the pleasure of backing. Excited to see what you all do at Coinbase and beyond 👏

@robindavidji @olivertang_ @coinbase Congrats @robindavidji @olivertang_, so well deserved.

Thrilled to share this news. Four years ago @olivertang_ and I had an idea after facing these pain points ourselves. I'm excited for the next chapter. To our team: we did it. From spreadsheets to @Coinbase.

@timourxyz @linabeanz_ Good vibes

Every time we do an edge city event, I give out a bunch of disposable cameras to the community and see what comes back. The pictures give a behind-the-scenes look at what it feels like to live at edge. This time did not disappoint ☀️

@segall_max @sternhenri Pls drop some Yeats!

PRIVY CEO @sternhenri ON TBPNNNNNN AT 315p ESTTT 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 This is my Super Bowl

Congrats to @sternhenri, @asta_li, @segall_max, and the whole privy team. I have a lot of respect and admiration for this team. They set out with a positively articulated point of view - building the scaffolding that allows users/developers to engage on sound foundations, where users have agency with their data and can move more freely across an interoperable web, which may seem small or idealistic but is actually a fulcrum that makes all the difference in how competition, market structure, innovation is shaped at above layers in the stack. And they not only articulated it, but they've made it happen. They built real technology with cryptography and other magic under the hood, they built product with taste/pragmatism, they built an institution that could do all this at increasing scale (I love the Privy values, eg "Scope, speed, quality—pick 2. We always cut scope."). It's been amazing to see them operate and I've learned a lot from them. Congrats again!