Resources
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Resources

Below is a reading list at the bottom of the page that I try to update on a regular basis.

At the bottom of the page are a few of my favourite pieces loosely categorized for getting a better understanding of what's going on out there on the interwebs.

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Recent Links

Name
URL (Click Here)
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz
On EAโ€™s Next Act and Its Vision for Sports & Sports Fandom โ€” MatthewBall.co
Sora: Clipping to Cloning
Countering the Digital Silk Road
Hello, World Models!
Rise of the Black Dragon
Notes: A Brief History of Intelligence (Bennett)
long degeneracy
America Is Missing The New Labor Economy โ€“ Robotics Part 1
What Are Virtual Cells?
AI x crypto crossovers
No Rivals: The Founders Fund Story
Humanoid Robots
Quantum computing: What, when, where, how - a16z crypto
Dario Amodei โ€”ย The Urgency of Interpretability
Dario Amodei โ€” Machines of Loving Grace
Paradigm Shifts
AI 2027
The World's RL Gym
The Techno-Industrial Revolution
The Narrow Pipe: Why AI Can't Scale Until It Solves Reliability
Dwarkesh Patel on X: ".@satyanadella on: - why he doesnโ€™t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth - Microsoftโ€™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
Deep Research and Knowledge Value
AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel
Dan Hendrycks on X: "Weโ€™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. ๐Ÿงต https://t.co/Q7FbWa3pOk" / X
Gradual Disempowerment
The Hand-off Problem
Freysa: The AI That Owns Itself
Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person
A Bitcoin L2 Thesis - DBA
ai16z, ELIZA and the Bazaar of Agents
Dario Amodei โ€” Machines of Loving Grace
Eliza Daydreams: A New Blueprint for Onchain Gaming Agents on Bankless
By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI โ€” LessWrong
Setting Your Pet Rock Free. - NOUS RESEARCH
Web 4
Onchain Utility AI: A Litepaper
Burn Notice
Doโ€™s and Donโ€™t For Play to Airdrop Campaigns
The Kremlin Has Entered Your Telegram Chat
Jonatan Pallesen on X: "The genetics of milk drinking" / X
State-of-the-art in Decentralized Training
On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed โ€” MatthewBall.co
Blockchain in the age of LLMs
Prime Intellect // State-of-the-art in Decentralized Training
endoftheworld.txt :: Crypto x AI โ€” 1kx
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A Technology Primer | Monoceros
An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Manufacturing Intelligence โ€“ Stratechery by Ben Thompson
monoceros.com/insights/zero-knowledge-proofs-a-technology-primer
Dungeons and Dojos: Exploring Onchain Game Development with MUD and Dojo
Modding worlds: Building Hexcraft with Downstream โ€” 1kx
Blockchain Stuff on App Stores: What You Can and Canโ€™t Do โ€” In Plain English - Double Coconut Blog
Framing the Future of the Internet
Parallel Bets, Microsoft, and AI Strategies โ€” MatthewBall.co
The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 โ€” MatthewBall.co
The Puritans of Venture Capital - by Kyle Harrison
AVC | Read Write Own
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
Framing the Future of the Internet
Why Farcaster Frames are important
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
Assimilating the BORG: A New Cryptolegal Framework for DAO-Adjacent Entities | by Delphi Labs | Apr, 2023 | Medium
The Age of AI and our Human Future book review | The TLS
The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
A Malleable Web | oio.land
"I am Bing, and I am evil" - by Erik Hoel
Five Levels of Generative AI for Games | by Jon Radoff | Building the Metaverse | Jan, 2023 | Medium
Stating the Obvious #3: Web3 is... โ€” Avi
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time
Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021.
More than semantics: "crypto" vs. "web3" is about what will be decentralized
A New Year's Letter from the President | SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS
Why the super rich are inevitable
Crypto/Web3 Startup Ideas (2023 Edition)
The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni
Who Wins the AI Value Chain? - Napkin Math - Every
Life After Lifestyle
Internet Shutdowns | Jigsaw
Consciousness may rely on quantum entanglement - Big Think
Artificial Intimacy - Cybernaut - Every
Game-Developer-Report-by-Game7.pdf
The MacGuffin, Part 1 - Epsilon Theory
Blockchain Gaming Q3 2022 Report: New Frontiers And The Path Forward โ€” Naavik
Ways to think about a metaverse โ€” Benedict Evans
When Tokens Shape Behavior - Unsyndicated by Mason Nystrom
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
The Crypto Winter of 2022. Crypto-currency crashes and networkโ€ฆ | by Andre Cronje | Oct, 2022 | Medium
Letter 31: How We Onboard Billions to Web3
Why Spindl(e)? - by Antonio Garcรญa Martรญnez - Spindl Blog
The Endgame of Web3 Gaming. The โ€œfinal bossโ€ of web3 gaming isnโ€™tโ€ฆ | by Sam Peurifoy | Aug, 2022 | Medium
Crypto Gaming and NFTs: A Nuanced Perspective
Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon - LessWrong
Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom
Anatomy of the State | Mises Institute
Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war - LessWrong
Web3 User Study - Coda Labs
Ethereum's New โ€˜Stakingโ€™ Model Does Not Make ETH A Security. - Paradigm
Why Twitter is a Musk-Have
Market Map of the Metaverse. In my article on the value-chain of theโ€ฆ | by Jon Radoff | Building the Metaverse | Medium
Play-to-Earn: Do We Really Need Blockchain for Web3 Gaming?
Crypto Gaming: A Most Practical Thesis | by Arad | Collab+Currency | Aug, 2022 | Medium
Gwern's Most Important Writing (in essays, tweets, book reviews, and other forms) - Alexey Guzey
The right to never be forgotten
Averting Cambridge Analytica in the Metaverse: Identity, Privacyโ€ฆ โ€” Anastasia
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh Rao
Tripping on Oxygen: Holotropic Breathwork - Tripsitter
Ontological Shock โ€“ The Forest Dark
Default Alive or Default Dead?
Rogaway โ€“ Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Book review: The Metaverse and how it will revolutionize everything
Game Cultures of Collecting - The Ontological Geek
Battle Passes - Everything You Ought to Know and Then Some โ€” Deconstructor of Fun
Part 3: StarkNet Token Design. In this post we dive deeper into theโ€ฆ | by StarkWare | StarkWare | Jul, 2022 | Medium
Part 1: StarkNet Sovereignty: A Decentralization Proposal | by StarkWare | StarkWare | Jul, 2022 | Medium
How Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Fell Apart (3AC) - Bloomberg
Post-game, thatโ€™s wen token - by Jon Jordan - GamesTX
What do I think about network states?
Yield Guild Games: Update and Outlook โ€” Naavik
Axie Infinity and Polygon leaders tackle the bear market in crypto, NFTs, and blockchain games | VentureBeat
Trending to Zero - Jords

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