AMA 10/27/2020

Open the livestream from Colorado with some weather banter.

Signs the change management document lowering the decentralization parameter d, pushing block production past 50 percent community made.

Plans a screencast reading through IOG's philosophy document explaining the game theory behind Cardano's protocol parameters.

Favor raising the k parameter over time alongside software improvements like partial delegation and hybrid cold and hot wallets.

Recaps the Wyoming event, split between political outreach and sales, with productive talks on e-voting with independent parties.

Lays out the security requirements for e-voting software, including end to end verifiability and hybrid paper and digital ballots.

Previews an upcoming hard fork combinator event carrying multisig and token locking ledger rule changes.

Building the Daedalus voting center, identity center, and QR code features for Catalyst.

The Catalyst mobile app's early beta release on Google Play with weekly iterations.

Highlights 3,500 people already active on the IdeaScale innovation platform, including proposals from the sociocracy movement.

Gives a product marketing update with Lisa, comparing Ouroboros against EOS, Tezos, Algorand and Polkadot.

Announces hiring a new creative director, Adam, formerly of Mercedes-Benz, to sharpen marketing content.

Confirms the iOS Catalyst voting app has been submitted to the Apple App Store for review.

Addresses the biased, outdated Wikipedia article on Cardano and plans an industry wide push to fix crypto science articles.

Announces an upcoming podcast with the Everpedia founders about their decentralized encyclopedia platform on EOS.

Larry Sanger will give an internal seminar on his post-Wikipedia protocols for decentralizing knowledge management.

Offers Catalyst funding for anyone who wants to build a decentralized Wikipedia alternative on Cardano.

Warns that new Cardano projects risk commercial censorship on Wikipedia, contrasting an abandoned coin's page with a legitimate project denied one.

Traces his family's deep roots in medicine, from his physician father and brother to his infectious disease specialist uncle.

His mycology farm project growing lion's mane, reishi and oyster mushrooms with a resident mycologist.

Blockchain's fit for portable medical record access rights and audit logs rather than storing the records themselves.

Proposes pursuing a medical records access control standard through Hyperledger Foundation membership.

Recommends the Fantastic Fungi documentary and praises Paul Stamets' mycology work.

Cites Johns Hopkins research on psilocybin's clinical benefits for depression and addiction.

Explains why he is holding off on a Joe Rogan Experience appearance until Cardano can capture that audience.

Argues that crypto is inherently political while database technology is not, tracing it to the 2008 banking crisis.

Warns that refusing to engage politically risks cryptocurrencies being banned or co-opted by CBDCs and regulated legacy finance.

Gives an update on ongoing SingularityNET AI collaboration talks with Ben Goertzel, expecting a 2021 announcement.

Jokes about his snowed in Lamborghini needing an oil pump repair.

Raising k alone will not help small pools without delegation portfolios and cooperative pool coalitions.

Even with a higher k and delegation portfolios, stake pool operators still need to run a business and market themselves to attract delegators.

Favor the Cardano Foundation creating optional SPO certification tiers shown in Daedalus pool metadata.

Denies having COVID and blame Colorado's wildfire smoke for the terrible air quality.

Wishes IOHK friend Vessel a speedy hospital recovery.

Names Event Horizon and the classic Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes as Halloween favorites.

Chats about the remoteness and pricey satellite internet of Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha, suggesting Starlink as the fix.

Praises Denis Villeneuve as the right director to bring Dune to the screen.

Confirms he was born in 1987, the year of the rabbit.

Admits he has no time to play the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 video game.

Declines to judge Justin Sun's exit scam accusation against Filecoin, noting every cryptocurrency launch is difficult.

Argues Trump likely had COVID longer than disclosed before debating Biden, citing the Amy Coney Barrett event as a super spreader.

Rebuts a con man accusation by laying out the original Cardano funding numbers and his own token allocation.

Lays out how the community will eventually vote on Cardano's future direction once full decentralization and the Voltaire governance layer land.

Reflects on Cardano's climb from zero to the most sophisticated protocol in the industry, in the top 15 by market cap for five years.

