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Stephen Pimentel

@stephenpiment
10 posts
2023-03-31
We had two shots at breaking out of the Great Stagnation: nuclear power and AI. Climate activists effectively killed nuclear power (and our best hope of slowing climate change). Now a strangely similar ideology is trying to kill AI.
2023-03-31 View on X
VICE

Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal

I marvel the technology.  But. … Kyle Dent : An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity...

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2022-01-10
A key takeaway: “We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

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This critique of web3 from @moxie is the best I've read so far. He doesn't say: * it's mostly a scam, or * blockchains are worthless. He takes a detailed look at the present architectures for dApps and wallets and shows how they are technically lacking. https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

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2022-01-09
This critique of web3 from @moxie is the best I've read so far. He doesn't say: * it's mostly a scam, or * blockchains are worthless. He takes a detailed look at the present architectures for dApps and wallets and shows how they are technically lacking. https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-09 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

The word “server” imo is not very useful in the blockchain context; it combines together a bundle of concepts that are best treated separately.

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A key takeaway: “We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.
2022-01-09 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

The word “server” imo is not very useful in the blockchain context; it combines together a bundle of concepts that are best treated separately.

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2022-01-08
A key takeaway: “We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.
2022-01-08 View on X
Moxie Marlinspike

How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”  I don't think I've ever actually said the words …

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This critique of web3 from @moxie is the best I've read so far. He doesn't say: * it's mostly a scam, or * blockchains are worthless. He takes a detailed look at the present architectures for dApps and wallets and shows how they are technically lacking. https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-08 View on X
Moxie Marlinspike

How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”  I don't think I've ever actually said the words …

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2020-09-19
It is well known that expertise in computer science conveys expertise in politics, and you should treat that expertise as authoritative, as you should all Science. https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-19 View on X
New York Times

24 of 35 living American Turing Award winners, including Alphabet chair John Hennessy, endorse Biden, citing the harm of Trump's immigration policies to tech

Cade Metz / New York Times :

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2019-10-20
Excellent analysis from the perspective of @bryan_caplan's signaling theory. Not so much a critique of Lambda School (which is awesome at what it does) as a broader look at education. Y Combinator, Not Lambda School, Is Unbundling Education https://medium.com/...
2019-10-20 View on X
CNET

Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image

About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.

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2019-08-28
Journalists have fallen into a sloppy framework in which some basic web technology and business models have been coded as “bad,” leading to incoherent critiques. This Stratechery piece unpacks some of that. Privacy Fundamentalism https://stratechery.com/...
2019-08-28 View on X
Stratechery

Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong

and this is exactly the kind of fallout we're preventing with our Privacy Sandbox proposal. https://stratechery.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This makes some fine points on t...

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