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@el33th4xor yes the algorithm here punishes depth and rewards what makes the platform the most money, mostly exploiting human psychological triggers

I've been less active on X because the discourse here is so skewed, and the algo punishes people who provide links. But we continue to innovate and to bring the best of Science to blockchains, specifically Avalanche.

@nikitabier nah you still have the algorithm

Well, we fixed the last bug. X is officially bug-free.

@SchmidhuberAI i think it’s a fault also of this platform that lets garbage being easily distributed like from those influencer accounts to gullible ppl

same reason. moneh for the platform

@indexsy pls someone kill this cancer

REPEAT AFTER ME Reddit comment count is a ranking factor RIGHT NOW There's a method where you can generate 50 Reddit comments for $0.50 a pop THE SOP 1. Own a subreddit in your niche 2. Export top posts from related subs 3. Rewrite and post with your mod account 4. Generate 50 comments with one click 5. Approve them as mod 6. Watch your posts rank NO ONE is doing this at scale (BESIDES THE VPN COMPANIES) Comment "REDDIT" + like this post and I'll DM you the method (must be following)

@Markmanson not the Eiffel Tower but the shitty humans got those bad reviews

The next time you're worried about what other people might think about you, just remember that the Eiffel Tower has over 10,000 one-star reviews. You'll be fine.

@Markmanson agreed. anyone not on this echochamber platform has never heard of that nonsense above. is ai capable? sure is. twitter hype bros certainly are not needed for that.

FOMA (noun) — Fear of Missing AI /ˈfōmə/ FOMA is a persistent fear that you are "falling behind" on AI and every minute you're not prompting, building agents, or vibe-coding brings you closer to inevitable replacement in the post-AGI economy. FOMA is exacerbated by listening to VC podcasts, reading clickbait articles about Open Claw, and refreshing your X feed like it's your ex-girlfriend's Instagram. Remedies to FOMA include: touching grass, talking to humans who don't know what an MCP is, actually trying to use Open Claw and realizing it's a total piece of shit, and watching as your vibe-coded masterpiece breaks eighteen different ways by Tuesday.

@FarzaTV isn’t that the same as build space more or less? everyone uses ai coding agents, it’s just the latest meta

I’m still not sure if this is my new “company” or anything like that. For now it’s just a silly side project that seems to be helping thousands of people + is fun. So, I’ll keep working on it! And if it becomes a company, cool!

@gregisenberg no, hype moment already missed.

Is Hermes Agent the new OpenClaw?

@VitalikButerin vitalik now becomes a self improvement guru? it’s a crowded niche

I actually do the whole new year's resolutions thing, and it actually works. The key thing to understand is that humans are creatures of habit. Doing the same action you've already done regularly takes very little mental effort, whereas inserting a new one-time task takes much more. And so if you want yourself to do certain things more, you need to make it a habit. The year boundary is as good a place as any to evaluate the habits that you're chosen to impose on yourself, and see whether they are effective and sustainable, and adjust, add or remove any. My style is to make them measurable, trackable, and targeted to exactly the level of effort that I know will not make me want to abandon them, even during my months of busiest work, most intensive travel schedule or call schedule, etc. Examples I've done: * Walk an average of >= 6km/day each month * Run >= 50km each month * Write >= 1 blog post each month * Study some language for 30 min each week * Do >= 2 major cryptography programming projects each year At every year boundary, re-evaluate your old list, and decide on your new list. And yeah I have txt files for tracking this (sorry, not gonna use some corposlop app that makes me dependent on third-party servers) You actually want each one to be relatively trivial, so that you can stack multiple, and because the benefits of maximizing are less important than the risk that you will give up on the whole thing. This has worked well for me and I recommend it.

