v_london

I'll be interested to see how the longevity of e-sports pans out. Most games will be woefully outdated after a decade: will the audience move to the next big game, or stay playing the old games? Or will video games eventually plateau to a point where significant technological advancements are no longer made?

This year saw a time where Chess became the top trending app on the App Store. The strength of traditional sports and games is their timelessness - can e-sports ever match that?

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Just wanted to say, I would be very interested in reading more about the experiments you ran on getting GPT-4 to describe its plans. GPT-3's explanations were confidently incorrect, as usual.

Hi all, today I'm launching a side-project I've been working on for a while: Web3 Readers' Club. I think the internet lacks spaces for discussion: most sites operate in the form of public posts where the goal is to get you post as much visibility and attention as possible. I think this creates a lot of toxicity as people are incentivised to write "hot takes" that capture the most attention. This is especially true for crypto and Web3, where people have a monetary incentive to shill projects they bought into.

Web3 Readers' Club tries to solve this problem by building around semi-private group chats. This makes it easy to discuss topics in small groups, without the need to perform for a large audience.

We're just starting out so for now this is just an experiment, but we'll see where it goes.

I saw lots of people criticizing PG's essay, but I really liked it. Free will and agency are interesting philosophical topics to wonder, even if they don't hold much practical value.