Here is my conversation with Michael Nielsen. We talk about technology as a source of leverage and our increased capacity for both upside/downside. I've learned a lot from Michael's thinking over the years and it was an honor to do this together. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/52-michael-nielsen

Here is my conversation with Jeffrey Quesnelle, cofounder of Nous Research. We talked about the history of neural networks, modern model architectures, parallels with the human mind, and how we each think about finding meaning in this new world. This was one of my favorite conversations in recent memory. Full podcast... Show more

Here is my conversation with Alexander Long, Founder/CEO of Pluralis Research. We talk about frontier models, what it takes to get a new foundation model off the ground, and how protocol learning could be the way to do this in the open internet. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/50-alexander-long

Here is my conversation with @jimpo, cofounder/cto of Irreducible. Jim is a brilliant human being - he was one of the first engineers at Coinbase, went back to academia for a grad cryptography degree, is now making core contributions to zk. Here we talk about: - Binius as a proof system using binary fields - FPGAs, h... Show more

Here is my conversation with Michael Bentley, cofounder/ceo of Euler. This was a somewhat philosophical conversation about the history of defi, credit, mechanism design, Michael's phd thesis on natural selection, and more. I think Michael is a brilliant human being and I'm very happy we got to do this together. Hope... Show more

Another one of the yin/yangs with crypto and ai: Building with smart contracts is all about precision - you define rules that are to be executed exactly, everything is deterministic Building with LLMs is all about vibes - you define goals/guardrails and give the model freedom within them, everything is non-deterministic

Here is my conversation with @jchervinsky, chief legal officer at @variant, previously at the blockchain association and compound. We talk about: - how US govt/regulation works from first principles - how crypto played a role in this election - how legislation could change with the new administration - how to use the ... Show more

Here is my conversation with @socrates1024. We talk about a simple idea with big implications: using TEEs to do web access control. We also talk about research, making progress by prototyping, and how Andrew used bitcoin to buy beef jerky in 2011. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/46-andrew-miller

I'm planning to be at NeurIPS this week. Hit me up if you're around and want to meet.

Here's my conversation with @quintus. TEEs are going to change block building, model training and inference, even make scifi autonomous agents a reality. We talk about the history, the architecture, and the roadmap for building TEEs with open-source hardware and supply chains. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/45-qu... Show more

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TEE is the latest arcane acronym to take over the memosphere, kind of like NFT and LLM One would think these would have a harder time breaking through when there are alternatives like "secure hardware", "digital media", etc But I wonder if this actually works to their favor. It's probably that they're initially used ... Show more