internet-native communities & networks coordinating to inhabit physical space 20 years ago you might find a date online. now: materialize IRL cities from close-knit digital networks network states are here and will be very big. if you don't see it yet, i hope you will soon anon

AI will make virtual reality visually indistinguishable from physical reality. Or: the metaverse is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Or: what’ll people do if AI actually does take their jobs? Play amazing AI video games while robots do all the work. That future is also already here, and also not yet evenly distributed…

Towards the New York City Network State?! Mamdani has still unfortunately declared himself the tribal enemy of many of my colleagues, but one has to be bullish on him as the future of the Democrats after this. He’s a live player who can jettison democratic socialists for venture capitalists in one week — and rise to power on abolishing the police while then very publicly embracing the police. Like Trump, the man is not really ideological. He can pivot, he’s smart. This is a real problem for the Republicans. Along with Xi overseas, Mamdani’s faction of immigrant strivers represents an IQ bailout for otherwise mathless American wokes. After all, it doesn’t actually matter how Mamdani’s check to a quantum lab is written. In order to overcome his party’s reflexive anti-tech, pro-state orientation he had to emphasize at least one part of this initiative, which was the statism. Talking up the (arguably real) benefits to the public thus blesses a quasi-venture-capitalist action as democratic socialism, a sort of Dengist maneuver in which communism becomes capitalism through sufficient legalism, lip service, and legerdemain. It’s similar to how Trump justifies state venture capitalism through nationalist rhetoric. MAGA has an understandable skepticism of the centralized state, but anything that invokes nationalism (or national security) can mollify that skepticism. And yeah, one can talk about price discovery, and who knows if this $30M investment was market or whatever. The point is that the most important Democrat in America is taking an action which is NOT anti-tech, and is indeed pro-tech. If this continues, only the most retrograde, reactionary Democrats will remain anti-tech. I mean, look…if one must pipe some NYC budget into quantum mechanics at NYU instead of syringe-distribution at NGOs in order to keep blues in the style to which they are accustomed, so be it. Basically, what Mamdani is doing here is very similar to Trump’s sovereign stake in Intel, or any sovereign fund’s for that matter. At a structural level, we’re seeing the network (meaning tech, meaning the Internet) fuse with the legacy state. Yes, Trump’s Intel stake represents a right-coded variant, while Mamdani’s stake in quantum computing is left-coded, but the outcome is the same: the network state. Blue cat, red cat, doesn’t matter if it advances tech.

It’s important for your future that you understand Zcash. You can’t have zero knowledge about zero knowledge. Thus, this year's Network State Conference will include a Zcash Zummit, featuring Zcash leaders Zooko Wilcox (Shielded Labs), Sean Bowe (Tachyon), Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare), Josh Swihart (Zodl), Josh Lee (Vizor), Dev Ojha (Zakura), Evan Forbes (Valar Group), Maxime Desalle (Winklevoss Capital), and Tom Howard (Zcash Labs). In-person attendees will even receive some free ZEC. So: come to Singapore on October 9.

excited to be speaking at the Network State and Token2049 conferences in Singapore in a few weeks i increasingly believe the current network state paradigm is the most under-the-radar future trillion dollar+ market today i will explain more detail about why at the conference :)

Network School has officially launched in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 On September 2, Superteam Kazakhstan co-hosted the official launch of @ns Kazakhstan at alongside the Ministry of AI and Digital Development and @AstanaHub.

Great argument actually for making Hollywood movies with AI It can let directors create what they actually want to create without having to bend for financial interests and propaganda that's infilitrated Holywood films these days And the audience lets the best production win

It's time to decentralize Hollywood with AI. Introducing the new Network School Astana AI Film Festival, in partnership with the Republic of Kazakhstan. We're awarding $2M in prizes with entries accepted from around the world. So: submit your film now at

i’ve been in kazakhstan for a week, and it’s crazy how the local alternatives to doordash, uber, and chase absolutely mog the original products. i’ve also noticed that kazakh companies always seem to become super apps. for example, we have an app called kaspi that basically combines chase, paypal, amazon, doordash, and uber into one. its valuation is $19 billion.