🔧 Designed
@Dropbox
P2P
🚗 Founder
@TeleportXYZ
: Decentralized Rideshare.
Let's free the rideshare market so that drivers earn more and riders pay less.
Don't buy gasoline, it doesn't work anyway and in fact might cause your vehicle to be damaged without proper training, save the gas for the front line professionals who need it most
Here's why we build
@teleportxyz
on Solana:
* Highest active TPS in the industry.
* Cheapest transactions.
* Largest USDC liquidity among fast/cheap chains.
* Simple architecture with high data availability and composability.
* Decentralized.
* Fantastic Community.
1/n
Hearbreaking. Bob Lee
@crazybob
, CPO
@mobilecoin
& former CTO
@Square
, was tragically stabbed and killed in SF in SOMA last night around 2am. He had just moved to Miami and was only visiting for a day.
The term "Luddite" is derived from their alleged leader, "Ned Ludd" who was said to have broken stocking frames.
The term “Yuddite” derived from their alleged leader “El Yud”, who called for air strikes on datacenters to prevent chatbots from writing Harry Potter fan fiction.
"We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature."
"And here is what really surprised us: These patients did not report any sensation of breathing problems, even though their chest X-rays showed diffuse pneumonia and their oxygen was below normal. How could this be?"
My son 🙋🏽♂️was SO cute today, he asked me "Dad are L2s secure?" 😍 I told him they were secured by multi-sig. Then he asked "Dad, who are the keyholders?" and then I remembered I don't have a son and he asked again his eyes now obsidian black "where are the keyholders father"
Over the long term, every sufficiently large non-crypto tech company will be quasi-nationalized via licensing & regulation.
Thus we need decentralized finance, social networks, exchanges, identity, messaging — everything.
But these workloads vary, so we need multiple chains.
A year ago I decided to build on Solana.
People literally(!) quit friendships with me because of this decision.
I feel like this thing is a little bit more consensus now, but here's why
@teleportxyz
is built on Solana.
Here's why we build
@teleportxyz
on Solana:
* Highest active TPS in the industry.
* Cheapest transactions.
* Largest USDC liquidity among fast/cheap chains.
* Simple architecture with high data availability and composability.
* Decentralized.
* Fantastic Community.
1/n
The monolithic blockchain (
@solana
) vs multi-hub blockchain (
@Polkadot
,
@avalancheavax
,
@cosmos
, Eth-L2, ...) discussion are reminiscent of the old Linux vs Minix discussions.
Here's Andrew Tanenbaum (Creator of Minix) declaring Linux dead in 1992:
@BillAckman
@Harvard
This has been going on for quite a while.
Have you had a chance to read Peter Thiel and
@DavidSacks
's documentation of these same strategies at Stanford in the 1990s?
@ylecun
@EduardoSlonski
@DrJimFan
@RichardSSutton
The genome is just a bootloader. The data comes from physics level interactions. The amount of interactions needed to construct a cytoskeleton for one cell, never mind cell-cell-signal interactions to build a nervous system is adtronomical.
@FischerKing64
Paradoxically subsidies make having kids less desirable. To increase the birth rate you need to turn it back into something that’s high status.
Only when people complain that only the rich can afford 12 kids (like
@elonmusk
) will fertility go back up.
Most predictions of the future underestimate the impact cheap fusion energy would have on the world.
Want to desalinate large amounts of water? You got it.
Want to capture gigatons of carbon? Game.
Being afraid of a future based on today's technology is foolhardy.
@paulg
It’s a logistic not an exponential function. The growth looks momentarily exponential, but the system is running out of additional data to train on.
@octal
Our Plundered Planet, Road to Survival, Population Roads to Peace or War, The Population Bomb, and Limits to Growth are probably among the most destructive writings of the last century.
Money isn't the future of money, Barter is
This is one of my most heretical ideas in crypto.
Imagine this scenario:
* All you have are tokenized tomato futures $TOMATO.
* You want to buy an ebook from Fred.
* Fred only accepts payment in $APPLE apple stock.
As long as there…
JUST IN:
@FBISanJuan
says it is “evaluating the situation concerning the massive black out in Puerto Rico.” Fbi is asking “anyone with information to call 787-987-6500 or leave a tip online at ”
Regeneron and Remdesivir make sense for anyone in the early stages of COVID-19.
