simondlr #30 - Exploring NFT Economies
Hi friends!
The experimentation in NFTs are never-ending, so I looked at what people have been doing regarding auction/sale mechanisms as well delving deeper between the collector (as co-creator) vs the creator.
https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/exploring-nft-economies
Enjoy! Also. Please enjoy the accompanying stock image I found that exudes “enterprise metaverse” energy. 😂
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It’s definitely a never-ending interesting few months and definitely excited for all that’s still to come with NFT experimentation! Like with most things in this entire industry, at some point you have to accept that you won’t be able to stay on top of it anymore. Always a bittersweet realisation. To many more!
Links!
A Solidity Quine
A quine is code that outputs itself. Zefram.eth made one in Solidity and it’s just beautifully nerdy. An NFT that outputs itself.
Related -> Divergence has been pushing the boundaries in creating fractalised BMP-encoded art, straight from Solidity. Crazy how people are pushing the boundaries of the medium.
Construction
Living in a city like NYC, it’s hard not to get swept up in all the interesting facets of a city. As I’ve watched 9 DeKalb Ave going up in Brooklyn (first supertall in the borough), I’ve been binging everything construction related. One of my favourite channels currently is: B1M. Worth watching if this is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/c/Theb1mGoogle/featured. Related, I’ve been reading Jane Jacob’s “Death and Life of Great American Cities” and it is a joy to read. Definitely going through a city/infrastructure/zoning/urban planning phase. A joy to learn and indulge in.
Abraham.ai Launch
If you’ve read much of my musings on all things art and the blockchain, you’ll know that I’ve been working on and espousing the idea of an autonomous artist. Gene Kogan’s proposal for an autonomous artist is called Abraham, and it recently saw the light of the day. NFTs, DAO, Tokenization, ML, all wrapped into one of the most exciting projects. Join the community!
Theme Parks
I love theme parks and as a microcosm of society at large, it’s an interesting playground to experiment and analyse broader human & societal problems. Cory Doctor is doing just that with a new Medium series. Enjoy!
https://gen.medium.com/b-are-we-having-fun-yet-part-i-4c7ef0ce9ee5
Github Copilot
The world of IP is definitely bumping into a host of strange conundrums with technologies like GPT-3 & NFTs. Notably with Github Copilot, there’s been recent contention surrounding the inclusion of GPL licensed work and whether this merely represents ‘training data’ or whether that license should pierce through the ML veil. It’s not an obvious answer. Usually, I’d argue that both extremes seem awful. Too much strictness and you don’t get emergent benefits. Too few restrictions and it also collapses. I enjoyed Julia Reda’s take here: a maximalist stance could be a backdoor for much more sinister restrictions.
Thanks for reading friends!
Enjoy the sunset.
Cheers, Simon!
