Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.
Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
“misalignment sounds hard while configuration sounds embarrassing” hah great line
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Made with Claude Opus 5.5.
The fearmongering about AI always makes us forget that NOTHING WENT FOOM, as was always predicted.
Send this to your doomer friend who has a very high P(Doom).
Accelerate.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
My neighbor three doors down the street died. Nice lady, always walked her dog and we’d wave at each other. No spouse or kids, apparently.
Her siblings put everything in the house up for sale. I went in, looking for bookshelves - my kids and I prefer sliced trees, even as my wife prefers glass rectangles, to read from.
One of the items that caught my eye was a gazetteer. You don’t see these much anymore, but it’s a paper book of every single road in a state.
Doing archaeology for a decade, even post smarty pants phones, we used these as the canonical record of random county roads.
I don’t know why she had a gazetteer. And I think in a few gas stations and bookstores you can still find them. But they’re a relic from before Google Maps. It was a sign that my generation is in some ways from a bygone era.
It’s kind of a lonely era - we’re the only generation to both remember the world before the internet was in your pocket (or your desk) and also native to the internet.
It’s hard to articulate what new generations have lost. The present is 100% better than the past, but there’s certainly trade offs - it’s two steps forward, one step back. That doesn’t make progress a mistake, just that there were certain charms and benefits to the past that kids today miss - like learning to navigate without a GPS, with a paper map and a compass.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Mach set NeXT back but nobody is ready for that discussion.
NeXTSTEP is such an enigma in the grand scheme of computer history. It’s like the modern equivalent of your nerdiest developers leaving to spend a decade fucking around with low level kernel drivers and UI frameworks that customers don’t understand and sales guys don’t know how to sell. They make no money for years, but they also hard launch the computer animation industry along the way by accident.
Then, on the cusp of irrelevancy, they come back, immediately stop being nerds and go on to lead the greatest product led development cycle in history. Nobody ever remembers Steve Jobs as the object oriented inter-process-communication guy, but he was. He personally hired the original designer of the Mach kernel.
What the hell?
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
Keystone XL pipeline was delayed by Obama, restarted by Trump, cancelled by Biden and restarted again by Trump. Offshore wind started under Biden was cancelled by Trump.
Biden paused new LNG export. Trump has paused new onshore wind.
Separately, people are mad about energy costs.
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RT @zooko: We're having the biennial Zcash governance debate. And once again, I'm re-listening to Mike Munger and Russ Roberts: “Choosing i…
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
One of my pet peeves is how DTrace, a true work of art and a godsend for teaching system visibility, got degraded in MacOS over the years. I used it to set the baseline expectation that one's OS should be knowable and transparent. Now, alas, most of my scripts no longer work.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
That was a close call. Many would’ve lost everything. God’s work from the Zcash developers.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
It was an incredible entry opportunity.
This patched vulnerability disclosure is likely going to be an incredible entry opportunity. Price crashed from $670 to $250 in a day, due to the responsible disclosure of a serious (though unlikely to have been exploited) patched bug in the private pool.
Opus 4.8 and other frontier LLMs are going to put incredible pressure on crypto / defi protocols in the coming months. Glad ZCash (the protocol, if not the price) appears to have weathered it so far.
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I'm so excited 𝔹itℤ by @0xAlbertG et al. is now public!
It combines boolean and integer relations, free range checks and efficient binary field commitments. In short: your proof system is no longer tied to a particular finite field.
The performance exceeded our expectations. Despite being field agnostic, it performed better on real world tasks than systems fine-tuned for the task.
We completely changed the ProveKit roadmap for 𝔹itℤ, and I expect others will too!
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2141
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
There is a gain-of-function-lab-leak smell to the way all these autonomous robot hackers are coming out of the "AI safety" research in particular.
The main result of environmentalism was killing fission and causing global warming. The main result of biosafety research was engineering the pandemic. The main result of AI doom advocacy was supercharging the research they fear. Many causes do the opposite of what they claim.
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RT @EliBenSasson: @zooko I'm not in the weeds, but full time compensated delegates, elected by coin holders, seems like the safest way to g…
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
I'm begging everyone, if you're going to make your own P(doom) animation, tell Claude that CDR does not stand for "Critical Design Review". It's the `cdr` operation from LISP, and the point is that all the people who thought AI would be written in LISP were wrong.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ retweeted
You were right @zooko ... when optimized/better integrated, blake3 is much faster than sha256 on AVX 👀
BTW, I'll bet a properly optimised BLAKE3 impl would take about 2/3 as much time as a properly optimised SHA256 impl for this use case, on AVX512. :-)
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