For my local-first and distributed systems friends...

ZK proofs may not feel relevant yet, but they will be soon. ZK proofs let an untrusted computer succinctly prove it did some known work.

You could use ZKs to prove
- that a binary was compiled from specific source code
-…

AI safety needs to consider how governments will abuse AI.

History shows again and again they do not care about accuracy or pro-human alignment if it provides a narrative to accomplish their goals.

muslim and arab (especially palestinian) colleagues in the tech community i've spoken with feel uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, often out of fear of retaliation and damaged career prospects.

our industry should be united in our support of these colleagues;…

We must prepare for a world in which unaligned models exist, either because threat actors trained them from scratch or because they modified an existing model. We must instead look to defend the attack surfaces that attackers might target using such models aisnakeoil.com/p/model-alignm…

Thinking a lot about centralization and decentralization these few days.

Solidity coders 🤝 AI coders

Getting sued for posting code governments don’t like

important: 50% of your job being done by GPT does not necessarily mean 50% layoffs!

now if you’re a copywriter on the other hand…