I just had the pleasure of reviewing my Grokipedia entry, which is under the deluded impression that there is a vibrant public debate about my ideas.

I don't! But I encountered quite a few things like that in early online networks. Like having lunch with a local fellow here in Colorado who was voted out of leadership of the BBS he founded according to its constitution.

Thank you so much for this—his memoir is one of my favorite books.

Thanks for the reminder

Ha guilty as charged

There are some things I still turn to google for (scholar, maps, and tech help-forum queries mostly), but the bangs let me do it from DDG (!scholar, !gm, and !g), so there's no reason to have to start at goog.

I have been using DDG for years. I've tried switching away numerous times, but I always miss the clean, readable design. My favorite features are the !bangs (a gateway to a web of search engines, not a walled garden), and duck.ai (same as above, but for chatbots).

It reminds me of something the arborist said on a recent campus tree tour: these trees are really meant to be in forests, not on their own in the middle of grassy quads.

Crypto needs regulators not because it depends on them per she but because it wants to infiltrate demands they control.

There *is* dependency when crypto wants to access TradFi (eg, bull market froth and ETF integration). But those are not core requirements of the tech, and it would change if more of the market were crypto-native.

For instance, DeFi platforms are anxious about financial regulation not because they need it to operate but because their operators face legal risk if they don't follow the relevant regulations.

I'm not sure I fully agree with that part of the analysis. Crypto is dependent on state infrastructure because people face legal risk if they don't use state infrastructure for liability, property ownership, etc. It forces regulatory concern that the tech doesn't necessarily need.

Agreed. At Metagov we have been collecting starting points here: Metagov.org/cg-ai