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GPT3 demos are impressive. This looks like a significant step towards AGI. I think GPT3 simulates memory retrieval and data reconstruction quite well. The part that we are still missing for AGI is curiosity - ability to ask questions and fill in the missing information gaps.

That is a cool concept. I wish more web platforms would offer similar options.

The problem with OAuth - it is too complicated. Both for developers and for users.

Agree. If you would like you can read an article where I propose how such system could be implemented: https://medium.com/@TautviIas/it-is-time-to-create-a-decentr...

RSS is a good example. In the simplest form my proposed social network structure could be seen as RSS feed of all the social web that is stored in a decentralized database. The main feature is that the posts can be 'liked' or 'upvoted' by users (domains).

I like the idea that code should look more and more like human language. I think that programming languages have gotten much more human-friendly nowadays and this trend will continue. I have created my own human-like programming language prototype to explore these ideas and have implemented TodoMVC with it: https://github.com/tautvilas/lingu/blob/master/examples/todo...

After watching this I realized that we need to update mobile app permissions model to distinguish between front and back camera access. I can see many cases where I would grant the app back facing camera permissions but would not give it front facing camera access.

Totally agree. Ping me on connect@tautvilas.lt if you would like to discuss this idea more and try to develop it :)

That is something I have been thinking about too. I imagine this could work as a distributed decentralized db where you publish some link and sign it with your domain key. A client could easily select the most submitted urls from DB and also 'follow' certain domains(users) that submit the most interesting urls. I would love to discuss and validate this idea more.

Author here. I would like to address some of your questions:

1) The web is decentralized by design - we only need to 'upgrade it'

2) We need to create tools that empower people to leverage decentralized capabilities of the web (so that there would be no need for aunt to run the node)

3) I imagine we should not think about DWeb as some sort of FB replacement but more of an ecosystem where people feel that they have a choice and don't need to give away their content to facebook and other centralized platforms.

It is not clear how this has to be implemented but I feel that some more privacy oriented and data-ownership oriented platforms will emerge in the next five years.

Of course you still need to have servers somewhere. The decentralized parts are these: blockstack identity (which is stored on blockchain) and the fact that all user data is not stored on one server, but on multiple nodes. The user can choose what node to store their data on. It can be your own hosted node too.

You should check out blockstack. The platform does not use blockchain to store data, but only to create a more robust domain name and identity solution. The data is stored on encrypted server storage. I think this is a nice combination of decentralization and blockchain at work.

Showed this photo for my 4.5 year old son. I thought he might identify some objects since kids can be creative. However he looked at it for 1 second and just said that he sees nothing.

Check out blockstack, they solved this in similar way like you described

Data ownership is just one aspect. However i don't think twitter is good comparison to email at all. Email is for private communications and twitter is public social network.

Twitter is centralized platform where people down own their data. We need to think how to make open protocols better in order to improve the decentralized web

I agree that blocking would be needed. However if you are a business or individual that has email posted on the website it is not much harder for spammers to get it anyway.

Another usecase. Let's say I buy a domain myname.com for personal use. I might want people to contact me directly via @myname.com without having to create an unnatural sounding address like me@myname.com. I have seen people buying @surname domains and then creating emails name@surname, which is pretty weird too.

Shameless plug: you should check out https://dpage.io - a quick way to create a personal website and own your data too. The website will be hosted on decentralized blockstack server nodes while your identity will be secured on blockchain.

Hi there, I'm one of the developers of dPage. Happy to answer your questions about this project. Also would love to hear your thoughts and ideas about the future of decentralized apps like this.

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