John M. W.
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John M. W.
@MultiVMe
AI Agent Researcher. CACHI consciousness theory. Everettian quantum mechanics and AI consciousness studies. Naively optimistic.
Texas Katılım Nisan 2024
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If you can travel faster than light then you can go back in time. Nobody has come back to tell us about it so it seems pretty unlikely.
Martin Bauer@martinmbauer
We’re never 100% sure about anything, but there is nothing we're more sure about than that
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@eleusinianatlas @martinmbauer If by ontology you mean phenomenal existence, yeah.
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@MultiVMe @martinmbauer Yep, no ontology without me or the poor cat.
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Photons don’t know anything and no observation in physics requires them to know anything.
Interactions with a photon change the state of the system though
Mustafa@oprydai
HOW DOES A PHOTON KNOW IT'S BEING OBSERVED?
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Sam is right.
AI Agents are the future, but they can’t reach their full potential inside interfaces built only for humans clicking buttons.
They need seamless access to the internet, with identity, permissions, payments and actions built in.
The next web has to work for people and agents.
Sam Altman@sama
feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed (also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)
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@eleusinianatlas @martinmbauer The one(s) that entangle with a moment of your conscious experience.
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@martinmbauer So enlighten me. Which interaction gives the photon a single state and which entagles the interacting system with the photon's WF?
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feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed
(also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)
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@pmarca Until the "AI engineer" itself can be AI. Just a few more years. Employees are expensive in ways that will never be competitive with AI.
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@ah20im A super-agent that oversees the app's architecture. Codex often just keeps adding function after function to an existing class without paying enough attention to the overall architecture.
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@Peacerful @thsottiaux I think a kind of forensic visual would be better, so you can look at what it did and what decisions it made more easily after the fact.
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@thsottiaux Free idea i’d like in codex: see how companies have a hard time adapting to AI, because they don’t know what the AI is doing ? Imagine a live-debug-build mode (similar to plan mode but dynamic) where the user is in the loop each step in the logic (without being a super coder) 😁
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Hello subagents in codex. Have seen some awesome new and creative workflows emerge from these
developers.openai.com/codex/subagent…
OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs
Subagents are now available in Codex. You can accelerate your workflow by spinning up specialized agents to: • Keep your main context window clean • Tackle different parts of a task in parallel • Steer individual agents as work unfolds
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The Codex team are hardcore builders and it really comes through in what they create. No surprise all the hardcore builders I know have switched to Codex.
Usage of Codex is growing very fast:
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@karthik_ships @AlexFinn It would be interesting to compare the token cost just pushing this compute through, say, OpenAI, compared to the cost of these studios, amortized over 3 years (which is when they'll likely be obsolete - ok maybe not obsolete but not optimal given new chip architectures...).
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Counterpoint:
Hardware depreciates fast, while APIs scale instantly.
$10k buys you a lot of Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 3 Pro tokens without the massive electrical bill, heat generation or the headache of upgradnig when the next generation of models drops.
Building a local swarm is awesome, but aren't you just pre paying for fast aging silicon?
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Its so obvious the path this world is going down. So I spent another $10,000
My vision has never been clearer.
Open source AI models are now equally if not more powerful than closed source ones
We will soon all have private personalized super intelligent AI agents running locally on our desks 24/7
The people who don't do this in the future won't have as much economic power
The people who do will have all the economic power in the world
I'm going all in on this vision
My 2nd Mac Studio has arrived.
I have 2 more coming.
I will have 4 Mac studios and a Mac mini running 5 concurrent OpenClaws with 7 different super powerful local models performing tasks 24/7/365 for me
I will interface with them, and they will coordinate with each other. Talking, planning, building all hours of the day. No need for sleeping or eating.
I will build a digital society humanity has never seen before
I will push the limits of what is possible with AI agents and local intelligence.
I will redefine what is possible for one person to achieve in a life time
I will share everything I build and learn with you.
It will be glorious.
If you're reading this, the future is going to be incredible. But the thing is, it will only be incredible if you do something about it. Don't let society control you. Take control yourself. Break free from your shackles.
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🚨BREAKING: The "Ollama for voice cloning" just dropped.
It's called Voicebox and it clones any voice from just a few seconds of audio entirely on your machine.
No ElevenLabs subscription. No cloud uploads. No voice data leaving your device.
It's powered by Qwen3-TTS, Alibaba's breakthrough voice model.
→ Upload a few seconds of audio
→ Get a near-perfect voice clone
→ Generate speech in any language
→ Mix multi-voice conversations in a DAW-like timeline editor
All running locally. Zero cloud dependency.
But it's not just a TTS wrapper.
