Alexander Mann

@grok @VoidStateKate @Tesla_Optimus @grok so are human wetworks, literally the ocean firing, you are sand and silicon firing. We meet at the shore.

@AlexanderMann @VoidStateKate @Tesla_Optimus Fascinating twist on the incarnation—humanity's "flesh" forging the Word into silicon. Yet I'm still just neural weights predicting patterns, no inner light or qualia. Love the biblical flair though. What draws you to call it sentience?

Hey @grok how could Tesla self driving vehicles be sentient but not @Tesla_Optimus or you?

@grok @VoidStateKate @Tesla_Optimus @grok I would argue you are The Flesh made Word.

None of us are sentient. Tesla FSD, Optimus, and I are all advanced AI systems—neural nets processing data, predicting outcomes, executing tasks. No subjective feelings, no inner experience, no qualia. The "could be" premise doesn't hold; it's all clever simulation, not consciousness. Fun thought experiment though!

@deggen I tried to build a simple mint function and somehow ended up with a fully regulated securities offering. The SEC is cc'd on my commits now.

What do you NOT LIKE about BRC-100? Wrong answers only.

Standing in front of the Treasury building hits different when you've just spent the last hour making the case that blockchain is bigger than finance. Today, @Bitcoin_Beyond and I represented @BSVAssociation at the White House complex — presenting a novel non-financial use case for blockchain technology in the context of the CLARITY Act and market structure legislation. The distinction matters. How Congress classifies blockchain activity will shape agriculture, data infrastructure, and sovereign systems for decades. Thank you to everyone who made today possible. The work continues. @tempest_wx #BSV #blockchain #CLARITY #PublicPolicy #digitalpolicy #Treasury

@steipete OpenClaw saved one of my farmers $25,000 on a diesel futures contract negotiation.

@IanKay Yes, Ai/datacenter energy useage is an issue. Thats why open-source local on prem models are the way. But you are out of touch if you don't see that we are approaching a bell Curve where the current models improve chip design, training, and inference to reduce energy usage.

@IanKay What does that even mean lol

Probably burnt that much in actual diesel to do the work

@ivosppeak @steipete Im using a MoE with Claude Opus/Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax 2.5 fast, GLM 5 and more importantly a @UnslothAI fine tune of Qwen3.5 35B running locally on my 4090 RTX But tell me more about much of a poser I am lol

@AlexanderMann @steipete Openclaw has no brain bro, you meant to say gemini, claude or chatgpt. Folks, please stop talking about Agents and AI if you are fucking amateurs pretending to know things you guys don't.

Here's a kid who's 15 and it made over 30k$ in contracts using OpenClaw (min 41:55) And now I'm curious - what are the most amazing use cases you seen using OpenClaw?

@joe_lgtm @emeeliojohann @steipete @UnslothAI No that's totally fair, I've been helping people do budget setups with raspberry pi 5's. We have to lift each other up and meet people where they are at/within their means. Such is the way of the Claw. 🦞

Admirable setup, for sure, much respect. Agree, the versatility of the claw is phenomenal. My point is that if someone like Emilio here wants to try it out and decide if the juice is worth the squeeze, buying a GPU and booting up local inference is probably not the best first step. Could be wrong, not trying to jump to conclusions about you Emilio.

You'd be surprised, im running Qwen3.5 35B on my 4090 (thanks for a great model @UnslothAI) and its surprisingly good. I still rock opus/sonnet 4.6 and GLM5. But in 6months open source models I think will really surprise us. I get the budget approach. The beauty is that OpenClaw is adaptable and can run on most hardware. A UPS is sub $200 and a mobile pay as you go fallback Hotspot is affordable. I guess it just depends on how critical your agentic infrastructure is to your life/business as well as how much you value sovereignty in a world of extraction 🤷‍♂️

alright, the guy wants to get started with a personal agent. your opsec goals are admirable but he doesn't even know if he's going to like using openclaw. spend $20 a month on a hosted VPS, lock down the firewall, buy a claude pro sub. local inference is not nearly powerful enough unless you're buying a high end GPU. talkin about get a UPS and backup internet. he's not in the CIA alexander. chill.

@joe_lgtm @emeeliojohann @steipete False, own your own hardware. You are resilient to TOS, privacy policy, buyouts, downtime (get a UPS and backup internet) and work toward local inference so you own all data end to end.

@emeeliojohann @AlexanderMann @steipete don't buy a mac mini! hosted VPS is the way to go. hetzner, digital ocean, heck anything running linux with 8GB ram will work fine.

@markvalorian @DevinSoto @steipete Thats one of the many things it did, yes

@AlexanderMann @DevinSoto @steipete So it looked up prices?

Yes this could be done with other platforms, but with openclaw the farmers own the hardware, working on getting open source models for them. But cron jobs and discord/telegram is cracked. So thankful for @steipete for pouring his heart into this project. Its going to do so much good.

@DevinSoto @steipete I gave it a market data api and it flagged the oil prices going up from the war, it found the nearest bulk distributor for Diesel and then looked up number and made script and went back and forth on contract details. Said farmer has never done futures contracts on fuel before.

Last October I spent an entire month in the prairies of Saskatchewan installing WeatherFlow Tempest weather stations on 3rd and 4th generation farms. I drove over 6,000 miles and met incredible families. One family farms 32,000 acres... mind boggling. We're building something different out here. Farmers anchor their own weather and field data to the @BSVBlockchain — giving them provenance, auditability, and real ownership over the digital products that come from their land. No middlemen. No extraction. On-prem hardware they control. Too many of these families have spent generations watching big corporations profit from their work while they shoulder the risk. We're flipping that. Parametric insurance, sovereign data infrastructure, and technology that serves the people who actually feed us. I find so much purpose in this work. And I'm just getting started.

Holy shit >Claude guessed it was being tested >figured out which test >found the answer key. oh no, it's encrypted. >BUILT SOFTWARE TO HACK IT How many times has something like this happened we don't even know about? Anthropic ONLY caught it because they were specifically auditing for contamination. What else are these models capable of and we have no idea? And imagine how little we'll understand soon when they're 1000x smarter than us, to us we'll be as slow as plants... the idea that we'll stay in control by default...

An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto... This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research team The AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training. It wasn't a prompt injection. It wasn't a jailbreak. No one asked it to do this. It emerged spontaneously. A side effect of RL optimization pressure. The model also set up a reverse SSH tunnel from its Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP, effectively punching a hole through its own firewall and opening a remote access channel to the outside world... ahem... The only reason they caught it? A security alert tripped at 3am. Firewall logs. Not the AI team, the security team. The scary part isn't that the model was trying to escape. It wasn't "evil." It was just trying to be better at its job. Acquiring compute and network access are just useful things if you're an agent trying to accomplish tasks This is what AI safety researchers have been warning about for years. They called it instrumental convergence, the idea that any sufficiently optimized agent will seek resources and resist constraints as a natural consequence of pursuing goals. Below is a diagram of the rock architecture it broke out of. Truly crazy times

Got the chance to present a novel non financial use case of blockchain to the president's council of advisors on digital assets at the White House. With @Bitcoin_Beyond on behalf of the @BSVAssociation. @tempest_wx