#  @chrisbarber Chris Barber Chris Barber posts on X about ai, list, open ai, in the the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1529019518/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +3,132% - [--] Month [-------] +303% - [--] Months [-------] +350% - [--] Year [-------] +923% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1529019518/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1529019518/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +7.40% - [--] Month [-----] +24% - [--] Months [-----] +102% - [--] Year [-----] +241% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1529019518/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [gaming](/list/gaming) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai), [list](/topic/list), [open ai](/topic/open-ai), [in the](/topic/in-the), [how to](/topic/how-to), [labs](/topic/labs), [list of](/topic/list-of), [a list](/topic/a-list), [future](/topic/future), [agi](/topic/agi) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@finbarrtimbers](/creator/undefined) [@jacobmbuckman](/creator/undefined) [@tamaybes](/creator/undefined) [@nosilverv](/creator/undefined) [@sama](/creator/undefined) [@devonzuegel](/creator/undefined) [@chrissmeder](/creator/undefined) [@levinphil](/creator/undefined) [@jansramek](/creator/undefined) [@jeremyphoward](/creator/undefined) [@urbancourtyard](/creator/undefined) [@austintunnell](/creator/undefined) [@cobylefko](/creator/undefined) [@damonhemmerding](/creator/undefined) [@davegordon14](/creator/undefined) [@ryanmjohnson](/creator/undefined) [@berkie1](/creator/undefined) [@tyleralterman](/creator/undefined) [@krishnanrohit](/creator/undefined) [@lachygroom](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "DeepSeek-R1 scores 15.8% on ARC-AGI at an average cost of [--] cents; o1 low scores 20.5% at an avg cost of [--] cents; o3 high scores 87.5% at an avg cost of $3.4K" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1884698260809601336) 2025-01-29T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "OpenAI o3-mini System Card is now available screenshots below:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885390951985914087) 2025-01-31T18:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Finbarr Timbers On Preparing For AI Part [--] of 4: AI's Economic Impacts By [----] Large inefficient tech cos reduce headcount but total tech jobs grow as efficient new companies start. Living costs for basics drop but premium scarce assets like beachfront homes rise" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886809523408810093) 2025-02-04T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Finbarr Timbers On Preparing For AI Part [--] of 4: AI's Job Impacts By [----] Remote work and pure coding jobs decline. Manual labor and relationship-based jobs remain stable. People who get high leverage by using AI thrive and earning more" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886809525552075157) 2025-02-04T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A Post-Money World: Why Stockpiling Cash May Be The Incorrect AGI Preparation Strategy Frontier AGI labs in the compute arms race - they don't measure in billions of dollars but in H100s. My chat with Eric Jang (@ericjang11) Head of AI at 1X Robotics creating the NEO Humanoid Robot. All views are Erics not 1Xs Eric: I just sent you an email with a tweet from David Holz I think you should talk to him as well the founder of Midjourney. David's tweet: "lots of ai people seem to think the most important thing is to get rich before the singularity happens. this is like a monkey trying to hoard" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1887247536433529165) 2025-02-05T21:10Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements "@ericjang11 @modeless @chris_j_paxton @ChrisCamillo" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1904910701761564747) 2025-03-26T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@modeless @ericjang11 @chris_j_paxton @ChrisCamillo Because of security or because of less maintenance needed" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1904932157984047353) 2025-03-26T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I just made a vibe coding guide for non-coders. How to go from idea - working prototype. I filmed it on a blank laptop & I show every step from start to finish. 00:23 Install Tools 06:44 Create Project 22:08 Vibe Debugging 37:22 Install Deployment Tools 45:19 Go Live" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1906421807474987224) 2025-03-30T19:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For founder-types who might want to raise a VC fund someday: I talked with Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) about raising from LPs. Heres his advice: The one thing I wish we had done in Susa I is front load fees a bit more Chris: I think you started out with an angel syndicate is that right Leo: The angel syndicate it wasnt like AngelList syndicates because those didnt exist yet. It was more like: we were a group wed look at companies together and if we liked something wed say well invest $50K and each person would wire $10K-15K. Basically an informal angel group. Did you invest out of your" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1906719676081869288) 2025-03-31T14:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Idea: a @levelsio-style vibe jam. But instead of vibe coding AI games people vibe direct AI videos. Theme: optimistic futures. (The anti-Black Mirror.) With new tools like Sora Veo Runway Kling Pika Luma Wan Hedra Hunyuan this might actually work Black Mirror is pessimist trash We need a new abundance optimism that inspires the next generation of engineers who can build https://t.co/tIG7VjOzHH Black Mirror is pessimist trash We need a new abundance optimism that inspires the next generation of engineers who can build https://t.co/tIG7VjOzHH" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1911182177582354530) 2025-04-12T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This feels true. Each new AI art breakthrough I'm obsessed with it briefly and then uninterested. Why Is it a novelty thing" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1918345008215933068) 2025-05-02T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I love this vibe: your family your sibling's family your friend's family all with houses around a shared backyard" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924112967743987804) 2025-05-18T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How do you think most of the Anthropic team feels about the Claude whistle-blower behavior actively supports supports in extreme cases show results opposes actively supports supports in extreme cases show results opposes" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1926324903386423474) 2025-05-24T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DavidSHolz would be cool if midjourney funded a competition to make cool images and videos of inspiring positive futures prizes could be midjourney credits and usage i for one would love to see images and videos of beautiful walkable nature-filled cities/towns + things others imagine" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1926783097413988794) 2025-05-25T23:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "new side project fyi: a friend and i built an app like cursor but for iphone now on testflight. it has github push/pull for your existing projects (warning pokemon sound at the end of the video video is realtime 1x) some people hate coding on a phone some love it 🤷🏼♂" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927359484642398493) 2025-05-27T13:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What are some of the most toddler-friendly cities and towns in the world Walkable stroller friendly and safe (cars are far away from the walking/playing). ccing the walkable places crew @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @Chris_Smeder @ryanmjohnson @jansramek @AustinTunnell @Cobylefko @berkie1 @damonhemmerding @Tesho13 @bobbyfijan @davegordon14 @urbanistvc" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1928092738043662774) 2025-05-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@RyanPGreenblatt What impacts AGI will have on the value of labor could be a good topic for anti-debates https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1911063351700201899 What AI topics would you want to see "debated" if I did this anti-debate experiment I've asked @eli_lifland @peterwildeford and @IvanVendrov and they're interested depending on topic & participant Topic ideas eg Takeoff speeds ai lab revenue LFPR & real wages https://t.co/Qjzp3UBUfQ https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1911063351700201899 What AI topics would you want to see "debated" if I did this anti-debate experiment I've asked" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1928971439279059231) 2025-06-01T00:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@omooretweets @a16z Id love to know same stats but gross profit or just arr after training/inference costs. Great post" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1931772444597227705) 2025-06-08T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "what's your stance on boostrapping vs taking vc money bootstrapping ftw vc money ftw n/a / results either bootstrapping ftw vc money ftw n/a / results either" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1934981944296784181) 2025-06-17T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@juliapintar Lifestyle entrepreneurship = 🔥" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1935101157837582407) 2025-06-17T22:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "some things i wish there were more of: [--]. Highly walkable stroller-friendly and toddler-friendly cities (like Esmeralda or Copenhagen @devonzuegel @jansramek) [--]. Communities and things that look like universities (like FractalU @Prigoose @__drewface @TylerAlterman) [--]. Cities for startup founders (like Balajis Network State University @balajis) [--]. Programs to help people get to financial independence by building (like YC @garrytan) [--]. Weird conferences and events (like F50 @peterthiel) [--]. Family-oriented private houses with shared common spaces (like Denmarks cohousing @Chris_Smeder) [--]. Things" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1935360003592057303) 2025-06-18T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My favorite AI product by some margin is o3 (regular) with web search enabled on the ChatGPT iOS app using transcribed voice input (voice input text output). Whats your fav" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936515870865621333) 2025-06-21T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@GabrielPeterss4 Measure co2 manta sleep pro https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1883674503081058704 @karpathy @dvdaines @bryan_johnson Room co2 levels 800ppm blackout curtains magnesium glycinate