New piece (a16z New Media Fellowship):
https://t.co/8dGga2iT0P
@a16z@eriktorenberg@Alex_Danco
AI doesn’t scale through models -it scales through trust. Saw it at YouTube & seeing it again now.
Sovereign Wall, Trust Wall, and why #creators not appsdrive adoption.
Based on wastewater sampling in San Francisco the current COVID wave may be the biggest yet. If, like me, it feels like many people you know in SF have or recently had COVID, well, here's the data.
https://t.co/c3pChSLzGz
Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also @paraga’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path...I believe it with all my heart.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been working with the team at @superlayerio to build @TakiApp.
Current social platforms have long captured most of the value from their users, it's time to change and reimagine that relationship. 🧵
1/ On How Short Life Is
A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful.
Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?"
It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...
@engineers_feed telnet https://t.co/IiGHpPS1YG from India and type up the password at exactly the right time so as to not timeout at login (circa 1994)
@train_computer@cdixon The point is: if you need to maintain the server, not many have a desire to do that. If it’s plug n play, that you set in the living room corner and forget about - can get adoption if there’s enough perceived value - not enough consumer appliances get to that point though
@RichardWPickett@cdixon Some of the terminology/scope bleeds into systems design questions, where there is a legitimate point to be made re network effects of the centralized web3 platforms (opensea for eg) which may prevent a fully decentralized future from ever coming to pass..
@cdixon I’m a web2 founder (and web1 engineer) just dipping my toes into web3 btw, and the way I read @moxie’s take was pretty much as a to-do list (and some systems problems that need to be thought through)