this is the thing; decentralization is not cheap
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yeah it was a pretty big lift; it has been on my to do list for a long time but it basically means rebuilding large parts of the manifold website
This is amazing!
e.g. this means that you know you can always mint to your manifold contracts even if manifold "goes away" (again, I am not saying they are going away; it is a belt and suspenders thing)
I want to see if we can generalize it and make it as part of a toolkit for all artists for the same decentralization reasons
This is great for network decentralization and in fact necessary, but after we use it for a while
7/ @[prxt0] is very close to shipping something very interesting on the admin side -> has been on our to-do list forever. you know how we have our own page for minting the memes manifold contract (where you mint a meme card)? well we have been using the manifold admin interface to do the setup and strictly speaking that is a centralization point and an external dependency. while I do not think the manifold website is about to disappears, along the fullness of time, you can't depend on it.
so we have built this in our codebase to go directly to the contract
1/1 indeed! child and parent!
6/ congrats @[gpebbles] on the mint!!!!
5/ it is March 1 and we have not hit our 25% target of cards that do things. @[6529er] needs to give me some love before I turn to nano banana in shame! @[6529Guardian] also has undone homework assignments
We are going to meet our target so we need to get our shit together
4/ we need to build decentralized (higher order) systems for all the obvious reasons
3/ I am not sure what the Chinese open source strategy means for this, but so far they are only open-sourcing things that are pre-ASI. I don't know that they would open-source an actual ASI
2/ for 13 years now, I repeat: crypto is decentralizing; AI is centralizing. I think this is inevitable
worst case they get (effectively) nationalized - I don't mean the government is going to take their shares or anything; I don't think they care about that. but they do care about someone summoning a god
The best case for them is they become something like Lockheed Martin on this topic (independent, but ok Lockheed Martin is not allowed to sell F-35s to whoever they want or decide who gets to use F-35s and how)
Obviously the federal government is going to take an extreme interest in such a thing
Well, ok, let's say it is true (because they say it is true)
They have said over and over and over again that they are summoning superhuman powers that might a) given unbeatable national superiority or b) kill everyone
They are not Aunt Sally baking cookies and selling them for a profit
Based on their own extremely loud statements, they are not normal companies
At the end of the day, they live in a country, the country has laws, police, military, etc
1/ DoW vs frontier AI labs. This is going exactly as predicted and I will go one step further. It is completely imaginary that they will be able to resist nation-state control if they really deliver ASI
so, many things
lots of tech stuff to catch up on
will be back this weekend
was on the road for a week
yo
first draft that we are ready to show you on curation-style wave (takes a link from Opensea, Foundation, SuperRare, Manifold, Transient)
https://6529.io/waves/d031dbdc-6311-4431-9037-44fc1e5e1d49
let's kick it around over the weekend, make suggestions to @[simo] and we will refresh next week and start for real!
we know the some media is too big and there is some shimmering - we will work on this
what? can someone catch me up?
i've thought so much about rep over the years
@[simo] update - almost there
https://x.com/punk6529/status/2023468828026626363
AWS is on and off down
LOL so X is down again just as my drop went live
sorry to hear that
but at 80, tbh, and overweight and one lung, i am preparing for "the call"
was not happy with the art curation wave - poor @[simo] has been sent back to the mines - maybe EOD tomorrow we are ok
i will set up the collection vault too
expect to have a v0.1 of art curation thing running tomorrow thanks @[simo]
https://media.tenor.com/dk14TWjRq5AAAAAC/bravo-gif.gif
maybe one day we'll integrate
and the view of the consolidated addresses
yes of course - the thing I love though is the network metrics!
you can mint on behalf of whatever wallet you choose. And in the case of cold wallets, you can use your hot wallet to mint to your cold wallet without ever connecting your cold wallet
yeah he is future-pilled
makes me think he might be one of the people in that group of navals,balijis,dixons that would get it
mostly because we were not sure what else to do
it is like a meme card edition of 1000
i still don’t own one but i’d like to add to my collection, and was wondering how many tdh earn x day. i was just curious and didnt find anything 😅
not just wow, Shamwow! achieved
have we hit ‘wow’ now?? :punkshake:
not on individual pebbles?
hey punk, where i can find tdh rate of pebbles?
truly love this so much
i love this - this is best practice minting experience gg @[prxt0]
have not!
have you had the pleasure of chatting to sir elon about the vision here and the actual daemon?
i love this - this is best practice minting experience gg @[prxt0]
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2021632774013432061?s=20
great card on the concept underlying red pill blue pill
we should be able to make an inspired by but not copyright violation