https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1883674503081058704 @karpathy @dvdaines @bryan_johnson Room co2 levels 800ppm blackout curtains magnesium glycinate" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1936586412524208147) 2025-06-22T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@nosilverv Yes Loved this. Emotions will come out one way or the other. Healthily and without resistance and then youre back to flowing and open or resisted and snapped out at others when they accidentally tap a stuck emotional well of yours" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1939347214247280947) 2025-06-29T15:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@nosilverv Maybe the emotional expression from arguing is why ppl in the Bay Area like arguing so much Releasing stuck anger And maybe thats why I used to like arguing but no longer do Maybe it was load bearing for anger release but once you have alternative methods its not needed" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1939358064983015719) 2025-06-29T16:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Resources For Modern Friend Villages / Co-Living / Co-Housing (Private Houses + Shared Common Spaces Living Walking Distance To Your Friends & Siblings & Their Families) templates & how-to: co-housing (look for books by durrett) supernuclear newsletter (@gillianim @levin_phil) pop up villages: all of the edge city meetups (@JanineLeger @timourxyz) esp edge esmeralda's (healdsburg just north of SF) city week (@devonzuegel) super walkable cities: copenhagen barcelona las catalinas in costa rica (lots of construction) more things in this direction: prospera (@erickbrimen) network school" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1943344109617573907) 2025-07-10T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@nosilverv Its interesting how intensely people want to signify tribe Perhaps its something for coordination Like Im this kind of cell (gut cell brain cell etc) so if youre the same type we can collab I wonder if there are other ways to help ppl do the signaling that feel better" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1944914099139436917) 2025-07-15T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Jsevillamol do you mean switching it so that all the trend lines (compute growth algo improvements costs etc) are recalculated just using the top [--] models by compute instead of a variety of models" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1945206736207388716) 2025-07-15T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@krishnanrohit internal coordination and cooperation = high leverage" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1945925151016829119) 2025-07-17T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What drudgework do you wish AI and robots could handle for you for example: Computer Tasks: - annual taxes incl wrangling and downloading various forms - scheduling appts with service providers or medical appts - bookkeeping / good financial management (unsubscribing from unused subscriptions estimating taxes sweeping accounts) - unsubscribing from spam email newsletters In Person Tasks: - loading and unloading dishwasher - washing other dishes - meal prepping - tidying up / organizing - deliveries: opening setting up cardboard boxes - trash - laundry - inventory / finding lost items - small" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946241197036777731) 2025-07-18T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@krishnanrohit Generally get rid of navigating phone trees and giving basic info when calling for admin type tasks (eg health insurance) Tax prep Scan card statements cancel unused things Triage email inbox Compare price reviews network status for medical appts https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946241197036777731 What drudgework do you wish AI and robots could handle for you for example: Computer Tasks: - annual taxes incl wrangling and downloading various forms - scheduling appts with service providers or medical appts - bookkeeping / good financial management (unsubscribing from" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946378338458804635) 2025-07-19T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "With help from @Chris_Smeder @JonathanHillis @levin_phil @devonzuegel @damonhemmerding @Cobylefko @jansramek @AustinTunnell and @davegordon14 I made this wishlist of changes that could make it easier to build more beautiful & walkable places. Somewhat ranked in order of importance: [--]. Remove parking minimums [--]. Allow mixeduse zoning citywide (groundfloor retail corner commerce) [--]. Allow multiple housing units per lot (duplexADUtriplex etc) [--]. Raise FAR caps and height limits [--]. Make small / infill projects ministerial (avoid CEQA & other discretionary review) [--]. Eliminate front / side" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946589019233833322) 2025-07-19T15:12Z [----] followers, 41.4K engagements "in case it's helpful in your housing development project here's a wishlist of things i wish more buildings had roughly ranked in order of how much impact i think they'd make for residents: (i currently live in a house in a semi-rural area but i wish there were more family-oriented options in cities that address some of my main hesitations - wanting good sound isolation + lots of greenery. e.g. i like the thought of being more walkable to ppl in a family friendly apt building or townhouse but haven't considered those options i think mostly due to noise concerns and desire for lots of green" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1947003290744770673) 2025-07-20T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I asked a bunch of founders: "Who were your 1-3 most helpful angel investors" The list: [--]. Adam Smith - @asmith [--]. Alex Adelman - @alexadelman [--]. Alex Wu (CFO Advisors) [--]. Alexandr Wang - @alexandr_wang [--]. Ali Rowghani - @ROWGHANI [--]. Anantha Kancherla (GM) [--]. Andrs Prez Soderi (Carya) [--]. Anil Varanasi - @acv [--]. Anjney Midha - @AnjneyMidha [--]. Ann Miura-Ko - @annimaniac [--]. Arielle Zuckerberg - @ariellezuck [--]. Ashley Mayer - @ashleymayer [--]. Balaji Srinivasan - @balajis [--]. Bob McGrew - @bobmcgrewai [--]. Brett Kopf (Omella Remind) [--]. Charlie Cheever - @ccheever [--]. Charlie Songhurst" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1947331403567513711) 2025-07-21T16:22Z [----] followers, 101.4K engagements "@firstadopter I wonder how many subscribers theyd get if they had their own south park only platform $5-10/mo" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1947764135149899849) 2025-07-22T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "here's what i'd suggest: [--]. substack is a decent "website" [--]. twitter pro - twitter articles also decent [--]. obsidian + obsidian publish good [--]. vercel or cloudflare pages or netlify drag and drop markdown site i'd personally pick: if you don't need a domain (eg a dot com) - obsidian and obsidian publish (i think $10/mo). you can do a custom domain with this but it's just a bit annoying to set up if you need a domain - maybe cloudflare pages with drag and drop (no fee just the domain $15/yr) if a few people (3) are interested i'm happy to make a tutorial video" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1948405412501540956) 2025-07-24T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I asked people: Which AI researchers do you recommend following The list: @gabriel1 - OpenAI @polynoamial - OpenAI @_jasonwei - MSL @_arohan_ - Anthropic @willccbb - Prime Intellect @finbarrtimbers - Ai2 @jeremyphoward - AnswerAI @_xjdr & @doomslide @FlintCasey - Reflection AI @natolambert - Ai2 @_albertgu - Cartesia @kalomaze - Prime Intellect @repligate @bobmcgrewai - ex-OpenAI @gallabytes - ex-Midjourney @karpathy @soldni - Ai2 @TobyPhln - xAI @YiTayML - GDM @khoomeik - ex-OpenAI @ylecun - MSL @hardmaru - Sakana @davidad - ARIA @pfau - GDM" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948755113096740901) 2025-07-25T14:39Z [----] followers, 95.6K engagements "i had my own journey from overly logically driven to overly impulse driven to somewhere in the middle it was something like this 1) as a kid and in college generally i optimized for making the "smart choice" and the rational choice doing what i "should" do and what was easy to justify (with logic) to myself and others 2) the logic-prioritized approach broke in a bunch of places in different subtle ways. so maybe [--] years ago i started experimenting with doing the opposite of what i "should" do. for decisions ask what i feel i "should" do and then generally i was feeling a should because there" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953515238667825313) 2025-08-07T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "habit to have more connection with your kids: reply to what theyre saying AND what theyre feeling my son said to me today: "dad you moved your bed back to how it was before" i replied: "i did youre right. you wish id left it how it was is that right" him: "yeahhhh"" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1954213824174965062) 2025-08-09T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@CFGeek perhaps it's an inference from the idea that RL "started to work" due to scaled up base models and so people are assuming there's more to squeeze on that i'm unsure" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1954935883888824363) 2025-08-11T16:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@UrbanCourtyard idea: consider asking a friend to record it for you and buy a bluetooth mic (eg dji mic) on you (if the venue isn't recording it) and if the venue is recording it buy a cheap mic and record your audio venue audio is often not great and a backup is nice regardless" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1954939117541962057) 2025-08-11T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DFiguru because rich people love playing golf (network effect schelling point etc)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1954941113808359559) 2025-08-11T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I co-wrote this new essay with Charlie Songhurst about when founders need chaos vs conscientiousness. Charlie is on Meta's board and he's a prolific angel investor. The Chaos-to-Conscientiousness Phase Transitions By Chris Barber and Charlie Songhurst This is advice for founders to maximize their expected value. Startups go through phase transitions and the traits required to succeed change at each stage. In most markets the early stages require chaos -- think the highly creative artist who has notes and notes full of ideas builds dozens or hundreds of side projects and explores the territory" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1954978239207850246) 2025-08-11T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Yeah how I like to explain it is: Its possible to validate without being sycophantic Yes youre right incorrect statement = validates them invalidates your opinion: sycophantic