Kirill Zubovsky Prompt Engineer and CEO of @ SmartyNames.com  What is Smartynames.com? Does Godaddy front-run domain names by buying them as soon as you search for them? They are 12 billion $ company What have you learned about Machine Learning from doing this? Did you have to learn a lot to develop on openai’s algorithm? How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? Why do people like to hack individual AI systems instead of hacking the big ones? What are the companies that will start to build in-house models? What is the difference between consumer and enterprise AI? What is the AI that has been used for airplane design for over 20 years now? Are we headed for utopia and dystopia? What is your take on Silicon Valley Bank? What is moral hazard and how does it play with what is going on SVB? What did Hayek say about all this? What will AI do to the decentralization of capitalism?  

Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche https://vienna.earth/ What do Mexicans think about Central Americans? What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext? What is vienna hypertext? An information network Create different canvases with blocks Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit? Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? What is the relationship between science and engineering? What is the difference between hard sciences and soft sciences? How do you build a tool for the humanities? What effect will that have on engineering and science? What is the anti-anti-anti-anti liberalism speech from Peter Theil? https://youtu.be/fQ4rc7npiXQ What are the false idols of Scientism? What is the relationship between millenarianism and scientism cults? Why do human beings fall under homo religious rather than homo sapiens the thinking primate? Lets do space travel! Why is Elon Musk right and why is he wrong? Why should the pope declare a space crusade? What is the kardashev scale? type 1 is all the resources of one planet type 2 is another the sun type 3 is multiple stars Why do atheists believe that collecting books is the way to western enlightenment? How did Charlemagne invent the book with his codexes? How are all historians revisionists? If the news fake, imagine history? Lets talk about climate change What do the models measure? Physics of fluids Movements in the atmosphere and the oceans Can’t get quality of soil or animals dying or matter outside of that Topsoil captures carbon Can you be pro-environment and pro-immigration at the same time in terms of top-soil? Can you look at the global scale and actually change anything meaningful? How do you deal with unknown unknowns? Can computers ever discover what we don't know we don't know? How is the stock market an example of the way things are getting done? All models are incorrect but some are useful sometimes Are humans due for another ice age? Who is Freeman Dyson? What is a dyson sphere? What is the relationship between Feynmen and Freeman? Why do you specifically have the ability to question heretical answers? How is the internet the most powerful tool that humans have ever created? How is contrarianism the secular antidote to the problem knowledge? How did René Gerard decide that Christianity is the way to solve the problem of unknown unknowns and mimetic rivalry? What did Gerard say about scapegoating? How did Gerard meme himself into being Christian? Why you shouldn’t fight on the minutiae of mimetic rivalry? How do you measure carbon in the topsoil? How can we build personal biological computers? Who is John von Neumann? How did he build a machine for war? How did Liberia end up in such a different place from the US even though they have almost the same constitution?

Ivan Vendrov is AI researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems Twitter: https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov Website: https://www.vendrov.ai/ Questions discussed or for further discussions What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today? What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general? How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that are harmful? What is your take on spirituality? What is the intersection between the Russian Orthodox religion and meditation? What do Russian orthodox people do for lent? Go vegan for the entire month emphasis on spirituality What happened to the soviet union and orthodox Christianity? What is the word “mir”? What is the difference between a time of troubles and a dark age? Were the dark ages really dark? What is the relationship between centralization and golden ages? Who are the cypher phunks? What are heterogenous networks? What is cyborgism? What is your take on rationalism? superintelligence At its best, its a community that has the best truth orientation Where do rationalism and dogma meet? What is post-rationalism? Can you be dogmatic and rationalist at the same time? Who were the original rationalists? What is bayesian reasoning? How can you establish all the events that could happen? Naive bayesian reasoning What does rationalism say about trusting others? What are the other sources of truth for rationalists? How do you convert or create knowledge? The book “The social history of truth” Truth or knowledge depends on a bedrock of trust and punishes liars In 18th century only gentlemen could speak truth because they had “F-U” money Why does knowledge follow a cyclical pattern of openness and dogma and how do they interact? Can a bureaucracy last longer than 300 years old? Can knowledge paradigms last long? Will technology allow us to establish non-bureaucratic systems that can stay flexible? Is cultural knowledge dying? How do you preserve cultural knowledge? How do you preserve knowledge that is implicit and hard to make explicit?

