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@FishAudio this looks awesome - open source as well? 🔥🔥🔥

Today we launch Fish Audio S2, a new generation of expressive TTS with absurdly controllable emotion. - open-source - sub 150ms latency - multi-speaker in one pass Real freedom of speech starts now 👇

@aidaxbaradari @be_inaudible this is awesome @aidaxbaradari congrats!! question: is there any way to jam video recordings in the future?

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations. With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

@jia_seed uwu stop spreading all this ALPHA. LFG!

i proposed... introducing jam. you build, jam spreads.

@jia_seed @mal_shaik lfg i’m excited

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@flappyairplanes This is huge @bfspector LFG! Congrats to the entire team

Announcing Flapping Airplanes! We’ve raised $180M from GV, Sequoia, and Index to assemble a new guard in AI: one that imagines a world where models can think at human level without ingesting half the internet.

@JackSoslow Love the forward-deployed model for this problem. Lfg @JackSoslow

@BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha @mercor_ai Incredibly humbled and proud to have been part of the Prod community with these guys.

3 years ago today, @adarsh_exe, @suryamidha, and I were 19 years old and started @mercor_ai at a hackathon in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since then, Mercor has become the fastest growing company of all time (by revenue). At the time, all we had was deep conviction in the extraordinary people on our platform, as we embarked on our mission to create opportunities for them. We started doing things that didn’t scale: I persuaded our friends to hire from us, Surya manually interviewed engineers from the IITs, and Adarsh built the product to automate the hiring process. Within 8 months, we scaled Mercor to a $1M revenue run rate and dropped out of college. Shortly after, we started speaking with the top AI labs, realizing we’d found our ideal customer. Mercor is now paying $2M / day to experts on our platform, with an average pay rate of $95 / hour. We work with all of the top AI labs, hyperscalers, and application layer companies. While so much has changed in the last 3 years, our focus on creating opportunities for exceptional people has remained consistent. Defining what work will look like in the AI economy is the most impactful problem we can work on. At a time when everyone is worried about job displacement, we’re the fastest growing creator of jobs in the world. I couldn’t be more proud of the team and everything they have accomplished.

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So then doesn't that imply that all attempts to reduce suffering (technology, governments, etc) are actually net bad because 1. they inevitably make the human machine more complacent or 2. they just add noise to the real "accurate" signal (e.g. tiktok gives you dopamine for the wrong behaviors)?

A Wireheader's Apostasy If you really understand philosophy of mind it is clear that David Pearce's quest to end suffering is misguided at a logical level and also at an ethical level. Suffering is what negative feedback feels like from the inside. You can't end suffering without ending negative feedback. There can't be a clever technical fix for this, because the suffering is the negative feedback in the same way that a rainbow is sunlight reflecting off water droplets. You can't run a brain on "gradients of bliss" and have it feel blissful all the time but also produce the same distribution of outputs across all environments because feeling blissful occasionally serves a function and that function is not supposed to be on all the time - you become a wirehead. Feeling slightly less blissful will simply not motivate you to move your hand off a burning hot plate the way the burn qualia will. This is borne out empirically when you look at people born without pain receptors: they break all their bones, burn themselves, bite their own tongues off, and often die young. People who take drugs stop doing normal-person things, they turn into zombies who just seek the drug and nothing else. Why? Because the drug is a massive, artificial superstimulus of all positive reward signals that your brain's reward architecture is not designed to handle. It drowns out the subtler reward signals you get from smelling a nice flower or having a social event with friends, so you stop doing those things. This is probably why homelessness and drug addiction go hand-in-hand - if you are homeless, it's hard to fix your life and get positive feedback from normal life stimuli, so you start taking drugs to feel something. But once you are on drugs, the reward of the drug is so much bigger than the reward you could get from a normal life activity that it's not that compelling to give up drugs for those activities. It's also deeply immoral to try to turn off all negative feedback, because doing so will turn the world into a sh!thole. I would even include things like political correctness in this, as I think that is best thought of as a form of collective social wireheading. It is actually a really good thing that sick people suffer terribly. It is good that death is often painful and frightening. It is good that romantic rejection stings and makes us feel bad about ourselves. Why? Because if these negative events didn't come with negative qualia, we would not be motivated to avoid them. To be a true transhumanist you must not ask to suffer less, you must ask to suffer more accurately, to be punished more when you fail to live up to your goals and to feel a sweeter reward when you do. And to be a true humanist you must embrace suffering as a force for good in the right circumstances.

@0xWren @LuizaJarovsky inb4 "decentralized systems that adjudicate permissionlessly" op's whole point is that the deeply entrenched human structures will never let these novel adjudication structures upend them, even if the tech is there.

@LuizaJarovsky If this is the direction lawyers choose to go, it opens the opportunity for entirely new legal adjudication structures to replace them entirely instead of augment them.

As a lawyer, let me tell you the main reason why AI will likely NOT kill all lawyers, and why law is actually one of the most 'AI-safe' professions today: The legal profession is very good at protecting itself. It's built around the idea of competence, authority, credibility, and gatekeeping. That's how it has been for centuries. If AI systems become very good at generating structurally complex and legally accurate outputs, legal procedure rules will be amended to make sure that: - a human lawyer is always involved in a legal case; - every legally relevant document is reviewed and signed by a human lawyer. Also, bar associations worldwide will likely create new rules around legal representation, including procedural and behavioral rules, in a way that a human lawyer will always be necessary. I don't see it changing in the next 15-20 years. After that, lawyers will probably find a new way to gatekeep. I view law as one of the 'AI safest' professions to pursue today (much safer than computer programming, by the way).

