Here is my conversation with @VitalikButerin. We talk about micro prediction markets, social networks, the world as a dense jungle, brain computer interfaces, and more. Timestamps: - 00:00 intro - 03:19 micro prediction markets, community notes - 15:15 social networks, zk identity, DF and Frogcrypto - 26:55 the dense jungle - 32:31 political instability, technology - 35:15 coordination and technology in climate - 37:15 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security - 45:03 timeline for the singularity - 53:38 living to a 1000 years old - 55:01 brain-computer interfaces - 01:03:17 Lojban Hope you enjoy, podcast links in my bio.

excited for runner launch! i like that it: - takes care of the harness engineering infra while still giving granular controls to the user - runs locally and can use the browser, see markdown files, etc - has @yitong product design

congrats pantograph on the launch! hanging out with this team is inspiring. they're building the full stack from hardware to software to the physical environments robots spend time in as they learn to interact with reality and each other.

two of my favorite things about interface0: - andy is ai-native, and i get to use the tools he's building for himself - andy is building in an ai-native way, which means the product evolves super quickly, in a way that's both fun to be a user of and also maybe gives a peek into what the future of product is going to be like more generally

Congrats to @sternhenri, @asta_li, @segall_max, and the whole privy team. I have a lot of respect and admiration for this team. They set out with a positively articulated point of view - building the scaffolding that allows users/developers to engage on sound foundations, where users have agency with their data and can move more freely across an interoperable web, which may seem small or idealistic but is actually a fulcrum that makes all the difference in how competition, market structure, innovation is shaped at above layers in the stack. And they not only articulated it, but they've made it happen. They built real technology with cryptography and other magic under the hood, they built product with taste/pragmatism, they built an institution that could do all this at increasing scale (I love the Privy values, eg "Scope, speed, quality—pick 2. We always cut scope."). It's been amazing to see them operate and I've learned a lot from them. Congrats again!

Big believer in this team and their vision for the future

Sincerely enjoyed the time I spent talking with @sinahab It's Nous, Psyche, what's going on with LLMs, the human mind, and how I personally align my work with my faith Was honored (and slightly intimidated) to join the cast of guests on Into the Bytecode, but it was a great experiece And oh yeah, I make a major numerical blunder in it. See if you can spot it 😅

Across is proud to announce a successful raise of $41M in a strategic token sale led by Paradigm (@paradigm) With participation from Bain Capital Crypto (@BainCapCrypto), Coinbase Ventures (@cbventures), Multicoin Capital (@multicoin), and Sina Habinian (@sinahab)

this team keeps taking it to the next level with their attention to detail and craft

we should bring back "the merge" for the human/ai project. it's also cool how the same names apply: frontier, homestead, serenity