I don’t love it.
Sounds hippie to me. Unserious when it comes to money. Investments / funds / grants do not run on karma and good vibes.
Reminds me loveverse.love that is currently offline, archived version here.
I’m much more in the theme of regenerative renaissance.
Regenerative: provide more value than you consume. WIN WIN WIN. Positive sum games.
I remember this GreenPill podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EGTPSda4MDoOqWl2bCZ0F (19th May 2023 “The Regenaissance with Gnoman”)
My personal pick: regen.fund
I’m climate change believer. I don’t like word “sustainable”. Sustainable suggest old business as usual. As civilisation we need to activate net positive: regenerative. Regen is intuitive shorthand and is applicable to pretty much all industries / sectors / cultures / nations / religions. Just like love, but love seems more esoteric, spiritual, ineffable. Regen is something that can be measured, accounted, evaluated.
Personal project: https://demo.basex.com/ (Accounting for the full cost: externalities, cobenefts. Feedback explicitly welcome.)
I undertand the overal perception of crypto as an industry: dumpster on fire. I’m not setting the rules here, I’m just observing reality.
Many people are in crypto for idealogical issues. Here is a video of Aragon from 2018:
Thought 1: Mainstream adoption with tokenised stocks on Robinhood chain and “login with Privy” that completely abstract the blockchain behind it?
Thought 2: AI agent does not have bank account but has crypto wallet: https://agents.circle.com/
I am comfortable with highlighting the benefits of crypto:
- Trust (through being trustless)
- Transparency by default
- Governance
Gitcoin does not scream “crypto”. Git is a source control protocol. Coin, note, banknote are common English words. Gitcoin has brand, legacy and $60m of results: https://gitcoin.co/impact
Mind the target audience
5% of Anthropic: Investing in the public benefit \ Anthropic
Today, we’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows. Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic’s shares will be committed today, with an additional 2% added at the board’s discretion for every 50% increase in the company’s value above a set baseline.
From EA (effective altruism) newsletter: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/REJjytdSyRFXLSgtD/what-will-it-take-to-deliver-billions-a-year-to-the-world-s
The New York Times reports that “between $37b and $100b could become available to charities annually” from a wave of wealth generated by rapidly growing AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
We’ve been speaking to a number of existing GiveDirectly donors in the AI space about what they expect will happen. While we’re skeptical that giving will be that high, it is likely very large sums of philanthropic money will move from AI and other sources over the coming years.
Gartner Hype Cycle of crypto
I think we reached a stage that it can be used on the backend and use the benefits, without talking about it. No need to talk “we use electricity” or “we use internet” or “we use AI” = we just use the best tool for the jobs.
When funding impact and regeneration (regen.fund) it seems naturally aligned.