Woody Wiegmann https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency? What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do? Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual Are there going to be business moats around AI? How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean? What is the importance of status games in human relationships? What is Keynesian beauty/stock dynamics? Is there a ground truth? What is the relationship between gossip and myths for what both for tribes and meta-tribes? What is trend on vices that represent escapism? In what ways is Twitter escapism? What happens when a bureaucracy tries to intervene? What happens when bureaucracies clash with the uncertainty of the implications of AI? What is humanity going through in terms of its faith in the expert class? Where does credit go when you have low-interest rates and the government pumps trillions of monopoly money into the system? What are the negative externalities of corporations consolidating? What is the relationship between monopoly money injected into the economy and finding consensus among humans? What happens when AGI becomes the deity? What happens when the market becomes God? What is the importance of optics? Can you be authentic when concerned with optics? How does anti-trust law get it wrong? Can we have decentralized anti-trust law? How is the brain built off redundant systems? What is your take on transhumanism?   Books mentioned: Seveneves: https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B00LZWV8JO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Rare Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe-ebook/dp/B00L60PP0I/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=V3UGRDR27PTV&keywords=rare+earth&qid=1676913897&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+earth%2Cdigital-text%2C185&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySUg5NjgyRlBBQ0hJJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjIyOTI0MkE1QlExN0xCM1NRRyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDMxNjY0MTczTkU0VDdSQkpPMSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=    

Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit  https://twitter.com/SafePen ~dalten/new-aera https://twitter.com/_dalten   Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither? What are the other options besides social dystopia? Resource constraint Wind from a dying star novel Technology stultification How does Urbit help to solve this? What does it mean to lose understanding of first principles as an individual and a society? How does technology influence us to dissociate from the first principles that the technology was built with? Will the only people who populate the network states be the autists? How will communities be restored after covid? What are the religious implications of Urbit? What are the expressions of development in Urbit vs other computer programming languages? What does the user experience in Urbit look like in 5 years? What needs to be done to make urbit something shareable with my sister? What are the use cases for distributed networked computing instead of centralized systems? Does Urbit need to be palatable to normies? What is the address space model? What is data composability? How does it relate to urbit and urbit adoption What is remote scry? What are the constraints from social conditions versus technology constraints? How does the leadership of Urbit and/or Tlon and/or Quartus ensure that it eats the legacy internet? How does content recommendation fit in of Urbit? Where is the line between limbic engagement and limbic manipulation? What is the relationship between content recommendation and reputation engines? How do permissions works on Urbit? What is sybil protection? How does urbit trivialize software writing for networking versus the legacy internet? What is canonical truth? What is decoherence between various people and truth claims? What is reputational flow? How do you build a wikipedia that is not dominated by political whims?  

Adam Chavez is a Founder of Freeplay, & Mokriya.    We make sense of where we’re headed as a society in a post-trust, post-2020 world.   What’s up with Steve Jobs’ apparent belief in magic? Why does that matter?    We also talk AI, holographic theory, the impact of ancient Abraham on America, & the Minecraft Generation.   https://alkebulan.substack.com/   adam@adamchavez.net   https://twitter.com/anksolado   What is the relation between the occult and steve jobs? What is a story of 0 to 1 in occult language? What is the difference between the performative sense and the inner self? What is freeplay, the company? What is the relationship between adrenaline junkies and spiritual emergencies? What is the difference between transactional and transformational relationships? Do you think that AI is going to increase atomization? How does the freedom that minecraft represent when it comes to kids ability to create think today? What will AI do to the bureaucratic incentives of government? What is the relationship between decentralization and AI? What is the relationship between desire for freedom and being a good employee? Why do ideologies make some people feel like they are real and others feel like are empty and meaningless? Are the problems of meaning an issue with abrahamic cultures? Why do scientists shy away from discussing the implications of quantum mechanics? What is the holographic theory?

Trent Gillham Founder of Holium ~lomder-librun on Urbit https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018? What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup? What is it like to develop on urbit? How does non-attachment help us to build products but also distract us from with the masses? What is Holium? Community operating system How is the current system of the infrastructure of the internet keeping the internet a single-player game? What is the library of babel? https://libraryofbabel.info/ Where did the names of tlon and uqbar come from? Who makes sense of disparate information? What did your crisis of 2018 teach you? Does IBM have a chance when it comes to AI? How good was AI at making decisions via algorithm in 2018? What about now? How do you make moral or ethical decisions when technology rapidly advances? How do you build something that gives human communities collective power that technology is taking over? Do AI’s have moats? What did COVID teach you about how technology can actually help communities rather than hurt them or dominate them? What is special about peer to peer database networks? What is different about the crypto age, if anything, in comparison to the VC model of yesteryear? What is Holium’s ballet? What was it like for you to build hoon? What is realm? First commit of realm was April 15th How did software systems end up being bloated by contractual economics? What is unique to urbit? What is a kubernetes clusters? What do you think of the leviathan that is the federal government? What is the relationship between resiliency of legacy systems and then the pace of technological change? How do we create resilient but also adaptable systems that can handle accelerationism? How did the internet destroy cultural convergence? How far did that make it into other countries outside of urban areas? Monoculturing is almost the same thing as monocropping The Meme flood and algorithmic pharoahs What is the spirit of technique? Technological society book When does technology become technique and then become luciferian? How can you dominate technology rather than the reverse? What was the foundation of the amish? When did that happen? What is the antifragile/resilient version of utilization of technology? Technology is the means rather than the goal What happens when the legacy internet becomes an infinite generation of content? Where do magic and technology intersect?