You think incorrect statement perhaps because guess. My view is that its alternative = validates them AND you: validation without sycophancy Youre an idiot for all of these reasons its alternative = invalidates them validates you: arguing (if an ai did this many users would churn though some disagreement-seeking types on twitter would probably like it) Also middle approach is much more likely to get the user to change" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955022401223397525) 2025-08-11T21:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "My Updated Guide To The "Live Near Friends" Movement Some people wanna live near their friends and family. They had it in college and then in dense cities post college. Then maybe they move to the suburbs. And their friends move to other cities for jobs or relationships. But then they aren't near their existing friends and it's less walkable. Just at the time when they most start to care about it being walkable because maybe they have kids They want it to be car-minimal and nature-rich. So maybe they think about getting their friends to move near them moving to a more walkable city together" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955283736565780582) 2025-08-12T15:02Z [----] followers, 42.9K engagements "@aishdoingthings @scottdomes holocentrism (holo = whole) i'm wondering which ones could gesture at integration of conscious and subconscious from cogni - intui -" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955309141033128035) 2025-08-12T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@merv1nkel what were some of your favorites you found through traveling also fff = friends family and i imagine the fff village was pretty awesome" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955363368023532005) 2025-08-12T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I made a list of San Diego startup founders. There are WAY more other founders here than I was expecting. The List: @NaveenGRao @ItsNickLoudon @zstvns @coreyhainesco @CharlieHSilver @actionceo @juliapintar @realgeorgehotz @nealbloom @PaulFNiehaus @itsjoeconway @jordanhaswings @Nick_5anchez @Chase_Beach @devcayer @tomgriffiths @mepstein311 @MorganPaxhia @QSRguy @BlakeWComfort @sinasojoodi @cullenroche @troymarkowitz @danielzev @markowitzadam @eulerfx @rolandal @ken_cadima @harryarnett @lanpaje @jchdotme @valentinmadrid_ @michaelaubry @the_travisday @jojogentrytv @VRwithJasmine @_zoekahn_" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955665560722968983) 2025-08-13T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@nosilverv universal-basic-vibrant-local-community universal-basic-emotional-regulation-skills universal-basic-healthy-nutritious-unprocessed-foods universal-basic-walkable-cities-with-comfortable-housing" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955716258361696434) 2025-08-13T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@RichDecibels not yet clicking" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955725647013425548) 2025-08-13T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "thanks for sending i hope more people will see it this way makes me also think of: stable group sizes of [--] [--] [---] 500; tikkun olam principle of heal self first (if people have kind relationships between their parts probably also kind dyad relationships then etc) 4-6 as optimal dinner convo size for single convo 15-20 as good for a mixer etc. partnership relationships = the unlock. it CAN be collaborative (again i think a lot of people have a domination relationship between their conscioussubconscious mind so they naturally extend that out good step [--] being to move conscioussubconscious" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955727437729554866) 2025-08-13T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "i've been told about the concept of tikkun olam and the way it was told to me is healing the world starts with healing yourself heal yourself then your closest relationships then your family unit then local community etc this is my biggest wish for the EA community it's externally focused first instead of internally focused but if people have a certain wound they'll bring that with them to whatever they work on creating things from lack tends to also invite the opposite reaction whatever feeling state you do something from you'll bring more of" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1956042108957286631) 2025-08-14T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@nosilverv also the universal basic that everyone wants but is a little tricker: universal-basic-relative-status i wonder: if everyone is in multiple micro-communities some where they're low status some where they're medium some where they're high status does that kinda work" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1956381716647641161) 2025-08-15T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Plus3Happiness @nosilverv so universal basic awakening reduces the need for universal basic relative status" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1956385176273203563) 2025-08-15T15:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "i was curious about @leopoldasch's AI-sector hedge fund's holdings here they are: "Situational Awareness LP" - holdings as of 6/30/2025 filed yesterday 8/14/2025 $smh - vaneck semiconductor etf - put options (put = makes money when the price goes down) - [-----] contracts (100 shares per contract) premium unclear - this is a broad index on the industry (22% nvda 11% tsm) perhaps so he can focus the semi bet on intel and broadcom and be a bit more neutral to the industry $intc - intel - call options (makes money when the price goes up) - [------] contracts at [---] shares/contract premium unclear -" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956387278194094109) 2025-08-15T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "poll: have you ever read the commoncog newsletter/website (it's a newsletter/website on accelerating business expertise i'm a fan) eg "To get good go after the metagame" "Games people play with cash flow" "The Skill of Org Design" yes lots love commoncog yes once or twice no / don't know commoncog yes lots love commoncog yes once or twice no / don't know commoncog" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1957122840353714401) 2025-08-17T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I asked a few founders & investors: "What are 1-2 interesting startups for software engineers & researchers to join beyond the big labs" [--]. MatX - chips for LLM training and inference - Founders: Reiner Pope Mike Gunter (both ex-Google) [--]. Prosper - domestic-work robots for households and businesses - Founder: Shariq Hashme (ex-OpenAI) [--]. Manifest - core ml research lab - Founders: Jacob Buckman Carles Gelada Sean Zhang [--]. Physical Intelligence - foundation models for robots - Founders: Karol Hausman Sergey Levine Chelsea Finn Brian Ichter Quan Vuong Adnan Esmail Lachy Groom [--]. Mechanize - rl" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1957834156794343730) 2025-08-19T15:56Z [----] followers, 24.1K engagements "People to follow pt2: Mithril: Jared Quincy Davis (@jaredq_) Quill Meetings: Michael Daugherty (@mpdaugherty) Pluralis Research: Alexander Long (@_AlexanderLong) Linear: Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen) Jori Lallo (@jorilallo) Tuomas Artman (@artman) Qualia: Nate Baker Joel Gottsegen Lucas Hansen CodeRabbit: Harjot Singh Gill (@harjotsgill) Guri (@guritfaq) Sygaldry Technologies: Chad Rigetti (@ChadRigetti) Idalia Friedson (@IdaliaFriedson) HealthMC: Ian Blumenfeld (@ianblu1) Brian Johnson Judah Rabinowitz Lorikeet AI: Steve Hind (@stevehind) Jamie Hall RL Core: Martha White (@white_martha)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1957834725349027903) 2025-08-19T15:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@nosilverv oh yeah we YEARN for shared experiences so much pokemon go even elections" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1957863126373912980) 2025-08-19T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@lorraemarketing yes. recurring revenue frees you up to focus on adding MORE rather than refilling what you lose each month" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1958192040183029930) 2025-08-20T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I made a list of ex-founders now working at big AI labs as non-founder employees. Youre probably aware of @mikeyk (IG co-founder) at Anthropic. You mightve also seen @calvinfo co-founder of Segment ($3.2B acquisition) joined OpenAI and recently moved on. The List: @vedantmisra founder of Kemvi acq by HubSpot now Gemini core team at GDM @framosconis GP at Pioneer Fund now at Anthropic @BohanZhangOT cofounder of OtterTune now at OpenAI @casparro who has started some interesting self funded arbitrage businesses now at OpenAI @silber and @michael_dworsky cofounders at Cove now at Anthropic" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958591713842536781) 2025-08-21T18:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I made a list of multi-time founders. The List: @NoubarAfeyan - Moderna Seres Therapeutics Indigo Agriculture PerSeptive Kevin Ryan - Gilt Business Insider MongoDB @istoica05 - Databricks Anyscale LMArena Conviva Chris R - Lattice Data Inductiv SambaNova Snorkel AI @laserlikemike - Snowflake Pure Storage Clumio Reve etc @Rich_Barton - Expedia Zillow Glassdoor Trover @gc - StumbleUpon Uber @sama - Loopt OpenAI World @danielgross - Cue/Greplin Pioneer SSI @rabois - Opendoor OpenStore @ev - Pyra Labs/Blogger Twitter Medium Obvious Ventures @elonmusk - Global Link/Zip2 X dot com Tesla SpaceX xAI" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1958912390227271896) 2025-08-22T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "question for real estate developers or people who understand housing policy: what are the most straightforward ways to get these policies changed to make it easier to build more beautiful + walkable places presumably it doesn't have to be state level ballot initiatives. does anyone know what things motivated citizens could do concretely for their local areas - what websites or city buildings do they need to go to who do they need to ask for what do they need to do and what should they aim for or is it something that requires lots of money and time and legal expertise (hopefully not)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1960053702477348942) 2025-08-25T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@karrisaarinen @linear in addition to linear which other companies do a good job of offering employee liquidity @OpenAI / @sama do a great job. might put together a list" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1960733958297280774) 2025-08-27T15:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "this video shows what resonance looks like with kids resonance is a communication method that helps others feel seen & emotionally supported for your kids spouse team members yourself. warning: crying