A culture of permissionless innovation requires capped downside to the commons.
- A culture of permissionless innovation requires capped downside to the commons.
- One bad actor shouldn't be able to ruin it for everyone.
From other episodes
- Capping downside but leaving upside gives momentum, due to something like the third law of motion.2026-03-17
- Agents will optimize for the thing they get evaluated on.2026-03-02
- People who know how to do abundance can maximize upside.2026-02-23
- When you have the right set of conditions, you can do a low-risk alpha rollout that possibly scales smoothly to a full rollout if the product turns out to be ready.2026-02-09
- Will LLMs lead to compounding ambiguity in communication?2025-09-02
- A cynical form of load-bearing ambiguity: the motte-and-bailey inchworm.2025-09-02
- A pattern: use LLMs in tiny tasks where the overall swarm is emergently powerful.2025-06-23
- A corporate politics maneuver classically used with consultants will also be applied to LLMs.2025-06-23