Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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Assess the potential and spot the openings: “We spent a lot of time thinking about ‘What is the market for this?’ Spreadsheets have been around forever, but most of the time, people use them to track objects: people, companies, simple tables. They're not doing modeling and number crunching, which they were invented for,” says Ofstad. “And wh
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The intersection of AI and DAOs - Agent-based modeling is an area of ai research - Similar to governance mapping (which approaches this problem from the realm of economics). - Look at all of the agents in a system and what their capacities and goals are - Use massive simulations to understand the ways that participants could act - Or teach them how... See more
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
Vitalik Buterinvitalik.caTooling for DAOs and
Quotes:
“I’m talking to you,” he began, “because the old shit doesn’t work anymore.”
The established patterns for releasing music, going on tour, and putting work into culture, he explained, were no longer relevant. The infrastructure, the audiences, and the money just weren’t there.
“I don’t know where things are going,” he continued, “But I know the
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolizing digital ad spend, and even newsfeeds and search results are finite. Limited supply + growing demand = rising prices
Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition
What we’re seeing is AI emerge from the infrastructure layer to the application layer—the parts of technology that everyday people interact with.
digitalnative.substack.com • The TikTokization of Everything
AI is a long-term vision for Hats - For now they’re more focused on what is a role for a dao - Hats is narrowly focused on: what does a dao contributor need to do great work. - Eg - based on your hat, you should be able to parse the discord and see the relevant info to help you do your work
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
metalabels and
If everyone owns a slice of American value creation, everyone will want America to do better: collective equity in innovation and in the success of the country will align our incentives. The new social contract will be a floor for everyone in exchange for a ceiling for no one, and a shared belief that technology can and must deliver a virtuous circ... See more