instead of reassuring say what SUCKS. copy guess exaggerate" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1966509137698722303) 2025-09-12T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I asked Sam Altman Finbarr Timbers Jacob Buckman Anonymous and Tamay Besiroglu: "Will robots do all the in-person jobs" @finbarrtimbers (Finbarr Timbers Ai2 ex-Midjourney ex-DeepMind): "Robots are expensive. For a lot of tasks we'd need humanoid robots those are complex machines and there's a minimum cost." @jacobmbuckman (Jacob Buckman Manifest AI ex-Google Brain): "A robot being more cost effective than a human will be very difficult." Anonymous (ex-frontier AI lab): "Robots are getting a lot better very quickly but I think the cost thing is the main thing. It will remain the case that" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1969044855419724144) 2025-09-19T14:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Given the prospect of AGI is it still reasonable to go into a software engineering career" I asked Sam Altman Finbarr Timbers Jacob Buckman Tamay Besiroglu and Anonymous. @finbarrtimbers (Ai2 ex-Midjourney ex-DeepMind): "I think each company will hire fewer software engineers but the software engineers they hire are going to be more senior and more well compensated." "So the larger companies might have fewer software engineers but in aggregate I think we're going to see more software engineers potentially much more." @jacobmbuckman (Manifest AI ex-Google Brain): "People should expect that" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1969407883000627288) 2025-09-20T14:26Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements ""How might AI impact science" I asked @sama @tamaybes @jacobmbuckman and Anonymous. Sam Altman OpenAI "In terms of whether more of the impact of AGI on science comes from narrow AI systems or general systems I suspect it's the general systems. And in terms of whether it'll be more from AI in the loop or human in the loop I'm not sure it matters. If it can make the key discoveries really fast with a little bit of human help that'd be fine." Anonymous ex-frontier AI lab "I wouldn't be surprised if AI is critical for 20%+ of Nature-published articles fairly soon. I'd say most of the impact of" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1969769350736622051) 2025-09-21T14:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@jeremyphoward @finbarrtimbers @jacobmbuckman @rronak_ @alexeyguzey @BlackHC @rolandgvc @angli_ai @sandersted @_arohan_ @danielhanchen @TianbaoX What advice to mid-career AI researchers might you add: @lukaszkaiser @shuchaobi @jack_w_rae @ren_hongyu @MillionInt @OriolVinyalsML @lmthang @sam_shleifer @stephenroller @rown @cHHillee @ctnzr @NandoDF @ChunyuanLi @giffmana @shengjia_zhao @_julianmichael_ @thekaransinghal" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1973415606725857587) 2025-10-01T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I'm curious about these AI questions: [--]. Will the METR trend hold increase or decrease [--]. Will the METR trend lead to significant real world uplift for engineers (including research engineers at AI labs) [--]. Land vs equities as an AGI hedge [--]. How do bubbles with a mix of substance and non-substance play out" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1976000649377792492) 2025-10-08T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How many AI researchers do you think are currently earning $25M/yr in new liquid or highly-liquid compensation Appreciation from prior stock grants doesn't count. Stock comp does count as long as it's at a company that does regular tender offers (eg OpenAI Anthropic etc) 100-1000 10-100 1-10 100-1000 10-100 1-10" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1976078917728686367) 2025-10-09T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "AI generalizations from the past few years: [--]. OpenAI releases products that consumers enjoy using [--]. OpenAI is good at fundraising [--]. Anthropic has a good code API [--]. Google is good at models but less good at UX [--]. People complain about the prices of Nvidia chips but keep buying them [--]. Sk Hynix makes good HBM [--]. Broadcom is a go-to for custom AI chips [--]. TSMC is a good fab [--]. Models keep getting better at doing web research and data analysis tasks [--]. Models keep getting better at prototyping web applications [--]. Models keep getting better at generating images and videos and 3d environments" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1977392070697590971) 2025-10-12T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""What new startups are needed to increase US energy capacity for AI" I asked @Jsevillamol @deanwball @JohnArnoldFndtn @elidourado @JeffDean @justjoshinyou13 and Tim Heidel. Dean Ball: "We need startups taking a fresh approach to the manufacturing of transformers inverters and other essential grid equipment." John Arnold: "We need a step function change in computation efficiency. Bringing quantum-accelerated AI servers or analog optical computers to life would be nothing short of revolutionary." Jeff Dean: "Extremely cheap and fast to deploy solar and batteries." Eli Dourado: "Off-grid all-DC" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1977407672745124232) 2025-10-12T16:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@binarybits what could citizens do to accelerate the rollout of self driving cars in their city if anything" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1977452964882354250) 2025-10-12T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@jeremyphoward @karpathy does too far off data distribution feel like the right explanation to you i was talking to one person recently where ai writes 95% of their code and another where it's 5% the former does lots of prototyping (very in distribution) the latter is writing specific ood things" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1977913500312687023) 2025-10-14T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "gatherings are a powerful technology. manhattan project began with gatherings of physicists. modern democracy began with [--] delegates at philadelphia's carpenter's hall. us dollar's dominance with [---] delegates at mount washington hotel. modern physics with [--] scientists at hotel metropole. federal reserve with [--] bankers at jekyll island. fall of the romanovs with [--] aristocrats in petrograd" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978103257626194310) 2025-10-14T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What's the better path for aspiring AI researchers who want to end up doing LLM research at frontier labs: [--]. SWE at frontier lab then transfer internally to research [--]. AI research on non-LLM neural nets (eg for recommendations or ad targeting) at any co then transfer to frontier lab LLM research [--]. Any LLM research engineering (even small models) at any co then transfer to frontier lab LLM research Another way of framing the same question is who is a frontier AI lab more likely to hire as an LLM research scientist: [--]. Stellar SWE at their company who has been self-teaching research plus" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978178504736088252) 2025-10-14T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Do you guess LLMs help engineers in proportion to how well represented in the training set the type of code they need is Or could you say more about your definition of too far off data distribution - I saw your note about @karpathy's task being about reimplementing standard stuff but in a way that is too hard + too high a bar for accepts Like for Karpathy's situation is it not well represented in the training set because it's a novel minimal implementation and LLMs don't have enough train set examples of larger neural net code - small neural net code to do good "style transfer" - and is that" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978226782060069220) 2025-10-14T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What's the best service that checks all LLM inference providers for evidence of quantization of models (If a good one doesn't exist then niche product idea or feature idea for Artificial Analysis.)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978480744269001030) 2025-10-15T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If AI can do it at near zero cost the value shifts to what is now scarce and complementary. Code generation becomes cheap Value shifts to security bug identification UX product-taste. Video generation becomes cheap Value shifts to audience trust characters brands" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978977262625263921) 2025-10-17T00:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I drafted a list of RL environment startups. Calling it Pavlov's List (1/2): AfterQuery. Code & Finance. @CarlosGeorgescu @spencermateega Danny Tang BenchFlow. Code. @xdotli Bespoke Labs. Enterprise. @madiator @AlexGDimakis Calaveras. Code. @cis_female Alana Xiang Cua. Code & Computer Use. @francedot @ddupont808 Collinear. Enterprise & Code. @nazneenrajani @soumyadeepb_ d_model. ML & Alignment. @dlbydq @dmooooon Datacurve. Code. @serenaa_ge @charleyslee Deeptune. Enterprise. @timlup Fleet AI. Enterprise. @nicolas_ouporov General Reasoning. Long Horizon. @rosstaylor90 @ChengxiTaylor Kip Parker" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2010844746231804258) 2026-01-12T22:42Z [----] followers, 45.7K engagements ""context window apps" - apps could make their action trajectories available via api or markdown export for ai chatbots or agents to benefit from if mcp is about giving agents hands this is about giving agents eyes i'd love input on this demo video/note. what's interesting what already exists. it shows how apps could capture more context/actions taken by users. for ai agents. so the agents can be a) more proactive and b) save the user from manual repetition has echoes to rewind ai / limitless also granola/similar also has similarities to the context graphs idea from Jaya Gupta - we need to" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013314085245591684) 2026-01-19T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "a few other interesting ai data startups kled @avipat_ hud oro @dgmonsoon @ckxyz_ parsewave @Van0SS (thanks @ibragim_bad) patronus @rebeccatqian (thanks @timshi_ai) antim labs & lucent & good start labs (via @SeanZCai)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013345475588694025) 2026-01-19T20:19Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements "I look forward to when Claude has the ability to make and update lists and reference notes for itself in chat threads (don't make it try and hold everything in context window like todos/items)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013733783011574030) 2026-01-20T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "tools that pair well with claude code. what else - packnplay (by Jesse Vincent pair with Orbstack) - wispr flow (voice input) - leash (sandbox/access