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@awrigh01 building this right now. It runs locally, understands the flow of info through your devices, reveals your information diet, and then coordinates your apps/AI towards your intentions. agree it’s important that there’s an open source component

@mignano spent a lot of time thinking about the convenience (and social) barrier of this problem at Humane if agents & devices are going to be always on, who decides when and what they can record/share automatically. i want effortless privacy and max utility working on it!

@timourxyz this is what @Intension_AI is doing. always on agents and devices need to be always trusted

I think ambient intents are going to be a big deal. There are so many intentions we have that would make our lives better, but the cost of surfacing them to a market it too high, so they never become legible to the world. You want a better job, you want to swap your couch, you would apartment-swap with someone in your web-of-trust, you would upgrade from a two-bedroom to a three-bedroom if there were some graceful way to find the person who wants to size down, and you would love to sublet you place in New York without posting on Instagram and making 95% of you friends read a logistical errand that has nothing to do with them. Right now, the cost of expressing these intents is high. You have to remember the want, decide it is worth acting on, find the right channel, phrase it socially, tolerate the inbound, filter for trust, negotiate details, and then keep the whole thing alive in your head. So most of the long tail dies. Agents change this because they can keep the low-grade, half-formed wants running in the background. They know your calendar, your travel plans, your music, your reading, your friends, your constraints, and maybe your willingness to be interrupted. You listen to a band on repeat on Spotify and your agent notices they are playing 20 minutes from where you will be in California next month. You highlight a book you love in Readwise and it tells you that your friend is reading it too, and you will both be at the same dinner next week. You mention wanting Berlin in June and it quietly checks whether any trusted people from there want to apartment swap in New York then. The magic is lowering the cost of noticing, holding, matching, and negotiating these things. It will feel like a higher level of serendipity. This will require a web-of-trust that has yet to be built because there is an important privacy aspect to this. The dystopian version is "AI companies capture your intentions and auction them to whoever wants to manipulate you." The useful version is user-owned intents, where your agent can prove enough to match or negotiate without dumping your private life into a marketplace. Some of this already has been solved in cryptography: private set intersection for finding overlaps without revealing all non-matches, secure multiparty computation / homomorphic encryption for computing matches or scores over private inputs, zero-knowledge credentials for proving things like membership, attendance, reputation, or trust path without exposing everything underneath. If this works, a lot of modern life gets more liquid. Idea sharing, couches, apartments, reading groups, dinner plans, travel overlaps, introductions, tiny labor exchanges, borrowing a camera, finding the one person at an event who cares about the same weird thing. All the stuff that currently relies on posting into the void and hoping the right person happens to see it. The hard parts are real: consent, spam, weird incentives, agent loyalty, social context, and making sure this becomes a tool for people rather than a new ad exchange with better vibes. But I increasingly think the big unlock is giving our unexpressed intentions a safe place to live, and giving our agents permission to help them find each other. I know of @indexnetwork_ working on this. Anyone else?

I want new hardware that no big tech company would ever be incentivized to make. I want a choice over how MY data powers and connects these devices. Proud to be supporting @lizwandersworld and the @eraworlds team as they open the door to a new ecosystem.

For the past year and a half, I’ve been wrapping my head around what I think is one of the big unanswered questions of our time; what is happening to our attention? What you pay attention to is how you experience life. And right now, you’re experiencing life on the algorithms terms, not yours. I think we’re on the cusp of a revolution to reclaim our attention and agency. The technology, market, and timing are finally aligned. Attention is all you need. open.substack.com/pub/intensiona…

@eddiejiao_obj @cmmnknwledge love it, feels like a more dynamic version of the dumb phone experience would love to test :)

At @cmmnknwledge, we’ve been working on replacing the phone homescreen with a live document that changes throughout the day with the information you need. We’re looking for beta testers to try it out and help shape the this experience with us. Comment below for a testflight!

today was my last day at Humane. Bethany and Imran's mission to improve our relationship with technology is an important and timely one; I'm rooting for them and the rest of the very talented team there. witnessing the birth of a new generation of hardware first-hand has been an incredible experience. if you're working on something interesting in the consumer space (especially hardware/AI), let's talk

@drew_carson_ai @samsheffer @Humane still on track for deliveries in early/mid-April

@samsheffer @Humane So what does ready to ship mean? 🤔 like, units are leaving the factory? From what I’ve heard, customers should still expect the mid-April delivery right?

exciting times @Humane 🖤✨

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@Ellroy_Jetson ty sir 🙏

All these registrations came through a platform designed by @uptousnow_. Super proud of this accomplishment and the team @HeadCountOrg who have been working with creators and artists to get their audiences ready to vote an extra thank you to @galeo_00 who led design on the flow

Spent the past several months building a simple, gamified voter registration experience with @galeo_00 and today Billie announced a campaign to get her fans ready to vote for the midterms with our partners at @HeadCountOrg using the tech we created

@cullend culturelle

Hello friends into health stuff. What are your probiotic recommendations? Had mild case of food poisoning last week and keep getting small stomach aches/ indigestion

@david_lyons i damn near put my hand over my heart listening to it last night

Raingurl by Yaeji is the unmatched Bushwick anthem… tell me I’m wrong

@WhatGaboSays ill come with u

I guess there are two types of people.. I told 8 people today that i was considering getting an ear piercing. 3 said they’d come with me and 5 tried to convince me not to do it.

@galeo_00 r u kidding

@samsheffer protests against Roe vs Wade being overturned

anyone know what’s going on in downtown manhattan? just saw at least 4 choppers above the area no idea why

@youfoundanisha i get the hog extra spicy Xe May Sandwich Shop goo.gl/maps/Ns5a6HoQn…

really craving banh mi where can i get some good good in new york