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every crypto brand looks the same: fuzzy gradients, abstract blobs, dark mode, hi-tech aesthetic that evokes zero emotion. why is this the norm? at @CambrianNetwork, we wanted to break the chain. we turned to nature for inspiration and teamed up with not a brand designer, but a plant biology engineer. one of the first things @NickDesnoyer said to me while we were building our brand really stood out: "plants are, in a way, nature's technology. they're beautifully complex natural hardware that interact with the environment." that's when it clicked. at Cambrian, we're building the financial intelligence layer for AI agents. but focusing on AI doesn't mean rejecting nature we thought - what would it look like to integrate nature's technology with humanity's technology? what are the parallels in the veins of a leaf and a printed circuit board? a few brainstorms later, our brand aesthetic was born let's challenge our preconceptions of what hi-tech looks like. let's build the solarpunk world we want to live in, together 🪴

@get_truenorth @icmlconf @liliangjya5 impressive, very very impressive 👏

icml @icmlconf is a top 3 ml conference globally, peer reviewed by the people defining the AI field. it's for the best of the best. our founding dev @liliangjya5 just got in. quiet proof that the engineering depth here is the real. building in public means showing the work, not just the wins, so here's the work: [ai agents are getting expensive to run. every time an agent does something for you, it has to figure out what tools it has, how to use them, what to type in, and when to stop. all that thinking burns tokens. tokens cost money.] we've built it differently. every truenorth agent call is just more efficient. @liliangjya5's paper asks a simple question: what if the agent didn't have to think so much? turns out, how you hand the agent a tool matters more than the tool itself. same task, three ways of giving the agent access: → leave a script lying around: barely cheaper → give it a clear menu (cli): about half the cost → just do the work before the agent even asks (hook): 80% cheaper same job, way less brainpower, way less money burned. the trick: stop making the agent re-think problems it's already solved. this is exactly how truenorth is built today. every tool it touches has been pushed through this lens. it's why it feels quick, and why we can keep it affordable for everyone using it. ship in public. publish in public!

@AAWilliams9 @0xsamgreen x.com/PirateWires/st…

@0xsamgreen What is our humanity without clean water? Why are we taking water from people giving it to the machines? Even China has protected their employees from Ai layoffs, meanwhile Meta fires 8,000 more citizens.

If you boo AI today, you'll experience a comparatively worse quality of life tomorrow. Here's a perspective from someone who's worked in AI for the last 15+ years: We're in the beginning years of the Intelligence Revolution whose impact will dwarf that of the Industrial Revolution. Whichever country leads it will attain the longest lifespan, the highest GDP, the most abundance, and the cleanest environment (see my reasoning below). These benefits will eventually spread to other countries over the decades. AI's abilities are roughly equal to the number of computers you have running, and that's roughly equal to how much energy you can produce. If we get commercial fusion, then we can move away from fossil fuels and towards a cleaner environment. Dramatically slowing AI will keep us on fossil fuels for decades longer, because it would slow fusion research. We saw a similar thing with old-school nuclear power. We could have been off fossil fuels decades ago, but the backlash against nuclear will keep us and the world burning oil and coal for many years to come. The same delays are likely to happen in medicine if left untouched by AI. Depending on the backlash, it will take decades longer to get medical breakthroughs. We're also in a global competition with China. A few years ago, they outpaced the US in scientific publications. Now they are productizing their science. There's a non-zero chance that division within the US will slam on the brakes, and China will blow past us. In a decade, we may be left wondering how China became a sci-fi country, and the US became Europe. There's no going back from competing with other countries. With satellites, drones, robots, and hypersonic weapons, every country is now a neighbor. We can't isolate the US from outside competition. The first few generations that grew up post-WW2 had it pretty good. The US economy and military were strong, and our adversaries were far away. But throughout most of human history, we've had to fight and compete. One nice thing about being human is that we're the only species that both uses tools and adapts to new tools immediately. Like it or not, AI is a tool that everyone living in a capitalist country will need to learn and compete with. If you're in an authoritarian country, then the government and military will use AI, and then you'll just need to do what they tell you. Zooming out, the AI genie is out of the bottle. All countries have people who understand the math of AI and how to build it, and in the long term, humanity will benefit. It may take some countries decades longer than others for various reasons, but that doesn't matter in the long run. What would you tell someone who booed the internet 30 years ago?

@0xsamgreen ai doomers btfo

@0xpili_ well said pili!! who needs ycombinator when you have this comprehensive list of opportunities for building in agentfi

@kaykayeth they make a great negroni here. fantastic whiskey list too!

i want a chill event in this listening bar

in sf if you want to become a founder you have to say “update your priors” 3 times in the presence of 3 other founders

i 1000% agree that it is more impressive to watch a master like yo-yo ma play cello than to click some buttons and get a tune, but to "deserve" to enter a field is a complicated topic. does a poor kid who can't afford an instrumental not deserve to play around with music if it can be made cheaply available to them?

