2024-05-23: Gold, Golden, Goldest
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Three Things I Did At Work
1. Distributed rewards
Well, not yet, with FIL-RetroPGF-1 , but I'm beginning to think about how to do it. It's going to be strange, because I don't think the folks even know they were nominated! (I have a fallback if they don't want the money, which is it all goes back into the fund, but I think it may be relatively hard to even convince people that it's legitimate.)
2. Distributed rewards
I got a nice meta-compliment about my handling of Bonusly rewards, which are a sort of in-company incentive scheme that is entirely unlike cryptocurrency, unless you think too hard about it. My British DNA means that I am massively suspicious of such enforced geniality (I keep meaning to join our company trivia games, but you have no idea how the existence of such an idea burns in my soul. It's like putting milk in before the tea-bag or something.)
3. Distributed rewards
Lots of thinking about the next year of our FFDW non-profit, as well as more fast-moving grants to encourage more capitalistic endeavours in the Filecoin ecosystem more generally. You want it all to be positive-sum: I don't want to push out other, more market funding in FIlecoin-land; I wouldn't want Bonusly to replace actual compliments; I wouldn't want our volunteers and other public gooders to change their behaviour because magic internet money is involved. Your interference in the game changes the game; that is the game you are playing.
TIL
- Brooklyn Zelenka and I talked a little today about what's the big new thing. She reminded me of Zama, a start-up that's pushing the edge of fully homomorphic encryption. This was one of those theoretical ideas — that you can hand over encrypted data to be processed by a third-party, and the data can be crunched and the results returned to you without the third-party having to unencrypt it — that seemed impossibly remote just a few years ago. Now the only thing stopping me from writing a program is I can't get the python packaging to work. Xkcd vs xkcd, I guess.
Links Du Jour
- Memories of Milton Friedman as a father. It's titled "MF" but he actually sounds a pretty admirable parent (especially if you're young David Friedman, destined to be even more anti-government than your ancestors.)
- As part of their explorations of dark paths upon which mortal man should never have trod, Anthropic have created an AI that is obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge. Well, it beats paperclips I guess.