Alpin Yukseloglu

So you have to get in the trenches and try things.

Yeah.

I think faith is good, but it's not a particularly agency-inducing headspace to be in.

I mean, when we, for example, started having the thought that agents could get extremely good at exploiting smart contracts, which we're obviously heavily exposed to about eight months ago,

we could have just sat down and been like, holy crap, like, are we screwed?

Are we not screwed?

And then it turned out like there's another path, which is, well, you can go figure out to what extent these things are at risk.

And then also start making headway into the labs that are actually pushing this frontier and maybe start getting crypto integrated into them so that we can get into a position where we're

you know, as the fog of war clears and as we start to see, for example, now that there are defensive measures that we can take, that we're in a position to actually exercise those paths.

And I think there's something about like the doomerism and also the

the general like in the limit thinking about the singularity and about super intelligence that is just like captures people because it's like you can sit down and you can think about it for a long time and it'll make you feel very strong emotions.

But at the end of the day, like that's not going to be the thing that is actually like

You can go build things.

You can go work with the people who are pushing the frontier.

You can get in the trenches and you can start contributing.

And the information you gain from that is going to be much more grounded than whatever one can come up with in their head.

And this is, I mean...

I think many of us in crypto are used to this because a lot of crypto was like this for most of its history.

It was extremely illegible.

It was very hard to pin down exactly what the use case was going to be.