Crazy Wisdom
How is a human similar to a shattered giant ice cube? - Owen Barnes
- Money & Sovereignty
- Crypto & Decentralization
- blockchain
- ethereum
- urbit
- web development
- privacy technology
- philosophy
- decentralization
About this episode
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”
- 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?
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you. If you have an insane drive to find the truth of things, it's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there, my guests go there, and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on itunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Owen Barnes. He is a full stack web developer, speaker and advisor to a small number of blockchain startups. And I'm really excited to talk about Ethereum, Urbit, a whole bunch of different stuff and welcome to the show.
Yes, indeed. So I should say that this one was just me and the organizer, Lucas, and that's largely because it was kind of very short notice decided on yesterday. But I've been to quite a few now, which Lukas has done, and I, I've been absolutely blown away by the people who show up. Absolutely blown away. The, the first one in particular that we did, we had, you know, a philosophy student come from Oxford University, like just to come here. We had to, you know, there's lots of sorts of like philosophy, sort of linked people and you know, geeks from all over the uk, people working on really good stuff, like the, the sort of technology that we use in things like tornado cache and things like that, you know, in terms of like privacy and so on. So yes, so, so that was a bit. So today was a bit of a sort of exception, but there's been some amazing ones and many more to come, I think.
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