@Tezos co-founder w/ wife @breitwoman & Agitprop founder. Aligning ASI to not zap everyone is unsolved, that's bad. Tezos stuff, high context humor & more.
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Having plaid with Claude code a bit, it displays a strong tendency to try and get things to work at all costs. If the task is too hard, it'll autonomously decide to change the specs, implement something pointless, and claim success. When you point out this defeats the purpose, you get a groveling apology but it goes right back to tweaking the spec rather than ever asking for help or trying to be more methodical. O1-PRO does display that tendency too but can be browbeaten to follow the spec more often.
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Are you familiar with github.com/pornin/paradox-co… ?
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Doesn't seem like it did, if anything the character tried to convince him not to do it from the article. I think the argument is that he was absorbed in the relationship, etc.
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Since the question is trending I'll venture my own rough and imperfect definition of web3.
Web1: content distributed to users
Web2: content produced by users and distributed to users
Web3: content produced by users and distributed to users on user controlled platforms
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The guy was pushed out and you can probably see the nail marks on the oval office desk.
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I think it was wise to wait until the charges were released before making hasty statements about the arrest of Durov.
With that said, the hasty statements were entirely correct and, yup, he's being charged for every crime happening on telegram, this is insanity.
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Launch USDC to @tezos then! 1M tps was demoed in July.
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Happy to talk to you about the ins and outs of proof of stake. Obviously I'd love to point out why I think Tezos, a pioneer in this space running on proof of stake from day one and for over three years is pretty great, but in general I can give you a pretty solid lay of the land.
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It's bizarre that a large swath of VC and tech entrepreneurs have decided that concerns for AI safety are a "fantasy of clueless woke decels", in the face of such concerns being espoused by *check notes* Turing award winners, Elon Musk, and many of the people they lionize.
I am very worried.
Ilya has a good moral compass and does not seek power.
He would not take such drastic action unless he felt it was absolutely necessary.
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Avoiding a hiatus has precedence over every grammatical rule in French. It's weird but it's objectively the most important rule.
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I've gotten good results in Gemini asking for a "line by line fisking by a pedantic asshole".
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Say what you will, you gotta give it to Elon. While GOOG is down 35% and META is down 67% and SNAP is down 82% for the past year, TWTR has barely dipped.
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We've now taken the first of three steps in massively scaling Tezos' transaction capacity, without compromising on decentralization.
Tezos was ahead of the game on proof of stake 4 years ago, it will be ahead of the game on scaling.
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Now's a good time to plug an awesome proposal for disposing of nuclear waste: literally, put it inside of a big tungsten ball.
The waste heats the ball from the inside, the ball melts the ground underneath it and slowly sinks to the earth's core.
researchgate.net/publication…
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They were assigned the placebo. When a headline does this, it should be called a headlie.
Volunteer in Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial dies wapo.st/37sD32R
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- Neuron AP ~ 10²Hz, CPU 10⁹hz
- Humans read and talk around 10 bps Vs 10¹¹ GBps for infiniband
- Bigger brains disfavored by high rate of infant mortality
- Less intelligent species not bunched up close to humans as if ceiling
- AI superhuman at many tasks (e.g. chess)
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I'm a simple man. I don't know how to create hollow hype, as a result:
- Tezos does governance for real
- Tezos does decentralisation for real
- Tezos does proof-of-stake for real
Not controlled by a 5/8 multisig
Not 95% VC owned
Not shilling broken defi schemes
Not copy pasting
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Paying through the nose in Ethereum fees? A bit of relief is available.
freetez.tezos.com/
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10 million contract calls on Tezos:
5 million in the first 3 years
5 million in the past 8 weeks
We congratulate the Tezos community with the first 10 000 000 Contract calls! It’s a productive year for the Tezos #DeFi ecosystem, and we expect to see more great projects soon. Stay with #Tezos! More stats you may find on better-call.dev/
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VCs are funding L2 networks to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. The catch is they are all going to roll out their own token. L2 scaling is coming on Tezos with direct protocol support, and the only token you need is tez.
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The Tezos ecosystem is growing! Want to be a part of the renaissance?
Are you an exceptional engineering manager who could just as easily be a principal engineer? Do you have a deep CS background you're itching to use?
Drop me a line!
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Why I'm joining the Tezos Foundation council.
ex.rs/why-I-am_joining-the-t…
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To celebrate the #Tezos Athens vote, I will be giving a Hot Wheels Tesla Model S ($9.99 value on Amazon) to one of my followers. Just RT to participate. A winner will be drawn on April 15th using a ternary hash function. Results may be redrawn until a winner is deemed acceptable.