@jobergum ppl want to have a shortcut to grow their accounts with the reply guy strategy. of course very shaky foundation and worthless

I don't understand the motivation for ai replies/bots on here

@VitalikButerin ppl realize that democracies do not really exist. it’s corruption all the way down (especially crypto, but also politics etc)

One thing that it is worth re-thinking is our perspective on when, and how, it makes sense to build "democratic things". This includes: * DAOs and voting mechanisms in DAOs * Quadratic and other funding gadgets * ZKpassport voting use cases, incl freedomtool type stuff, incl attempts to deploy it for local governance, etc * Voting systems inside social media * Attempts at "let's build and push for a brighter and freer political system for my country" Lately I am getting the feeling that there is less enthusiasm about these things than before. The "authoritarian wave" (a phenomenon that is often viewed as being about nation-state politics, but actually it stretches far beyond that, eg. see the phenomenon of companies lately becoming less "multi-stakeholder" and more founder-centric, and recent disillusionment with social media) is not just a matter of some malevolent strongmen smelling an opportunity to exert their will unopposed and seizing it. It's also a matter of genuine disillusionment with democratic things (of various types, not just nation-state, also corporate, nonprofit, social media). Defense of democratic things lately has the vibe of actually being conservatism: it's about fighting to preserve an existing order, and ward off hostile attempts to push the order toward a different order (or chaos) that favors a few people's interests at the expense of others, and not about appreciating positive benefits of the existing order. But conservatism is progressivism driving at the speed limit, and so if that's all that there is, it will inevitably lose, it will just take longer. There is an unfortunate irony to this, because it comes at the same time as we have much more powerful tools to build more effective democratic things: ZK, AI, much stronger cybersecurity, decades of research and experience. But to do so effectively we need to diagnose the present situation. I will break this down into a few parts. ## Stable era and chaotic era In the 00s and 10s, it was common to dream about things like: creating a global UBI, moving a country wholesale to a better political system like ranked-choice voting or quadratic voting, building a large-scale DAO that could eventually provide billions of dollars to global public goods that current systems miss (eg. open source software). Today, all of these dreams seem more unrealistic than ever. I see the main difference why as being that the 00s and 10s were a stable era, and the 20s are a chaotic era. In a stable era, more coordination is possible and imaginable, and so people naturally ask questions like "what would be a more perfect order?", and work towards it. In a chaotic era, the average intervention into the order is not a principled act of mechanism design, it's raw selfish power-grabbing, and so there is much less room to think about such questions. It's difficult to imagine eg. moving the United States to quadratic voting or ranked choice voting, when the country cannot even successfully ban gerrymandering. What do chaotic era democratic things look like? At a large scale, they do not look like hard binding mechanisms for making decisions. Rather, they look like tools for consensus-finding. They look like tools for identifying possible shifts to the order that would satisfy large cross-cutting groups of people, and presenting those possible shifts to change-making actors (yes, including centralized actors, even selfish actors), to make it clear to them that those particular shifts would be easier for them to accomplish, because they would have a lot of support and legitimacy. Pol.is style ideas are good here, anonymous voting is good, also perhaps assurance contract-style ideas: votes or statements that are anonymous at first, but that flip into being public (and hence publicly commit everyone at the same time) once they reach a certain threshold of support. This does not create a perfect order, but it gives highly distributed groups *a voice*. It gives actors with hard power something to listen to, and a credible claim that if they adjust their plans based on it, those plans are more likely to get widespread support and succeed. The Iran war is a good example here. My biggest fear in the ongoing situation has been that while the IRGC is unambiguously awful and murderous, there is an obvious divergence between US/Israel interests, and interests of Iranian common people: while both would be satisfied by a beautiful peaceful democratic Iran, the former would also be satisfied by the perhaps easier target of Iran becoming a low-threat low-capability wasteland, whereas for the latter that would be ruinous. How can Iranian people have a collective voice that carries hard power - not just in some future order that they create, but now, literally this week, while the situation is chaos? Some "sanctuary technology" is sanctuary money. Other times, it's sanctuary communication. But we need sanctuary tools for collective voice too.

Mass-generating PRs with your agents and clawbots isn't helping open source. It's quietly burning out the people who actually maintain it. Please stop.

