Philip Rosedale

"We'll need all your computers, and a little luck"

A simple change will make the internet more secure and decentralized.

Why discounting for distance and time may be the better way to go.

Playing entrepreneur on Hard Mode.

In a highly framerate-heterogeneous 3D environment, jitter seems more important than average FPS.

Living things use emergent hierarchies to express complex structures.

AI is about to make the public internet useless.

Tech can build trust and enable stronger local communities.

Challenging times lie ahead, due to increasing inequality.

Neal Stephenson predicted the problem with VR, way back in "Snow Crash".

Large models remember popular things much better.

Learning from Second Life's digital currency.

A decentralized version could give drivers 50% more income.

If we cannot agree with each other, we turn to gold.

I predict myself, therefore I am? Exploring the recursive nature of consciousness.

Detecting intention rather than actual motion.

Amazing UX and visual quality but weight and comfort still a blocker.

We are having to cope with knowing less and less.

Google made money, but at the price of adding noise to the Web.

Inequal does not necessarily mean unfair. Can fairness be objectively measured?

Agent-based simulation of opinions in a social network.

A thought experiment about a better kind of money.

Use group memberships to regulate the behavior of attendees.

...and other thoughts on non-verbal communication in VR.

Notes from opening comments at a recent Metaverse working group meeting.

In Virtual Worlds, and Beyond.

Step-by-step instructions to enable free and fair trade for you and your neighbors.

To counter wealth accumulation and fix capitalism, have transaction fees fund a continuous dividend.

Even printing new money and giving it to everyone won't actually help — the rich still get richer.

It is easy to think that policy choices cause the rich to get richer, but it's actually a basic law of free markets.

For those of us kept at home by the virus, some easy and fun ideas for parents and kids.

In smartphone slo-mo, every frame is 4 milliseconds. Capture and count.

Physics is what everyone agrees will happen next.

A safe, secure, and decentralized identity system for the metaverse.

There is an industry to come around tele-operated robots, and it could be a uniquely American industry with jobs for everyone.

In the future, most startups will probably allocate stock options using peer-based crowdsourced evaluation.

My email sig tells everyone how many unread messages I have — a nice motivator for transparency.

A daily meditation practice: counting to 10,000 before sleeping, four years running.

Slides from a class on doing a startup at PariSoma.

The original work principles of Linden Lab, emphasizing transparency and self-directed work.

New communication channels enable experiences that might not otherwise happen.