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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. Edward Osborne Wilson
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Futureisnow Rationalist drunkard, who believes in decentralisation and stateless, imagines the future with and without humans (in black and white and tech...
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Настоящая проблема человечества заключается в следующем: у нас эмоции каменного века, институты Средневековья и технологии, почти сравнимые с божественными. Эдвард Осборн Уилсон
BIP-110: How Bitcoin rejected a controversial update and why it matters
A significant event took place in the Bitcoin ecosystem a few days ago. I wrote an analysis for the Smarty Labs project blog, which you can view here Here is a plain-language summary and an explanation of why this matters. What happened . In early August 2026, there was an attempt to implement a rather controversial update to Bitcoin known as BIP-110. The proposal failed. The fact that it failed,…
BIP-110: как биткоин отверг спорное обновление и почему это важно
Несколько дней назад в экосистеме биткоина произошло знаковое событие. Для блога проекта Smarty Labs я сделал разбор, его можно посмотреть здесь Здесь - саммари простым языком и почему это важно. Что случилось . В начале августе 2026 года у биткоина произошла попытка довольно спорного и в итоге неудачного обновления. Оно называлось BIP-110 и провалилась. Факт этого провала и то, как именно оно…
Why I Need This Blog
I started here about a year ago with the idea of putting down things that interested me, saving the most compelling and important I find on my way, and so on. My idea was to keep it primarily for myself, I thought if others happened to see it, that would be fine, too. Such a digital fingerprint of what ideas keeping me busy and what is going on inside my head. I’m a bloody writer. I write a lot…
Зачем мне нужен этот блог
Год назад я завел этот блог с мыслями о том, что я буду делать заметки о том, что меня интересует, сохранять самое интересное и важное и пр и пр. Вести этот блог я буду в основном для себя . Ну а если кто-то еще будет это видеть, то наверное это тоже будет хорошо. Такой вот фингерпринт того, что в моей голове. Я вообще много чего записываю каждый день - я веду на ежедевной основе заметки в Notes,…
And the era of the Lobster began...
A brief summary and some thoughts on the conversation between Lex Friedman and Mr. Clawfather (Peter Steinberger) The source is here: OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 (https://lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger-transcript) I just want to leave this here for history. The era of the Lobster has begun. The Era of Agents We are shifting…
From Asimov’s Robopsychologists to Real-World AI Safety
Isaac Asimov imagined robopsychologists — experts who would help society understand powerful intelligent machines before those machines caused real harm. Today, Dario Amodei is doing something strikingly similar — but in real life. https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology In his recent essay “The Adolescence of Technology,” Amodei argues that AI has entered a phase where its…
Isaac Asimov would approve 🤖
Claude’s Constitution by Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Remembering the 3 Laws of Robotics. Pre-Zoomer generations, who have been reading books since childhood, are now watching in amazement as what science fiction writers described in the mid-20th century becomes reality. ... Let's not forget the Zeroth Law of Robotics either.
The always relevant Strugatsky brothers. Written in the 70s, applicable today
In times of global catastrophe, civilizations unleash upon the surface all the filth, all the filth that has accumulated over centuries in the genes of society. The forms of this scum are extremely varied, and they can be used to judge how dysfunctional a given civilization was at the time of the cataclysm, but very little can be said about the nature of this cataclysm, because the most diverse…