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both should be extremely comfortable with roving bands of yappers (loose consensus but w/ a repeat indication of commitment).
when the union of these yappers is in one room, they should be able to coexist without collision.
fundamentally, I hope that any of these attempts at making the world both social and free (as in air) converge on the idea that humans need first places & want third places.
we should confront the insularity, which seems to be exacerbated by financial incentives. normal, resource-constrained people that are exposed to the elements do not act like this; coordination for them is a life-or-death proposition. I can't recommend something that lands us all in such a situation, nor do I wish this kind of experience on any of the teams that are working so hard on solving this entire layer.
but sort of like how Jensen Huang says "expectation = bad, miserable experience = good", I think that both communities will greatly benefit as we discern more cohorts to onboard, and the only way to do that sincerely is to do it with maximal discomfort. we have to be jester's privilege maximalists, and we need to show value in the face of skepticism or plain doomerism.
yappers solve this. let's deliberate that.
problem at hand is that we're consuming the product of time. there's always going to be a sense of self-interest (including corporate lobbying), but at the end of the day, the ultimate issue is that the planet's ecosystem is successive, more complex niches are filled by organisms that are more prone to extinction, and there's an adaptive ratio of living carbon, dead carbon, and atmospheric carbon that doesn't suit post-industrial humanity. reductively, fertilizing vacant parts of Earth to fixate more carbon shifts from atmo -> living, and on the other end, living carbon needs to be processed before it decomposes to atmospheric carbon. ideally, a conglomerate of corporations and governments would just focus on fertilization till fixation rate ≈ combustion rate. it just isn't memetic or lucrative enough to pursue in comparison to "using paper straws, taking shorter showers, using a manual toothbrush, or using cloth diapers to reduce your carbon footprint" (totally agree that it's a scam).
honestly, I just skip the straws whenever possible. bottles are the GOAT.
it would be extremely interesting if anyone made BEAN more of a forex protocol
nice find! unfortunately I don't have the 700 followers to mint membership
shared GIS/spatial metadata: github.com/google/s2geometry www.kaggle.com/datasets/max-mind/world-cities-database en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system we already have cheap EVMs, development for Ethereum scaling is locked in & compartmentalized, but does this global internet of value possess an open heatmap/bulletin board for any arbitrary exchange of goods & services? and I mean open as in the cost of indexing the local dispatcher is below the median daily expenditure. same with web3 social, from first principles. are a majority of online participants grouping together (frequently, cheaply, & unprompted) IRL to form deeper social graphs, is high-quality content getting indexed favorably on high-volume search engines, and is there enough conversion to keep the development of platforms in the public interest? Gaming could be a treasure trove of people casually blowing off steam & providing valuable input to a public good. Something like Dookie Dash copying an old-school flash game and slapping tokenomics on top doesn't cut it. Something that demands upfront purchase of NFTs like Stepn or Superlocal & rewards w/ some random token isn't sustainable. Aztec + zkrep is probably a trump card for DAOs. we haven't really seen groups of friends fundraise for REITs or SMEs, though that will be a huge catalyst for nimble teams to disrupt markets. we haven't really seen any major crypto projects deal with shipping or last mile usecases. the question is how crypto allows accountability with privacy, and tbqh I think the opportunity to invest in that dwarfs the collectibles & securities markets that we've seen in crypto so far. Perps are great for buffering volatility (like opyn's crab/zen bull), leverage is sometimes good for maximum cap (if checked by watchdogs constantly in zero-interest environment). Hopefully the market is efficient & risk-aware. same for liquid staking; hopefully post-shanghai is drama-free, and hopefully eigenlayer is bug-free.
agreed, if the collector can "escape the sandbox" and re-mirror the content themselves, they achieve a bargain. same thought I had about nesting collects, since any attacker is free to just reach the uppermost parent.