Alex Van de Sande
@avsa.eth.xyz
Ethereum Foundation Alumni, ENS cofounder, Dad.
Who would win in a fight: one Tesla Optimus versus one hundred cheap drones. Both are allowed to use any weapon they can carry.
This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.
This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Who would win in a fight: one Tesla Optimus versus one hundred cheap drones. Both are allowed to use any weapon they can carry.
This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.
This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.
Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.
I don’t understand how Apple giving $1B per year to google for renting is better than them buying a few billion of anthropic and owning the models outright.
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don’t understand how Apple giving $1B per year to google for renting is better than them buying a few billion of anthropic and owning the models outright.
People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.
It’s funny that in the last few years the word “liberal” in the US converged again to the same meaning as in Europe.
Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.
Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It’s funny that in the last few years the word “liberal” in the US converged again to the same meaning as in Europe.
Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.
Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.
I wouldn’t say I’m becoming more conservative with age but, as an eternal optimist, I’ve noticed I’m slowly moving more from “let’s try to make the world better” mode into “let’s try to make the world not worse” mode.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I wouldn’t say I’m becoming more conservative with age but, as an eternal optimist, I’ve noticed I’m slowly moving more from “let’s try to make the world better” mode into “let’s try to make the world not worse” mode.
Flying cars dreams were never about the flying but about cars. People don’t want tiny helicopters, they wanted the suburbs and highways urbanism but without having to think about the infrastructure needed or the harms caused on the ground.
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Flying cars dreams were never about the flying but about cars. People don’t want tiny helicopters, they wanted the suburbs and highways urbanism but without having to think about the infrastructure needed or the harms caused on the ground.
Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck & Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.
October 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck & Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.
Found some comics I drew in 2021, during lockdown. Always liked the text but didn't like how the art came out. They were satirical jokes on tropes from fantasy, sci-fi and super hero movies.
September 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Found some comics I drew in 2021, during lockdown. Always liked the text but didn't like how the art came out. They were satirical jokes on tropes from fantasy, sci-fi and super hero movies.
I'm surprised Polymarket doesn't present these different markets in a single unified and custom made interface. Maps showing expectations for the wars, a single bar chart with market expectations about the FED or Bitcoin, etc
September 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm surprised Polymarket doesn't present these different markets in a single unified and custom made interface. Maps showing expectations for the wars, a single bar chart with market expectations about the FED or Bitcoin, etc
I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...
Code Is Law (2025) - Trailer - Feature Length Documentary
YouTube video by Au Fait Films
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...
Of the 10 years Ulisses spent coming home from the Odissey, only 2 were in actual tribulations. The other 8 years were spent having sex with an Enchantress and then a Nymph.
A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.
A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.
July 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Of the 10 years Ulisses spent coming home from the Odissey, only 2 were in actual tribulations. The other 8 years were spent having sex with an Enchantress and then a Nymph.
A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.
A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.
Started reading a great book about Zeno’s paradox, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to finish it.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Started reading a great book about Zeno’s paradox, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to finish it.
Reposted by Alex Van de Sande
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
My kids discovered the perfect RPS 5-variant: it’s rock, papers, scissors, dinosaur and astronaut.
Dinosaur eats astronaut.
Astronaut lands on rock.
Rock killed the dinosaurs.
Astronaut uses scissors.
Scissors stabs dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats paper.
Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.
Dinosaur eats astronaut.
Astronaut lands on rock.
Rock killed the dinosaurs.
Astronaut uses scissors.
Scissors stabs dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats paper.
Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.
July 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My kids discovered the perfect RPS 5-variant: it’s rock, papers, scissors, dinosaur and astronaut.
Dinosaur eats astronaut.
Astronaut lands on rock.
Rock killed the dinosaurs.
Astronaut uses scissors.
Scissors stabs dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats paper.
Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.
Dinosaur eats astronaut.
Astronaut lands on rock.
Rock killed the dinosaurs.
Astronaut uses scissors.
Scissors stabs dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats paper.
Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.
I wish more men understood that just like evolution tricked us in having sex by adding tons of sensory receptors in weird parts, so it has done with child-raising.
Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.
Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.
July 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I wish more men understood that just like evolution tricked us in having sex by adding tons of sensory receptors in weird parts, so it has done with child-raising.
Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.
Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.
This is what happens when engineers main worry is to not the product, but to make the boss happy.
July 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This is what happens when engineers main worry is to not the product, but to make the boss happy.
Reposted by Alex Van de Sande
Yet another proof American companies don’t understand being multilingual is not about switching the one language, but speaking many languages at the same time in different contexts.
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yet another proof American companies don’t understand being multilingual is not about switching the one language, but speaking many languages at the same time in different contexts.
Apple already has its “post iPhone” platform. It’s Apple Watch + AirPods. But it has to have a proper AI for it to work and whatever it has now is not that.
They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.
They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.
June 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Apple already has its “post iPhone” platform. It’s Apple Watch + AirPods. But it has to have a proper AI for it to work and whatever it has now is not that.
They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.
They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.
"I can't stand my useless husband, so why would anyone else ever want theirs to be a real father?"
www.spectator.co.uk/article/plea...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/plea...
Please don't give my husband longer paternity leave
Men at home all day have an uncanny ability to misunderstand the rhythm of the house. They use the blender during wind-down time
www.spectator.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"I can't stand my useless husband, so why would anyone else ever want theirs to be a real father?"
www.spectator.co.uk/article/plea...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/plea...
Asked Apple intelligence a simple question. It responded by calling my sister in law for some reason (I guess her name vaguely sounds a word I said?).
Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.
Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.
June 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Asked Apple intelligence a simple question. It responded by calling my sister in law for some reason (I guess her name vaguely sounds a word I said?).
Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.
Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.
It’s not that I don’t believe in the possibility of a future artificial super intelligence.
I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.
I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.
May 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It’s not that I don’t believe in the possibility of a future artificial super intelligence.
I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.
I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.
Gay sin paradox: homosexuality is a modern phenomenon but also it’s explicitly mentioned multiple times in our five thousand year old book.
May 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Gay sin paradox: homosexuality is a modern phenomenon but also it’s explicitly mentioned multiple times in our five thousand year old book.
I used to joke, long before having kids, that one day we would be all old bigots complaining "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS DATING A ROBOT!"
It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.
It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.
May 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I used to joke, long before having kids, that one day we would be all old bigots complaining "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS DATING A ROBOT!"
It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.
It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.