Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
Vertical integration is typically the dominant strategy when industries are in their early stages or undergoing significant transformation, when market structures are unclear, supply chains are underdeveloped, and new technologies are emerging. Companies that can control more of the value chain can introduce new products that the market needs... See more
Packy McCormick • Vertical Integrators: Part II
And so we arrive at the crux of the argument. DAOs are novelty search engines which can more efficiently explore a search space by enabling many cooperating teams to collect and integrate stepping stones.
Oliver Hunt • DAOs as novelty search engines
This is one of the fundamental errors of tech thinking.
For a certain class of problems caused by technology (e.g., climate change, traffic accidents, electrical fires), yes, the solution is more technology.
But for tech-induced human problems like loneliness, anxiety, depression,... See more
Nat Eliasontwitter.comStill, as Baszucki made clear, the goal is still actual social networking: surely that will always be better than interacting with an AI! Or will it? It seems to me that perhaps the most important constraint on the web — to actually interact with people as if they are, well, people — disappeared a long time ago.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
Samo's Law of Funding:
The more money an organization is supposed to give out, the less likely it is to fund unusual people.
Samo Burjatwitter.comEffective altruism’s strength lies in its infrastructure, which we can use to better understand how other idea machines work, what their impact will be, and what’s needed to make them more effective.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
I’m personally much more interested in machine intelligence as human augmentation rather than the oft-hyped AI assistant as a separate embodiment.
David Matthew Jones • Centaurs not Butlers
Let’s say Farcaster, or other Web 3 social media like it, wants to run ads for the free version of the product. Rather than going out and building an entire ads system (as Facebook and every other social media publisher had to), they can use the composability and permissionlessness of Web 3 to spin up monetization quickly. Assuming an attribution... See more
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Everything is an ad network
