A few of my favourite pieces loosely categorized for getting a better understanding of what's going on out there.
I also include a reading list at the bottom of the page that I try to update on a regular basis.
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Interesting Links Archive
Q2 ‘22Q1 ‘22Q4 ‘21Q3 ‘21Q2 ‘21Q1 ‘21Name | URL (Click Here) |
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Countering the Digital Silk Road | www.cnas.org |
Hello, World Models! | lsvp.com |
Rise of the Black Dragon | balerionspace.substack.com |
Notes: A Brief History of Intelligence (Bennett) | scyy.fi |
long degeneracy | oldcoinbad.com |
America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 | semianalysis.com |
What Are Virtual Cells? | centuryofbio.com |
AI x crypto crossovers | a16zcrypto.com |
No Rivals: The Founders Fund Story | www.generalist.com |
Humanoid Robots | www.citriniresearch.com |
Quantum computing: What, when, where, how - a16z crypto | a16zcrypto.com |
Dario Amodei — The Urgency of Interpretability | www.darioamodei.com |
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace | darioamodei.com |
Paradigm Shifts | joincolossus.com |
AI 2027 | ai-2027.com |
The World's RL Gym | www.symbolic.capital |
The Techno-Industrial Revolution | www.notboring.co |
The Narrow Pipe: Why AI Can't Scale Until It Solves Reliability | mira.network |
Dwarkesh Patel on X: ".@satyanadella on:
- why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth
- Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models
- whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the other way around
Links below. Enjoy!
Timestamps
0:00:00 - Intro https://t.co/ywwCsPn1xd" / X | x.com |
Deep Research and Knowledge Value | stratechery.com |
AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel | vitalik.eth.limo |
Dan Hendrycks on X: "We’ve found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems.
For example they value lives in Pakistan > India > China > US
These are not just random biases, but internally consistent values that shape their behavior, with many implications for AI alignment. 🧵 https://t.co/Q7FbWa3pOk" / X | x.com |
Gradual Disempowerment | gradual-disempowerment.ai |
The Hand-off Problem | blog.init4.technology |
Freysa: The AI That Owns Itself | www.chainofthought.xyz |
Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person | slatestarcodex.com |
A Bitcoin L2 Thesis - DBA | dba.xyz |
ai16z, ELIZA and the Bazaar of Agents | www.chainofthought.xyz |
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace | darioamodei.com |
Eliza Daydreams: A New Blueprint for Onchain Gaming Agents on Bankless | www.bankless.com |
By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI — LessWrong | www.lesswrong.com |
Setting Your Pet Rock Free. - NOUS RESEARCH | nousresearch.com |
Web 4 | goodalexander.com |
Onchain Utility AI: A Litepaper | atlas.atherlabs.com |
Burn Notice | medium.com |
Do’s and Don’t For Play to Airdrop Campaigns | huntersedge.substack.com |
The Kremlin Has Entered Your Telegram Chat | www.wired.com |
Jonatan Pallesen on X: "The genetics of milk drinking" / X | x.com |
State-of-the-art in Decentralized Training | www.primeintellect.ai |
On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed — MatthewBall.co | www.matthewball.co |
Blockchain in the age of LLMs | www.propellerheads.xyz |
Prime Intellect // State-of-the-art in Decentralized Training | www.primeintellect.ai |
endoftheworld.txt :: Crypto x AI — 1kx | mirror.xyz |
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A Technology Primer | Monoceros | www.monoceros.com |
An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Manufacturing Intelligence – Stratechery by Ben Thompson | stratechery.com |
monoceros.com/insights/zero-knowledge-proofs-a-technology-primer | about:blank |
Dungeons and Dojos: Exploring Onchain Game Development with MUD and Dojo | www.bitkraft.vc |
Modding worlds: Building Hexcraft with Downstream — 1kx | mirror.xyz |
Blockchain Stuff on App Stores: What You Can and Can’t Do — In Plain English - Double Coconut Blog | blog.doublecoconut.com |
Framing the Future of the Internet | www.notboring.co |
Parallel Bets, Microsoft, and AI Strategies — MatthewBall.co | www.matthewball.vc |
The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 — MatthewBall.co | www.matthewball.vc |
The Puritans of Venture Capital - by Kyle Harrison | investing1012dot0.substack.com |
AVC | Read Write Own | avc.xyz |
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications | vitalik.eth.limo |
Framing the Future of the Internet | www.notboring.co |
Why Farcaster Frames are important | blog.spindl.xyz |
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" | www.semianalysis.com |
