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After an inflation bug hit Decred on mainnet, projects claiming engineering rigor can no longer ignore AI red-teaming. Overconfidence won't protect consensus code.
Part of me is weirdly happy every time an LLM makes a mistake. A year ago, I would have been frustrated but now I see it differently. Over the last 18 months, I’ve watched these tools change how we...
It's been a few weeks since my last post, and I'm feeling the weight of the challenge I've undertaken. How do I build an intelligent AI system I can trust implicitly? Against the backdrop of this...
Continuing my quest to build a sovereign AI has led me down some fascinating rabbit holes. The challenge is simple to state and hard to execute: create an aligned, private, self‑sovereign assistant...
I’m a true believer in crypto as a tool for global self-sovereignty. After shutting down Laguna Games, I came to the realization that I only want to work with people who share this ethos. I’ve...
For most of the last century, if you wanted to coordinate talent and capital at scale, you built a factory of paperwork called a company. Today, AI is shrinking the cost of production. Blockchains...
I finally got around to reading "AI 2027" on LessWrong. It’s dramatic, and yes, obviously biased. But that’s what made it stick with me. You can feel the tension between fear and fascination, and...
Crypto doesn't need elaborate justifications. Its true value is simple: provide everyone globally with the easiest, lowest friction opportunity to make money. Whether preserving wealth, accepting...
We've all been there – clutching our crypto bags like sacred relics, whispering "they just don't get it" as markets punish our convictions. My Ethereum maximalism survived the 2018 crash, laughed at...
Like a lot of people, I first looked at Bitcoin years before I actually did anything about it. In 2014, I evaluated BTC for an international remittance payments startup—turns out, there wasn’t enough...
On January 22, 2025, I closed the book on an 8-year journey. Rebooted in 2020 from Beyond Games, Laguna Games set out to build mobile free-to-play games, landed a publishing deal with WB, turned down...