Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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The major consumer applications of AI will lean heavily into sophisticated recommendations that anticipate your wants and desires before you even know them—in the same way that the TikTok For You Page has shown people that they’re gay before they themselves have even arrived at that realization.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
- What was the aha moment for Scott with crypto?
- Scott was aware of crypto early, but very skeptical. Saw that everyone was trying to decentralize just for the sake of it. But decentralization has costs. Centralized entities are often more effective in coordinating interaction.
- His opinion started to change with examples of use-cases where tech was
Sari Azout • Market Design Masterclass ft. Scott Kominers
Early on, the way we approached our go-to-market was opposite of what most companies do, which is start with a super niche audience, find them, target them and expand to new markets
We started completely horizontal with a blank-slate product, and we got more and more narrow with our focus on landing customers over time. We started seeing organic
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Key Ideas
The core question explored in this post: do highly decentralized DAOs work, or should their governance start to more closely resemble trad corporations?
Vitalik's main point: there are certain use cases where decentralization is very important. There may be a relatively small number of these orgs, but they will be the very important ones.... See more
The core question explored in this post: do highly decentralized DAOs work, or should their governance start to more closely resemble trad corporations?
Vitalik's main point: there are certain use cases where decentralization is very important. There may be a relatively small number of these orgs, but they will be the very important ones.... See more
Vitalik Buterin • DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
Dao efficiency parity forecast. The flipenning of DAOs creating more value than tradcos - Tradcos learn linearly - DAOs have strong network effects, both internally but also learning from each other. This creates an exponential learning rate.- We're still early in DAOs. Figuring stuff out - Bitcoin is a dao - We’ve learned about Governance tokens -... See more
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
What we’re seeing is AI emerge from the infrastructure layer to the application layer—the parts of technology that everyday people interact with.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Perhaps no use of AI is more visible to more people than TikTok’s For You Page. They have pioneered using AI to create incredible recommendations.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Imagine a company that combs your camera roll and—with stunning accuracy—recommends a new wardrobe for you. Or the company simply asks you to link your Instagram account, and then it digests every like and follow you’ve ever made to deliver incredibly accurate, incredibly personalized fashion recommendations.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
By combining multiple works, kinds of work, and the creators’s contexts in one bundle, onchain records provide creators a format that reflects the multi-medium, multi-message, worldbuilding reality of releasing creative work today, while also creating a canonical record of that work’s existence.