Herman Narula

I BUILT A MINECRAFT SERVER WHERE ALMOST EVERY ACTION IS AN ONCHAIN TRANSACTION It's Skyblock, but your inventory and character stats live on the blockchain. Not just a record of what you did. The onchain inventory is read back into Minecraft and applied in the game. Every unique item is an NFT. Your island is an NFT too, shared by up to 5 players. In the demo, I harvest wheat, craft tools and place blocks while the transactions appear beside the game. The dashboard reads the inventory directly from the blockchain, so you can watch both stay in sync.

Where are all the networks? Most of the great original Internet business were based on network effects (Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.) Most of the modern AI winners are based on scale economies and cornered resources (compute, talent)

HMRC has quietly sent hundreds of letters to wealthy people asking them to reveal what they own. Not what they earn or what tax they've paid, but what they own. Here's what's going on. A unit called the Wealthy Team covers anyone with "incomes of £200,000 or more, or assets equal to or above £2m in any of the last three years". That's about 850,000 people. The letters ask for a meeting to discuss "sources of wealth", "future intentions", trusts, companies, family arrangements and even "significant life events" you expect in the coming years. It is presented as voluntary, but there's a nudge: "We may still need to carry out compliance checks on your tax returns. However, speaking with you first may help avoid this." Until now, inspectors have usually only asked about income and earnings. Experts call this a "sea change". One lawyer asked the obvious question: "does HMRC have a right to know what someone owns and not simply that they have paid the right amount of tax?" A tax adviser said: "No other G20 country asks for this level of detail from its taxpayers about what they own." So what is it for? Advisers suspect it is groundwork for an exit tax, a charge on your wealth for leaving the country. As one put it: "Building that knowledge could indeed be part of moving towards an exit tax." You don't have to be a billionaire to see the problem.

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I'm super sad about this. Playing the original Mass Effect in my underwear nonstop over on a two week holiday is one of my fondest video game memories. I wish all the talented folks there lots of luck wherever they end up next.

Organic feels dead as Dillinger right now. There is basically nothing but secretly paid influencer campaigns for AI on my feed these days. Same people commenting. Same people pushing. Nobody is using these products.

The idea that we have to fully understand something to use it or make it safe is fundamentally absurd. Bread makers of the past didn't know yeast existed but they used it like masters and shaped the world. Einstein said "we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything." Life still goes on. We form complex societies and structures. We have medicines that cure terrible diseases not because we understand the deep inner workings of every protein but because bold people tried things and experimented and found a way forward despite their relative blindness. This is the way of the world. We have to build out societies for the bold and the builders and the spice traders and the people who take risks and create a better world through the infinite creative loop of life. Never give in to the people who would slam the breaks on the world and built our lives around fear and phantoms. The fearful have never contributed anything to great story of the world other than noise and suffering. And they often enable the very things they fear by creating societies of violence and rigidity and madness in an attempt to stop imaginary future disasters. Nothing can stop the infinite creativity of Man. Except fear.

AI alignment began as a control problem. It is becoming something much bigger: deciding what values machines should internalize, and then allowing those values to be applied back to humans. That raises a harder question: Aligned to whom?

Tired: Two-pizza teams Wired: Two-slice teams @danshipper on the best team structure in the AI-era

Delegate work in Codex to your dot. Your dot can now start work in Codex and follow up on existing threads, drawing on your ChatGPT conversations, Codex threads, and automations. It’s also better at deciding when to keep a thread going or start fresh. Your dot can also review and edit Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT Work, too. Ask what’s scheduled or update a recurring task as plans change.

Grok Bot now has its own email. Bot can use it to sign up for services, contact businesses for you, or schedule time with someone.

The US grid plans to add 86 gigawatts this year. Here's where it's coming from: - Solar: 43.4 GW - Batteries: 24.3 GW - Wind: 11.8 GW - Gas: 6.3 GW - New nuclear: 0 GW The AI labs are planning for hundreds of gigawatts. Solar is the one source already produced at that scale, and most of it is made in China. "Scaling firm power that isn't gas is much more complicated. Uprates and restarts can squeeze a little more from the existing nuclear fleet, but the real upside is new reactors." a16z's @rmcentush on how America powers the next wave of growth: a16z.news/p/why-texas-is-mak…