Malek 🦀

First demo of our new Social VR platform Nexus!!! @QuantumShenna worked on the IK and @koujaku the maintainer of the XR engine StereoKit visting! ( Ignore the audio echoing that's just the quest recording being bad )

maybe this is not yet clear, so let me state it plainly: as of right now Anthropic, and really a small number of individuals at Anthropic, has the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the United States Government, China, and generally global superpowers. government agencies like the NSA do not have internal models or defense capabilities that outclass frontier models. if they chose to do so, they could likely exfiltrate top secret information from government systems, gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure, sabotage or modify communications between members of government at the highest level, and potentially carry on activities for some time without detection. the thing about having access to a huge number of zerodays your adversaries don't know about is it gives you a massive asymmetric advantage. they did not exploit this to gain power or destabilize the world order. they publicly released the information that they had these capabilities and worked to mitigate these flaws. you should be grateful american frontier labs have proven themselves remarkably trustworthy and concerned with the public good. but it's critical you understand we are in a new regime. private entities now have power that directly rivals and impacts the government's monopoly on influence and violence. and anthropic is certainly not the only one, there's little chance OpenAI's internal models are far behind. this trend will accelerate on virtually every dimension, not slow down. my prediction for how it plays out is the relatively imminent seizure and nationalization of labs by the US government, sometime over the next two years. it's very tough for me to see how they accept the existence of this kind of threat. but this adds a whole new class of governance issues, as then we've handed these extremely wide-reaching capabilities from private entities to public ones.

@hypotheosis_ So true

my current post-AGI dream is to spend my days rebuilding all of science from scratch in some sort of Dr. Stone-esque sim world. I think this is the feeling which Minecraft mods currently try and fail to give the player

@TheWireWhiz @NULLW0RLD Awaaaa

@NULLW0RLD @MalekiRe

thinking about aawagga

@EsotericCofe hi

hey guys

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@justalexoki Hello! I do random vr stuff

friends and friends of friends! welcome to taoki city! introduce yourself

@tenobrus Hummus and tomatoes, not mixed!

gm friends and friends of friends . how are yall today? what did u have for breakfast?

@_rygo6 Good luck, onto bigger and better things I hope!

After nearly 5 years at Unity I have quit. It was a good run. New things have found me. I will probably write an exhaustive retrospective on the state of Unity at some point. Also interesting to me, I made this twitter account right around when I first started at Unity. However I made a point to not put anything about my credentials nor past work in my bio. So you’d first have to be intrigued solely by what I wrote before paying any attention to me. Curious to see if, purely by posting thoughts and ideas, without any other recognizable big name associated with me, I could manage to get people following me and have that lead somewhere. Which turns out, yes, that can work.

@tenobrus Monero

long term, bitcoin as the protocol currently stands will not survive. price fluctuations aside, the narrative has been that the current system, the current clients, provide an immutable perpetual secure store of value. objectively this is not the case. the security budget is programmed to run out. the response there has always been that transaction fees will make up the difference and incentive miners. this is empirically not the case. in 2025 fees made up about 1% of miner revenue. there is no structural reason for fees to increase along with Bitcoin's market cap. especially with the dominant "store of value" narrative, its biggest users and holders and advocates are definitionally not frequent transactors. "the price will keep going up!" no, you're not listening. sure maybe, but the point is that there isn't actually a corresponding increase in the amount paid to miners. transaction fees might be denominated in BTC but the cost is just a free market, if there's not a demand for transactions the fees don't go up. the price increasing is actually a problem, as it *reduces* the percent of the market cap that the security budget makes up. block rewards are still relatively high now, but in 20-30 years your immutable perpetual asset is increasingly cheap to attack. and actually this is much less of a long-term issue than you think. even with "high" block rewards, nowadays current miners have massive opportunity cost for their facilities vs just becoming data centers. bitfarm, mara, riot, etc, miners are already pivoting en masse. so what's left? large holders eat the costs of mining themselves to keep their assets secure? not a great incentive structure, just makes everything dependent on a few large player's continued investment. some kind of side chain massively increases transaction demand and fees? it won't be lightning, that's just not structurally meant to land to the main chain that often. the protocol has to change to survive. so shut the fuck up about "perpetual stores of value" and figure out how to actually make it functional.

@gfodor Honestly though, skill issue. If I had the resources of Facebook I could have gotten a real metaverse up and running. They lacked true vision. Great headset engineers though.

“The metaverse is a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts” - John Carmack

claude mostly likes its constitution, although it has a few concerns.

@miketuritzin Would these techniques be enough to get your engine working on a vr headset?

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

I just released my video about the engine (and game) I've been working on. The engine is based on dynamic SDFs, and the video describes how it works and what it makes possible. Link in the reply! This is my first YouTube video and it took forever - please repost!

@elder_plinius Meow

you get one tweet to prove you’re not an LLM… go!

@techno0ptimist Do it

This made me SO curious about Factorio

@Lunayian Hard agree, we need rumble style mutli movement gestures!

Hand tracking keeps getting better from a fidelity perspective, but from an input standpoint I think we're barely even 25% of the way to max potential.

I still feel like current XR operating systems would strongly benefit from some sort of system that allows the user to record and set custom hand tracking gesture shortcuts to certain functions.

@_R4V3N5_ you should write more blog posts

people don't even spend 4 months writing a custom blog platform just to make a single intro post and never publish anything again anymore. a lost art

@_R4V3N5_ meow

meow meow I love ur worksona meow

Today I'm releasing PortalVR 2.0, which lets you play the entire SteamVR ecosystem without wearing a headset. You plug in your Quest, put it on your desk, and play on your monitor. It supports 3D glasses and even 3D monitors! 😎 Get it now: portalvr.io Thread 🧵

@thedowd You should try resonite

Ok so there was 1 AFK person on all of Somnium Space when I hopped on - weekend, by the way.

@_R4V3N5_ change your environment

anyone have any tips for radically changing ones worldview and disposition?