John Lucchetti

Happy 250!

Kicking off the 250th Independence Day weekend with @UtahSymphony

Congrats to Sam and the entire @CambrianNetwork team! Not only are they brilliant minds but also genuinely good people. Excited to see the impact they are making.

@Marcus_Rein_ @mozilla @MozillaAI Congrats

Life update. Yesterday was my first day at @mozilla, specifically I’ll be working on their @MozillaAI initiative. Emotions, energy, and a feeling of purpose are here with me today, and I can’t wait to share more as I get settled. Instead of writing a lengthy post, I’ll just say this: I want to empower you. I want to empower your business. I want to empower your story. Today, with @mozilla and I teaming up, I feel I’ve been given the gift to do just that. DM me to get started integrating resilient and secure open-source options into your existing AI workflows, or if you want to participate in @MozillaAI's open-source developer community. Marcus 🦊

@0xsamgreen @CambrianNetwork @polychain @FTDA_US 👏👏

I'm excited to share that Cambrian has raised $11.9M to build the financial intelligence layer for the convergence of AI, digital assets, and traditional finance. Our seed round was led by @Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US: a convergence itself of a top OG digital assets fund and a $1.7T institutional asset manager of 75+ years. As AI starts to consume more data in minutes than most humans do in lifetimes, finance is evolving to adapt to this reality ⤵️

Imagine firing up the DeLorean, traveling back to 1776, and telling Samuel Adams that 250 years from now, his legacy would involve thousands of Scotsmen in kilts absolutely draining a brewery named after him while screaming football chants. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 bbc.com/news/articles/…

I just finished @DeepLearningAI ’s AI for Good Professional Certificate. At the core it’s about unlocking new capabilities by helping people analyze information at a scale that’s not possible manually. The key is knowing when AI is the right tool & keeping humans in the loop.

@jackcalifano 15 years ago, tours promoted albums. Today, streaming pays fractions of a cent, so tours are the paycheck. Throw in dynamic pricing, fans wanting higher production value, monopolies, and scalpers you get $350. I break it down here: youtu.be/TZOUsrKe3HE

I love that people are excited for America’s 250th next month & I respect the merch hustle. But can someone please design something that actually looks cool? Everything I’m seeing looks like it came from the same clip-art folder we all used for middle school history projects.

@jasonwoodland1 Efficiency should free up time to do the slow deep creative work that can’t be automated. That creative time needs to be protected.

Everyone is so busy trying to be efficient that they’re sacrificing being creative.

@0xsamgreen AI is driving rapid change so it’s normal for people to feel uneasy about it. What they are missing is they now have tools to build, create, and compete without relying on traditional gatekeepers. It’s not just disruption. It’s a huge opportunity for everyone.

Just took my kids to see The Mandalorian and Grogu in @IMAX. It was a fun movie but the highlight for me was hearing Ludwig Göransson’s soundtrack in an immersive setting. He’s a brilliant composer.

Wishing @StephenAtHome and the entire @colbertlateshow team all the best. Thanks for all the great laughs.

@0xsamgreen We also saw how many people said all the good ideas were already taken in the late 90’s and early 2,000s 🤦‍♂️

@johnlucchetti Yeah, for example, we got to see the expansion of the Internet and the changes it brought.

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?

Took a scenic train ride today. It was very relaxing

I just finished @DeepLearningAI ’s Agentic AI course. Biggest takeaway: Agentic AI isn’t just about speed and automation. It’s about better outputs. Instead of one prompt → one answer You can design system loops that think, check, and improve. That’s quality control built in

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This is a fun one. @NASA has free a tool where you can find your name in Landsat. science.nasa.gov/specials/your-…

@0xsamgreen @googlecloud 🔥🔥

Got to tear it up in my dream car last week at #GoogleCloudNext Thanks for the opportunity @googlecloud! The color was a coincidence 🪴