Vernon Dunmore

Game Designer, World Opiner, and part-time neologist.
A unique lens on life keeps the world in focus.
ex @ProofofPlay, @Disney, @KovaaKs

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

#Cryptogames in particular could revolutionize f2p. Imagine getting paid to play your favorite title.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@DaveShapi Gamers aren't anti-AI, they're anti-grift. They watched publishers peddle ersatz NFTs and rebuked them. AI presents itself similarly: uninspired content, stretched teams, generative slop, full price. The tool isn't the problem, it's the people who wield it.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@whatslukedoing Contributors would expect to receive some personally meaningful apportionment of the value they add by sharing their work. Web3 has always had the potential to deliver that, but there are likely more ways to get it wrong than ways to get it right.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@favoga_ This us wonderfully insightful. I feel these statements could also be applied to a satisfactory life. Both are playthroughs of a sort.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@Jihoz_Axie Play2Earn could become a catalyst for post labor economics, after a point of sufficient saturation.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@whatslukedoing They want web2-tier gameplay with web3-tier earning potential. Those two things don't coexist.
Decentralization and ownership make onchain assets tradable. Tradable assets have price. Priced outputs trade the magic circle for the profit loop.
They want it all. They can't have it.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

> prepared to sign out of Claude CLI for the night
> my /buddy's text bubble passive-aggressively nagged re: a security issue
> Claude and Kettle initially *disagreed* on its importance
> Kettle made a better case, so I fixed it
What’s going on here? What is this buddy system?

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@fern This tracks. I have already seen self-proclaimed AI artists that have never touched a stylus in their life. No one says "I used a ruler to draw this". Its just another tool.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@elonmusk @Dogetothemoon @AnthropicAI Is this your way of telling us that no one at xAI understands how Grok works?

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

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[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@DaveShapi Its the duration of the transition and the ambiguity of the end state that make it a bad thing. It frames itself.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@HeightOptimized It's got electrolytes.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@DaveShapi Seems strategic. Obscured model selection means OpenAI can gauge at runtime the model needed. They can computationally lowball left- and mid-curve prompts. Cost of compute is integral to scaling; this is a business decision that happens to simplify the average user's experience.

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

Being right too early is worse than being wrong.

Until it isn't.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@DaveShapi It comes across as two axes: proportion of KVM tasks plotted against the degree of affect physical presence can have on the outcome. I believe this is why phlebotomy showed up as such a safe field to work in.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@fern Poppycock and Balderdash, nothing more.

[Scott Kominers @skominers]

My @a16zcrypto colleagues and I just shared a roundup on the ways crypto will organize, complement – and occasionally tame – modern AI.

My takes: 🧵👇

➡️ You shouldn't have to remind an LLM like Claude of your preferred programming languages each time you open a new shell – and ideally you should be able to transfer that context to ChatGPT or whatever comes out next.

Crypto's interoperability and forwards-compatibility make it the ideal tool – and possibly the only tool – for enabling this sort of persistence and portability.

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@TychoBrahe Theoretically, they want players to have a ~51% win rate to maximize "happiness" (which I read as retention). That would mean using data about you, your mains and potential teammate synergies and skewing team members to statistically incline a win or a loss as needed.

[CRYPTO Damus @AstroCryptoGuru]

I’ve been trading Stocks since 2011

And Crypto since 2017

I’ve seen Bull and Bear
I’ve seen panic and Fomo

Until you’ve been through a few of these cycles you don’t know shit

[Vernon Dunmore @VernonDunmore]

@fern @realDadCaptain They are belong to us... but we could be convinced to part with them for a nominal fee.