@reggitales this is such a clean video + the design of the app is 🔥🔥 so far

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@reggitales @jia_seed 😍

@ItzSuds @khushkhushkhush @khushkhushkhush IM SO FUCKING PROUD 😍 lfg

I thought @khushkhushkhush lost her mind when she left A* to join a startup I’d never heard of called Aaru w/ a 16 year old founder She was adamant I needed to get into Mercor & she’d found Browserbase super early, but…16?! Legendary call, a new generation of founders are here

@kaledora always have been so bullish on the team and execution at ostium. huge congrats

Today, I'm thrilled to announce that we've raised an additional $24 million in new capital, including a $20 million Series A co-led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, along with Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Crucible Capital, and an incredible set of angels. They will be key to actualizing our vision: democratizing access to the highest quality and most liquid global asset markets in the world. We started Ostium with the vision of upending the legacy CFD market, an idea that Marco and I first conceptualized trading on offshore brokers in a hacker house. These platforms happily let users like us take risky positions, but when those same positions moved against them, they’d swiftly exercise discretion over pricing, liquidations, and withdrawals. It took sending countless emails pushing brokers to honor their own terms to realize the system was broken. From day one, our goal has been to fuse two core values into a single product: (1) the transparency and self-custody of crypto, and (2) the fair pricing and deep liquidity of traditional markets. Those two north stars have shaped every architectural decision we’ve made since. Scaling Liquidity To scale that model without compromise, Ostium is expanding its liquidity partnerships. The protocol will now be able to support dramatic increases in liquidity, open interest, and asset coverage, allowing us to expand into the most liquid markets in the world. This growth is supported by a core set of liquidity partners able to hedge flows across a diverse range of traditional assets while integrating directly with crypto rails. Today, Ostium’s main hedging partner services the protocol by managing the bulk of these flows, hedging exposures when they exceed certain thresholds, and ensuring open interest doesn’t skew too heavily in a particular direction. That hedging capacity will be expanded materially with new liquidity integrations. There's also a new, comprehensive dashboard detailing the live and historical hedging positions on the protocol, allowing anyone to track the residual exposure OLP is taking on at any time. Check it out at ostiscan(.)xyz. In the coming months, the Ostium protocol will evolve from a single-quote RFQ system into a competitive quoting environment, wherein makers will compete directly at the protocol level to quote and hedge large orders. Their participation will be gated and their economic alignment with the protocol ensured via an inbuilt native staking mechanism and slashing system. Why We Chose This Architecture Our architectural choices follow directly from this vision. Building a fully onchain execution engine inherently delivers transparency and self-custody. But crypto rails today often make fair pricing and deep liquidity harder, especially for longer-tail traditional assets. The result is that while many traders may think they are trading a multi-trillion dollar market like the gold market, they wind up in fact betting on an illiquid derivative thereof, subject to the often unreliable liquidity dynamics of the crypto markets. As a result, we opted to build a single-quote RFQ model, not an orderbook exchange. Ostium quotes directly from a specialized oracle, enabling the protocol to price assets at the underlying market's price (or very close to it) and offer the closest thing onchain to the execution depth that a trader would get in the real markets. Points Program Updates In line with this expansion, two changes to the points program to double down on our core focus: 1. CFD trader onboarding boost If you’re a traditional CFD trader and want to Break Up With Your Broker to trade onchain, you’ll be eligible to receive a 2x boost on all points earned for the first 30 days from signup with Ostium. If this is you (or any of your friends), please fill out the form on Ostium’s landing page and forward broker affiliation to breakup@ostium.io. (Note: not available in U.S. / for U.S. traders) 2. TradFi boost From now on, we will be increasing points program scores on all traditional assets - stocks, indices, FX, & commodities. This is the first and only trading venue in DeFi today with over 95% of open interest in traditional markets, and we will be doubling down on our core focus. Finally: if you want to work with a brilliant team, we're hiring the very best across a variety of positions. We look for exceptional and spiky people. If this is you, join us. (https://jobs.ashbyhq(.)com/ostium)

@AnhPhuNguyen1 HUGE @AnhPhuNguyen1 @CaineArdayfio this team is cracked

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@cpaik prescient essay. other replies seem to be forgetting that zero marginal costs for consumer apps is huge, and that some apps don't require 120b parameter models to be compelling.

The End of Cloud Inference docs.google.com/document/d/1Hl…

aws went down again 6 hours ago, then caused chase + bofa + other major banks to go down, leaving people unable to use the portal or make card transactions for hours. is this is what happens when humans delegate all their thinking to AI and vibe-code?

@stash_pomichter so excited for the dimensional robot vs human brawls on world star

@BrendanFoody @felicis @benchmark @generalcatalyst some of the most generational companies pay out regular people and create an entirely new job category. mercor is a great example. 🔥

We’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software engineers, bankers, lawyers, and other professionals earn based on their experience while advancing the frontier of AI. While most new categories take time to build momentum, we’ve broken every growth record. For comparison, in their first 2 years: - Uber paid out just over a $1 million to drivers - Airbnb paid out $10 million to hosts We are unlocking human potential in the AI economy.