goldthreads

Explain why you need ZKP for their flagship problem - the “prove you’re 21” thing.

Or choose any case you like.

Explain why I can’t do it without this hilariously elementary philosophy detached from real world dev.

No cheating! I get access to the same resources. Explain why I need ZKP.

No, I don’t believe in the Doomsday stuff. And I think some people will choose not to participate in this thing, and become seen like animals, and live in clean but relatively primitive ways (like toward the end of HG Wells Time Machine)

You’ll get it. It’s neither religious nor science/technical but the merging of the two.

Ritual without technology ain’t it and neither is technology without ritual.

Monks/robes and preachers are premature attempts.

LLMs are premature attempts.

We are trying, but those aren’t the ones.

ZKP is 100% bullshit.

It’s a new word invented by people who don’t know hashing and databases already exist.

Work a hard week on a passionate problem then spark up a J. Ideas will fly out of your mind faster than you can articulate them.

Eat. Sleep.

See what stuck the next morning, on the walk to coffee.

What do you think the last 10 years of “culture fitness” has been about?

Before the Singularity (before any mind can emerge, really) you need reliable neural protocols.

I really think it will happen eventually - religion and science merge under this idea that we are all participants in the mind of god who, until that realization and subsequent calibration, could not awaken.

Like the WoW storyline, basically. So the Earth as of today is like a sleeping god that hasn’t woken up yet, and our society is its dream.