2025-12-11
Addiction to Bad Faith; the evil of algorithms
- Midnight launched on Cardano bigger than Algorand, but Twitter met the win with a pathological addiction to bad faith.
- He will hand part of his X account to an AI digital twin, Project Simulacra, and move engagement into moderated Discords.
- Algorithms puppeteer people into abuse they would never commit in person, and platforms are using AI to 10x it.
- Unfinished business is a new social network that incentivizes cooperation, the third theme of the fourth generation.
- He asks whether he is a liability to Cardano, and why Input Output abstained from governance votes to let the community grow.
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Frames the video as opining on the 48 hours since the Midnight launch, which is exactly the kind of launch he hoped for on Cardano.
A tale of two cities: Midnight launched on Cardano with a higher market cap and volume than Algorand, showing the ecosystem is not dead.
People with a pathological addiction to bad faith who lurch from one manufactured complaint to the next.
He chose to celebrate the win while Twitter fed a mass neurosis that only gets worse.
Recalls the ADA voucher scandal, the fake Fred episode, and the soft fork as one twisted attack after another, and wants to opt out.
Compares reading X to swimming through a river of excrement with hippos trying to eat you.
Compares paying people to moderate his mentions to Facebook's traumatized 15 dollar an hour content moderators.
Announces Project Simulacra, an AI digital twin that will partly run and moderate his X account starting in 2026.
Plans to move engagement into the Midnight Discord with ambassadors and events, where audio and in person talks stay respectful.
Argues social media gives people license to abuse others in ways that would get their teeth knocked out in person.
Algorithms puppeteer people into a Jekyll and Hyde psychology, and the lizard brain treats online and in person abuse the same.
A deranged anti-Charles cult that treats destroying him as a divine duty and will never be convinced otherwise.
He must move to moderated platforms like YouTube where he can ban the deranged, since you cannot reason with them.
The story of a journalist who has held a seven year vendetta after Yahoo News bumped his interview for an IPO story.
Insists all he wants to do is build, having been here 15 years since BitShares.
Recounts Project Invictus in 2013: with Dan Larimer he built the first algorithmic stablecoin and DEX, BitShares, to answer Mt Gox and volatility.
Recalls co-founding Ethereum with Vitalik, then going his own way as Gavin Wood made Polkadot and he made Cardano with its many firsts.
An LLM analysis of 11 years of his talks since the 2014 TED talk shows a consistency no pathological liar could sustain.
He has enough money for a hundred lifetimes yet flew to Abu Dhabi with an IV in his arm to deliver a speech, because he cares.
Compares the endless attacks on him to the tired, endlessly repeated attacks on Trump.
Frames builders as pioneers who must build the roads and infrastructure so others can settle, which toxicity prevents.
Social media companies let everyone know each other for the first time but incentivized focusing on the worst of each other.
Warns the platforms are investing their billions into AI to 10x this, making future humanity alien and unrecognizable.
The unfinished business is a new social network that incentivizes cooperation, the third theme of the fourth generation.
He genuinely loves people and direct engagement at conferences, which the algorithmic madness undermines.
Asks the founder's hard question of whether he is becoming a liability to Cardano, citing his own is Charles a cancer to Cardano poll.
Input Output deliberately abstained from many governance votes in 2025 to let the community learn to self govern, and got blamed for the delays.
Argues if the demand is infallibility then AI handles it better, freeing him to win people over in real human engagement.
Contrasts a product like his yearly Samsung phone, discarded in a drawer, with things you love and treasure like Midnight and Cardano.
Draws on his love of history, wanting Midnight and Cardano treasured the way people treasure 4000 year old Egyptian structures.
The Input Output engineers treat it as a passion, not a job, which is why they get defensive when their loved ones are attacked.
Plans structured, moderated live streams that funnel traffic into the Discord, plus a new Gillette studio, while traveling 260 days a year.
Replies will now come from the AI that aggregates sentiment and top comments while he focuses on building Midnight, Cardano, and RealFi.
Closes pointing to 2026 as the dawn of Hydra, Leios, and Starstream, with Midnight out and RealFi finally fitting the vision together.