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On the occasion of its official paperback release I wrote some reflections on EXADELIC: aiascendant.substack.com/p/reflections-…
Jon Evans
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Jon Evans
@rezendi
engineer / novelist, former journalist / CTO / co-founder / archivist / peripatetist / superintelligencist. Vanity site rezendi.com
- You: NFTs are a conceptual breakthrough the like of which the world has never seen before Yves Klein:
- "The researchers found that 24 of the brain samples, which were collected in early 2024, measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight."
- Replying to @MenshevikM and @NMamatasFun fact: I once shared a publisher with Pynchon, and said publisher explained he wasn't a recluse at all, he sometimes hosted parties etc., he just disliked journalists ... who then portrayed him as a hermit recluse, justifying his disdain.
- "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."BREAKING: Chris Wallace says Trump arrived too late to the debate to get tested and used the honor system.
- For possibly the first time ever I find myself agreeing with Seth Abramson.My 2019 would be officially made if one of the Democratic candidates spent their whole primary campaign campaigning against Mike Pence on the assumption Trump will not be in office in November 2020 It would be the ultimate troll, as Trump has no idea what to do when 100% ignored
- This child's opsec instincts are very impressive.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Replying to @rezendiNon-technical people may not appreciate just how good this analogy is. "A photo of a burned receipt for a space Imbued With Art" maps almost perfectly to "an on-chain URL to a no-longer-resolving JSON file which once included a sha256 hash of a digital artwork." Plus ça change!
- Replying to @natfriedman"He tried to conceive of a way to do something that took full use of that $1B and thought of his favorite childhood tale: Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” about a home in which the children’s imaginations are beamed onto the walls of their nursery."
- Replying to @CaseySemi cheating as this was a work trip, but: Svalbard seed bank selfie, less than eighteen months ago, feels like half a lifetime.
- You have to admit, "impoverished pariah nuclear state funds itself by hacking decentralized Internet money intended for a video game wherein gold farming is sharecropped out to Filipino & Venezuelan slums" is an _extremely_ @GreatDismal story
- It feels really unseemly to drag 94-year-old Noam Chomsky out to opine on a technology he and his co-authors clearly do not understand at all. He did some great work in his time, in multiple fields, let him enjoy his nineties in peace.
- Replying to @alicemazzyWhen Herodotus visited the Pyramids they were as old to him as he is to us
