Daniel Fernandes
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE
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Interesting read: "Can we make a moral, high integrity AI?" is a better question than 'alignment' & P(doom)
I like this analysis: OpenAI's approach to alignment is about model obedience. Anthropic's approach is about model character and integrity. Anthropic's approach seems more likely to succeed. https://meaningalignment.substack.com/p/model-integrity-and-character
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Glad Jay is staying on, will be interesting to see how the CEO search goes.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-steps-down/
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Who's coming through @ ETH SF?
ETHSF 26 Opening Day · Luma
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ETHSF 26 Opening Day · Luma
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"First and foremost, Happy International Women's Day" -LeBron
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Another braindump brought to you by Claude. Alternative title: "you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them'" Why San Jose Doesn't Look Like Shenzhen
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Today:
ETHGlobal SF Happy Hour March · Luma
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ETHGlobal SF Happy Hour March · Luma
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Re: DoW vs Anthropic I think it's great that Dario is a private citizen wants to stand up to the government but I can't support his EA motivation behind it, he doesn't say: "get congressional oversight" he says "call me." Translation: "if I were the unaccountable bureaucrat, things would be great!" Return the stolen...
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Thanks to @codeofcrypto for hosting in North Beach. North Beach is the Italian American neighborhood of SF, so here we have a trifecta of Italian Amaro cocktails: Aperol Spritz, Boulivardier, and an Americano. Aperol Spritz: remember all spritzes are 3:2:1, 3 oz Prosecco, 2 oz of Amaro (Aperol), 1 oz of club soda. ...
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Join us in North Beach next Friday 2/27 — we’re on a mission to make SF the global crypto hub: https://luma.com/x4qieewc CC: @leohenkels @charlesbelle @gramajo.eth
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Still Yang Gang
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Tomorrow in /sf! I'll be at the book talk & afterparty:
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Block Inc (formerly Square) to layoff 40% of staff
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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are
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Tomorrow in /sf! I'll be at the book talk & afterparty:
Thursday in SF: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-andrew-yang-tickets-1974524197026 https://posh.vip/e/offline-sf
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Thursday in SF:
An Evening with Andrew Yang
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An Evening with Andrew Yang
OFFLINE - SF | Noble Mobile | Thu, Feb 26, 2026 | Manny’s
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OFFLINE - SF | Noble Mobile | Thu, Feb 26, 2026 | Manny’s
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Qualified Reservations
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sufficiently decentralized
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What's the deal with farcaster fnames? I need an ENS translation layer. Should we be using <fname>.farcaster.eth like how The Base App does it or <fname>.fname.id like how the old protocol docs spec it? Neither seem to resolve on the ens.domains frontend. cc: @neynar
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protocol/docs/SPECIFICATION.md at main · farcasterxyz/protocol
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protocol/docs/SPECIFICATION.md at main · farcasterxyz/protocol
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