Two kinds of censorship resistance How privacy blockchains and circumvention tools are "censorship resistant" in very different ways
Adventures through a GPT-4 conlang hallucination Large language models are surprisingly bad at learning models of languages
The "decentralized MMO" to "hard science fiction in space" pipeline Why a decentralized, open-world MMO almost has to have a hard-SF space setting
Confederal protocols: a sketch Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a "third way" between federated and P2P networks
"Web3 gaming" that doesn't suck How to have Web3 games that are not "problems in search of solutions"
Moving to Ghost Recently, I moved my blog to a self-hosted Ghost instance. This finally ended my long search for the ideal solution for hosting a blog. Some things I've tried include: A Zola-generated static site: This didn't work too well, mostly because the customization language was not very good. A Pollen book,
Against Blockchain Governance š”This post was written in 2021, when Mel was still called Themelio.Ā One of Themelioās strongest design principles is its extreme hostility towards protocol governance: Themelio will not undergo any consensus-breaking changes after the stable network launches. By āprotocol governanceā, or just āgovernanceā, I mean community-wide coordinated changes to