Sacha

Dit moet bovenal een herwaardering van klassieke moraliteit, liefdadigheid en de waarde van menselijk leven inhouden, evenals een verwerping van totalitarisme en de revolutionaire en utopische ideologieën en haar afgoden waaronder sociaal-darwinisme, globale dominantie, de socialistische utopie, de ‘volmaakte’ wetenschap en de mens zonder morele... See more

Despite of (or in fact, because of) all its constraints and weirdness, AI is perfect for idea generation. You often need to have a lot of ideas to have good ideas. Not everyone is good at generating lots of ideas, but AI is very good at volume. Will all these ideas be good or even sane? Of course not. But they can spark further thinking on your

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The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.

But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more

In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.

I recently sent an email that I wouldn’t have dared try a few years ago, along the lines of: “I’m planning to start an organization similar to yours; would you consider letting me run yours instead?” The response? Crickets.

All of my agency hacks are kind of like this—seeking out big, glaring edges that most people might rather ignore.

sBTC: a more secure Bitcoin bridge

In the next couple weeks, Stacks will release sBTC, a non-custodial 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset that operates as an open-network, decentralized 2-way peg solution to bring Bitcoin into Stacks with as little counterparty risk as possible. This has been a vision for years, and you’ve probably heard something about it... See more

Dit laatste leefde nog niet heel sterk tijden de latere jaren 40 of de jaren 50, maar is vooral tijdens de jaren 60 prominent geworden. Dat nationalisme en volksidentiteit onder Europese mensen slecht was, dat racisme en segregatie in de VS ook moest leiden tot een schuldcomplex onder mensen in Europa, dat ook toen bezette landen zich schuldig... See more