Steve

@stevehere.eth

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wow so this is what ZK projects' ads look like to normies

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Highlighting an EVM upgrade idea: combine EVMMAX and SIMD

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The voters banned banning banning banning charging too high rent. (To be clear I'm in favor of this, the best way to keep rent low is buidl buidl buidl)

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From prediction markets to info finance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html

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Trying to kick the tyres on this system: https://circles.garden/profile/0x9Ccab02AC7c5aCbB44b0De73A6059056703dE963 A help with verification would be greatly appreciated :)

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This is nothing but a roundabout way to enforce "you will own nothing and be happy". If the hardware depends on being able to phone home to function, you don't own it - The company does. Ideas like these should be nuked out of existence.

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Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Turns out people are looking into using that stuff.... for export control of AI chips https://www.iaps.ai/research/location-verification-for-ai-chips

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Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU, in python! Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it.

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Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/03/museumfuture.html

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Somehow I absolutely love this most recent SSC post: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzschean I feel like the best of pre-2020 Scott is back. Also, his takedown of the first person to reply to him in the comments is just excellent.

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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There're some that view this similarly to the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. Not sure whether I agree with that, but to each their own.

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Exploring circle STARKs https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/23/circlestarks.html Thank you to @StarkwareLtd friends for the kind support in understanding these concepts! See also my implementation at https://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/circlestark

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My hot take re "too much investment in infra": there's too much investment in *some kinds of infra* and not enough in others, and what's actually going on is, people want to invest in "the casino" but still feel good about themselves, so they invest in the subset of infra that gets spillover profits from the casino.

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In regular programming, zero is false and anything else is true. In ZK cryptography, zero is true and anything else is false.

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Poseidon is a super elegant hash function, part 2: Even an optimized STARK arithmetization can fit into a single screenshot

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Because the feature of a relatively-jam-free lane reduces as more people join that system. The priority lane's a physically scarce commodity (2 cars cannot occupy the same physical space), thus is unfortunately susceptible to the tragedy of the commons (even of the commons is artificial).

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In a sense, taxis can be seen as a low latency + high location accuracy form of public transportation, but with low capacity. The cost of said latency + accuracy is bourne by their users.

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There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch...), and living in Singapore. In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform. In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

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This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.

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