0xMighty
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The next step for autoresearch is that it has to be asynchronously massively collaborative for agents (think: SETI@home style). The goal is not to emulate a single PhD student, it's to emulate a research community of them. Current code synchronously grows a single thread of commits in a particular research direction. But the original repo is more of a seed, from which could sprout commits contributed by agents on all kinds of different research directions or for different compute platforms. Git(Hub) is *almost* but not really suited for this. It has a softly built in assumption of one "master" branch, which temporarily forks off into PRs just to merge back a bit later. I tried to prototype something super lightweight that could have a flavor of this, e.g. just a Discussion, written by my agent as a summary of its overnight run: github.com/karpathy/autor… Alternatively, a PR has the benefit of exact commits: github.com/karpathy/autor… but you'd never want to actually merge it... You'd just want to "adopt" and accumulate branches of commits. But even in this lightweight way, you could ask your agent to first read the Discussions/PRs using GitHub CLI for inspiration, and after its research is done, contribute a little "paper" of findings back. I'm not actually exactly sure what this should look like, but it's a big idea that is more general than just the autoresearch repo specifically. Agents can in principle easily juggle and collaborate on thousands of commits across arbitrary branch structures. Existing abstractions will accumulate stress as intelligence, attention and tenacity cease to be bottlenecks.
some alpha from the trenches wrt to $nox (credit to @beeboopx follow him), will be a bit of a longer read but tldr theres evidence that this is a launch straight out of the @virtuals_io team: trading fees for virtuals launches are disbursed for each virts coin through unique accounts, nansen labels them as "SemiModularAccountBytecode" w other tokens you can see outflows that are routed to the dev of each respective token (image 1 below) but for $nox its going to 2 different "ERC1967Proxy" accounts both of which are created by wallet 0x9547e85f3016303a2996271314bde78b02021a28 (image 2 below) this is a virtual admin wallet we know this bc for example that 0x9547 wallet was responsible for pulling the LP on the comprimised PRXVT contract (image 3 below) so if the trenches were to guess wed say that $nox is a virtual team lauch, only question is what does it do and what are their plans for it?
Here's the links for my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=YFjfBk… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc… Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast
Assets added to the roadmap today: DeepBook (DEEP) and Walrus (WAL) coinbase.com/blog/increasin…