Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
The group chat doesn’t have the same feeling of presence or provide an environment to interact with that in-person hangouts do.
Ian Vanagas • The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
1) What are the inputs to the function approximator?
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
Literal access: Either you have access to what is behind the NFT or not. Psychological access: a signal of crypto interest, creates opportunities, ingroup.
Ian Vanagas • NFTs Are All About Access
If you’re familiar with the “Great Filter”; this is our great filter. If we go inward, we will never find that intelligent life beyond, or won’t be around for that intelligent life to find us.
Jake Cooper • The Inward Draw of Capitalism
Money makes games hyper realistic. More real than real.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Shared creativity is a powerful force.
Anton Troynikov • Remixable Software - Guest Post
In any civilization, an age can be measured by whether or not the best and brightest are applying their talent and wealth to make that civilization work better, to inculcate patriotism, to build and improve institutions, and improve the lives of their fellow citizens.
Joe Lonsdale • Jefferson and America's Lost Idea: Natural Aristocracy
The state is not actually interested in the rich functional structure and complex behavior of the very organic entities that it governs (and indeed, is part of, rather than “above”). It merely views them as resources that must be organized in order to yield optimal returns according to a centralized, narrow, and strictly utilitarian logic.