You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation: If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it. But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

I don't want to escape the permanent underclass. I want to make sure there isn't a permanent underclass. Freedom and prosperity for all! Nothing less.

The new Ironwood pool offers a permanent fix to this entire bug class. Formal verification precisely solves the risk of edge-case between circuit specification and implementation. We verify the real implementation against the spec. This whole "migrating pools" already has to occur for quantum, its now happening one extra time to prove to everyone faster, that there was no hack

Incredible transparency and honesty from Zcash devs. I'm glad they found this issue and moved fast to help the network get secured. There isn't a better way to handle these issues.

it was *patched* by opus 4.8 with whitehats there is no known exploit and this will be provable with the next upgrade

I don't think any other crypto asset can ever be a 'digital gold' SoV except BTC. If BTC fails at this there won't be another one. A narrative of something else being 'better' because of tech features is a temporary thing, because there will always be a new better as the tech advances. Sure, something like zcash can run on its current narratives of privacy and quantum resistance, I'm not saying the top is in. But I don't think it has any case to be a long term SoV asset. What happens when Bitcoin suddenly gets it's shit together and upgrades to post-quantum next year? It instantly gets the market share back... that's what happens. And privacy is not necessary for a SoV and also has no moat, there will be many chains, many coins, that offer private transaction solutions (Near, Railgun, Monero and others already do). zcash feels like kaspa, bitcoin cash, etc. etc. all over again with the hot narrative buzzwords of today. It is possible to have other SoV's in crypto, but for other reasons than just existing as 'digital gold'. For example, the chain the secures the majority of the world's assets could be an SoV (Could be Eth in the future? or could be something else).

Huge milestone! You'll be able to privately vote from the wallets! Try it out on the NU7 scope vote June 10th!

We’re adding Zcash coinholder polling in @zodl_app with the first poll targeted for June. Soon, anyone using Zodl will be able to share their opinion on the direction of the Zcash protocol by voting their coins. The voting protocol will also be available for integration with other shielded ZEC wallets. The draft questions and timetable for the Zcash Network Upgrade 7 (NU7) poll are available here: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/n… Thanks to @zkDragon and his team for all their work building and helping us integrate the new voting protocol.

Zcash wouldn't exist without @zooko. He seeded the technical and cultural values of the project that have kept us vigilant in defense of its integrity. Much of Zcash's recent success has been because Zooko plays a less central role in the project, and it has decentralized and grown to transcend him. I think he would agree! But he is still a major spiritual force of the project, and an ally that wants it to succeed. Let's be mindful of the signal we send our next generation of risk takers, by how we treat his legacy. Zcash has a long road ahead of it, and no single one of us can carry it across the finish line. We're all liable to end up in @zooko's shoes one day. You do not want to be on the receiving end of the poetic justice served for the things you said when you were once on the winning team.