Filthy @0xFilthy

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1/ CHECKPOINT, by @Minalisa1991 WHY I'M VOTING TL;DR - WOW A photographer in an unnamed country submitted an image of her body to a decentralized, borderless network society. The body stays captive. The image goes free — permanently honored, beyond any state's reach.

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Cozomo de’ Medici @CozomoMedici

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If you’re lost in life, turn to NFTs.

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1/ On p (doom) tl;dr a) Everyone is making up the numbers b) nobody knows anything (least of all the experts), c) don't worry about it d) there is nothing you can do to stop it e) most things you can do if you "worry" will end up being deeply counter-productive to your own interests f) on the margin, there are a couple of things you may consider 2/ p (doom) is the probability that the AGIs/ASIs kill us all People in the AI space have a lot of estimates about this, ranging from very low to absolute certainty that it is going to happen. You see them quoted in the news like this "Famed AI safety researcher / economist thinks that there is a 33% we are going to die but a 66% chance we will live in luxury techno-communism" 3/ I am here to reassure you that the number is definitely between 0% and 100% but other than that, all the other numbers are completely made up. 4/ True ASI is a gap in intelligence relative to us that is larger than you have from your favorite pet. Your pet may love you, may cuddle with you, may have some type of understanding that you are their "human" but has no useful views on LLMs or NFTs 5/ Likewise, if ASI is real which is what all these p (doom) scenarios assume, then a human economist's assessment (circa 2026) of p(doom) is about as useful as your cat's view on how Saylor is going to wiggle himself out of his empire of vibe-coded financial instruments. If your analyst insists otherwise, you can just tell them "well, it seems like you are not a true believer in ASI, if you think you can model an uber-intelligence of 600 IQ with your puny 140 IQ" 6/ Separately, people have estimates about which models may be dangerous to bring into the world. This is actually more useful because it allows you to see how well predictions age. Famously, Dario thought GPT-2 was "too dangerous" to release to the world and the OpenAI Board got all worked about the safety of GPT-4 class models and fired/unfired Sam broadly, putatively for that reason. I have no doubt these are all very smart people who know a lot about AI and mean very well, but obviously in retrospect that idea that GPT-2 and GPT-4 were some super danger to the world was, well, "extremely not true" 7/ Again, this is not a criticism. I sympathize with the people who are ushering in perhaps the most important technology in human history. It is a large responsibility, obviously risk is not zero, and they are naturally at some level worried at a personal, human level about the consequences if things go wrong. I am not sure I would want that level of responsibility. And because they are mathematically oriented people, one way to deal with this anxiety is to try to tame it with numbers and formulas. It is a math whiz's way to get comfortable with uncertainty, a form of coping mechanism. It is fine, just don't take any of the specifics seriously. 8/ I have been very tech-forward in general for a long time, I use $50K of inference each month and so naturally people ask me about AI. Mostly they ask me "6529, aren't you worried?" My answer is: "and what good would it do if I was worried?" Will Xi get a report that I am not sleeping so well in my (air-conditioned, thank you very much) southern European bedroom and change China's industrial strategy? Will Elon notice that I am stressed and cancel the data centers in space? No, none of this will happen. All that will happen is that I will be less happy, less productive and less of a contributor to my friends, family and society at large. 8/ This is the most important societal technology in human history, for both economic and military purposes. Nobody is going to stop working on it, nobody can risk stopping unilaterally and the dynamics of testing/verifying make it hard / impossible to enforce a global ban. 9/ If you get worried, you will do many things that are counter-productive to your own interests, such as: a) lobbying against data centers in your country b) lobbying for regulations to limit AI in your country c) not using AI yourself in your life 10/ By analogy, will be doing the following: It is 1850, some European has shown up in your country with a gun and you are still at the "bow and arrow" stage of military technology. You naturally get alarmed by guns (they suck and are scary) and decide to: a) ban production of guns in your country, b) ban Europeans from selling you guns and c) ban yourself from learning