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Will Wright: "Between kids and adults, there seems to be a big difference. Adults, primarily ones that kind of grew up before the computer generation really got into full swing, when they're put in front of a computer, they're afraid of failure. Generally they're timid, they're very, they think twice before they click a button. Adults are uncomfortable with failure in general. Which is what makes kids so cool, you know? They're just really fun to watch them. And that's, I think, one of the reasons they learn so fast. They're not afraid to fail, and the failure is really the basis of their learning. So when we show games to kids, even ...To the adults, they do it, the planet freezes up, and "oh no I can't play this, is too complex!" and so they run away screaming. I'm going to skip to the next one really quick. We decided that that was a little bit too much for the user to bite off, a little too complex, too many windows. But again, as in most cases, the adults didn't quite relate to it too well."

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The most interesting part is I have a habit of going on extreme tangents/monologues in chatrooms - in this particular case I was looking for this "hey things didn't work out" blog post and I searched through more than 28 pages of failed video/YouTube/web3 projects and couldn't find it. I only found it after going through some old notes I made.

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One of my favorite "hey things didn't work out" posts from a web3/crypto project. It was written in 2018 and there's still some fantastic parts in it: "It’s humbling to be exactly in the right time when this invention cycle took off. If you see a vector in space, you believe in its future, and you’re still at its very beginning, you have the unique chance to do something small that nudges the curve in the right direction, such that the impact gets bolder as things move on and you zoom out. This small thing can be a “yes”, to the right opportunity. It can also be a “no”, to the wrong one." https://medium.com/paratii/the-end-of-a-cycle-for-paratii-238f70bb909

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The most criminally underrated source of DAO information: https://x.com/DAOscope/status/1941926610329866701 It is really essential reading - great updates that give a sense of some of the things happenings with DAOs and governance.

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Highly interested in this. I get the same response from ChatGPT and am curious on how to find a more neutral baseline from it.

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If you type the right words in a DAO - you can build an expectation of accountability and start the wheels of action. Even if you end up being "timed out" for an entire week: "Your silence brought about this new development, let’s see what it brings" I think writing is an underappreciated element of DAOs - it is the bedrock of everything and is what causes actions to actually happened.

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I want longer posts! The current character limit is an impediment and means I have to make multiple posts instead of one that contains everything I want to say. It's not a dealbreaker but is frustrating. I kind of feel like if users want to make a long, detailed post they should be able to do so. It would also be really nice to be able to include more than 2 links.

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I'm not intimately up to date but I think the focus I have seen so far is for people to build more and more apps - I kind of get the feeling that many of these may end up as abandonware. I made a very extensive set of posts about previous Farcaster ecosystem projects that just end up idle/broke/unmaintained before but it got little response: https://farcaster.xyz/tomatoxyz/0xea755a07 Building a great ecosystem should focus on people and groups primarily before fancy apps/technology. You need to have a sticky way to get users to join and stay - that should be at the root of all decisions. You want the best users to congregate and have a mechanism to build apps/ideas from the bottom-up instead of having people trying to build things top-down. (2/2)

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There's a great amount of valuable users on Farcaster and while miniapps and other things are interesting, I really feel like groups are the superpower and are underappreciated. I think groups should be given DAO-like powers and have their own budgets and decision trees that they create on how to reward existing users as well as how to attract new users. (1/2)

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This is a brilliant weekly newsletter that covers a lot of high-value events in the DAO space. Well worth a follow! https://x.com/DAOscope/status/1934322321503777154

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In the context of DAOs - likewise to the informal IRC "powerhouse" community I am describing in the below conversation - when I was a young kid, I got into a very private IRC network filled with hardcore cypherpunks and hackers who were because of passion. Many of them went on to hold extremely high level positions and did stuff like reverse engineering and investigating malware like Stuxnet. One problem with "web3"/cryptocurrency is that it has been become very, very "strictly corporate" - how or who is planning on building a place for the very best people in DAOs which has actual soul and activity from the best of the best and isn't build with the idea of becoming a microtransaction haven with trickle incentive programs that just end up with extreme sybil attacks and attracting low-value and noisy people?

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I dearly miss the great art of conversation over protocols like IRC where people gathered around actual watering holes that required skill and social bonds to maintain (IRC required either hosting a server or using complex bots and other things to make shit work - any idiot can set up a Discord server) and would be populated by people who would openly challenge your ideas, call you an idiot and sign off by saying "Nobody cares. Kill yourself." before banning you. This to be followed up by one of the grandmasters of Bitcoin saying they thought you were "absolutely endearing" - I feel a great loss when I look at the current state of web3 but maybe danielpbarron was right when he said: "Yes! Stay on irc 24/7! Forget the forum -- forget reddit; those are distractions."

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My experience crossing paths with Mircea Popescu was immortalized on his blog here: http://trilema.com/2015/a-sjsqd-walks-into-a-pub/ An absolutely fascinating character and despite whatever immense controversy his attitude, presence, ideas and personality may have shown and caused people to immensely dislike him, he spoke his own truth and was an embodiment of the "real internet" and not the very "strictly corporate" personalities that have since taken over cryptocurrency and the internet. Very sad that he passed away. I met many people like Mircea (albeit generally less controversial) through my travels on the internet who also spoke their own truth - it is a great loss to the world that IRC and self-hosted blogs/websites have largely been replaced by Discord/X/Twitter and highly corporate, slickly branded shit which is devoid of actual soul.

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ChatGPT memory is the most bizarre thing - the way it works with this by memorizing tiny, trivial things matches with my expectations and predictions of AI. It will be driven by data, information and primarily by text but when given long, detailed bodies of text it will not know what is important and poignant and what is not. For sure it can so far pretend and be guided but ultimately when it comes to text that isn't an instruction booklet but a life story (which seems to be one of the larger uses of it right now) it simply doesn't have the human qualities of intonation, inference, context and real world experience.

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Spoke on this great X space hosted by @trigs and shared the idea that it would be nice to see attribution from teams that build in terms of what comms/collab tools they used and where they congregated and found high quality users for their team. https://x.com/Trigs_0/status/1932463247673995483

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Joining this space https://x.com/Trigs_0/status/1932845434210549907

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I still can't get over the fact that this appears to be a completely forced change and users can't just pick a "classic" theme or whatever that doesn't disrupt their workflow/mindset? So strange.

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It feels as though almost anyone can self-learn LLM literacy through trial and error/sheer tenacity vs having to learn a specific way to deal with spreadsheets/complex formulas. In which case people who have a resume with enough varied life experience alone are likely to be of far more valuable in an LLM world than someone who did nothing except spreadsheets for the majority of their career - the former can learn the latter skills easily through an LLM whereas going in the opposite direction probably has a lot more friction.

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Farfaster rewards are modest but a great gateway to onboard people into web3 without trying to sell them on some dubious investment/get rich quick scheme. The plus is people can also build a reputation as being a real person.

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My meatspace/IRL friends almost all have this trait but when it comes to the internet and "online projects" it seems like it is indeed an extremely rare trait to find in people. A good friend will call you an idiot whereas people on the internet are generally less direct - though text messages and remote work are not exactly the basis for bringing out the open-mindedness in people in the first place 😔

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