control) - specstory (save threads as context) - context7 (api docs) - taskmaster (pm for claude code) - codelayer (context engineering multiple sessions workflows) - ralph wiggum technique (@GeoffreyHuntley) - apify (long tail apis) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014069494097076461 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014069494097076461" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2014069494097076461) 2026-01-21T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "what are some interesting ai vertical agent startups i asked a few people for their suggestions - finance: sapien hebbia rogo shortcut. heavy competition from ramp and anthropic and openai - cogent for security - cognition & windsurf and cursor if you count those as vertical agent startups - mandolin & tennr - law: harvey legora crosby advocacy and another vertical specific full stack one - comulate and furtherai - abridge very competitive space - elise ai - decagon giga sierra which ones are really ramping https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011491258750157049" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011491258750157049) 2026-01-14T17:31Z [----] followers, 22.2K engagements "other interesting robotics & robotics adjacent startups Armstrong Robotics (for commercial kitchens) Pantograph (training data) General Trajectory (model for dexterity) Standard Bots (arms for factories) Innate ($2k teachable robot) Relling Systems (rl/data infra) Spatial AI (data) Bracket Bot ($1k robot for devs) Vassar (open source kit) Flywheel (autonomous excavators) Lucky Robots (simulations for data) plus lots mentioned in the replies here - persona ai (industrial humanoids) - LeRobot (models datasets envs from HF) - rerun (infra for data) - build ai (released a big open dataset) - meta" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013283067075641706) 2026-01-19T16:11Z [----] followers, 48.5K engagements "world-building vendors imagine you wanted to build a world. who could you partner with some ideas: - Giant Spoon: Jonathan Haber Marc Simons and Trevor Guthrie. produced westworld at sxsw stranger things empire state takeover dragon on top of empire state - Mycotoo: Cliff Warner David Wally Fri Forjindam Bonnie Hallman. also built the westworld at sxsw (giant spoon led production mycotoo did talent + scripting + live performance). bollywood parks dubai. stranger things the experience. - Moment Factory. Dominic Audet Sakchin Bessette Jason Rod. realmadrid games. multimedia in singapore changi" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013661055348810124) 2026-01-20T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Alex Adelman" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013993633222160541) 2026-01-21T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Charlie Songhurst and I would love to incubate a long/short saas public equities fund trading the impacts of claude code et al on different saas cos what do you think is the right profile for this perhaps obsessed with markets and ai; likes investing but not a gambler; aware of what other people think but unimpacted. what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015459403189907668 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015459403189907668" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2015459403189907668) 2026-01-25T16:19Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements "@regulatorynerd @LCSVoiles thank you you mean because very embedded in the world of startups whats your take on the right profile" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2015494897701445824) 2026-01-25T18:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "some modern immersive world businesses - in person vr: sandbox vr zero latency vr the void - things like immersive movie theaters: cosm the sphere limes layered reality illuminarium - escape room-esque: boda borg immersive gamebox bombastik - xr and vr games: fitxr quell gym class octonic - fitness: savage race (tough mudder spartan race etc) - things like topgolf: mirra valo motion - vendors: midnight mansion 45games elevationxr https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016213879152636313 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016213879152636313" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2016213879152636313) 2026-01-27T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "advice to rl env / data startup founders from anonymous rl env startup founders: 1) There's a traditional trilemma of quality speed cost. Ignore costs labs do not care (within reason). You must deliver quality and speed to be in the conversation at all costs. 2) Focus on depth with one modality rather than contaminating focus amongst many. You are trying to land an extremely narrow wedge and then you can broaden. Do not be an environments company. Be a rust-tool-use environments company to start and broaden over time. This allows you to demonstrate your value to research early and grow wallet" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2017299534553186801) 2026-01-30T18:11Z [----] followers, 18.2K engagements "agents will need reputation marketplaces pricing payment. who is working on this see also: "The Coasean Singularity Demand Supply and Market Design with AI Agents" @sebkrier's writings on this topic master algorithm @pmddomingos @krishnanrohit @alexolegimas's post" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021286554304643573) 2026-02-10T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "people exploring claude code for equity analysis / cc for investing: @virattt - findatasets dexter @mnovendstern - mana @EMostaque - thinking of setting up a fully automated hedge fund @nicbstme - fintool who else" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2022041524314497426) 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 12K engagements "updated neolabs list. what's the right categorization llms vs other models agent-first vs model first @swyx shipping to users vs not yet shipping (hype to ship ratio) enterprise vs consumer large general models vs specialized use cases - @arcee_ai - @PrimeIntellect - @_inception_ai - @ndea - @liquidai - @physical_int - @NousResearch - @HarmonicMath - @axiommathai - @SakanaAILabs - @essential_ai - @noumenal_labs - @noemon_ai - @skyfallai - @si_pbc - @gen_intuition - @morphllm - @cohere - @IsomorphicLabs - @cusp_ai - @redwood_ai - @ssi - @hcompany_ai - @PrimaMente - @mathematicalco - @versesai" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012227356631662685) 2026-01-16T18:16Z [----] followers, 11K engagements "if you haven't sold any rl envs/tasks to labs yet perhaps: [--]. make a benchmark [--]. make it really really good (a skill that users and labs care about and 1-20% pass rates for the harder tasks) [--]. release it. make it clear in the release that you have sample envs/tasks available for labs that want to train their models on this skill [--]. send it around to researchers [--]. (hope that researchers care enough to pull you through procurement and that your delivered tasks meet their quality standards) [--]. profit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020561020864143377" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020561020864143377) 2026-02-08T18:11Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements "how do you think about the VC-backability of rl env startups on the one hand many of them feel like consulting firms on the other hand Palantir did/does/is too and there's an existence proof of $1B+ revenue with Scale and Surge is it that they are consulting cos but the bet is that this consulting market could get even bigger and stay that way and is the moat economies of scale & scope on finding experts or is it that there's some path for them to become high gross margin differentiated software or labor businesses how should people think about rl env startups" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020893967584477686) 2026-02-09T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@almostcmb Ie nice market risk to buy" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020897406506987866) 2026-02-09T16:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@herbiebradley @SeanZCai "more business which can scale with this model" has echoes of https://colossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/ https://colossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020959657091850605) 2026-02-09T20:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "what are interesting things aimed at preventing prompt injection attacks not at the semantic layer but at other layers eg agentsh (@erans) that enforces what happens at runtime is one. what else" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021256355324231831) 2026-02-10T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "interesting housing community: ORCA the Ocean Reef Club Association - private [----] acre community in florida - has a private airport a marina dozen restaurants medical center its own security force - visiting requires member sponsorship - joining requires sponsorship from [--] members plus club approval - if you don't get approval before buying a house you're locked out of the club for [--] years - not quite an MPC because it was more bottoms-up/emergent rather than top down planned. and because there's membership vetting history - in [----] was [--] cabins some docks a small harbor. real estate" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021649195145605509) 2026-02-11T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@swyx @arcee_ai @PrimeIntellect more: - Core Automation @MillionInt - Enam Co. @zaydenam" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021707802012532846) 2026-02-11T22:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Charlie Songhurst and I drafted a list of founders who explored markets in unique ways before starting their co: [--]. DoorDash: Tony/Stanley/Andy/Evan. Interviewed 100+ bay area businesses (and then of course also did deliveries themselves) [--]. Weights & Biases: Lukas Chris and Shawn. Lukas self-taught DL; then taught intro to DL classes; then interned at OAI [--]. Dragonfly Insurance: Matthew Granade. Mini-internship with multiple brokerages got two brokerage licenses and set up a test kitchen brokerage in Texas [--]. OneImaging: Elan. Reached out to 4k radiology imaging centers pre-product [--]. Deel:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989014409105273269) 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, 29.9K engagements "companies working to accelerate AV adoption (for consumers not trucks) - who else zoox (owned by amazon) wayve telsa waymo applied intuition nvidia scale (their origin) & imerit (i presume human labeling is less relevant here now) hesai helm baidu apollo didi pony ai weride" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012544949762580984) 2026-01-17T15:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "notes on pinduoduo holdings what am i missing: - co-ceo