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A tendency to try and game the spec and pervert the objective isn't great news for alignment.
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If you're an early-stage AI start-up looking for funding, drop me a line. Looking for founders who are either working on core technology, or leveraging their knowledge of the very latest advances to create amazing new products.
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Mumbai comes with new scalability features that will enable entirely new types of applications to run on Tezos. Developers can develop Go, Rust, or Python applications and run them freely on Tezos with unprecedented scaling.
#Tezos delivers now what others promise later.
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Hey Mark, there are no smart contracts on Cardano, but there are some on Tezos and you can use tez in a variety of ways. Check out @hicetnunc2000, which has attracted an awesome community of artists for instance.
Are you, personally, able to use $ADA for anything ? If so, what have you used it for ? That's the question I ask about all Crypto. Do you find yourself using it for anything that you find value in ?
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If you traveled back to 2015 and had to give a recipe for AGI, you'd need to convey just three insights, deceptively simple in retrospect. Number two was the most surprising and the biggest unlock.
1. Replace RNNs with attention mechanisms operating on fixed context windows. This solves the fundamental problem of compressing sequential information into hidden states, while enabling massive model parallelism - letting you efficiently train models with hundreds of billions of parameters.
2. Train autoregressive next-token prediction on vast, curated, text corpora. While early training produces surface-level pattern matching, beyond a critical scale threshold, general intelligence and in-context learning emerge reliably. The scaling behavior of perplexity vs. compute/data/parameters follows clear power laws across many orders of magnitude.
3. Teach reasoning by training models to generate explicit step-by-step solutions. For tasks like mathematics and programming, sample multiple completion attempts, then use reinforcement learning to increase the probability of solution paths that reach correct answers.
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It's a clever idea. Records your interactions but keeps them on your device. If a case is detected, their identifier is broadcast and you can check if you were in close contact, at which point you can elect to share *your* contact history.
Singapore invites its residents to help contact tracing using a Bluetooth app: tracetogether.gov.sg/
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In July 2017 I was asked to perform some due-diligence on Basis, then TreasuryCoin. This was my answer.
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Woo, there is a live #Tezos betanet ! Careful with the sharp edges.
#BLSqrcLvFtqVCx8WSqkVJypW2kAVRM3eEj2BHgBsB6kb24NqYev
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In particular, Nicușor solved the infamous problem 6 from the 1988 IMO. Terence Tao competed that year and didn't solve it, though to be fair he was 13 years old at the time.
He also holds a math PhD from ENS Paris. He might be the smartest head of state at this point. There's way, way, more to being a competent head of state than being smart, but this is pretty bullish for Romania.
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Because for a while turtles weren't endangered by human activity. But also, let's face it, this looks incredibly satisfying.
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Bad data is the first and most mundane explanation. Otherwise it could be sports. Most successful athletes are also really smart, but outliers are also more likely.
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Vaccines good
Mandates bad
Protests good
Blocking roads bad
Deputizing financial intermediaries bad
Decentralisation good
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Here reads the abstract of the 2014 Tezos white paper. When protocols were static, it spoke about the flexibility of Tezos which can reproduce any other platform, and integrate any innovation.
Smart-rollup in the upcoming Mumbai upgrade are taking this vision even further 🧵
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Smart rollups on Tezos are the real deal. No centralized sequencer, no broken tokenomics or broken business model, no multisig-based liability time bomb, real security with fraud proofs, no bullshit.
Only on Tezos.
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He's right, Tezos is a lesser chain: less expensive, less centralized, less full of shit, less congested, less monolithic, less brittle...
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I'll be speaking about #Tezos at the North American Bitcoin conference, January 28th to 29th.
btcmiami.com
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1/ Tezos is much bigger than you think. It's routinely the third most discussed chain on Twitter behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. It's second only to Ethereum in mentions of NFT.
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1000 days of #Tezos mainnet, here's to the next 10,000!
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Imagine if a team announced with fanfare the launch of its zk-rollup, with just one caveat, it doesn't use any actual zero knowledge proofs, just a centralized signature as a placeholder. That's what is being celebrated today on Ethereum when it comes to optimistic rollups.
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Nice to see @Coinbase launch COIN50 - finally a proper index to track the crypto market at large. Makes it much easier for people to get broad market exposure without picking winners. And of course, happy to see Tezos in there 🎯
Meet the Coinbase 50 Index (COIN50), a whole new way to track the performance of the cryptoeconomy. coinbase.com/coin50
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1/ It seems that Monero is successfully being 51%-attacked. It's one of the last PoW holdout among major networks. A big impetus for Tezos, as a friend once observed, was “fuck you, PoS works”.
