Decentralized AI and people being innately good with Tommy Eastman from Foundry

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tommy Eastman from foundry

Tommy Eastman advocates for permissionless innovation in technology and decentralization, navigating the frontier of emerging tech while emphasizing long-term vision amidst volatility. He champions OpenAI as a guiding principle and urges discernment between genuine utility and vaporware in the evolving landscape.

Foundry, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG), empowers institutional miners, staking customers, and blockchain entrepreneurs with the essential tools to construct tomorrow's decentralized infrastructure.

00:00 – 04:44 : Intro
04:44 -- 07:41 : Why web3 and not the valley?
07:41 -- 08:49 : Cryptography
08:49 -- 13:44 : Opinion on Web3
13:44 -- 18:45 : Is there a solution for those priced out?
18:45 -- 24:59 : Solution to decentralize the market.
24:59 -- 30:00 : Spotting an AI project.
30:00 -- 34:26 : The division between AI and decentralized AI?
34:26 -- 38:42 : Interesting models to research
38:42 -- 42:08 : Are we ready for AI?
42:08 -- 46:29 : Why aren't you tribalistic?
46:29 -- 50:13 : Selecting chains
50:13 -- 57:59 : The Blitz


We spoke to Tommy Eastman about Foundry and:
  • Supply permissionlessly and provide permissionless access.
  • Tech that's on the frontier.
  • The fundamentals of crypto are really strong.
  • Dog chasing its tail.
  • Decentralization is certainly a spectrum.
  • Centralization at some scale
  • Out of government control
  • Smaller players are priced out.
  • Everybody's priced out.
  • OpenAI as the North Star
  • Quadratic voting
  • Less is more.
  • Trust nothing.
  • Federated learning exists in Web2.
  • Decentralized AI
  • Everything inherently has bias.
  • People being innately good.
  • What is the token price today? What is the token price tomorrow?
  • Expanding your scope to the long term
  • Assessing vaporware versus utility is really important.
  • Symbiotic relationship.

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