Over the last decade I’ve gone deeper into a set of values that guide my relationship to what we should be building and for whom.
Consensus and alignment will be the twin sisters of our shared reality.
We achieve consensus through open networked & decentralized systems of governance and value. A trustless system reaches consensus we all agree upon through the mathematical verification of compute. Decentralized collaborative approaches are the path to alignment.
The further we get from truth as a set of shared experience we agree upon as humans, the more crucial a trustless future becomes.
AI and crypto offer us transparent solutions to agreement. Machine intelligence needs machine money and machine governance.
Humans beings are not truth seeking animals. We are social animals. We decide the boundaries of culture together. Rationality is an aspiration resting atop faulty sensors and emotional baggage.
But we can reach a consensus. Mathematics gives us the tools to differentiate between thing and not thing. We can encode quite a bit into binary.
We can seek to know things impartially. From there we share our experience with others. We measure and compare. Trial and error is collaborative. To be able to come to an agreement on a shared truth is the whole goal.
To be able to collaborate widely and through shared and mutually agreed upon standards remains the ambition of civilization. Coordination unlocks progress.
With artificial intelligence we can extend out the realm of what we know. Networking together all our emotionally faulty sensors, conflicting pieces of cultural & emotional knowledge together reveals bigger things.
If, from that networked reality, we are then able to scale the abstract business of solving specific and concrete problems all the better.
Building within reality requires us to agree on an acceptable consensus. We can verify positions and align incentives together. The alignment is all of us coming to a consensus on how we allocate our attention, willpower, and resources.
We reach for technological progress through alignment which is organized through the network consensus layers of governance and value.
The freedom to compute is essential to alignment. In a trustless world, we are able to reach consensus we can all verify.