Matt Himel, PhD

Editor/Researcher/Writer Former Research Editor at Messari

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

It’s a revelation that art workers install art installations and not artists.

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

One of the smartest reflections on AI

[David Mattin @DMattin]

The discussion on AI alignment is mostly extremely naive

who or what, exactly, are we supposedly aligning it with? Californian tech bros?

As Naval points out below, humans have never been able to align with one another; that truth has been one of the principal drivers of our shared history.

And that's not going to change.

Anyone working in AI alignment should read Isaiah Berlin on his theory of value pluralism

it articulates the idea that human life is about an accommodation between mutually incompatible but equally legitimate values

for example, freedom and security. They are equally valid human goods; but they are often in tension with one another. To prioritise freedom, you often have to accept a little less security.

When we 'align' our AI with us, should we ask it to prioritise freedom or security? Who gets to decide?

Value pluralism says that many legitimate accommodations between mutually opposing values — in other words, many different but equally legitimate ways of life — are possible. There are no grounds to say that one is better than another.

So when most people talk about 'aligning' AI, they are often just talking about aligning it with one, historically contingent and context specific accommodation of values

and then...imposing that on everyone else?

That's why I believe that @EMostaque's project to make AI open source and to let a million models bloom is so crucial

there can never be 'AI alignment with humans' in the way most people are talking about; it doesn't exist.

But there can be a democratic plurality of AIs, empowering different peoples and communities to live and create according to their own value systems.

That is real alignment.

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

There’s nothing better for #MondayMotivation than achieving balance. It could even make you more productive.

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

@MerriamWebster @PatriciaMccourt

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

And so it begins.

[Keith @keithdunn]

The conch was blown at 8:54. The 2023 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

New #tech is hard. Developing a system to guide your company’s tech adoption is harder.

This Substack offers a #changemanagement framework based on the #People, #Process, #Technology framework, but for the #techindustry.
#web3
#blockchain
#ai https://t.co/NGvfl1PYg4

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

Starting a newfound leadership role? Check out the latest TechLead to see how Warren Bryant met the challenge. Or did he?

#leadership
#technology
#MondayMotivation

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

Excited to announce I’ll will be collaborating with Matt McCarty and Jerilyn Winstead on “The TechLead,” a weekly newsletter. Releases will cover #technology #leadership #management #lifestyle

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

@academic_exit After freelancing for two years, I started actively searching and got interviews within a week of applying.

[Brady Dale @BradyDale]

The blue is @opensea
The orange is @blur_io

It's just wild how fast this stuff can happen

[Mihai Grigore 🚀 @Tech_Metrics]

Filecoin’s storage and retrieval market continued to grow in Q4'22:

Active storage deals on @Filecoin:
- up 117% QoQ
- up 1798% YoY

[Sean 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @SeanButta]

What happened on 1inch in Q4?

👉1IP-11 passed an important proposal incentivizing DAO governance engagement with a new mechanism that routes a % of rev. to #1INCH stakers

👉Fusion upgrade brings fee-less txs and MEV protection

👉~250 million 1INCH token unlock

🧵on @1inch

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

⁦@MessariCrypto⁩’s and ⁦⁦@twobitidiot⁩’s FREE Crypto Theses for 2023. #crypto #cryptocommunity #cryptoInvestor #cryptotheses https://t.co/dx8ktOUs2Q

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

A great report to work on as an editor. Always impressed by @kelxyz_ and @JamesTrautman_’s level of detail and professionalism as @MessariCrypto analysts. And gotta love that cover image.

[kel. @kelxyz_]

1/ Despite being one of the most talked about ecosystems, the @solana ecosystem is also one of the most misunderstood.

We set out to understand the real state of the Solana ecosystem - the results of @JamesTrautman_ and I’s analysis form our:

"Solana Ecosystem Overview" 🧵

[Mihai Grigore 🚀 @Tech_Metrics]

Wondering how fee markets work in Web3❓

We dove into how decentralized networks optimize costs for both end users and node operators

🧵

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

As a former #freelancer this report hit close to home.

[brian 🪴 @bermchain]

Substreams may as well be magic 🪄

Last week, the folks at @MessariCrypto processed Ethereum's entire history in 20 mins using substreams 🤯

Solana is a fast chain. With substreams & other contributions from core dev @streamingfastio, @graphprotocol can more than handle it 💪

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

I could get into mundane Halloween.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Mundane Halloween is back!

Japan does Halloween better than anyone, but best of all is the annual "mundane Halloween" contest sponsored by website @dailyportalz.

The point is to dress up as something super ordinary.

Here are some of my favorites from this year...

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

Some are not only building through the bear market, but actually growing!

[Mihai Grigore 🚀 @Tech_Metrics]

Weak markets? Not for everyone! 📊

Ethereum Name Service @ensdomains held strong:
- Registrations reached an all-time-high, ⬆️ 71% QoQ
- Renewals ⬆️ 3x QoQ

How about revenue & usage?

1/n 🧵

[Matt Himel, PhD @Himel_Matt]

An ode to the author-editor relationship.

[Sav. @SavannahClawson]

Dressed as my supervisor's feedback on my PhD thesis for Halloween because nothing is scarier than reality
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