Assimilating the BORG: A New Cryptolegal Framework for DAO-Adjacent Entities | by Delphi Labs | Apr, 2023 | Medium | delphilabs.medium.com |
The Age of AI and our Human Future book review | The TLS | www.the-tls.co.uk |
The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time | time.com |
A Malleable Web | oio.land | oio.land |
"I am Bing, and I am evil" - by Erik Hoel | erikhoel.substack.com |
Five Levels of Generative AI for Games | by Jon Radoff | Building the Metaverse | Jan, 2023 | Medium | medium.com |
Stating the Obvious #3: Web3 is... — Avi | mirror.xyz |
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time | time.com |
Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021. | www.holoniq.com |
More than semantics: "crypto" vs. "web3" is about what will be decentralized | jessewalden.com |
A New Year's Letter from the President | SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS | www.hd.square-enix.com |
Why the super rich are inevitable | pudding.cool |
Crypto/Web3 Startup Ideas (2023 Edition) | alliancedao.notion.site |
The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni | experimentalhistory.substack.com |
Who Wins the AI Value Chain? - Napkin Math - Every | every.to |
Life After Lifestyle | subpixel.space |
Internet Shutdowns | Jigsaw | jigsaw.google.com |
Consciousness may rely on quantum entanglement - Big Think | bigthink.com |
Artificial Intimacy - Cybernaut - Every | every.to |
Game-Developer-Report-by-Game7.pdf | cdn.game7.io |
The MacGuffin, Part 1 - Epsilon Theory | www.epsilontheory.com |
Blockchain Gaming Q3 2022 Report: New Frontiers And The Path Forward — Naavik | naavik.co |
Ways to think about a metaverse — Benedict Evans | www.ben-evans.com |
When Tokens Shape Behavior - Unsyndicated by Mason Nystrom | nystrom.substack.com |
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine | www.bloomberg.com |
The Crypto Winter of 2022. Crypto-currency crashes and network… | by Andre Cronje | Oct, 2022 | Medium | andrecronje.medium.com |
Letter 31: How We Onboard Billions to Web3 | zeneca33.substack.com |
Why Spindl(e)? - by Antonio García Martínez - Spindl Blog | blog.spindl.xyz |
The Endgame of Web3 Gaming. The “final boss” of web3 gaming isn’t… | by Sam Peurifoy | Aug, 2022 | Medium | sampeurifoy.medium.com |
Crypto Gaming and NFTs: A Nuanced Perspective | galaxyrtk.substack.com |
Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom | themarket.ch |
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon - LessWrong | www.lesswrong.com |
Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom | themarket.ch |
Anatomy of the State | Mises Institute | mises.org |
Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war - LessWrong | www.lesswrong.com |
Web3 User Study - Coda Labs | codaplatform.com |
Ethereum's New ‘Staking’ Model Does Not Make ETH A Security. - Paradigm | www.paradigm.xyz |
Why Twitter is a Musk-Have | blog.lopp.net |
Market Map of the Metaverse. In my article on the value-chain of the… | by Jon Radoff | Building the Metaverse | Medium | medium.com |
Play-to-Earn: Do We Really Need Blockchain for Web3 Gaming? | beincrypto.com |
Crypto Gaming: A Most Practical Thesis | by Arad | Collab+Currency | Aug, 2022 | Medium | medium.com |
Gwern's Most Important Writing (in essays, tweets, book reviews, and other forms) - Alexey Guzey | guzey.com |
The right to never be forgotten | www.thepullrequest.com |
Averting Cambridge Analytica in the Metaverse: Identity, Privacy… — Anastasia | ana.mirror.xyz |
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh Rao | studio.ribbonfarm.com |
Tripping on Oxygen: Holotropic Breathwork - Tripsitter | tripsitter.com |
Ontological Shock – The Forest Dark | www.theforestdark.com |
Default Alive or Default Dead? | www.paulgraham.com |
Rogaway – Moral Character of Cryptographic Work | web.cs.ucdavis.edu |
Book review: The Metaverse and how it will revolutionize everything | superjoost.substack.com |
Game Cultures of Collecting - The Ontological Geek | ontologicalgeek.com |
Battle Passes - Everything You Ought to Know and Then Some — Deconstructor of Fun | www.deconstructoroffun.com |
Part 3: StarkNet Token Design. In this post we dive deeper into the… | by StarkWare | StarkWare | Jul, 2022 | Medium | medium.com |
Part 1: StarkNet Sovereignty: A Decentralization Proposal | by StarkWare | StarkWare | Jul, 2022 | Medium | medium.com |
How Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Fell Apart (3AC) - Bloomberg | www.bloomberg.com |
Post-game, that’s wen token - by Jon Jordan - GamesTX | gamestx.substack.com |
What do I think about network states? | vitalik.ca |
Yield Guild Games: Update and Outlook — Naavik | naavik.co |
Axie Infinity and Polygon leaders tackle the bear market in crypto, NFTs, and blockchain games | VentureBeat | venturebeat.com |
Trending to Zero - Jords | jords.substack.com |