Two kinds of censorship resistance
How privacy blockchains and circumvention tools are "censorship resistant" in very different ways
nullchinchilla
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
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