Matt Lovan

"The Egg" is a variation on a very old spiritual idea — that everyone is god, and god is everyone. I suppose it's an interesting alternative to more mainstream conceptions of god, but it runs afoul of the "Haitian test". "What if you were a Haitian?" supposes that there is some core of you that is traitless, and wholly separable from every single one of your traits, but still identifiably you. "What if you were god?" really isn't any different. Questions like this are all syntax and no semantics, like the tree falling in a forest with no one to hear. Does it make a sound? Well, what's your definition of the word "sound"? What's your definition of "identity"? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? We manipulate symbols everyday in order to think at all. But if we confuse those symbols with the actual objects they represent, then we risk creating questions, and answers, which follow our rules for symbols (syntax), but don't correspond to any real meaningful configuration of the objects they represent (semantics). Many questions or ideas which seem profound are really just exploitations of symbol-object confusion. What happens to your lap when you stand up? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Unless you can unpack the symbols "lap" and "clap", notice what they contain, and how they represent verbs as nouns, or vice versa, for syntactic convenience, you're going to end up being impressed by a whole lot of stoner wisdom that doesn't really tell you anything useful. There are two key phrases that you can use as mental tools to avoid going down these rabbit holes. "What does that even mean?" "How could that be disproven?" What does it even mean for you to be god? (Or a Haitian.) How could someone prove that you weren't god?

Our investigators are observing never-seen-before laundering patterns with the stolen funds from the Binance exploit. Thousands of transactions in a short period suggest that the attackers are using automation to obscure the trail of funds. Rather than simply moving funds onward, they repeatedly circulate them among addresses, often sending funds back to addresses involved earlier in the sequence. Read more: chainalysis.com/blog/binance…

We said very loudly and clearly at launch, and repeatedly since, that ENS is a governance token. We made it crystal clear in the ENS constitution that the treasury is used first for building ENS, and secondly for funding public goods, and not to be used for anything else. None of this was theater, it was and remains the truth. I literally don't know how we could have been any clearer about it. If people went out and bought the token because they thought we were *lying* and secretly intended to send registration revenues to them, I don't know how you think we could be expected to prevent that.

Few people know the secret, which is that Codex actually has a giant unfixed bug that sporadically resets usage limits. Every time this happens Tibo announces that he did the reset

I'm dropping a thread of all the protocols that had to freeze their interop because of LayerZero being compromised. Let's go:

Tempo Zones keep assets connected to Tempo Mainnet. Transactions inside a Zone stay private from the public, while funds still move across Mainnet, other Zones, onramps, offramps, and onchain liquidity. For example, a payroll company can run payroll on a zone, while still letting its employees access international offramps.

Every security engineer knows "security through obscurity" doesn't work. But that's how we've actually been running for the whole existence of computers, until now. AI can finally fix that.

Who's got the best solutions to prompt injections? Say I have a container that's got access to sensitive stuff, and eventually it calls out to some bad website which tries to reverse extract everything by making the container POST sensitive data to it. What do you do? Filter?