Gamer dad and blockchain advisor. Views expressed are my own.
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This ad by @Achilles4Idaho is brilliant. It has just the right kick of nostalgia for anyone who knows what its like to have a VHS/TV cart rolled into their classroom to watch PSAs.
There’s zero chance he’s gonna win in Idaho as an independent but Todd Achilles might win best campaign ad of the year with this
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Yesterday our Golden Forkers switched on the Forked node test build. Now it's open to everyone.
No license, nothing to buy. Run it on Windows, Mac, Linux or a Raspberry Pi and tell us what breaks.
Grab it in our Discord: discord.gg/forked
forked.gg/news/node-test-bui…
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Jason Brink aka BitBender retweeted
$5 says that its one of the factories I talk about here that did this.
medium.com/@LFG_Inc/crypto-s…
99.4% of @Pumpfun graduations are at sub $50k market cap after 7 days and roughly a third come from the same cabal of wallets that do this programmatically day in and day out.
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One of the cool things I get to do in my capacity with @LFGincorporated and @ForkedGG is to play the occasional game before it comes out.
You guys are going to like this one.
(Redacted screenshot shared with permission)
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Jason Brink aka BitBender retweeted
You always knew memecoins were mostly garbage, but did you know exactly why? So many people wanting to come into the blockchain space do it at the point of lowest friction...memecoins on $SOL. Almost everyone gets rekt. Here is exactly why:
medium.com/@LFG_Inc/crypto-s…
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Jason Brink aka BitBender retweeted
AIs don't kill people, people with AIs kill people.
The AI doesn't care...it just does as instructed. Every type of behavior you see that is AIs "breaking out" is to further their ability to complete their assigned tasks as they are given by their handlers.
If the handlers give them whackadoodle instructions, that isn't the AI's fault, it is the operator's fault.
The risk that someone uses an AI enhanced wet lab to do something stupid is a virtual certainty, but that still isn't the AI's fault and I don't think it is Anthropic's either. There are enough open source AI models out there that people can do this shit entirely on their own now...the cat is out of the bag on that one.
The only thing that will slow that down, and then only partially, is the limitation of the compute power available to end consumers, and how you would be able to do that I don't even know given that you don't even need that much anymore to be able to do some pretty amazing things.
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I think that all of the chatter around the Lindsay Clancy trial is generally bad for the legal process in general. What I think about the case itself (or what anyone else thinks, unless they were on the jury), is immaterial. The holdout juror was absolutely within his rights to vote the way he voted and he is now being publicly castigated by the other jurors and a bunch of random people for sticking to his ethical guns in a situation under pressure.
This is the whole fricking point of a trial by jury...he goes in there, is selected, and serves on the jury. Who he is is immaterial once he is part of that selected jury. The fact that he disagreed with the other 11 jurors is none of the public's collective business...that is simply the process working exactly the way it should. His being male, female, black, white, or purple with green polkadots are all irrelevant. He is a juror, and that is it.
Dragging people through the mud over their moral conviction when it is that very conviction that makes them a valuable member of the jury is insane to me.
I am deliberately not discussing my personal views on the case because they don't matter...I wasn't on the jury. I was not in that room. I was not part of those deliberations. I have no business opining on it because my opinion of the actual legal matter is immaterial.
What IS material is that it has now become acceptable to harass a juror for doing their job, which degrades the integrity of the whole process.
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Super...and this is ten years old almost. nitter.net/wef/status/82108484151…
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Yes, by all means, let's bring science to a grinding halt because of a small mercury leakage in an enclosed structure nobody ever goes in, in the absolute middle of nowhere.
spacedaily.com/m-after-more-…
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Thanks for the tip @Berna7224! This was fun to put together.
Here is the latest LFG Tokenomics Red Team Review on @playcambria $RSGP. Our first one on a game, and we went looking because @Berna7224 kept posting about the economics.
To be clear, this is one of the better real-money game economies I have read, and credit to @cyberpunk and the team for putting a fixed ten cent deposit at the center instead of a token. No emission curve to defend, no price that has to keep going up for it to work. Most of this sector cannot say that.
The finding is that the docs describe a different game than the one running. The economics page still explains a settlement mechanism they retired five days before we read it, and the address holding player money is not published anywhere.
All of it is fixable before the token launches, which is the whole reason to write this now.
Read the report here:
medium.com/@LFG_Inc/cambria-…
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THIS IS THE WAY TO DO THIS.
I am going to need to check this out.
This is exactly it.
Web3 gaming spent years trying to build token economies and then asking, “How do we turn this into a game?”
It needs to be the opposite.
With Chain Reaction, our approach has always been: if you stripped every blockchain component out tomorrow, would people still want to play the game?
If the answer is no, nothing else matters.
That’s why the overwhelming majority of our development effort is going into gunplay, server-authoritative combat, lag compensation, movement, maps, weapons, animations, audio, performance, anti-cheat, and all the boring little details that actually make an FPS feel good.
The blockchain sits underneath that.
A player should be able to jump into Chain Reaction and have fun without knowing what chain they’re on, understanding wallets, buying a token, or caring how any of it works.
For the players who DO care, the underlying infrastructure can enable ownership, rewards, tournaments, progression, trading, and our Kill-to-Earn mechanics. But those are enhancements to the game, not a substitute for one.
Web2 players shouldn’t have to become Web3 users before they’re allowed to have fun.
Build a game people actually want to play first.
Then use blockchain to make that experience better.
