Resources

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.

Topic-Specific Toggle Lists

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The Metaverse

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Crypto x Gaming

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Autonomous Worlds

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Crypto More Broadly

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The Creator Economy

Interesting Links Archive

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Name	URL (Click Here)
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

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