how to use a gun. 11/ Obviously all of this is deeply against your interests, but very welcome by the European with a gun. I remember when GPT-4 came out and the Italian regulator threatened to ban OpenAI from selling it in Italy. And all I could think was "FFS, your real risk is that the US government will ban OpenAI from selling you GPT 8; you should be lobbying for an access agreement, not a banning agreement" Turns out I was wrong and this has happened with GPT 5.6 12/ If you think that ASI/AGI is scary (like guns) and your geopolitical opponents have ASI/AGI, I regret to inform you that the correct move is to learn as quickly as possible how to use, deploy and ideally make your own ASI (the latter now out of reach for most countries) 13/ "6529, this is defeatist, if the people just unite, we will elect officials that will put ASI in a proper regulatory framework" Yes, we will build on humanity's long-standing success in getting everyone to turn in their knives, guns, tanks, fighter jets, ballistic missiles, drones and nuclear weapons to the 3rd grade schoolteacher by recess. You go ahead and let the Pentagon and PLA to turn in their AIs 14/ Also, since we mentioned regulation, your cat and your dog and your goldfish are pleased to inform you that they have developed a new regulatory framework for DeFi and look forward to Uniswap coming under their control and jurisdiction 15/ "Wait, do you think there should be no regulations on AI" - no, I have no doubt the Pentagon and NSA will have plenty of discussions with the frontier model providers on a variety of topics above my pay grade. What I am saying is that you specifically are unlikely to have the security clearance to productively contribute to those discussions, unless that you are currently involved in fighting nuclear proliferation and bioweapons. 16/ What I mean is this: I see that >50% of people in Europe and some very large % elsewhere are going to read these p (doom) type essays and also a bunch of gross mathematical errors about how much water data centers use or whatever and conclude that they specifically should not use AI and they should discourage their co-citizens from doing the same Which is very counter productive for them and the organizations they work for and their countries and will do literally absolutely nothing to change p (doom). 16/ You see, I don't know what p (doom) is but I can tell you what p (someone-is-going-to-compete-with-you-with-AI) is and that p is 100%. That someone may be a personal "competitor" or a "company" or a "nation-state" 17/ As with all major technology change (and if ASI is real, this is the biggest one of all), going early may be a big win, going fast follower may be ok and going late could lead to "extinction" History has not been kind to companies or countries that "missed" an industrial revolution. The EU has missed the internet altogether and is no longer a techno-economic peer to the United States. 18/ If the hard case, the doomer case of ASI is real, then no non-ASI-enabled organizations and societies will survive. It is impossible to compete without ASI with a competitor with ASI. You have to have your own and you have to believe in a world of balance of power. Should ASI be real, one sole ASI is extraordinarily dangerous to the world. A vast bazaar of ASIs may possibly generate some balance of power. 19/ We will find all this out in time, but in any case, it is hard to imagine that it is "your" personal / corporate / national interest to be the one without AI capabilities in that world. The very best case is that you will be a charity case in that world of gods-on-earth. The worst case is you will get a sympathetic paragraph in the future history books about how it was not very neighborly when the drone swarm disabled your national infrastructure and you had to accept very unpleasant terms to keep the lights on. 20/ I think my view is probably closest to OpenAI's view if I had to pick - that models should be deployed and diffused often, giving society the change to absorb change incrementally and as broadly as possible. And the open-source models are a good check on the ecoysystem. 21/ So, what can you do personally? Two things: a) Learn and use, as discussed above. It can only help you personally, there is no chance it will hurt you personally b) the number #1 medium-term risk from AGI/ASI is an engineered respiratory virus. that is this weekend's thread. hardening your life systems for that scenario is probably helpful on the margin 22/ tl;dr we are going to live the most interesting time in human history together, it is going to be a wild ride, it is better to be a proactive participant, and given all the above, you might as well decide to enjoy the ride 🫡😀

@demonegoo It was nice to collect some of your digital work. Wishing you well and hope your return to physical art inspires you in new ways. Also hope you find your way back to the digital world at some point.