A full-stack web developer, speaker and adviser to a small number of blockchain startups  Owenbarnes.com On urbit: ~locruc-fonmec What are the foundations of privacy? What is the next big thing? Was Facebook built in PHP? Where do you see Urbit converging with cryptocurrency values? What is composability? What happened with Tornado Cash? What is a personal AI? What is the transformer paradigm? What is the apocalyptic paradigm when it comes to AI? Why is there so much fear regarding AI? Will AI ever be able to decide what is beautiful or not? What is the root of fear? What is decentralized computing? In what ways is Ethereum complimentary to Urbit? What about competition Uqbar? Why would you need the huge security guarantees that ETH represents? What do you think of the Bitcoin Maxis evaluation of ETH as censorable? What is the problem with kelvin versioning? What is the history of computing? “Mother of all demos” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&ab_channel=Marcel Brett Victor What is the future of computing? What is the value of data? What is the future of regulation when it comes to what we are discussing? The AI that you are talking about, what is the difference between Chat GPT and that AI? Why did languages teach us so much about the transformer paradigm for AI? What will be it once we can generate apps on the fly with AI? What is the difference between content and context? How is a human similar to a shattered giant ice cube? What are the implications of the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI? Why does the training of the algorithm cost so much power rather than just the keeping up? What happens with the live training model of AI?

Sam Frank, Writer, Investor, and Board member of the Urbit Foundation Substack: https://samfrank.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdoted Urbit ID: ~todset-partug How did you first get involved with Urbit? What is it like to be a writer in the descent of that profession brought on by the internet? What are the politics like in the new york writer's groups? What does it mean to be a rationalist? Did you see the Peter Theil takedown of the rationalist community? What was Vitalik like before he became nerd famous? What was the original DAO version versus where it is now? What does it mean to be an alien in a human body? Where do Moldbug and Nick Land converge and diverge? How does being a writer help you understand technology in ways programmers can’t? How does talking off the record play into being a writer/journalist? What is the relationship between being conservative in technology versus being conservative in other centers of contemporary power? What is the relationship between ethereum and urbit? What is urbit going to be? What was it like to get on Urbit in 2018? How does localism play into urbit? What will Urbit do to information? What will the Google be of Urbit? How will the network map be different for Urbit than it is for contemporary social media? What are the metaphysic strings that thread the current urbit network? What do you think search will be like on Urbit? How do you categorize knowledge? What about information? What is the relationship between entropy and knowledge? How does the breakdown of knowledge work differently pre-internet and post-internet? How is the speed of development different in Urbit versus the legacy internet? Are the development costs lower in Urbit vs the legacy computing world? What is the relationship between knowledge and context of knowledge? What is the difference between something that works and something that works well? Talk about how Stewart started researching random esoteric spirituality  stuff on Google and got himself into a deep hole Is postmodernism an entropy of modernism? But maybe its both, parts of the world will decline under entropy and a new species gets created that enters the new age? (25 minutes in) You seem like someone who is part of both the new age esotericism and part of technology, what is that like? Why did society edit Nikola Tesla? What is the relationship between urbit and AI? Who is Rudolph Steiner? What were the influences that led to unbalanced specialization? The tradition itself is no longer valid for the increased complexity that comes from the age of acceleration Who is Norman Kahn? Book “In search of the Millenium” What is the root of the “ascension to 5D theory”? How is the brain a filtration system? How does the specialization matrix/left brain make people more fragile to the obvious acceleration we are going through? What did Charles Eisenstein say about COVID? What is it like to go to UFO convention? What is it like to be authentically weird rather than cool weird? How does rationalism end up repressing the irrational?

Stephen is working on AI dev on Near protocol and developing on Ethereum What is the NEAR blockchain? What is sharding? Increasing throughput of the transactions Breaking up the blockchain into shards so that you can get more parallelism When does ETH sharding begin? ETH sharding is based on blobs Why are you attracted to Rust? Can you use Rust on Ethereum? What is a virtual machine? Something that is interpreting bite code instead of binary Why would a blockchain need a virtual machine? Why are virtual machines more secure? What is web assembly? How do interfaces work for smart contracts? What is a blockchain? Why would someone want to have a blockchain for gaming? Why does a blockchain economize resources better than something like AWS or cloud computing? What are zero knowledge proofs? What is the relationship between zero knowledge proofs and KYC networks? What is determinism? What are your thoughts on AI right now as an AI developer? How far are we from AGI? How much has psychology or biology informed the development of AI? Has anyone formed a plan to actually get to AGI? Would gaming be a good way to create an AGI through this bootstrapping thing you mention 25 minutes in? Why is gaming AI dumbed down? Is it dumbed down because of resource efficiency? No its because you want that determism and the expected range of behaviors QA doesn’t want to deal with unexpected issues which cause bugs you can’t fix or expect How is deep learning affecting gaming developments? How is gaming affecting deep learning? Are you using copilot for developing? What is reinforcement learning? Find out how much you value decisions that lead to certain rewards What does it mean to “discount something”? Whether OPENAI is open source? What did NFT protocol did you create? What is a Markoff chain? What is a lottery smart contract? You purchase tickets with your crypto wallet The more tickets you purchase, the better chances you have for a payout How does peer reviewing work for writing solidity? What are the implications of developing on a blockchain versus a normal database? What is state when it comes to programming? How do you visualize the state of the EVM?