ungovernableCat

Twitter is still super relevant in crypto circles (you can see for example the (ex) binance CEO using it to give updates about their latest scandal) so I think Vitalik at the very least has financial interests in keeping a presence there.

But then again, he's already fabulously wealthy and could just walk away from the space forever if he wanted to and be just fine.

If I were him I'd just hire a person to handle comms on it for me but I suppose that's not really minimalism.

I have some ex-colleagues that entered the indie dev scene, one man micro SaaS factories. According to them the space has never felt more "toxic" whereas before if you announced your new product you'd see other people in the community congratulating, giving helpful critique, now you see two three people just saying "here's that product but for $0 made by claude" with a vibe coded copy.

I get the sense it's becoming like an influencer marketplace (think instagram or twitch), where you attract new users through your brand as a persona and not so much the product itself.

All I want is that a rich person can't strongly direct the government to do things like idk start wars because they happen to own an intelligence/arms manufacturing company or control how food is regulated so their pocketbook grows bigger at the expense of the health of the country and the taxpayer.

Math is completely abstract and the base rules and mechanics of it are some of the most clear cut and formalised because that’s the entire point of the subject.

Biology is the complete opposite of that.

The business models have become more extractive robbing users of control and agency and herding them to places where the business wants them to be.

E=mc*2 but m is really really tiny

Making it public will invite the deviants who derive pleasure from the audience. Look up historical behaviours of crowds in some of the last public executions in France.

If this were livestreamed you'd have just insanely grotesque stuff like livestream commentators narrating and reacting to the footage while polymarket ads play over it, making memes and remixes of it like what happened with the Charlie Kirk assassination clips. It's all sick IMO.

>Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance

I think in practice you'll find they go hand in hand together.

The 55+ crowd where I'm from have the most active social life. Constantly at each others houses for a chat, activities (gossip parties) after Sunday mass etc.

>The upper class and wealthy socialize a great deal. I mean a ton. Shared vacations, constant social occasions hosting fund raisers galas sports hobbies etc. practically non stop.

I wonder how many of them would count this as work time, since so much of value add at high level positions is precisely through activities like that.

I'm surprised companies are doing take homes in an era of LLMs. I suppose it can save valuable paid time by forcing the candidate to waste theirs instead, but surely you get a lot more signal from actually talking to the candidate and seeing how they think and understand what they're doing.

I do hope for an optimistic outcome of course. But the same cohort that gave us algorithmic screen maximisation is also funding and leading the AI revolution so I'm a bit sceptical they have our best interest in mind.

I'll be the negative nancy and say that I think it's more likely we see an acceleration of the current trend. If we're talking about students, the top students will be doing as well or better than today but the median might see a big regression.

I have friends who work in primary education and they say there's definitely been some sort of decline in cognitive skills. A lot more kids struggle with holding attention and thinking outside of the box.

I think too much screen exposure has been terrible for the average child.

The complexity of manufacturing is one reason why TSMC is one of the most important companies in the world right now and why Nvidia is the most valuable by marketcap.

If you can make a GPU more efficient and cheaper than Nvidia does you can make a ton of money. Plenty of labs around the world are working hard on this problem and yet Nvidia is still dominating (and the market believes this isn't changing any time soon)

Same things for robotics. It's unlikely you'll have a vertical stack on all the different things needed to manufacture your robot on a massive scale. What happens if some geopolitical spat makes getting rare earth minerals and battery tech from China impossible?

Compare that to tokenmaxxing in programming and math, where the only thing you need is a gpu cluster and electricity.

Mathematics and programming is verifiable and fully controllable in a digital environment.

Fusion research and cancer research requires expensive experimentation in the real physical world. You can’t just throw a billion dollar worth of tokens to handle the problem.

Look at all the roadblocks for data centre buildouts which the industry certainly has a financial incentive to complete as fast as possible.