🔮 Becoming a centaur; creative destruction; virtual citizens; why decentralisation matters; power laws, peak oil & passwords ++ #154

Dept of the near future

🎠 How to be a centaur: Intelligence augmentation will allow “for new, previously-impossible ways of thinking, of living, of being”. One lovely insight: “AIs are best at choosing answers. Humans are best at choosing questions.” MUST READ

🔥 Why decentralization matters. Chris Dixon argues that decentralized cryptonetworks can be fundamentally aligned to user welfare in ways that centralised platforms can’t be. “[T]he hardware-based networks of the past are fundamentally different than the internet, a software-based network. Once hardware-based networks are built, they are nearly impossible to rearchitect. Software-based networks can be rearchitected through entrepreneurial innovation and market forces.”

🛂 The Atlantic on buying and selling virtual citizenship. (See also: Digital nomads are “firing their governments” and moving to climes that better suit their purposes. A luxury - to choose citizenship - that had previously only been enjoyed by the ultra-rich is b…