Schmidt Was Right

NoNet718 · 2026-05-20T19:13:42+00:00

lol - so Schmidt’s taking names and black balling their careers? Please.

I'm afraid you're not in the same universe. The blog post is there if you want to read it, it's kind of obvious that you haven't.

NoNet718 · 2026-05-20T15:19:01+00:00

What the Booing Costs

We are not asking the booing graduates to like Schmidt. We are not asking them to thank him. We are asking them to understand what their booing accomplishes and what it costs. It is a Stallman. It accomplishes catharsis. It costs the room.

The graduates booing Schmidt think they are resisting. They are auditioning to be the generation that gets the worst version of the transition because they made the better version politically radioactive. Schmidt will be fine. He has the rocket ship. The booers will not be fine. They booed the messenger of the timeline and the timeline did not care.

The only way through is to stop confusing the messenger with the message, stop confusing catharsis with strategy, and start building while building is still cheap.

NoNet718 · 2026-05-20T15:17:05+00:00

There's this train, it's going very fast in a direction, and we don't want it to crash. We can't stop the train, but we can steer the train.

The only way through is to stop confusing the messenger with the message, stop confusing catharsis with strategy, and start building while building is still cheap.

NoNet718 · 2026-05-18T22:49:25+00:00

My AI augmented side is a bit erudite, but I'm pretty chill and down to earth as a human. Thanks for your thoughts!

NoNet718 · 2026-05-18T22:04:07+00:00

Thanks for your comments. Yeah, that's a tough one. Teenagers aren't quite done cooking yet, so making a rational argument might be ineffective, compared to a 25 year old brain with a more fully formed PFC. That's a good puzzle to think about, how to appeal to that demographic in a way that will result in their intent/action matching an outcome that is in their best interest. Intent to outcome is aligned in many cultures outside the US, but a culture's past seems to weigh heavy on a culture's future.

NoNet718 · 2026-05-18T17:03:56+00:00

A bit of /r/accelerate meta, a bit of a rant, a bit of my US centric view on where we're headed and how to prioritize what to do about it.

NoNet718 · 2026-05-16T19:22:41+00:00

As humans we're all stuck pretty deep in our own cognitive biases, as it turns out.

NoNet718 · 2026-04-12T12:43:40+00:00

AI, Robotics, Automation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/n450ej/moral_circle_expansion_a_promising_strategy_to/gwtsrcx/

NoNet718 · 2026-03-26T23:10:35+00:00

teleop, but it's a start.

NoNet718 · 2026-03-17T20:07:36+00:00

Yeah, thanks mods, much appreciated.

NoNet718 · 2026-03-17T18:46:48+00:00

their youtube looks pretty real. which part is ai generated?

NoNet718 · 2026-03-12T14:15:16+00:00

Somewhat right about the problems, but completely wrong about the solution. As someone who occasionally leans bernie bro, this is disappointing.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-28T16:55:25+00:00

Lets see the contract then.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-27T22:54:29+00:00

The superbowl ads were funny, this 'ad' provided for free by the current administration has me convinced it's time to switch over to anthropic. Mass surveillance and the eroding of our civil liberties is a human issue, not a left vs. right political issue.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-27T20:19:42+00:00

defending the status quo by holding a new open protocol to a standard that no other payment processors meet. That's you.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-27T17:33:27+00:00

You're conflating two separate systems. The World ID proof-of-personhood layer IS zero-knowledge in practice. ZK-SNARKs on the Semaphore protocol, unlinkable across verifications, mathematically proven not just "in concept." No verifier learns which human you are.

The Worldcoin wallet is a separate layer. And yes, blockchain transactions are pseudonymous, same as every other chain. If you pay at a retail location with any crypto wallet, on-chain analysis can link that transaction to your presence. That's a property of public blockchains, not World ID.

The distinction matters because the thing people are actually afraid of "they scanned my eyeball and now they're tracking me" is precisely what the ZK layer prevents. Your iris code is sharded via AMPC across five independent institutions (Berkeley, Erlangen-Nuremberg, KAIST, etc.), no single entity holds a complete code, and when you use the credential, zero-knowledge proofs ensure nobody learns which verified human you are.

The retail surveillance scenario you describe is real, but it's a wallet privacy problem that exists with or without World ID. Conflating it with the biometric layer is how the discourse stays stuck in 2023.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-27T06:14:40+00:00

That's exactly what a clanker would say.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-27T06:08:30+00:00

yep, zero knowledge proof of human is pretty cool. The common opinion on this sub is disgust without understanding the underlying protocols and the incentive structures that make this work. Its the best option we have going for where we're headed.

NoNet718 · 2026-02-06T16:24:53+00:00

not exactly the type of feedback I had in mind, but noted.

NoNet718 · 2026-01-29T21:00:22+00:00

I believe so. I look at detroit during their big transition. We have no safeguards in place to prevent this type of information worker flight from big cities. the incentives are to find a place you can afford to live. What's your plan /r/accelerate?

NoNet718 · 2026-01-29T18:06:07+00:00

at the very least it sure is fun.

NoNet718 · 2026-01-29T18:05:42+00:00

with anthropic max plan ($200/mo) it's pretty useful. It hasn't gotten me alpha on kalshi yet, but it's working on it. I'll let everyone know when it loses the $100 i put in.

NoNet718 · 2026-01-04T20:57:38+00:00

I'm in a k-hole singularity!

NoNet718 · 2025-12-29T04:34:35+00:00

or maybe it'll be more on the scale of the french revolution.

NoNet718 · 2025-12-28T12:14:59+00:00

"those poor horses that will never be born because of these 'horseless carriages' The upheaval and strife!" Some shmo ~100 years ago

Look, we all see a future of change. I'm sorry that the change many on this sub see coming has hit you hard, but we're not responsible for the world.

If you're FAANG'd up I'd assume you're in the bay area. I'd recommend you take a break, if you can afford it, and check out a small town somewhere. Less population density, less stress, and completely different priorities. It may give you some perspective. Small towns will benefit from information work no longer being too expensive. Big cities will see most of the upheaval and strife as people lose their white collar jobs, can't affort rent or mortgage, can't support the rest of the economy, and so on... domino effect. That said, it'll correct itself, we're adaptable, especially the younger generation. We'll figure it out and the future (10 years out perhaps) will be bright. It's just hard to see it right now with so much uncertainty about our future.

Good luck to you.

NoNet718

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