The president getting it is sensible. What’s not sensible is the FDA preventing everyone else from getting the same level of care.
@GaryMarcus
@elonmusk
@tegmark
@Grady_Booch
@AndrewYang
@tristanharris
The people who are afraid of the future have already successfully banned:
* Building more housing.
* Clean Nuclear Power
* Development of new cures
* A financial system that does not force you to gamble with your money.
* Airplanes that fly faster today than in the 70s.
This is…
Today, 35+ VC firms, with another 15+ companies, representing hundreds of billions in capital have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments from
@ResponsibleLabs
(RIL), the non-profit I co-founded. As Chairman of RIL, I’m proud to unveil this today with tech leaders and…
In town for Miami Tech Week? Friday night we’re taking a party bus from a secret member’s only bar to the SpaceX rocket launch at Kennedy space center.
DM to join. RT to amplify!
I haven't been this bullish on crypto in years.
And it doesn't have anything to do with price.
There's some really cool stuff you can buidl right now that you couldn't even a year ago!
All of religious writing is an open book to LLM AI, and they have a deeper understanding of the relations between all live and extinct languages than any scholar.
This opens up a new field: Computational Theology.
Could not be more excited for what's happening at
@teleportxyz
.
We're ridiculously close on several incredible announcements.
Theory is turning into reality.
Humans made Cabbage, Brussel sprouts, Kohlrabi, Kale, Broccoli, and Cauliflower all from a single plant (Brassica oleracea).
Humans made all the citrus fruits from 5 base citrus fruits (Pomelo, Citron, Mandarin, Citrus, Kumquat).
Humans are awesome.
A lot of people (outside SF) I talk to seem to have no direct acquaintances other than me who are concerned about the novel coronavirus.
Never been quite so apparent that most people think with emotions not data.
German clubhouse moderators constantly remind their audience of the room’s tight schedule and always close the room punctually on the hour.
Americans just chat whenever.
Microblockchains might be a cool idea in theory, but in practice a blazingly fast (
@jump_firedancer
) monolith is super convenient to develop for.
Simple is good in software.
This bit from
@thefiatstandard
is relevant here. If the Fed simply licensed basic safe 100% reserve banking, it would destroy the fractional reserve banking model of the fiat cartel.
Clubhouse is a real threat to Twitter.
New Users on Twitter have absolutely no chance of building an audience.
On Clubhouse you can join a room and instantly start building an audience by saying smart things.
This will lead to much faster adoption and lower churn.
@ThierryBreton
Europe is an entire continent of people trying to slow and reverse progress.
Europe’s biggest contributions to the world in the last 100 years were multiple wars and cookie warnings.
Few people realize yet just how incredible Solana's state compression tech is.
You can create 1 billion NFTs for as little as ◎3 SOL ($600).
The uncompressed equivalent would cost ◎25 million SOL ($4.6 Billion USD).
Narrative is the most powerful force in human activity.
Humans have a narrative bias. They believe in the best stories. This can be used or abused, but not ignored.
“By turning ride-sharing into a protocol, Teleport is building what we couldn’t build at Uber in 2010, and what Uber should be building today,” said
@ryonlife
, Uber's first engineer who also participated in
@teleportxyz
's seed funding.
@joekelly100
@ESYudkowsky
Ground-glass opacity lung lesions are not common unless you have lung cancer or something similar. 60+% of a cruise ship should not have ground-glass opacities.
Everyone is talking about AI.
But most people don't understand how human neural networks work.
I've spent 1,000s of hours studying human intelligence, and I've distilled it down into a few tweets:
@river_kenna
Asceticism can lead to a "will to nothingness" and a denial of life.
If meditation is to be helpful, it needs to serve self-mastery instead of subduing man's intrinsic drive to assert and express oneself, to grow, to achieve mastery, and to shape the external world.
Mass Demand for Monoclonal Antibodies could be one of the best things to come out of this crisis.
If there's enough demand, production techniques will improve and cost go down.
The ability to quickly produce and deploy antibodies for all diseases would change medicine forever.