Justin Drake

And this is one of the reasons why I'm cautious about putting the foundations of the instance of value on top of so-called lattices.

So...

NIST has two major flavors of post-quantum signatures.

There's the hash-based stuff and the lattice-based stuff.

And the lattice-based stuff to me is very reminiscent of the elliptic curves.

These are highly structured objects.

Lattice suggests that you have these grid, if you will, of points.

And it's plausible, at least, that some AGI or even stronger, some ASI, artificial superintelligence, something that is

thousands of times smarter than the combination of all humanity could crack.

But the hash functions, there's reasons to believe that it's strong.

Even though I'm not too worried about cryptography, I am worried about something much deeper, if you will, if you zoom out.

I'm more and more worried about just existential risk for humanity.

And I think more and more people are starting to

understand what Eliza was trying to say on Bankless not too long ago.

I think it's plausible that if humanity were to survive, that a firm plays a key role in that happening.

The metaphor that I have right now is that humanity is driving in a car at 100 miles an hour, and there's all sorts of incentives.

There's this Moloch trap where

the big nation states, the TSMC, NVIDIA, OpenAI, they're all pressing on the gas.

And the car has no brakes.

It has no seatbelt.