Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Hey everybody. Haven't been very active here lately, in part because we've been very busy launching the Protocol Institute as a spin-off from the EF to continue the work started by the Summer of Protocols.
Timber Stinson-Schroff, @timber will be leading the spin-out as managing director, and I'll be the director of re...
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Another reminder that nature is grimdark. Only so much conservationists can do.
The asiatic cheetah went extinct during the Raj, and there are ongoing efforts to reintroduce it from Africa (a genetically distinct subspecies) but I guess the leopards aren’t going to let competition emerge so easily. Cheetahs were dome...
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I have to admit the stakes are too low for me to care enough to figure any of this out
Since the change in ownership I honestly don’t know what the mission of this app is
Though tbh I didn’t know in the time of Dan and Varun either. But they were highly visible and opinionated about whatever it was do it was entertai...
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Next SIGFPT on Protocolizing Agent Space:
On the Protocolized discord in 5 minutes: Next SIGFPT on Protocolizing Agent Space:
On the Protocolized discord in 5 minutes:
Topic: Agents have created and colonized new spaces in the digital realm, ranging from within the processor and model latent spaces to within the OS...
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Jeez this arc de Trump thing is ugly
But I suppose this monumental disaster of a presidency deserves a disastrous monument to remind us not to elect such people
Not a fan of DC’s pal;Adrian architecture generally, and this adds an undefinable crappy twist that I suspect will fuel a few dissertations
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Been thinking about the age-old question of tolerating the intolerant and other isomorphic conundrums.
In crypto land, I think this translates to the paradox of censoring for censorship resistance or more deeply, capturing for capture resistance.
I was reminded of a framework for thinking about this by an old friend ...
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