Imagine creating an entire painting by typing a few sentences.
AI tools like Stable Diffusion will forever change how people create art.
But will AI help or hurt artists?
And what lessons can we learn from history on how this will play... See more
Being stuck within the Groups system was constraining, and most users had trouble discovering groups, joining them, and finding items. This meant that we faced the twin marketplace issues of limited seller liquidity and difficult buyer discovery. Buyers told us in research studies that they couldn’t find the items they wanted, and sellers felt that... See more
Being both imaginative and determined is a powerful combination because it's so rare — so many imaginative people are dreamy and ineffective, and so many determined people are merely energetic robots.
DeFi, non-fungible token and metaverse users have for the most part deprioritized privacy, as the unprecedented opportunities have dominated other concerns. At the same time, it is difficult to provide true privacy while retaining the composability required to participate in complex transactions. As a result, protocols offering anonymous... See more
Now, the digital economy doesn’t use 0 resources; you have to build the cables, launch the satellites, fabricate the chips, run the servers, and so on. But if the digital economy allows people to derive value from information in cyberspace rather than from physical stuff in the real world, it can increase GDP while cutting resource use.