Welcome to the @goodvibesclub crew to the most important ecosystem in web3! Happy to see new faces around here, cheers guys 🍻

6529 Collections @6529Collections

2 days ago

Phase 0 is live: the Top 200 SZN14 Memes Collectors (ranked by TDH), 33 random out of Top 100 Global TDH Memes Collectors are allowlisted.

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gm Thank you for the votes @0xFilthy and @1xharsh for your votes to "Age of Memes".

@hasangoktepe3d @1xharsh Love the detail on this piece. Incredible

0/ 6529 Network Society vs. 🇰🇷 6529 Network State dGDP was 8-47x South Korea’s per-capita GDP across their first 4 years -- "If you want to throw around the word “Network State”, then you need to toughen up and measure yourself by the same measure." - 6529 What an epic standard, and challenge! -- 1. What are GDP and dGDP? 2. Comparing 6529 vs. Chabad vs. South Korea 3. We Are So Luck To Be Alive Today 4. 1/1 No-Reserve Auction for benchmarking visualization (video preview below)

6529 @punk6529

7 months ago

1/ On Measuring Network States Do they exist? What are the conditions of success? And why those conditions are: decision-making ability, dGDP and NFTs? 2/ @balajis popularized the term so we can start with his definition “A network state is a highly aligned online

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Freedom Craig is officially joining The Memes by 6529. Mints Friday, June 26 at 10:40 AM EST. Season 15 · Card 514 Meme Name: Freedom to Transact Title: Freedom Craig Artist: @goodvibesclub Supply: 315 Mint Price: 0.06529 ETH Freedom to Transact is maximum vibes 🤙 6529.io/waves/b6128077…

gn from black wednesday🖤 i think finally tomorrow i will mint my first photo in transient, its so beautiful😭

Freedom Craig is ready for lift off! Our 6529 Meme Card submission is officially in the ecosystem. More soon 🤙

“Don’t Die” by @bryan_johnson and @6529er

Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson

5 days ago

The Midjourney scanner is revolutionary. There’s a bullish case that exceeds the most optimistic takes. I was at the unveiling and used the scanner myself. I personally want to experiment with a weekly whole body Midjourney scan to add to my 1.5 billion data points and let my AI

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@tommi_art @555elnaz Beautiful piece

@nftlady007 Welcome back. Hope the body is feeling better 🙏

There is still an enormous amount of top tier talent in the Ethereum Foundation. Many of the brightest minds in Ethereum are at the EF focussing on the cypherpunk core components: CROPS. There is only one Ethereum Foundation. But there are many other dimensions that brilliant Ethereum R&D teams will explore going forward.

jasperthefriendlyghost.eth @drjasper_eth

5 days ago

All the amazing talent that left the EF - now we know where they went. Some of the brightest minds in Ethereum are now focused on practical Ethereum. New era. New foundation. Same ETH.

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@malekanoms 🔥 some serious talent stacking on Ethlabs

A slept on 6529 superpower: The API and platform docs are open enough that AI can help builders design products on top of existing 6529 infrastructure. You do not have to manually read every endpoint, mechanic, or primitive before starting. You can ask AI to reason across the API docs and help map architecture decisions around Waves, identities (via Network Identity Check - NIC), TDH, and REP - these are not just website features. They are building blocks. It means a builder can go from: “I have an idea for a 6529-native product” to: “Here is how it could use existing 6529 infrastructure” A community member with an idea can use AI to reason through the docs and ask: How can this idea use Waves? How should REP or TDH affect trust? What data should be pulled from 6529? What should live in my own backend? How can we build an MVP to test the idea? That changes the builder surface area. You do not need to start from zero. You can build with the network’s existing primitives. Docs + APIs + AI + community imagination = more 6529-native products = more network value. This is how open infrastructure compounds. We should use it. "Brain is Yours To Control" by @rodritoh89

@VinnieHager @suparno67 Oh boy. Excited to see where the journey has taken you!