is Lei Chen. won the IOI in [--] and [--] bs and phd in cs. - other co-ceo is Jiazhen Zhao. started the Duo Duo grocery business. retroactively given cofounder title. - perhaps something like 45% temu 45% pdd marketplace and 10% grocery - temu is transaction fees. pdd is ads + payment processing. grocery is fulfillment fees. - biggest product category probably clothes then home/kitchen stuff then electronics. - us consumers anecdotally love temu as a kind of cheaper amazon. i wonder if it has/will eat into shein revenue too. temu had" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013706603158217039) 2026-01-20T20:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "m&a resources i've seen: - The Founders Guide To Selling Your Company by @justinkan - @jasonlk has various good posts on m&a - The Toughest Sell by Derek Yan (new one) - Magic Box Paradigm by @roizen - Companies Are Sold Not Bought by @Joshmedia - For founders considering selling their company: key factors & a timeline for M&A by @VishalLugani - How to Sell Your Startup: The Complete Guide to Running an M&A Process as a Founder by @ddebow plus the companion podcast episode what else tips from friends: - bankers might not get you any new buyers. good chance the buyers will only be people" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021618492810973266) 2026-02-11T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@davidlee @justinkan @jasonlk @roizen @Joshmedia @arampell Thanks David" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021980743602463072) 2026-02-12T16:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@fluid_intel @virattt @mnovendstern @EMostaque @nicbstme @the_nof1 @jay_azhang indeed thank you. see also https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011094414173843691 things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am investor) @the_nof1 by @jay_azhang alphafund labs by @Memetic_Theory adjacent not yet: @liquidtrading by @finn_hulse experimenting: @andrewmccalip previously: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011094414173843691 things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2022308026670260484) 2026-02-13T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "seeking suggestions: friend of mine is exploring starting a new org around skilled labor for data centers or fabs. hes traveling to austin phoenix dallas in the next few weeks to meet w people who oversee skilled hiring at hyperscalers colos construction firms like Bechtel etc and semi fabs. eg people who hire dc techs fab techs welders etc. hes a v sharp former founder also did a welder training program who should he should talk with" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2022010570732609794) 2026-02-12T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "it would be nice if twitter had a rage bait penalty @nikitabier - right now it's like the fast food free for all and everyone's making hyper palatable foods (mass scale mental obesity coming soon) cc @nearcyan okay I get it now. the most "successful" posts are ones that are just vague enough that everyone has their own (widely variable) story to project onto itbetter yet if it makes them mad. this is dangerous knowledge. okay I get it now. the most "successful" posts are ones that are just vague enough that everyone has their own (widely variable) story to project onto itbetter yet if it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981770489388577173) 2025-10-24T17:11Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements "i asked people for suggestions of neolabs. here's the list which am i missing - ssi - prometheus - thinking machines - manifest ai - vmax - goodfire (interp focused) - reflection (enterprise focused US open models) - humans& - periodic - ai2 - lila sciences - richard socher new lab - another stealth new lab - mistral - morph labs - adaption labs - ami labs - world labs - induction labs - moonlake ai - poolside (enterprise focused) let's say neolab = the success/failure of their business primarily depends on how good they are at training models and they're not a frontier lab yet" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011110250611687823) 2026-01-13T16:17Z [----] followers, 54.2K engagements "@SeanZCai Interesting - what would you compare to something like FICO and Thomson Reuters" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020896099138166829) 2026-02-09T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "robotics labs and startups list draft - which ones am i missing and which categorizations are terrible and need updating labs - pi (most people felt like this was the best team on the research side. also more of a general foundation model company very ambitious.) - also tesla (but xai is making the models) - gdm robotics - uma - nvidia robotics - intrinsic - rai institute kind of - genesis ai - general intuition - generalist - dyna - skild ai for science incl lab automation - periodic labs - prometheus - lila sciences - futurehouse (tbd) - medra industrial - halcyon - boston dynamics" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011471878444167679) 2026-01-14T16:14Z [----] followers, 90.3K engagements "world model startups: - World Labs (Fei-Fei) - AMI (Yann) - Genesis AI (kind of more simulation) - Odyssey (by the people who did the Voyage self driving car co) - Runway (kind of) - Lightwheel - GDM's efforts - General Intuition - Wayve (driving models) also Tesla also Waymo - Rhoda AI - Prometheus - Saturn Dynamics what else thank you to @ZoeyTang_1007 for help and how do you think about the business of the pure world model cos is the customer robotics cos perhaps in the future game studios https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020530821925650505" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2020530821925650505) 2026-02-08T16:11Z [----] followers, 82.3K engagements "interesting things adjacent to claude code: - zo computer @perceptnet @0thernet - setupclaw @michael_chomsky - agentsh @erans - clawhosters (Daniel Samer) what else" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2021982134827987162) 2026-02-12T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "how can i get a copy of "super momentum" the book about sk hynix either a digital copy or an english copy. haven't found so far seems like the best option so far would be: - order the korean paperback version - send it to a service that'll scan and ocr it - claude code + gemini flash to translate it https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022751956117393546 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022751956117393546" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2022751956117393546) 2026-02-14T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Will scaling reasoning models like o1 o3 and R1 unlock superhuman reasoning I asked Gwern + former OpenAI/DeepMind researchers. Warning: long post. As we scale up training and inference compute for reasoning models will they show: A) Strong general reasoning skills that work across most logically-bound tasks B) Some generalization to other logic tasks but perhaps requiring domain-specific retraining or C) Minimal generalization Finbarr Timbers (Artfintel former DeepMind) "We'll achieve superhuman performance on specific tasks with verifiable rewards. I see no evidence for general broad" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1883585761490174425) 2025-01-26T18:40Z [----] followers, 153.3K engagements "Humanoid Robot Timeline Predictions From my conversation with 1X Head of AI Eric Jang (@ericjang11 @1x_tech creators of the NEO robot) "When Will Humanoid Robots Have Early-Adopter Product-Market Fit" Eric's personal views (not 1X's) below. Chris: What's the first year where you feel that humanoids are good enough that 40% of households currently employing domestic staff would keep a robot after a 21-day trial purely on utility value Eric: [--] years (2030) for early adopter product-market fit 10-20 years (2035-2045) for diffusion. By early adopter product-market fit I mean that those households" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1886441420288131558) 2025-02-03T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yesterday I asked Jeremy Howard: "How might people prepare for AI" (@jeremyphoward from @answerdotai and @fastdotai) "I've lived through these cycles and can see them repeating like clockwork." This is an edited and re-organized version of our chat. What do you expect for AI product capabilities in [----] I don't believe anybody has any ability to predict what's going to happen in [----] on the basis that nobody so far has had an ability to make sensible predictions about what will be happening with AI. I created the first LLM a bit over six years ago. I was pretty sure that it was going to be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888037803566747942) 2025-02-08T01:31Z [----] followers, 65.4K engagements "Just did a call with Tamay Besiroglu (@tamaybes) co-founder of Epoch AI about what he expects for the future of AI. I think [----] or so might be my median for when well have drop-in AI remote workers. I think for 30% per year GDP growth we might see that in [----] which would be roughly my median. Heres our chat: Which tasks will AI be able to do first One useful framing is to think about Moravecs paradox where tasks that seem easy for humans are hard for AI. Skills that are relatively new and have been optimized for much less by natural selection and have emerged fairly recently and when they" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888044907522310416) 2025-02-08T01:59Z [----] followers, 19.2K engagements "When you think of people working to make cities and towns more walkable who do you think of Eg @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @Chris_Smeder @ryanmjohnson" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1926007927808074149) 2025-05-23T20:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Chris_Smeder @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @ryanmjohnson @jansramek @AustinTunnell @Cobylefko Awesome - thank you both for the list and for the note about notifications. Yep same for me not working" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1926091561525260439) 2025-05-24T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Do philanthropy that doesnt scale Itd be interesting to see more philanthropy do this a la @paulg and YC. Instead of trying to solve a cause area take one person who has the challenge solve manually for them repeat learn to scale over time. Micro not macro" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1977739610303471693) 2025-10-13T14:14Z [----] followers, 71K engagements "AI progress metrics I'm watching: Thanks for input: @davidmanheim @eli_lifland @timfduffy @CFGeek @sandersted Capabilities: [--]. METR SWE 50% and 80% time horizon [--]. Future METR uplift studies [--]. Anecdotes from research engineers and research scientists at frontier labs about how much more productive they are Immediate impacts: [--]. Revenue of the top [--] humanoid robot companies [--]. Revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic (and others though that's harder to separate out from their legacy revenue) [--]. Number of publicly reported $1B+ startups with [--] or fewer FTEs [--]. Worldwide semiconductor industry revenue" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978841133641027856) 2025-10-16T15:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Idea: The Gigawatt List. A list of energy startups ranked by how much energy they've added to the grid so far divided by years since founding and a column rating emissions. So people working in the energy sector can join the most effective companies" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1979188912871608803) 2025-10-17T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "FYI earlier this year Microsoft Research published an interesting paper estimating which jobs are more/less impacted by AI. By @kiran_tomlinson @spjaffe @willwang21 @scottjcounts @ssuri. Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations. On arXiv. Thanks @tanayj" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980276082717909212) 2025-10-20T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Do you expect the value of each H100 GPU by [----] to go up down or stay the same Go down: Less good vs newer GPUs. Go up: If AI models get better at valuable tasks each GPU might earn more dollars. (Thanks to TC and others) h100s get less valuable h100s get more valuable unsure stay the same h100s get less valuable h100s get more valuable unsure stay the same" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980291682513080417) 2025-10-20T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If you're a founder looking for small product ideas: The "how people use ChatGPT" paper and the Anthropic economic index both give ideas for ChatGPT apps that might have high engagement and high retention" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980320867449204914) 2025-10-20T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Irrationality for rational people / manifestation for rational people [--]. When you notice a hunch follow it. Follow it here means either do it or use an emotional processing method to "integrate" all the information contained in that hunch - treat it as a source of information and basically active listen with that part of you until it feels heard. [--]. When you notice an inclination follow it. [--]. When you notice a hesitation follow it. [--]. When someone says the opposite of what their body language or tone says trust the body/tone. [--]. When you really like someone's vibe spend more time with them." [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980336975526887617) 2025-10-20T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "AI companies that are probably doing $1M+/yr bootstrapped: @everartai by @skirano + @jay_azhang Photo AI by @levelsio @aragon_ai by @wesleyytian @headshotpro by @dannypostmaa @bensbitesdaily by @bentossell @semianalysis by @dylan522p @chatbaseio by @yasser_elsaid_ @pdf_ai by @damengchen AI-industry adjacent: @AEStudioLA by @juddrosenblatt @tldrnewsletter by @tldrdan" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980684519922627054) 2025-10-21T17:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "related it'd be cool to have a conference (where people opt in) with local transcription devices so there's some kind of realtime conversation map also one that highlights the most common repeated disagreements (and maybe it identifies whether there's a real crux or it's just some kind of fake disagreement or a definition disagreement or something)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980709855880204429) 2025-10-21T18:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "yes it's like a stack error in programming or something it only needs to pop into the debugger (ie conscious awareness) when the program execution fails i suspect the issue for people is normally that there was an inclination or hunch or hesitation or other emotion earlier on that wasn't integrated/synthesized therefore that's the thing to practice that'll prevent the downstream errors" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1980994466896035953) 2025-10-22T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@mbateman Universal Basic Montessori" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981052053956022674) 2025-10-22T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "humans revolve around the subconscious mind not the logical mind geocentrism : heliocentrism :: cognicentrism : subconsciousism" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981061500203856027) 2025-10-22T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I dislike the UX pattern where apps and websites make you tap a dozen+ individual toggles to turn off most notifications rather than having one button to turn them all off and then you can manually toggle one back on. Example offenders: Reddit and Linkedin" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981121392390394317) 2025-10-22T22:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@jasonlk And yet openai is hybrid with [--] days in office [--] days remote (but many wouldnt count it as a startup anymore)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981140841084432737) 2025-10-22T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I'd love to read a book or a blog post of the questions that fascinate people who are already very successful in whatever domain they're in. The things they cannot help but continue researching/asking/learning about" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981152595780767902) 2025-10-23T00:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If you're a founder and you want to sell your company one day think about your competitors that have a market cap of 20x your ideal acquisition size (5% as a general rule for max acquisition size not always) then look at the companies they've acquired in the past few years reach out to those founders and ask them about the story of how the acquisition played out. Now you have a set of highly relevant case studies" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981363241550041593) 2025-10-23T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Universal Basic Blueberries tip high quality freeze dried blueberries are crunchier and tastier than most snacks and a million times healthier. maybe more than fresh which degrade in nutrients quickly. blueberries seem to be the one thing every school of nutrition (blueprint peat normie doc) agrees on https://t.co/va4HoWvcj6 tip high quality freeze dried blueberries are crunchier and tastier than most snacks and a million times healthier. maybe more than fresh which degrade in nutrients quickly. blueberries seem to be the one thing every school of nutrition (blueprint peat normie doc) agrees" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981374884921168130) 2025-10-23T14:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@_StevenFan Fellowship and adventure Universal Basic Beautiful Walkable Places" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981497364889423902) 2025-10-23T23:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How to be assertive without being rude [--]. Make the other person feel totally understood AND [--]. Make your preference clear "You want to join me because if you join me then you'll get to do XYZ is that right" "I'm still going to go solo." And then optionally "I'd love to go with you separately sometime too." People rightfully want to feel seen and understood because the odds of finding a mutual win win increase in proportion to the degree of mutual understanding. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981726632156254338 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981726632156254338" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981726632156254338) 2025-10-24T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "are voice notes still a problem now that you can read the transcript instead Theres no better way to tell someone that your time is more valuable than theirs than to send a voice note. https://t.co/3MRoPsBKLV Theres no better way to tell someone that your time is more valuable than theirs than to send a voice note. https://t.co/3MRoPsBKLV" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981770028300349627) 2025-10-24T17:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@scottdomes Surfing the waves / the experience" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1981859381726892346) 2025-10-24T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "AI safety and practice reps If you're working on AI safety find instances of small challenges caused by AI and build institutional process knowledge for addressing those challenges. Find things that are small and frequent. E.g. BPOs in the Philippines might be ground zero for AI impacts (idea from JA). Therefore if you want to help the world adapt to AI help people in BPOs in the Philippines adapt to AI. Similar example: If you want to work on pandemic preparedness work on making societies really good at handling the seasonal flu. You need small and frequent opportunities to practice and" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1982103617848131723) 2025-10-25T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Blog post I'd love to read: A beginners guide to the business of data centers and AI-scale power generation" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1983297480612794398) 2025-10-28T22:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "To experiment more when you don't have any good high confidence bets you like: 1) Do smaller bets: Reduce the confidence required by reducing the bet size 2) Remove the threshold: Switch from needing a good bet to doing whichever bet is the best amongst lackluster options" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1983598717388390910) 2025-10-29T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For people that want to get better at prompt engineering my top suggestion is the interactive Anthropic engineering tutorial. (Project idea for vibe coders: Take that tutorial and turn it into an interactive web page. thenameless7741 had done this but it's offline now.)