Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** If the only scenarios we have for the future are negative then those will exert a subconscious pull on the imagination. It’s because something beats nothing. Any highly realized concrete vision of the future suggests … https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630531788102840321#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** This doesn’t mean every parachute manufacturer is interested in causing plane crashes. But it does mean that sometimes, an intellectual effort to understand an extreme downside scenario can end up causing it. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630530160863883264#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The COVID lab leak shows that those attempting to mitigate an existential risk may cause it. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630529299148345345#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** There’s actually all kinds of incredible quick build technologies out there. One example: piped.moomoo.me/0wrQLDoJ6cw https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630527820362575873#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** A society that can’t build from scratch will eventually find it hard to maintain. Because if you can’t build every part of a system, how are you going to build the spare parts for that system? Something will eventual… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630496227782725632#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** The US establishment has inherited a country they could never have built. The founders left the building long ago. thenetworkstate.com/founding… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630494571636588544#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

California tried to build high-speed rail. The cost rose to $100B. The timeline rose to ~100 years. So, there is no high-speed rail. nitter.moomoo.me/Noahpinion/status/1630183470524768256#m https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630493165294878722#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

From censorship-resistant communication to censorship-resistant community. nitter.moomoo.me/0xidanlevin/status/1560884619553214464#m https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1630045748153962496#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** Also many communities are established on Discord, just as many conversations have moved to Signal/WhatsApp. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629610335727656961#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Bitcoin: Nostr Ethereum: Farcaster Left: Mastodon Right: Gab Twitter is decentralizing… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629610036430516224#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** Many people lazily equate the two. But Chinese crypto is to the Chinese financial system what Taiwan is to the Chinese political system. It’s the example of what free Chinese people could be. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629560203804045313#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Chinese crypto is the *opposite* of Chinese communism. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629559140883521536#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** Ah, major catch — it’s research use only and behind a form. Not publicly downloadable like Stable Diffusion. Zuck really should just open source this. Commoditize the complements! AI is much less of a threat to social… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629449439726415872#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Are we decentralizing AI? Publicly available models. Trained on data with less lawsuit risk. Claims outperformance of GPT-3. Downloadable today… nitter.moomoo.me/GuillaumeLample/status/1629151231800115202#m https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629440879403614208#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Ordinals and Nostr have transformed Bitcoin development. nitter.moomoo.me/gladstein/status/1629165181967437824#m https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629438750798536705#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** How do you start a new country? Well, with a small group of highly aligned people that thinks of themselves as a nation you *may* be able to gradually negotiate independence. That’s how Palau did it. https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629239620914536448#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** If you want to hear about how a tiny island country peacefully gained independence years before putting its national ID on chain…the full episode is here. YouTube: piped.moomoo.me/3FuQvG2dmM4 Apple: apple.co/3Zgt4W3 Spo… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629239618855133184#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

First head of state on the Network State podcast! Palau is a tiny island state with less than 20,000 citizens. Yet this tropical paradise is a full UN member and tech pioneer. Now, the President of Palau joins me to talk about digital identity an… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629239612429455360#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** What's the 25% I disagree with? More than this, but in short I wouldn't identify as a pure Bit/cloud person at all. A big part of the network state is "cloud first, land last, but not land never." The physical world is do… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629234795250343937#m

Balaji / @balajis (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

**Response to @balajis:** This is a good companion piece. Read them back to back. tabletmag.com/sections/news/… https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629228322424238081#m