Anders

"above average easier to take advantage of" - my pals, 2025

[Anders @andersavail]

@Bonecondor @nginx_worker @aarjackm @peter_szilagyi we’re gonna take selling eyeglasses on the Internet to a whole new level

[Anders @andersavail]

@Bonecondor @nginx_worker @aarjackm @peter_szilagyi our tv’s have been listening to us for half a decade & we’ve seen some real innovation in the targeted ads around it. Expect more catastrophic adtech innovation

[Anders @andersavail]

@BillyInterwebs @Bonecondor @peter_szilagyi definitely want to avoid this

[Anders @andersavail]

@Bonecondor @somewheresy @peter_szilagyi https://t.co/ts49mclhe3

i think he's getting at this... there will be a reckoning of sorts, but more likely than not, nothing ever happens

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

After my Devcon 8 talk (the LLM hacking hardware one), somebody asked what have I hacked in my own home.

So naturally, I arrived home today, and you know... not a bad idea?

HOLY FUCK

This isn't coding error, this is criminal negligence 😱

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

My advice to everyone, if you have a networked smart device, rip the connectivity out of it, *now*.

Unplug the ethernet, get it off the WiFI, trash it if you can’t. There’s a storm coming, and it’s going to be scary.

It’s the time of reckoning for decades of IoT negligence.

[Cobie @cobie]

>multi-government agency attempt to takedown crypto including unlawful behaviour from world governments

>CT folks don’t realise half of the loud new accounts here are false flag gov op aggressors creating animosity and intentionally directing ppl into harm’s path as method to meet greater policy goals

[Anders @andersavail]

@Rollo_Tape_ @goodalexander @RepThomasMassie this :D also, the people you voted for assure us that these folks are now incapable of developing/securing said weapon, so all ought to be alright provided we go by their word

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

i’m more convinced than ever that ALL foundation and unaccountable non-profit governance eventually goes off of the rails or gets captured by misguided people (including and perhaps especially if funded via perpetual protocol rewards in the case of crypto)

power hungry and/or misguided moralistic actors will always eventually get control and completely fuck it up

so i think of you are giving money for charitable purposes, it makes sense to avoid foundations and instead give the money to charities who will spend it more immediately and directly on whichever causes you care about

[gabriel shapiro @lex_node]

if you have the power to censor, you WILL eventually be strong-armed into censoring

no one is immune

you need to believe this in your bones, usually from bad experiences directly had or personally witnessed, to gain conviction in permissionless system design...

[Anders @andersavail]

@CL207 good visual but should start at 6am vs. 12am

[Anders @andersavail]

@JonahBlake many such cases. hope it was at least a good time

[Bocchi @farmer_bocchi]

big problem on hip3 as well

[laurence @functi0nZer0]

@ryanberckmans Appreciate it

One thing that’s worth emphasising as a follow-up here is that I only ragepost because I care

If I didn’t care about Ethereum as much as I do I’d just pack up our shop and deploy us somewhere else

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

omg no, I promise it wasn't what I meant :(

it is likely I'm being too stupid to even understand the ways on which I'm being stupid, but let me try to explain my reasoning

first, no, the deck is not a joke. it is what it is. we're raising up to $8m at $120m post-money cap, and our goal is to research a successor architecture to GPTs. is that a bad thing? I actually have no idea

now, on the humble part, I think the actual situation is the opposite... all big funds passed, and I think they see my work as a joke, so I decided to lock in until I have something worth of showing. this deck is a result of this emotional state, and not of any pride. is the ask high? perhaps I'm out of touch with the market, but I'd rather be over-protective and fail, than accidentally sell half of my company. in any case, I expected nobody would invest, which is why I put my own money. if HOC dies, at least I'll be in the same ship as my investors. it seems more fair this way

as to why I'm working on something ambitious (AGI) if I don't think I'm smart. well, it is because I think the approach will work. that's all there is to it. if you find a gold mine, you buy a shovel and dig. wouldn't you? sadly, shovels are quite expensive these days... regardless, the success of this project has less to do with my own capabilities, and more to with whether the approach scales or not, which is why I think it is worth trying

lastly, Bend's development is fully automated, so it isn't like there is much else I could do with my time anyway. AI is now capable of doing most of what I do. yet, rather than panicking like some mathematicians, I have a different perspective. I think this is an invitation to be more ambitious, and reach for things that were way beyond our own capabilities. thus, that's what I'll do.

(the cool part of reaching for the impossible is that, when things don't work, that's just another failure to your collection. you get used to it fast. yet, when they work, and occasionally they do, incredible things happen)

sorry for the text wall. I'm trying to write less, but I thought I had to explain myself. I apologize if my deck offended you, or if it was too dumb, or anything at all. tbh I don't even know what the actual criticism is, but I promise I mean no harm, I'm just doing what makes sense to me. please do not invest if you don't know what you're doing, and read the skeptical posts before you do.

I still don't know why my profile has much reach. I think people are entertained by my strangeness. in any case I'm glad to make your day a bit more entertaining, even if that's by laughing at my own failures. life is short.

I hope you all have a great day every day . . .

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

guys, imo Vitalik has believed ETH was an SoV since (or sometime shortly after) he launched the chain

indeed, it is the best way to explain its comparative market cap and predominant use of ETH

what’s happened now is he and others are making it clear to detractors (to the extent that they can) that this use case is “official” and is something the protocol should explicitly optimize for instead of arguing with it about hippie devs and people who want to destroy consensus against such an outcome

maximizing the hardness and desirability of ETH as a non-sovereign store of value asset which people want to hold is good for Ethereum

[MariusVanDerWijden @vdWijden]

I am really tired of people not reading a 20 line blog post before running their mouths on twitter.

WE ARE INVESTIGATING INTERNALLY, WITH AUDITORS, AND GIVING PEOPLE THE ABILITY TO CONTACT US, SO WE CAN DECIDE HOW TO PROCEED WITH THIS.

[Ryan Berckmans ⟠ @ryanberckmans]

We should (clearly, now) not continue towards Glam activation asap. I was wrong to say so.

I since learned that the problem is essentially worse than is generally understood (incl by me).

We have an urgent need for more people to write more things with data in *public* on this.

[kevin marek @emudoteth]

@josephdelong You can’t spell glamsterdam without DREAM

[Ryan Berckmans ⟠ @ryanberckmans]

I'm not advocating to push forward recklessly. That would be stupid as everybody including me is well aware that ethereum's maximal reliability is our unique value proposition.

Many more people with more info than me need to write about this in public asap imo.

Currently I don't think it's clear to the community whether gas introspection behavior was ever one of our guarantees. I currently don't think it ever was or is.

Nor is it clear what the impact of guaranteeing it forever, or breaking it now for these contracts, would be.

Take my quoted post as a strong view weekly held, and a call for more sunlight on this issue. Not some Glam activation deathmarch :)

[Ryan Berckmans ⟠ @ryanberckmans]

@banteg Again I'm not intending any clownery. A lot of work is going on behind the scenes now, including yours, meanwhile severe statements about fork timing are being made by relatively senior community members. We need more discussion and data in public, quickly