Xavier Damman 🌍🔅

@xdamman

Steward of open source organizations (@opencollect @commonshub_bxl @citizenwallet @regensunite @daobrussels)

Brussels, Belgium

xavierdamman.com

Joined December 2006

Xavier Damman 🌍🔅
@xdamman
7h
My highlights from The Temple as a Commons/ a center of Commoning in Thai Society. (4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-temple-a…): "Advances which erase the past and keep no memory of the identity of the territory or its contexts, cannot be considered a winning strategy, in contrast to solutions
4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com
The Temple as a Commons/ a center of Commoning in Thai Society.
A guest article by our commons’ correspondent in Thailand, Michael Commons.
Xavier Damman 🌍🔅
@xdamman
Aug 9
“we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts” “The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it.”
Zara Zhang
@zarazhangrui
Aug 8
This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats So we're building
Xavier Damman 🌍🔅
@xdamman
Aug 7
WW3 map is taking shape. Who would have thought that Japan would side with the US after WW2? 🤯 Europe needs to quickly come to terms with the fact that the US is not an ally anymore and lean more towards China.
Coin Bureau
@coinbureau
Aug 7
🇪🇺JUST IN: The European Central Bank was unaware of the U.S. sale of euros to support the Japanese yen until after the intervention had already been executed, per FT. The first U.S.-Japan joint yen intervention in nearly 30 years reportedly caught ECB officials off guard, with
Xavier Damman 🌍🔅
@xdamman
Aug 4
After trying to destroy bitcoin, China might be the one saving it (thanks to its open weight models). (And incredible people like @callebtc and @Rob1Ham and many others in the community — huge respect for your service 🫡)
calle 🟥
@callebtc
Aug 4
red teaming bitcoin: - we’ve written multiple harnesses and we’re launching a huge wave of reviews against many core bitcoin projects: crypto libs, wallets, infra, … - situation is extremely bad. - we’re averaging on the order of 1 critical exploit per hour per person. - we’ve
Xavier Damman 🌍🔅
@xdamman
Aug 3
If you are unable to take responsibility, then the only things differentiating you from an AI is that you are just slower, less available and have a much smaller context window.
@levelsio
@levelsio
Aug 3
Replying to @serglotz
Actually since 2008, the founders go to jail as accountants worldwide managed to remove their responsiblity