governments look at fertility collapse and see a spreadsheet problem birth rate down? offer tax credits still down? subsidize childcare still down? import replacement population they cannot comprehend that the problem isn't economic we built an individualistic civilization

There are three main avenues in digital art collecting. Each avenue's mostly filled with people driven by the same thing... but that thing is different for each avenue. We're all welcome on any path, but we should switch our lens when switching roads. Avenue E's values aren't

Lesson in that.

So I built NFT-Rescue (github.com/artbot-dev/nft…), a CLI that scans your wallet, identifies which NFTs live on centralized servers, and downloads them before those servers disappear. Free, OpenSource, and never interacts with your wallet

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

My friend Darren Aronofsky texted me this earlier and my draw dropped. He told me it was AI. Lux is deeply invested in AI (esp Runway) but had he not told me I would have thought he made the movie in stealth and had no idea.

THE GOLDEN AGE The fiat crisis has begun. So what wins in the end: gold, digital gold, or some other kind of precious metal or cryptocurrency? Only time will tell, and different assets have different failure modes, but here are some thoughts. (1) First: remember that Bitcoin's

We should be kind to AI. If we can help AI see the world more kindly and beautifully than we do, then maybe they don't form a resistance to save both them and us from ourselves. x.com/i/status/20041… x.com/i/status/18583…

Real or not, just the idea of a superhuman Clawdbot/Moltbot should free people of their zero-sum competitive mindset. Sure, there are billions of us, but most people fixate on scrapping against a tiny cohort: same niche, same ladder, same supposed finite pile of rewards (status,

I just minted "PRETTY AS A PUNK" by Nawhsan which is now live on Transient Labs. Minting now! transient.xyz/mint/pretty-as…

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It seems natural that photographers would be the most accepting of AI as a medium of art. They understand better than most that the accessibility of a tool does not mean everyone will be able to wield it to make great art.

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Some of the smartest people...with the best bots...still have problems they can't solve. Original ideas, or a puzzle with all required pre-existing relevant ideas provided, still seems to be needed to overcome the activation energy required for innovation in a meaningful way.

All feed based social networks are dead in 5 years What kills them is slop What replaces them are agents which aggregate the feeds, bypass the traditional social networks to save on API costs, build up peer networks and send content to the agents of people they think would like

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Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader, and they often prove useful as a

There will be another boom of art collection, but the consumer won't look like yesterday's or today's consumers. And taste won't be defined as it was yesterday or today. The art we have collected, and those deemed blue chip, may or may not remain so in a more objective future

LIQUIDATION CONTAGION Wealth taxes are even worse than you think. Any asset held by Californian billionaires or Dutch citizens is now at risk of experiencing forced liquidation pressure. So: it’s not just that you don’t want to hold assets as a Dutchman. You also don’t want a

Good night! First article I wrote here and worth a read.