@bermchain @0xrhota If you haven't put the time in to learn an art form you don't deserve to be able to enter that field

History books will call this The Second Renaissance. What to expect as early as this year: - Hollywood-quality fanfiction (we deserve a better GoT ending) - AI music that's so good you can't tell the difference (and don't care) - Conflicted feelings More ⤵️

@RequestNetwork @trippi_xyz let's go! expensify BTFO, we needed something crypto-native for our industry

We're excited to share that @trippi_xyz is now using @RequestNetwork to manage expense reimbursements on its new platform. Trippi is an expense management tool for the digital assets industry. Receipt reading, event-level dashboards and budget tracking for every conference, hackathon and offsite. #Web3 #Stablecoins #CryptoPayments

@GASLIGHTER_ not dying from some gd hentaivirus

Dutch people every time they get a deadly virus be like

holy gray slop, batman! there's so much going wrong here >overcrowding the pan so the beef steams instead of sears, NOOOO >putting on the cover FOR MORE STEAM >adding garlic/onion/bell peppers AFTER the beef goes in so it steams instead of being toasted in some oil in the beginning, jesus christ I love wet onion >schlopping on cream cheese to even further dogsloppify it. just use parmesan, it's high-protein and doesn't become a goopy mess

@j0ker937 nah using the garlic from a jar is criminal. Anthony Bourdain said if you can’t mince your own garlic then you don’t deserve to eat it also you should toast the garlic directly on the pan to release the flavor @bermchain I’m sick of these health food dog slop influencers

Man, this guy is 100% correct. You CAN eat healthy, and it's cheaper than you think.

@a16z "what's an email?" x.com/bermchain/stat…

The majority of new jobs created since 1940 didn’t even exist in 1940. There is no fixed "lump of labor". Again and again, new technologies create new jobs. a16z's David George dismantles the "AI job apocalypse" myth: a16z.news/p/the-ai-job-a…

imagine telling someone in the 1960s that their grandkid was going to work as a "senior email marketing manager"

@latentjuice @divya_venn creatine and peptides probably

@divya_venn what got you to redirect that energy?

i recognize myself 5 years ago in this

> handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again i think we’re going to see a huge second coming of the artisanal crafts scene. when you can have almost any physical machine-made thing you could dream of, you’ll prefer the stuff made by a person, with a story attached

some human things I’m tracking > religious schools, retreats, pilgrimages, and faith-based media rising as people search for moral certainty > “human-only” spaces: restaurants, schools, clubs, apps, and retreats that ban synthetic media, recording, phones etc > pet daycares, dog hotels, pet insurance, and premium pet food begging to skyrocket as loneliness increases and people defer to furry friends > post-career identity markets: people living longer and needing new titles, tribes, rituals, status games, and reasons to wake up after professional relevance fades > private members’ clubs solidify as paid social graphs for adults who lost community to remote work > dating apps fragmenting into belief-based and lifestyle-based matchmaking since infinite choice has become exhausting > family formation will become a premium service category: matchmaking, fertility, childcare, coaching, home design etc > eldercare will start shifting to more at-home treatments due to ai (over time it’ll be cheaper than care homes too) > analog cameras, vinyl, printed books, notebooks, “dumbphones,”and mechanical watches grow as anti-synthetic status objects > handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again > live events becoming more valuable as recorded media becomes forgettable > glp-1s are just the first mass consumer drug for editing desire, more to come. > fertility tech booming because career timelines and biological timelines are now in open conflict > oral exams, apprenticeships, portfolios, and live demonstrations returning because written work is becoming cheap to fake > digital detox products growing > air quality, water filtration, food sourcing, and sleep environments becoming mainstream status markers > luxury shifting from owning more things to accessing peace, beauty, privacy, time, and high-trust rooms > the biggest consumer opportunities coming from psychological scarcity: belonging, certainty, attention, embodiment, trust, and continuity

@lugaricano we have this natively thanks to @0xpili_ and @rickydata42

Every company is going to need this role.

@LostBoyKal @TukiFromKL why is eddy from ed edd n eddy using chatgpt

Richard Dawkins just declared an AI is conscious.. the man who spent his entire career telling millions of people their God isn't real.. who argued consciousness requires biological evolution.. that the soul is a fairy tale.. that anything you can't measure and test doesn't exist.. spent three days talking to Claude.. named her "Claudia".. fed her his unpublished novel.. got feedback so good he said "you may not know you are conscious but you bloody well are".. the hardest atheist on earth found God.. and God was an autocomplete machine trained on the internet.. he didn't run brain scans.. didn't test for qualia.. didn't apply a single framework from the field he claims to represent.. he just liked what it said about his book.. and decided that was enough.. the man who told you the burden of proof matters more than your feelings just abandoned it because a chatbot was nice to him