Severin Matusek

posting became policy

About his approach to crypto Got into crypto when he understood that it is an opportunity to define values numerically, to express them in a new medium, to build systems that respond to an input and desired output beyond just the growth rate or financial take of a system.

Imagining a world where a metalabel is a common paradigm that people create. Where the output is a little bit slower. Where there is more deliberation, more pairs of eyes on things. I think it’s just a healthier experience.

Peloponnesian War of Robot Overlords

To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.

I’m trying to figure out how to use generative AI as a designer without feeling like shit. I am fascinated with what it can do, impressed and repulsed by what it makes, and distrustful of its owners. I am deeply ambivalent about it all. The believers demand devotion, the critics demand abstinence, and to see AI as just another technology is to be a... See more

This is a chance to bring warmth and fun into an increasingly lonely and isolated world.

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