It's been a while

It's been a while since I've posted on Hive. A lot has happened in the past year so I'll recap. Remember that project Tau I kept posting about? It's finally at test net. In fact, if you're reading this, it's days away from 1.0.

Andrei K, the developer of testnet, just did some updates. You can find the testnet here: https://github.com/IDNI/tau-testnet

I joined Steemit roughly 10 years ago, and during that time TauChain as it was called, was just a whitepaper. This was before Hive split off into it's own faction. Many of the topics you're reading about today in the news (agents, formal verification, alignment), are what myself and others talked about a decade ago. The problem is, good things can sometimes take a long time to build.

Now we are at a time where we need exactly what Tau is about to bring. Governable artificial intelligence. Sovereign aligned agents. This is contrary to what you see in the mainstream right now, where the agents are corporate controlled, and AI is being positioned as something to compete with or even replace the human. That isn't what I had in mind when I envisioned agents 10 years ago.

On the other hand some events are playing out exactly as I expected. The many smart contract hacks, the technological unemployment, the sharp divisions around how the technology should be used. Some ideas from 10 years ago have not yet been built out, and are now close to being feasible, such as Network States, or cyborgization. 10 years ago these ideas sounded crazy, now they sound inevitable.

The next few years will be both challenging, and also have opportunities to build great digital communities. That is something I intend to participate in, and that is why now is the time for me to become active again on Hive. I'll be sharing my own projects, some of which will be built on Tau, some which will be built for Hive.