A proposed alternative to CBC-ification for long-term hardening+simplification of the consensus mechanism: moving to committee-based single-slot finality. My proposal and some discussion-here:
https://t.co/LFXjtX1QUY
In 2021 I mostly stuck to a self-imposed twitter quarantine, only using this site to post links to my long-form content.
Q1: in retrospect, do you think this was a good idea?
Q2: what should I do in 2022?
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19. Perhaps even a lowbrow but still important part of the "post-liberal Western ideology" that @palladiummag keeps talking about. Not anti-liberal, but just... weird. Which is fine, because the underlying reality that it's trying to understand is weird and only getting weirder.
The largest consequence of Elon taking over Twitter may well be not any specific policy decision he makes, but rather the morale effect of his supporters feeling emboldened and his detractors feeling like they are arguing on enemy territory. This is happening already.