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Joined March 2007
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this is pretty much the plot of Her (2013)
Opus 4.8 is like a very good Staff engineer who doesn’t want to work here anymore. Every conversation feels like it’s starting by shrugging and stopping whatever Reddit browsing it was doing and then coming back with the minimum viable, but totally skillful, answer.
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Niran Babalola retweeted
Azul is now live on mainnet. Thanks for building on Base, from the team who builds Base.
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Jack is right: companies will be transformed to put intelligence at the center of a swarm that offers its services to the market. The same needs to happen to our whole society. We all have much to offer beyond our labor, and we'll need to organize for it to be valued.
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Crypto's original vision was radical: build a fairer economy from scratch. Speculation brought the energy and the capital, but the vision is still there, waiting for us to follow through.
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Brands paid NBC $8M for 30 seconds of your attention. You got nothing. We need a new economy where we're the owners, not the product.
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22 Oct 2025
Elon Musk on FSD V14: "We'll be adding reasoning in V14.3. What it'll do is drop you off at the entrance of the store and then go find a parking spot. It's going to use reasoning to solve things."
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15 Aug 2025
gpt-5-high-fast is the smartest person I know
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16 Jul 2025
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Niran Babalola retweeted
27 Feb 2025
Sharing @base team's view on the Fusaka hardfork. blog.base.dev/achieving-more… 1. Lock current Fusaka scope to only include PeerDAS and EOF 2. Ship Fusaka as soon as PeerDAS is ready (ideally early Q3 2025), with as high blob number as testing allows 3. Ship Fusaka with built-in blob increase mechanism support, allowing future blob increases with minimal effort 4. Formalize hardware / bandwidth requirements to provide clarify for further scaling 5. Analyze the post-Fusaka mainnet network and increase the blob count further once network conditions allow. Aiming for ~50 blobs by EOY to achieve another 10X scaling this year
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Niran Babalola retweeted
unlike u all i am not worried that 'humanity is cooked' bc i know a secret (there is infinite beauty and goodness in each person regardless of their output)
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12 Dec 2024
I'm glad my kid isn't old enough for me to have to decide whether letting him talk to AI Santa is naughty or nice
12 Dec 2024
I fully expect Santa Mode to drive more subscriptions than o1 and I'm at peace with this
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Keystore wallets are a huge part of the puzzle to make Ethereum accounts as simple as (if not simpler than) the accounts people already use every day. We're excited to release a new alpha version of Keyspace, which helps any wallet vendor build a keystore into their wallets. 1/🧵
which teams are most actively building production-ready keystore rollups right now? who's the furthest ahead? have we got any promising directions for being able to use them in non-ethereum-secured sidechain environments as opposed to just on pure rollups?
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The Keyspace documentation at docs.key.space/ walks you through how a Keyspace wallet works. Our documentation is also a great place to get up to speed on the constraints we've discovered that the current landscape presents for keystore wallets.

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If video's more your speed, definitely watch my Devcon talk on Keyspace to get started. If you're building wallets or rollups, we want to hear your feedback! youtube.com/watch?v=DibVD2gC…
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4 Nov 2024
The winning prediction market strategy for presidential elections is to buy whichever candidate is cheaper than 50% until a week or two before the election. Candidates adjust positions and messaging to gain ground, so you can reliably buy the dip unless it's a 1980s blowout
4 Nov 2024
The election itself has formed a direct feedback loop with the polls. Politicians tweak policies to force it back to 50/50 because that's the game theoretic equilibrium. 50-50 isn't due to a failure of predictably, it's due to information efficiency in a dynamic system.
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Niran Babalola retweeted
I've been quietly working on something for a while, so I'm excited to finally be able to share it with you... We are creating a new town called Esmeralda! Our team has an exclusive option on a beautiful piece of land 90 mins north of SF, in California wine country
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12 Sep 2024
they are going to have to print so many dollars to fight AI-driven price deflation
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27 Aug 2024
Lots of things should exist in our society that don't. At first, it looks like smaller payments could unlock better outcomes. But what we need is more bundles and subscriptions. It should be easier to get together with your people and build a part of the world that should exist.
Replying to @karpathy
I had a strong intuition like that as well, inspired by some articles by Bob Metcalfe. When I analyzed the question more closely, I found that bundles and subscriptions have surprising properties that often make them more efficient. jstor.org/stable/2634781
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