@mattshumer_ hype bro. wait until 5.5 comes

I've been testing GPT-5.4 for the last week. In short, it is the best model in the world, by far. It's so good that it's the first model that makes the “which model should I use?” conversation feel almost over. The biggest surprise: I barely use Pro anymore! If you know me, you know I'm a Pro addict. I reach for Pro models constantly, and use them for almost everything, as they just... nail almost anything I give to them. For the first time, 5.4's standard version, with heavy thinking, just broke that habit. Even in standard mode, GPT-5.4 is better than previous models in Pro mode... crazy! Coding capabilities are ridiculous... it's essentially flawless. Inside Codex, it's insanely reliable. Coding is essentially solved. There's not much more to say on this, it's just THAT good. The Pro version is near-perfect. Other testers I spoke with saw it solving problems that were unsolvable by any other model. At this point, Pro is overkill for almost every normal use-case, but when you really need the power to do something extremely difficult, it's incredible. Consistent with everything I've said above, even the standard thinking version uses fewer reasoning tokens than previous models to get the same level of results. In practice, this means you get great results much faster than before. This was one of my biggest gripes with previous OpenAI models. They just took too long to complete simple tasks. Assuming the speed we had during testing holds up as more users join, this is going to be a big win for OpenAI. It still has weaknesses, though: - Frontend taste is FAR behind Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. , why is this so hard to fix? @OpenAI once you fix this, there's literally no reason for me to use any other model. Please please please do it! - It can still miss obvious real-world context. For example, I had it plan an itinerary for a trip. At first glance, it looked perfect, but it failed to take into account that it chose locations that would be mobbed by spring breakers, so I had to re-run the prompt from scratch with more context. - When testing it inside OpenClaw, it kept stopping short before finishing tasks. I'm assuming this will be fixed quickly, but it's still worth noting. But zooming out: This thing is so far ahead overall that the nitpicks are starting to feel beside the point. GPT-5.4 is a serious fucking model. The best model in the world. By far.

@jakezward some programmatic seo/ahrefs/agent crawling thing ? llm prompt injection into chatgpt (llm seo) ?

Ran a crazy SEO experiment 2 months ago

@xeophon @PrimeIntellect great to hear ❤️ any hints on what needs building? May take a look as well

Some personal news: - Finished another trip around the sun today 🫡 - Decided to join @PrimeIntellect to work on evals!! There’s a lot to be build and do couldn’t imagine a better team to do just that 🙌 - I will be in SF the next two weeks :) Just to look around, of course 👀

@elonmusk still better models than xai did ever build

Nailed it

@simonw Problem is the algo incentivizes being a "reply guy" for reach, as otherwise one is invisible. Of course ai slop automatic replies make this even 100x worse

... and I just found out the category name for this is "reply guy" tools which is so on the nose it hurts

AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days. Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly rolling their own custom reply-bots?

@AlexFinn as always lots of exaggerations for engagement sake. good luck jumping on the next weeks viral bandwagon in this echochamber app

OpenAI bought OpenClaw Your initial gut reaction might be anger and rage, but I promise you are mistaken. This is a win for EVERYONE involved (including you): • OpenClaw remains open source • The team gets way more resources to build incredible products and advance the vision of OpenClaw • OpenAI gains an incredible builder (Peter Steinberger) • Get the biggest PR boost ever • They are finally viewed as 'Open' • Get millions of people signing up for expensive ChatGPT plans to plug into OpenClaw • Connect their name to the most powerful AI tool ever made • Peter Steinberger's entire bloodline never has to worry about money ever again OpenAI will NEVER close source OpenClaw or end the project. It would be brand suicide. They have no option but to keep it open source. Their play here is clear: incentivize using OpenAI models for OpenClaw. Get a massive reputation boost. Hire the smartest builder in AI. This will lead to WAY more revenue for OpenAI and even more importantly: gain the favor of the millions of people who adopted OpenClaw. This will be the biggest PR win in the history of AI and make Anthropic look like closed off walled garden authoritarians for banning people the last month. Expect faster OpenClaw acceleration, ChatGPT plans BUILT for OpenClaw, and an AI tool that will only continue to dominate the world. This is a win for everyone except Anthropic.

@theo New hype video incoming how this changes everything? Wait for 5.4 vs 4.7 vs 3.1 pro that is agi!

5.3 > 4.6 > 3