Cal Newport

I did the opposite thing.

That didn't happen in Star Trek.

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It does feel a little bit like crypto to me.

I think that is kind of a fair comparison where

If you had a blockchain-driven software, like in theory, that software would kind of work, but it just gave you a worse version of what you could already do for pennies using the actual Amazon server somewhere.

And all you were really gaining was some sort of cyber libertarian philosophical feel of goods about like, yes, but this was purely decentralized.

I got worse versions of software to be decentralized.

This is what like early agents –

I mean, OK, so here's what I've been writing about agents.

I've been thinking a lot about it.

I mean, the issue is I don't think people understand what they are.

I think people think that it's a new type of digital brain that is now able to go on and do more autonomous activity.

I always see this get mixed up.

It's just like people talking about mythos.

breaking out of its sandbox to do X, Y, Z. Mythos is a language model.