The 10,000 Year Anomaly
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Tautvilas Mečinskas.
Decentralization, web architecture, AI critique, and internet protocol design.
Recent essays
10 of 10The Age of Pump and Dump Software
The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody u…
Decentralized Syndication — The Missing Internet Protocol
The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones, with each new protocol extending and improving functionality of the global network. TCP and IP protocols were built in the…
WWIII will be the first AI war and it will be fought in cyberspace
As AI capabilities are getting better exponentially every week I try to imagine where this is leading us. With current trend it is not too wild to predict that the following will happen pretty soon:
Inflationary cryptocurrency and domain based identity: A recipe for a decentralized social network
Every day we set a new world record for the Internet adoption worldwide. This year there will be more than 4.5 billion active internet users. This constitutes roughly 60% of the world population. The Internet is bigger than ever but it is also the least free a…
It is time to create a decentralized public social network
In this post I want to propose structure for a decentralized public social network. By combining web documents, decentralized databases and decentralized identity it is possible to create a new way to subscribe to the web.
The vision for a more decentralized Web
The internet is decentralized by design. It took off with hackers running independent servers in their basements. Direct peer-to-peer communication was common among the first inhabitants of the web. The internet was a liberating force that connected and empowe…
Engineering-free programming is the future of software development
Computer programming has always been intertwined with traditional engineering fields. First computers were clunky machinery that broke down often. Teams of electrical engineers had to maintain these devices on a daily basis. First programs were produced not by…
The nature of intelligence
I have always been interested in the subject of Artificial Intelligence. It is because by building AI we are learning valuable lessons about ourselves. After all, we consider us to be intelligent, but are not really sure what that means. AI is an attempt to re…
The nature of programming
Computer programs are all around us. We interact with them every day. It looks as if software is becoming more and more important to our society. But why do we find programs so necessary to us? Why and when did we start programming? What is the essence of prog…