
Storytelling Infrastructure for Crypto, Part I: The Problems
I was browsing Netflix one evening a few weeks ago when I saw that Ali Wong has a new show called Beef. I’d first seen her perform live not long before and thought she was hilarious, so I metaphorically rubbed my hands with excitement. Barely ten minutes into Episode 1, the …

Dystopias Everywhere All at Once: the Good, the Bad, and the Possible
In the language of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the story of technological innovation can be summed up as follows — every once in a while, someone’s rabbit hole becomes reality. Two questions are then important to plant the seeds for future innovation: one, what inspires …

Scarcity and Abundance in the Age of AI
The prospect of wealth and abundance for all is one of the most exciting arguments for pushing AI advancement further. In 2021, Sam Altman predicted that "AI is going to change a lot of things. The world is going to get phenomenally wealthy”, wrote about how it will happen, and …