Dismisses Chico Crypto and Mutahar's con man accusations as baseless, unanswered content.

Broaden into a rant on society's critical thinking deficit and misinformation, using the COVID vaccine decision as a test case.

Argues that participating in Cardano, staking, voting, self custody, demands critical thinking unlike a corporation shielding you from it.

Worries about the ecosystem being co-opted by cults of personality as it scales to a billion users, calling for checks and balances.

Recommends Coursera courses on critical thinking and problem solving as homework for the community.

The story of skeptic James Randi's Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge and a Wyoming mentalist who wouldn't submit to a fair blind test.

Rules out Bitcoin and RSK integration in Daedalus for now but muses about building a Bitcoin client if the Ethereum Classic bet fails.

IOG's succession plan and instructions sealed in a safe in case he dies of COVID.

Argues for textualist, originalist judicial interpretation and against lifetime Supreme Court tenure enabling unaccountable activism, citing Plessy v. Ferguson.

Contrasts the near unanimous confirmations of Ginsburg and Scalia with today's party line Supreme Court fights over judicial politicization.

Predicts a real risk of civil war within 20 to 25 years without constitutional reform and election term limits.

Argues Trump is a fairly standard Republican once you look past the rhetoric, comparing his cabinet's bureaucracy to Obama's.

Reassures the community to be patient about a Coinbase Cardano listing.

Names Zurich as his favorite city and joke about its legal cigar bars compared to Toronto's ban.

Proposes a reputation and oracle style system to validate content quality on a decentralized Wikipedia alternative.

Confirms plans for a QR code paper wallet feature in Daedalus.

A joint interview with Bob Summerwill and Michael Kapelko on Ethereum Classic security.

Jokes about North Korea's capital Pyongyang and visiting after regime change.

Names Arturo Fuente Hemingway as his favorite cigar.

The Cirque du Soleil peacock performance mask displayed in his background.

Names flying and cobras as his biggest fears.

He hasn't looked closely enough at the World Economic Forum's Great Reset to comment.

ADA's high token supply by comparison to smaller decimal denominations like Lovelace.

Confirms he still collects watches as a hobby.

Reveals he is building a game studio, Frontier Studios in Laramie Wyoming, using .NET, F# and Unity.

Lays out the three Es design philosophy for the studio's games: entertainment, education, and experience, plus narrative.

Plans to teach real world concepts like non-Euclidean geometry through the game and build an algorithmic, constructive magic system.

Plans AI generated NPC dialogue using GPT-3 class technology and a procedural NPC generator reflecting each character's context and wealth.

Settle on the .NET and F# stack over JavaScript for cross platform deployment to Xbox and PlayStation.

Plans to bring in literary critics to refine the game's story and use motion capture for realistic NPC performances.

Confirms Legends of Valor will use Cardano native tokens for game licenses and tradable in game items.

Plans for a hybrid soundtrack blending composers like Ramin Djawadi with AI generated music, citing IBM's AI Beatles research.

Envisions a variable physics engine where spells interact with weather and terrain, citing Magicka and Divinity Original Sin as inspiration.

Plans a Kickstarter style crowd sale once the game is de risked, letting backers shape the narrative.

User created in game NFTs are hard to enforce without trusted hardware but the studio's framework could bring other games onto Cardano.

Jokes about wanting to live in the United States, all 78 of them, if alive in 2150.

Points to Crypto Supreme as the place to buy IOHK merchandise.

Muses about California splitting into three states over its high taxes and 2035 gas car ban.

Picks Manny Pacquiao over Conor McGregor in a hypothetical boxing matchup.

Reacts to Cardano's brief mention in the Cryptopia documentary and notes Alex Jones' latest Joe Rogan appearance.

Gives an update on Phil Wadler's Plutus research, with four papers accepted for peer review.

Jokes about waiting for cybernetic eye implants and a neural link instead of getting LASIK.

Recently discovered Windows TCP security holes allegedly held back for NSA use, and praise Microsoft's Project Everest formal verification work.

Dismisses Kaspersky Labs as unremarkable and too close to Putin.

Recommends Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind on psychedelics.

Closes out the livestream and signs off for dinner.