John Bisu

◐-◐¬ cofounder @szns_solutions · prev @google, philosophy @uva, cs @gtomscs · bitcoin for human freedom

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@mmoffitt @OurielOhayon 👀 DMing on some cool things we're working on

[nick.eth @nicksdjohnson]

For transparency, we're also publishing our communications with UD on this matter, attached here.

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@MayanMango @NFTPrada @notthreadguy @Christianeth @DancingEddie_ @wabdoteth @WonderPals @FroggyFriendNFT DMing 👀

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

So good. Should be studied as a branch of political philosophy too imo.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 12

The Meaning Of Life

Techno-Optimism is a material philosophy, not a political philosophy.

We are not necessarily left wing, although some of us are.

We are not necessarily right wing, although some of us are.

We are materially focused, for a reason – to open the aperture on how we may choose to live amid material abundance.

A common critique of technology is that it removes choice from our lives as machines make decisions for us. This is undoubtedly true, yet more than offset by the freedom to create our lives that flows from the material abundance created by our use of machines.

Material abundance from markets and technology opens the space for religion, for politics, and for choices of how to live, socially and individually.

We believe technology is liberatory. Liberatory of human potential. Liberatory of the human soul, the human spirit. Expanding what it can mean to be free, to be fulfilled, to be alive.

We believe technology opens the space of what it can mean to be human.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy

“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy

“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison

Lies

We are being lied to.

We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.

We are told to be pessimistic.

The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.

We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@boredhefner Hefner daddy gives me all the good forgs 🐸

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@NFTdivide @blvckstar_eth @Azuki froggywoods.eth acquired

[YQ @YQCre8]

AZUKI #1381, BEANZ #1773 Derivative art!⛩
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Thanks for the commission!!! @jl2fa 🥰✨
Welcome to YQ‘s Chibi gang🐸🐸💕😎✨

#AZUKI #AzukiArt @Azuki #Beanz @BEANZOfficial

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

We be chilling on the shinnyship reading the #DAOComic

Jump onboard Sailors ⚓️🫡https://t.co/ilmZNqOb0G

[shinny𝙟𝙪𝙪𝙠𝙪 ⛩️🏁 @shinny427]

s/o @jl2fa for this dope protocol @saildotfun - running a ship as captain with some of my fellow @spiritdao homies trying not to lose their money 😂🫡

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

“But the process of cure was misdiagnosed as the disease”

Nice read

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

One of the most eye-opening things I've ever read, this short 1967 essay from none other than Alan Greenspan is so good.

Take 20 mins and read it.

https://t.co/rO9CdFuxGn

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@IcedcoffeeEth gm

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@azuki_sales goodbye my golden cat 🥲 but i have always been a frog

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@azuki_sales might have overpaid but i wanted to do this 😛

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Count me among the people who think this is a bad idea.

There are no “experts” to adjudicate this issue, and many disparate actors will never agree. Committees and bureaucracy won’t solve anything.

As with many technologies, there are dangers, but we should keep marching forward with progress because the good outweighs the bad. The marketplace of ideas leads to better outcomes than central planning.

Don’t ever let fear stop progress, and be wary of anyone trying to capture control in some central authority.

[Jordan Lyall @JordanLyall]

Today I'm launching Squiggle Syndicate #0.

It's a trustless NFT investment pool, or "ship," on the @saildotfun protocol. We'll pool our resources and acquire undervalued Chromie Squiggles by @ArtOnBlockchain and @artblocks_io

I'm helping test Sail which is built by fellow builders @OKDunc and @jl2fa

Join us on the maiden voyage: https://t.co/zgmoESfoB5

We have 7 days until we set sail.

I've committed 2 ETH as captain of the ship.

By pooling our resources, we aim to acquire a diverse portfolio of Crypto Squiggles that enables us to capitalize on this anticipated appreciation and generate attractive returns for our investors.

Can’t afford a Squiggle but want to participate in the upside?

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE ENSURE YOU GO THROUGH THE DOCUMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW https://t.co/Vs2eHezwYH WORKS. THE NFT MARKET IS HIGHLY VOLATILE, PLEASE INVEST WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO RISK.

[John Bisu @jl2fa]

@thomahov @houseofharshy @saildotfun dm'd 👀

[T.M.A @Tma_420]

@saildotfun something is coming 👀

[Joyce @cyndilailo]

I’m a NFT noobie but @saildotfun has made it very fun to trade NFTs

[Harang Ju @harangju]

Setting sail on DigiSenpaku 🔟🚢 @saildotfun

The plan is simple...👇

[SWANNY 🔺 @swandogs]

Hey everyone,

I'm about 36 hours away from setting sail on my ship as part of my captaincy at @saildotfun.

So far, I've raised 1.7e, and have 5 sailors on board.
I'm looking for more to join me to contribute to the raise - and hopefully win together.

Details below👇🧵(1/10)