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*record scratch*
You're probably wondering how I got here at the @WhiteHouse 🤷♂️
All that aside, the genius act means no more guesswork for issuers, which is a Good Thing. Yay!
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Experimental idea for social networks to combat clickbait. When people share links to article, do not display the original title of the article but rather a short, AI generated, title. The technology exists, but of course social networks probably benefit from clickbait.
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For the longest time, I found it weird @ESYudkowsky would focus on spreading good epistemology, as an instrumental goal towards reducing AI x-risk. The connection felt so remote, and the idea that this was needed so dire. After recent online arguments on the topic: oh ... shit.
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Hope EOS manages to resolve its current issues, these things happen. In the meantime, this may be a good opportunity to point out that #Tezos has over 400 bakers, close to 7000 full nodes and doesn't rely on human curated blacklists for security. Come on over, we have tacos.
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Got questions about #Tezos? I’m hosting a live AMA on Youtube on Tuesday, September 14th from 8:00 - 9:30pm GST (3:00 - 4:30pm ET).
Join me at piped.video/channel/UChX-VzL…
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Very smooth upgrade once again, congrats to all and welcome to Nairobi!
#Tezos
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Hey everyone, until now, there hasn't been a global, accessible, electronic spot trading platform for Uranium, so we just launched one on Tezos!
⚡ It’s official: tokenized uranium is available to trade now! Powered by @Tezos, @ArchaxEx, and Curzon, you have the opportunity to invest in physical uranium–U308—via our trading platform.
Buy, own, and trade physical uranium:
🔸 A direct and transparent way to invest in uranium
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🔸 Get started with any amount—no minimum purchase required
⚡ Learn how you can buy and trade physical uranium now: uranium.io/.
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15/ If you're not paying close attention to the Tezos ecosystem, there is a good chance you are severely overlooking the progress of its adoption and technology over the past year.
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What I love about Tezos, and what sets it apart, is that it's built with the assumption that the problems we try to solve matter.
Either decentralization, governance, stability, security, sustainable use cases matter... or none of this industry does.
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If memory serves, Tezos reached this milestone a few months back, organically, just saying.
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The best part about rollup solutions is that they don't need a token or a DAO. Only VCs do.
Tezos rollups are free for all to use, under MIT license. No multisig, no token, no "progressive decentralisation". The real deal.
Arbitrum, the Ethereum scaling protocol, has introduced its long-awaited token and is transitioning to a DAO.
The $ARB token will be "airdropped" to eligible users next week.
@skesslr reports
trib.al/vSOYlSg
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Why don't "we want to switch to Android"? It's such a better platform. You get to have a little computer as opposed to some kind of fridge appliance.
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Underrated ideas in crypto at the moment:
1. The overhang of the full supply matters.
2. 1000 startups subsidized to build get rich quick schemes does not constitute adoption.
3. A token is not a business plan.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Proof-of-stake is old news.
piped.video/SJl4Yhts4yA
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Good article on #Tezos popped up in my Medium feed this morning link.medium.com/yMU3zgAkHhb
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Excited to share that the #Mumbai proposal is coming to #Tezos in 2023! With the activation of Smart Rollups, 1 million TPS is now possible. We're also introducing our validity rollup solution, Epoxy, and reducing the block time to 15 seconds. #scaling
Want a sneak-peek at what a faster and more scalable Tezos would look like?
🥁 @LabosNomades, @Marigold_Dev, @trilitech, @oxheadalpha, @tarides_, @dailambda and @myfunctori are glad to introduce the 13th #Tezos protocol upgrade proposal: Mumbai.
research-development.nomadic…
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The entire Polygon network, Arbitrum, Optimism (and the newly launched Base), and virtually all NFTs issued on Solana are all controlled by a small multisig.
It was only a matter of time.
1) Court orders DeFi project to use multisig to steal money back from hacker
2) DeFi project says "OK!" and uses its multisig to exploit its own code
3) DeFi users are like "oh crap.. what?"
What a total joke.
blog.oasis.app/statement-reg…
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One of these pictures marked the first time humans approached a technology powerful enough to entirely wipe out humanity. The other one is a photo of the Trinity test of the first nuclear detonation.
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If you’re a game developer looking for a blockchain solution that is fast, stable, and adaptable, look no further than @Tezos, the best blockchain for games, period. The new SDK for @Unity makes it easy to integrate Tezos into your projects and unleash your imagination. #tezos
Are you ready to join the revolution with the @Tezos SDK for @Unity, an official Unity Verified Solution?
Download it now on the Unity Asset Store, and see why Tezos is the best choice for blockchain games.
#tezos
assetstore.unity.com/package…
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