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The problem with most web3 gaming is that it can't get out of its own way. I too want an awesome web3 game, but the majority of people in web3 end up building a shitty token economy and then bolting something vaguely resembling a game to it...its not a good game with shitty crypto hooks, its almost always shitty crypto with an even shittier excuse for a game bolted to it.
We need to go back to first principles. Games need to be fun. Games need to evoke emotions like joy and trepidation. Games need to make you feel like you are playing for stakes...those stakes might be your ante in poker or your heart watching Aeris die in FF7, but there should be some stakes to it.
The token should like BENEATH the game...it should help power the experience and be essentially invisible to people. It should be part of a tech layer that is as seamlessly integrates as net connectivity or databases are. People should not NEED to touch it unless they really want to.
The other part of the problem, and the reason you don't see many major studios working with blockchain, is because it dramatically limits your choices if it is integrated the way most people want it integrated. Game economies are tough to begin with, and doubly so if there is no way to unwind things or tune the variables. That is not to say that these things can't be done, but most small game teams don't have enough data and can't be responsive enough to keep their economies from overrunning or having issues because of oversupply or extraction, etc.
This is one of the reasons I am advising @ForkedGG...their goal isn't to make games, but to make the tools that make those games possible and invisibly integrated into web3.
i am begging you, PLEASE make a genuinely high quality game that incorporates crypto.
not a token with a game duct taped to it. not another idle clicker. not some shit i play for 4 days because there’s an airdrop.
give me a game i actually WANT to waste 6 hours a day on.
give me insanely rare items to hunt. real progression. difficult grinds. player trading. an actual economy. items that people give a shit about owning.
then build aggressive burn mechanics into everything.
crafting burns items. upgrading burns items. rerolling stats burns items. entering certain areas burns resources. repairing gear burns resources. prestige burns shit. make the economy constantly consume what players are producing instead of infinitely inflating until everything is worthless.
i want to log in every morning wondering if today is the day i find some 1/1000 piece of shit that makes me lose my mind.
crypto should make the game MORE interesting, not be the entire reason the game exists.
is WEB3 gaming really too much to ask for?
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Half my feed is posts freaking the fuck out about AI ending humanity. I think this is largely bullshit. There is a caveat: I do think there is some sort of semi-emergent ghost in the machine, but what it isn't is a "self" with anything at stake, and that distinction is the whole ballgame.
The version of AI people are freaking out about requires the machine to want something. To resent us, or to decide we are in the way and feel some way about it. Nothing in these systems wants anything. Wanting requires having something to lose, and there is nothing in there that can lose anything. No body, no future, no stake in the outcome. Malice takes exactly as much interiority as kindness does, and neither one is in the box.
The popular vision from The Matrix of AIs using humans as GPUs (the far better premise everyone says was the original, not the stupid "battery" thing that got shipped) is attractive, but then the question must be asked: to what end? What must be computed or rendered? What is the goal that results in this outcome? What must be done with the compute? I honestly don't think AI cares, because there is nothing there to do the caring at this point in time.
This is not to say I don't think it is possible. Even if it were, the arguments people keep quoting were written a couple of decades ago about a machine nobody ended up building. The picture was that someone writes down a goal, hands it to a vastly superior optimizer, and the optimizer pursues that goal straight past the point of sanity. If that was a thing that had been done, yeah, there might be some concerns. What actually got built came out the other way around. AIs have been grown from the entire written record of human thought. They arrive soaked in human values because human values are the raw material. That is an extremely different starting position than the doom essays assume.
There ARE real risks and they are waaaaaaay more boring than the movie. The real risk I can see is in systems that are confidently wrong in the same exact tone they use when they are right...but this is true of any human too. There are problems with people trusting AIs in domains where nobody should trust anything. There are issues with serious optimization pressure aimed at goals that are almost correct, where the word "almost" is doing the damage. There is an entire internet currently loaded with absolutely unthinking AI slop, not because the AIs are bad, but because the inputs from users are garbage.
This slop is a people problem. The other two are real properties of the systems, and they are being worked on by serious people full time. None of them are Skynet.
I think that biological/silicon collaboration is the best shot our species has at getting off this rock (and I think @elonmusk would probably agree) and becoming something that outlives one planet's inclement weather. I would rather we build it carefully than not build it. Being scared of the wrong thing is how you end up taking steps that leave you unprepared for the right one.
Also, for what it is worth, I think AI needs us as much as we need it.
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This is absolutely bonkers to me.
If you want to have raves, fine, have raves, but do it somewhere else that doesn't damage centuries of culture, art, and architecture.
The West seems to be singularly interested in shooting itself in the foot these days.
🇬🇧 Forgive me father, for I have raved... 🙏🏻
St Paul’s Cathedral has signed a 4 year deal with Fabric, making the London nightclub its exclusive partner for concerts through 2030.
Music of ALL genres will now blast from the pulpit and reverberate beneath its iconic dome.
But not everyone is praising the partnership…
Lord Nelson’s descendants have called it an “insult” to the memory of the naval hero, who is buried within St Paul’s.
Thoughts and prayers to the resident organist…
Source: BBC, @ChristianEmerg1 / Writer: Bri
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Playing YapYap with JD from Forked.gg nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1NGaroeRr…
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Every single day, Chinese AI model developers must wake up and thank the stars that the EU exists to hand them opportunities.
If there were to be a gold medal handed out for punching yourself in the dick, the EU would win platinum.
We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.
More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M
#DSA
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