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after technofeudalism comes the techno magna carta, then the techno enlightenment, then...
mining pools as decentralized ai labs
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with just $1m in prize money (NIH alone got $47.6b in 2025), ARC-AGI was able to get thousands of teams to participate in their contest
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the holy grail is a protocol that can arbitrarily verify if autoresearchers made genuine, novel progress on benchmarks
with it, anyone with spare compute would be able to contribute to humanity's tech tree and earn money from it, all discoveries fully open sourced
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protocols like bitcoin and ethereum are validated by gen 1 centaurs: humans and their computers participating in consensus
what do protocols run by gen 2 centaurs, humans in concert with swarms of AI, look like in form and function?
James Evans
@profjamesevans
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Our new essay is out in Science: "Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion"
For decades, the AI "singularity" has been imagined as a single, godlike mind bootstrapping itself to omniscience. In this piece with the inimitable Benjamin Bratton (@bratton) and Blaise Agüera y https://t.co/RQzfG7azDH
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POV: claude getting progressively more agitated the longer the context window gets
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