Verifiable geospatial systems @UofMaryland + @AstralProtocol. Past: climate @ToucanProtocol, innovation @OrdnanceSurvey, cliff diving @casabonita.
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Thursday's long flight from London to Denver gave me some time to dig into technical AI governance, flexHEGs and a gap I'm investigating.
johnx.co/notes/flexhegs-and-…
I haven't looked at the code, but so far so good ...
I wonder what claude code can do if I point it at the @astralprotocol docs and this paper on location verification for AI chips ... let's see, minimal prompting
iaps.ai/research/location-ve…
What if local currencies could actually be local — not just to a community of approved accounts, but to physical space itself?
Thinking (+ a visualization!) on how @AstralProtocol + @ethereum will enable spatial filters for economic activity 🌍
johnx.co/notes/spatial-demur…
Could geopositional encodings help LLMs respond about the right place?
I wrote up the idea — building on work by @maps4thought, @tegmark and others — here:
johnx.co/notes/geopositional…
Related to the effort to guard against "the institutionalisation of values":
- @rushkoff on the inversion of the figure + the ground
- @SeeWhatsUnder's "unlearning our sense of learned helplessness" ...
- @kepano's "Don't delegate understanding",
stephango.com/understand
Here's a cool proposal to use radiofrequency fingerprinting for location verification from @solardank at ETHPragueConf earlier this year.
Lots of good background on mapping, location-based services and use cases too ✨
youtube.com/watch?v=et4rqxZA…
For the past two years, I've been letting my interest guide what I do more and more.
This makes it much easier to stay motivated and "on task", and is leading me places I want to go ...
@AnjanKatta puts it very well here:
youtube.com/watch?v=fhHfVv1W…