something about Chomsky and Epstein, but really about the nature of friendship and why it is bad that we turn our backs on friends to burnish our reputations. politicsslashletters.org/com…
heading to madrid to do a lil partying
but nothing is just a party
nothing is just a vibe
sometimes they are doors into an unimagined future
Logos.co/book
Big shoutout to the ~300 who came to the P2P Privacy Hacker Lounge in Buenos Aires on Saturday.
Through talks, demos, a hacking zone, and a Logos Circle, we explored why privacy matters for freedom and the tech needed to protect it.
Love to see a buzz around privacy again.
John Bolton on the prison sentence he believes Julian Assange deserves for his role in disclosing classified info (note that, unlike Bolton, Assange isn't American and had no duties to maintain the secrecy of classified information). Still, here's what Bolton wanted for him:
Now on Systems stage, @jarradhope_ introduces @Logos_network, a stack that unifies anonymous networking, decentralized storage, and a private, multi-chain network into a single coherent system.
Read Farewell to Westphalia over the summer and loved it. It exposes the flaws of nation-states and makes a convincing case for network states. Highly Recommended!
this is beyond mindblowing for me.
somebody built a 5 million param language model inside minecraft, trained it, equipped it with basic conversational ability.
probably the best thing i have seen entire month.
Something I wrote. tl;dr Hinton's Boltzmann's Machines are not novel and they actually aren't used in AI as we know it today. Plus, the Nobel Prize organization utterly failed in its mission to educate the public about Hinton's work: They failed to contextualize it, and failed to honestly describe its applications, obstacles, and dangers. A complete and total pedagogical failure. 3-16am.co.uk/articles/about-…
Fresh from the press 📚🔥
Farewell to Westphalia by @jarradhope_ & Peter Ludlow just landed at @secondculturecz !
Jarrad will also be joining us live on stage at Dark Prague next weekend. Come grab a copy, flip through, and get ready for the conversations ahead.
darkprague.com
I loved reading "Farewell to Westphalia" by @jarradhope_ & Peter Ludlow, it's one of the best articulations of the value proposition of network states / network nations that I've come across (and why they're basically inevitable and actually kind of already here). Great book! 👏