Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I sometimes wonder if we’re missing something fundamental about the interplay of decentralization and feature growth. Something like this syllogism:
Major premise: Growth tips of complex technologies are always centralized for a while
Minor premise: Complex technologies are always growing in feature space
Conclusion: ...
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I’m curious what openclaw is actually used for in the median case. I’m guessing most people don’t have complex enough calendars or laundry situations to require any assistance. Even the rpi reminder widget would be way overkill for me.
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Trying to think through the correct mental model update to the “below the API” idea for the AI era. I think there are two possibilities:
a) “It’s all API and everyone’s entangled in it, there’s no above/below” … OR
b) a more radical counter-intuitive possibility: The human is the API
People often mistakenly cred...
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If it were any other BDFL or big CEO I’d object. But Ethereum almost doesn’t work if Vitalik doesn’t operate this way. That he exercises huge moral authority behind his takes is a stress test of the de facto decentralization ruggedness. Any half-assed architecture can handle ordinary levels of dissent. It takes Ethereu...
You do not have to agree with me on which applications are and are not corposlop to use Ethereum.
You do not have to agree with me on what trust assumptions are acceptable in which situations to use Ethereum.
You do not have to agree with me on political topics to use Ethereum.
You do not have to agree with my views
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Finished my online book from my twitter archives. With a preface chapter chronicling my twitter journey.
Heaviest lift vibe-coding project I’ve done so far. Started out cutting and pasting scripts from chatgpt, and at some point it started choking and I had to switch to claude code, which was worlds better to the poin...
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Turbo brains is a lofty and wishful conceit. There are only slop cannons. Good judgment will be possible in 2027. Until then it’s just analysis paralysis. So meta poor-judgment.
FAFO. Choose execution paralysis instead. Slop cannons ftw. Some shots will land, others won’t, and you might either die or turn into transhu...
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Increasingly convinced that how hard you can work is a narrow range function of personality on all but the dumbest deterministic tasks. For anything even moderately complex the only way to radically increase return is to radically increase risk. If you’re living paycheck to paycheck and your rent goes up 10% you can wo...
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Watching a process manager thrash in weird confusion over a complicated and stressful paperwork process that shouldn’t be hard to keep straight if you’re paying proper attention.
Made me realize that detail orientation is about both caring about getting things right and never letting things go. But good detail people ...
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I don’t know about an AI singularity, but plenty of humans are vanishing past their personal singularities riding AIs. It’s kinda funny to watch. They get on some agentic horse and go vrooom hypomanic away beyond all peer comprehensibility. At this rate soon we won’t need explainable AIs but explainable AI-augmented humans.
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Yesterday for the first time since I started my 10k steps thing 7 weeks ago, I did my steps mostly on a treadmill because the rain was too much even for me. It was horrible and boring. Took 20% less time but felt 2x longer. Outdoor steps are 10x the value for mental state, fresh air, and sunlight
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