Let’s see from first principles why Web3 is a breakthrough in our ability to design incentives, why it matters and what are some concrete examples of this. Go! First Principles Thinking On Incentive Design To incentivise people, we need to promise them a reward (e.g. a bonus) conditional on an event (e.g. performance), and people need…

Imagine having an hyper realistic “SimCity” simulation that would show us the best way to rule a city. Wouldn’t that be great? What if our SimCity’s president was an AI? What would it try to optimise? What would the citizens of the city try to optimise if they were AI…

Simulating evolution in a nature-like environment is key to understanding how our own intelligence came to happen. In this post we show how reinforcement learning can speed up the search for agents with increasing evolutionary success. We use our proposed algorithm in two bio-inspired environments and unravel two interestingly dark…

Brainstorming is about evolving ideas from stupid to good. Evolving is the key word. In this post, I think out loud about what Memetic Evolution can tell us on how to evolve stupid ideas into good ones, faster — in other words, what does it tell us about how to…

After reading this post you’ll understand why the most valuable NFT art looks old-school and how will the looks evolve in the future. But, before we can learn that, we need to find out what made old-school art look the way it looks. Every byte needs a good reason to exist The computer that took men to the…