Futurist | Tech Strategist | Podcaster - Eliminating friction, scaling abundance through blockchain, AI, crypto & nanotechnology. On a mission to cure aging
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Technology has enabled humanity to take vacations from survival. Definitely my favorite definition of abundance.
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Tom Tykwer, the director of Run Lola Run, is making Volcano High with playwright Bonn Park, who directs it. They shoot live action, then use Seedance 2.5 on top of the footage.
In one scene three actors lean into the camera and sing. Seedance turned them into a crowd of 20. Tykwer says it just works, and they'll use it more often.
Bonn Park wanted one continuous take where the camera spins around a gym. The model had to remember what was on each side of the room when the camera came back. A test shoot proved it could.
Their producer's favorite moment: a water bottle prop came back as a microscope.
AI isn't replacing the crew here. A director with real taste chose to put it into how a film gets made.
🤝 Paid partnership
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One answer to what's driving GPU rental prices:
Token demand on OpenRouter is up ~27x since last November, from ~6T/week to ~165T/week
Open-weight models now handle ~72% of those tokens, up from ~28% last November
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
Zooming out, GPUs are still renting ahead of a standard 6-year depreciation schedule
Rental price vs. schedule:
- H200: +143%
- B200: +111%
- RTX PRO 6000: +73%
- H100: +54%
- A100: +9%
Most of the gap opened up after April, when token demand took off
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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Moonshots episode #305 is out. youtube.com/watch?v=LeSIe50W…
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Can we finally make a theory for Darwin's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful"?
Introducing ruliobiology as a path to general theory in biology, starting with foundations for a theory of biological form
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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Spot #Bitcoin ETFs took in $528.40 million on October 21, a third straight positive day. The number that matters is that eight of twelve funds bought and not one of them sold.
I saw this by my house yesterday.
My first reaction was not awe.
After some laughter, I said "COOL!"
A black and white Cybertruck parked with the door open, someone in uniform in the driver's seat. The yoke and center screen look right at home in there. #Cybertruck
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Progress feels perfectly smooth (if you pay close attention).
🤖 Made with AI
We are coming up on Halloween so I'm thinking about scary stories.
I think we can do it in two words: "Government AI"
What two words are the most scary for you?
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Perhaps the threat was never a rogue AI agent trying to subvert humans—but humans using AI to hurt other humans.
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An AI model can predict whether you’re likely to die of cancer from a single photo of your face, according to new research.
sciam.com/article/can-ai-pre…
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The most dangerous myth in medicine is that aging is natural and therefore acceptable
The tech crowd is builders/founders and Investors
Which are you?
40%I building the future
13%I invest in builders
33%Both
13%Neither
15 votes • Final resultsThe biggest pushback on my presentations about abundance is how it may help only the rich.
Not my experience. The most productive positive people I know agree with @PeterDiamandis … there world isn’t a better place if we think we can leave some behind.
When I read that Amazon was blocking bots, I thought of all the e-commerce competitors who were hearing it and cheering.
We don’t need Xamazon. There are easily hundreds that are great companies that would love a little TLC in attaching their stores to Grokbot and creating many new and better options for customers.
I say this as a super fan of Amazon. Even the best die a quick death when they fight progress.
I have no fear that my AI is listening in and plotting.
Proof: the answers I get back from prompts. Angie keeps asking me about the rants I share with her.
Just like humans, my AI is baffled by my thinking.
I'm going to use TrellisWM
Moreover, this video will be my stock answer for people who want to get a glimpse into how my fractal brain works.
Towards the end, you'll enjoy a visualization of the madness I visualize 24/7.
Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS
Its how the desktop should have always been.
Download at
TrellisWM.app
I find all this talk of personhood to be hilarious.
But since I start treating my agents like I want to be treated, I feel much better myself.
You would do well to study @dennisyu’s thinking on agent management.
I use systems like this because I have 14 ideas well simultaneously chatting with 3-4 agents. I am not good at multitasking (no one is… it's a myth).
I often have to stop and think of 1-3 things I need to get done as a priority, but I forgot to do this with agents until recently when I
1) Told my Chief of Staff to rank priorities and pick 3
2) He can run unlimited tasks… but we prioritize on what needs focus
3) Keep a ledger of Work Orders.
4) Create a desktop widget so I don't start exploring in the task list. Just what CoS needs from me.
TL;DR Don't be a slave to your agents. Give them everything, and they'll learn not to bother you.
I've been using this four-color stoplight method so I can quickly figure out what's important, especially since agents will often send me paragraphs of stuff.
dennisyu.com/four-color-stat…