Joe Carstairs

Writing about #blockchain #crypto #defi and #fintech. Founder @BCcopywriter. #remotework enthusiast. Lifetime #WatfordFC.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Messy intelligence is the key bit @MikeIppolito_ said something similar recently too

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

The highest-value human work in the AI era will be in domains with sparse reward signals. Internalize this, or watch your value erode over the next decade.

Math, programming, rote memorization, data science, all fucked. The classic “smart nerd” jobs are exactly where AI is strongest, because the feedback loops are dense. You can check the answer. You can run the test. That means AI can improve quickly, and humans will rapidly fall behind.

Your advantage as a human is in messy domains.

Taste. Judgment. Negotiation. Risk-taking. Politics. Sales. Science at the frontier. Anything you can only really learn by doing. Cross-disciplinary stuff.

The valuable domains will be the ones guarded by secrets, tacit knowledge, weak labels, long feedback cycles, and ambiguous outcomes. Places where the training data is scarce, the ground truth is disputed, and it's impossible to explain why something is good.

AI will still enter these domains. But we will be slower to trust it unsupervised there, because it will be harder to tell when it is right, harder to prove when it is wrong, and difficult to construct secure sandboxes. The stakes will be too high to YOLO it.

I find myself saying this over and over again to young people today: the future does not belong to people who are able to get good grades on tests. It belongs to people who can operate under uncertainty, in domains where correctness is hard to define.

Those domains will become the thin waist of the economy: as productivity everywhere else accelerates, the humans who excel there will become our economic Strait of Hormuz. The best humans in these domains will demand an enormous cut of the growing economic pie.

Your imperative going forward is to make sure you're one of these people.

(Or become an electrician. That probably works too.)

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@blknoiz06 Check @hosseeb for a better take

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

100% this. Messy intelligence (that's what sales of any complexity are) is the human advantage and will continue to be.

[Mippo 🟪 @MikeIppolito_]

Sales is the last job to get disrupted by AI, if it ever happens

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@TomFiel76366907 @louorns He's a good partner for Louza. Built like a centre back and good at shielding/dropping in for those behind. Tidy on the ball and happy to take it off the defenders. Let's Louza do his thing, wherever he wants to go and do it.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@hubermanlab Define low level please.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@Watford_Douglas @Richwfc2 Fully aware of what terminology you used. Doubt anyone on that team or the manager thinks Ngakia played his part in that goal.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@Richwfc2 @Watford_Douglas Agree, evidenced by the fact that Norwich's second is on this list of his faults. Clearly the result of a completely different player's error and the chaos caused.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

But with stablecoins, IYKYK.

It's a cryptocurrency (that's a unique term too, btw) whose value is constantly pegged to a fiat currency.

Simple, clear and unforgettable.

#Crypto #Blockchain #Stablecoins #Branding

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Is branding at the heart of stablecoins' success?

It occurred to me that one reason stablecoins have worked is you just know what they are.

Put another way, once you know what a stablecoin is, can it be anything else?

That's not true of many other things in crypto.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Digital assets? Could be any digital asset, not just those on a blockchain.

Tokens? Used across various technologies, particularly AI, recently.

Real World Assets? Frankly, these could be anything we see around us.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

There is LOADS about Real World Assets (RWAs) in crypto but 99% of it doesn't scratch the surface.

Well, this is good. So good, in fact, that someone called it the "best content Bankless has put out in years."

https://t.co/ShE1IjXxEQ

#Crypto #RWA #Tokenization #Ethereum

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

I saw Monzo has released its 'book of money' and I'm all for it.

I've been involved in a few long-form book projects like this one and, although time-consuming, they're definitely worth it.

#Content #Marketing #ThoughtLeadership #Finance #Tech

https://t.co/Di5ONZHo0S

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

It's two years old but this is still one of the most accessible breakdowns of how LLMs and GenAI tools work.

Understanding the fundamentals will help you determine where it can be used most effectively.

Plus, it's free to read.

https://t.co/2gTq3q0lo6

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@isnit0 Will he be right? More importantly, will anyone pick him up on his predictions if he is wrong? Unlikely. Tech journalism these days is one hype headline after another.

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

@90sPlayers Don't know anyone who didn't rate Andy Cole

[K A L E O @CryptoKaleo]

MEETING THE NFT BROS FOR THE FIRST TIME

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Labour has given up its growth mission...because "this is a government with half a dozen number one priorities". There's a lot I agree with here 👇 https://t.co/tROck9wqmm via @ft

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Hi @TheFCA I have found an error while reviewing your 'Cryptoassets consumer research 2024' report - who should I contact so it can be corrected? Thanks

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

Plus, there's just enough about the tech. For example, I'd never heard of Google's 'Attention Is All You Need' research paper of 2014 before. Now I can't stop thinking how badly Google fumbled the lead this research should have provided!!!

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

If you've read this 👇 let me know what you think. If you haven't but are considering it, give it a go.

#AI #reading #recommendations

[Joe Carstairs @JWCwords]

It tells the story of Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, as they grew their respective AI startups, OpenAI and DeepMind.

Having read it, I feel like I understand the business paper's headlines about AI so much better. Now I know why Elon Musk seems to dislike Sam Altman so much.