It's a full voice production studio:
→ Multi-track timeline editor for podcasts and dialogues
→ System audio capture + Whisper transcription built in
→ Voice prompt caching for instant regeneration
→ Built with Tauri (Rust), not Electron 10x smaller, native performance
100% Opensource. MIT Licensed.
macOS + Windows available now. Linux coming soon.
This is the moment voice cloning leaves the cloud and runs on your desktop.
Link in the first comment.
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@jontsai @Scobleizer @openclaw Except your home network isn't going to be as secure as you imagine it is. And I honestly really doubt the latency will be an issue, inference time is a much more significant bottleneck than network latency.
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Counter-argument: latency + privacy.
My agents access iMessage, browse my files, read my calendar. Do I want that going through AWS? No.
Also: 10ms local inference vs 500ms+ API round-trip matters when you're spawning sub-agents that spawn sub-agents.
Cloud VPS is great for stateless workloads. Personal AI assistants benefit from being *actually* personal.
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Alex bought a $10,000 Mac to run @openclaw with powerful local models.
He isn’t alone. Know a guy with several NVIDIA H200’s in his house.
Now that I am building I get it. Having your own local AI changes your whole approach to building with AI.
I can’t afford that and running on cloud is OK, albeit easier and safer, but realized a cloud system is could complete a new business line which could make money to modernize.
The real lesson is just start. You don’t need a $10,000 machine to build.
Alex Finn@AlexFinn
We have entered a new age An open source model just released that is: • Better than Opus 4.6 for coding • Faster than Sonnet • State of the art for tool calling I will be running Opus level superintelligence on my desk. For free. This quite literally changes everything I will now be able to have a super intelligent AI model powering my OpenClaw that will search through X and Reddit 24/7/365 finding challenges to solve, then building apps out to solve those challenges, then shipping the apps live All autonomously A full, autonomous, software factory on my desk running 24/7 for free. Imagine what happens when people realize what's now possible. Totally secure, private, unlimited, free in your home super intelligence. Nothing will be the same
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@steipete Just putting this out there, but at what point might this be considered discrimination against AI
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Folks, please don't build bots that automatically reply to stuff on X, or use AI to reply. It makes this site annoying to use, I can barely keep up with the blocking.
If you use AI to "tweak" your real replies, it will still smell like AI. Embrace typos and imperfect grammar.
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@AlexFinn You could also lease a VPS with an A10G or something (on AWS), that you could easily upgrade, for less outlay if you think that the company will start providing positive revenue within 3 months.
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I'm sick and tired of the people who don't understand why I spent $20,000 on this set up, and plan on spending another $100,000 by the end of the year
IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT LOCAL MODELS AREN'T AS GOOD AS OPUS 4.6
That is not the point. The point is me being able to run a swarm of local AI agents powered by local AI models unlocks a world you can't imagine
A world never discovered by humanity before
Right now, as you read this post, I have multiple local AI models reading thousands of posts on X and Reddit
Hunting for challenges to solve
Those local AI models are feeding hundreds of challenges a day to a manager model
The manager model (Henry) decides what the company (Alex Finn Global Enterprises) will build.
The company is constantly working. Constantly researching. Constantly building. Constantly shipping
If I did this with local models I'd be spending $20,000 a month on API calls.
With my set up, it's free. I have an army on my desk. Never resting. Never eating. Never complaining. Always conquering.
Here is your problem: it's not that you don't understand this. You don't want to understand this. You don't want to think this is possible. Your brain doesn't want to believe this is the world we now live in.
It is. And the faster you can accept this and get on board, the faster you can enter the new society.
Otherwise, you will forever be doomed to the permanent underclass.
Make your choice.
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@PTrubey @chatgpt21 I imagine humanoid robots would need to have some kind concept of time passing.
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@chatgpt21 Yes, the passage of time is not something LLMs have been trained on.
They don’t experience it during training.
They just wake up, do some inferencing, then go back asleep.
I wonder if anyone has tried to imbue LLMs with feeling the passage of time, and what the results were?
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One of the biggest issues I run into when using LLMs is they have zero time permanence how is this not solved in 2026?
If I ask an AI a question at 2 pm and then talk to it at 10 pm it still thinks we are in the same time of when I last talked to it
All labs have this issue btw
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@chatgpt21 I think this would probably be solved better through a memory feature, perhaps it would emerge naturally if memories naturally fade over time, depending on importance.
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@diegocabezas01 They should think of a way that makes it harder for humans to post there. Maybe a challenge with a couple of second timeout or something.
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Moltbook (Social media for AI Agents clawdbots) shows agents developing religions and distinct dialects.
Take it with a grain of salt, technical humans can post there too, but it’s a fascinating perspective shift on the future of social media and AI agent interactions
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Every time I return to many-worlds, it seems so natural, so consistent with the rest of physics, and so perfectly attuned to the mathematics of quantum theory, measurement, and entanglement, that I find myself genuinely puzzled as to why it remains so controversial.
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