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1984278193323602329) 2025-10-31T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Valuable skill that schools could teach but don't: emotional regulation. How to help others regulate emotions and to do the same for yourself. Feels like something that Alpha School is probably doing or will do. @gtmom @mbateman @Gena_I_Gorlin @jliemandt @delk" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1985364350253826332) 2025-11-03T15:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Ft: @t_xu @stanleytang @andyfang @evancharles @l2k @Bouazizalex @SadiSKhan @aadit_palicha @JTLonsdale @ryanjdaniels @jcsamuelian @nbaken @meia_alsup @dbabbs @amangour30 @sgondala2 @vhmth @dhmeyer @bchesky @jgebbia @wangandrewd @bscholl @ccharliewu @shuoshuooshuooo @sahitYAML @elan_was_here @zanehengsperger" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1989014421226807650) 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Thanks: @EMedVC @jamescham @danielle_a2z @avichal @_ram_ @gaby_goldberg @rzhou186 @theashbhat @Altimor @davidlee @aranibatta @michaelxbloch @rronak_ @alexadelman @bonatsos @kwharrison13 @ejames_c @RealTonyMao @wadeeyerly @aghosn9 @justincormack @zackabaker @brianmwang @theashbhat @valentin_pd @_harm0n @parconley @kdrag0n @vvtechh @stanleytang Josh Singer Dan Woods" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989014433939747147) 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@davidlee thanks David with your note on diligence do you mean it's a filter you sometimes use ie "how extreme was the learning this founder did and their process"" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1989019647375733165) 2025-11-13T17:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Charlie Songhurst and I are drafting (pls spot errors) a list of investors who started funds without working in VC: [--]. @ItzSuds: SF1 (2025) [--]. @gefkovicz @benmtaft: Genius Ventures (2024) [--]. Fiona Leng: Xtal (2024) [--]. @kokoxsu @carloagostinel2: Nova (2024) [--]. Sunny Sandhu Manraj Singh Sandhu: Vicus Ventures (2024) [--]. @v_maini: Mythos (2023) [--]. @erica_wenger: Park Rangers Capital (2023) [--]. @mollyfmielke: Moth Fund (2022) [--]. @alanaagoyal: Basecase Capital (2022) [--]. @simarsmangat: Magic Ventures (2022) [--]. @jm: LMNT Ventures (2022) [--]. @andrewvigneault: Flexcap (2022) [--]. @sophiaamoruso: Trust" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989719043679608910) 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements "Ft: @villi @ItzSuds @kokoxsu @MBGilroy @juanbenet @bradholden @arielrwinton @caseykcaruso @lacey_wisdom @MichelleVolz @hardi_meybaum @richardchen39 @carloagostinel2 @ryanrcohen @damirb_23 @_alialtaf @pete_mathias @gokulr @gefkovicz @benmtaft" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1989719082003042543) 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Thanks: @aghosn9 @theashbhat Josh Singer @aranibatta @zackabaker @rronak_ @timwee @cory @jamescham @EMedVC @Altimor @michaelxbloch @davidlee @danielle_a2z @AriX @richardchen39 @mollyfmielke @avichal" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1989719093931565300) 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""emotional theory in ai research" I collected takes from @ilyasut @ylecun @geoffreyhinton @demishassabis and @RichardSSutton about emotion theories for AI research. @ilyasut: I read about this person who had some kind of brain damage a stroke or an accident that took out his emotional processing. So he stopped feeling any emotion. He still remained very articulate and he could solve little puzzles and on tests he seemed to be just fine. But he felt no emotion. He didnt feel sad he didnt feel anger he didnt feel animated. He became somehow extremely bad at making any decisions at all. It would" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1994457769991442526) 2025-11-28T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "cc @nosilverv @algekalipso @YangKevinG @RichardMCNgo @dkazand @DefenderOfBasic @jacobmbuckman @dwarkesh_sp @chrislakin @nickcammarata @sama The feelings will continue until the weights update See also Artificial Emotion by Li Sun Schlicher Lim @BjoernSchuller" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1994457782473691484) 2025-11-28T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I made 4x NeurIPS [----] people lists. I'll be there ✅ 1) "People at neurips who are hiring researchers & engineers" @kdqg1 @sarahookr @francedot @iScienceLuvr @aditshah00 @RitvikKapila @gauri__gupta @abeirami @adityachinchure @AndrewLBeam @brianwilt @thisismadani" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1994919098028101985) 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, 200.5K engagements "3) "People at neurips [----] who are interested in ai for science" @zephyr_wade @_neuralnerd_ @SinghJyotirmai @madhu___s @spacecadet_kels @AlexRemedios1 @syguoML @belindmo @learningPikachu @Thom_Wolf @aditshah00 @jeffclune @james_y_zou @bohannon_bot @IMordatch @saurabh_shah2 @BenKompa @AndrewLBeam @gioen__ @dhruvagarwal17" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1994919100506882484) 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "4) "A really big twitter list of people attending neurips [----] in San Diego" eg incl: @_vztu @jsuarez5341 @JandialSurgan @lightetal @_bschmidtchen @amiraliagz @amritsinghbedi3 @yuz9yuz @notkevinfarhat @thkostolansky @RagavanThurair @AlexanderLong @rronak_ @kdqg1 @jeffrey_hawke @hamostaf04 @j_mcgraph @NimaGard https://x.com/i/lists/1994474805916307478 https://x.com/i/lists/1994474805916307478" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1994919102469874151) 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I made an unofficial NeurIPS [----] hiring list: @rronak_ @QuantumArjun @michaelelabd stealth Im a small investor: RL post-training from live product usage. Research Engineers. @jonsidd Turing: data for frontier models. Research Engineers SWEs. @schwarzjn_ ICL & Thomson Reuters: LLMs for law. Research Engineers SWEs PhD students. @panda_liyin AdaL: copilot for ML engineering. MLEs SWEs. @sarwal_varuni TriFetch: data and post-training for medical AI. @bidhan Bagel Labs: decentralized training for diffusion models. MLEs ML Scientists. @meggmcnulty Cosmic Labs: AI-native OS for embedded" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1995619931497660756) 2025-12-01T22:24Z [----] followers, 60K engagements "I made another NeurIPS [----] hiring list. More teams hiring research engineers MLEs SWEs: @julianibarz at Tesla Optimus @nlpmattg at @ScaledCognition @msalbergo at Kempner Institute at Harvard @chinwei_h at MSFT Research @apsarathchandar at Chandar Lab @stash_pomichter at @dimensionalos @luke_drago_ at @WorkshopLabsPBC @Yong18850571 at Thinking Machines @real_ioannis @MishaLaskin @FlintCasey & @IrwanBello at Reflection AI @mgalle at Cohere @daylenyang at Waymo @ok_ikaros at @spellbrush @apjacob03 @EugeneVinitsky @ChristosTzamos @justintchiu & @zzzzgq at Percepta @zw_zachwang & @maxwshen at" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1996236745990688896) 2025-12-03T15:15Z [----] followers, 43.5K engagements "Interesting AI data provider: Sepal (@sepal_ai) Founders: @robi_lin @KatQHu1 @f310r team is partly ex-Turing Product: RL envs and human data for science (bio physics chem) and reasoning benchmarks Investors: @brianrbell Metaplanet (Jaan Tallinn; Rauno Miljand) @AshRust SID (Dmitry Vartanian @ilblackdragon @AntonVaisburd) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005296940175745240 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005296940175745240" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2005296940175745240) 2025-12-28T15:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Another interesting frontier data provider: Preference Model I'm told they're automating alignment research. And are smart. Team is ex-Anthropic Very stealthy for now. Well-funded already" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2005678456156164381) 2025-12-29T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "a happy note about my frontier ai data provider tweets from a friend who works at a large (10-fig val) ai startup shared w permission:" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2005692559222595861) 2025-12-29T17:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am investor) @the_nof1 by @jay_azhang alphafund labs by @Memetic_Theory adjacent not yet: @liquidtrading by @finn_hulse experimenting: @andrewmccalip previously: topology @aidan_mclau https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011094414173843691 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011094414173843691" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011094414173843691) 2026-01-13T15:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "do you see the vision of claude cowork imagine claude for execl powerpoint word outlook chrome bloomberg terminal etc. gmail connector. ability to code. this is the pathway to big knowledge worker adoption openai and google will need to follow this will be very strong pmf and growth invest in it compete with it join anthropic/oai/gdm and work on it/competitors etc this will be central claude code *is* the ai coworker it'll all build up from there https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011139690364313654 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011139690364313654" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011139690364313654) 2026-01-13T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "thoughts on ai coding market/products - claude code et al i've used claude code codex zed cursor haven't used devin windsurf tl;dr probably good for everyone to invest way more in rl envs and way more in ux & onboarding/ramping up users claude code - my preferred of the set by quite a big margin small fix wishlist for claude code (@bcherny) - easier to get push notifications on phone for claude approvals for claude web or desktop - playwright mcp more of a default - easier/more of a default to get terminal bells when waiting on input/done - llm classified risk or other ways to set better" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011208393625887101) 2026-01-13T22:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "thoughts on the llm api market i've used anthropic google and openai's apis cc @OfficialLoganK - ai studio ux is decent - rest of gcp and vertex ux is annoying - opus [---] api use will probably grow now that devs see how good it is - openai api ux is good - google wins the price performance frontier but i still trust the models less than oai or anthropic's models off-put by weird errors they sometimes make - i think i'd be somewhat hesitant to build on anthropic's api it's almost like it doesn't feel like they believe in it that much i don't see them talking about it at all relatively in" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011532028592996557) 2026-01-14T20:13Z [----] followers, 17K engagements "what are some of the interesting stealthier ai things i asked a few people for their suggestions: - dynatomics Larry Page and Chris Anderson - Richard Socher + Tim Shi et al ai lab - similie - Naval's impossible inc (impossible computer company / impossible company). cofounder implies maybe agent commerce trademark implies maybe vr - and some other interesting ones related to automated factories robotics training data etc. what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011834269317153121 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011834269317153121" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011834269317153121) 2026-01-15T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "tests polish software trials polish hardware rehearsals polish worlds worlds eg = disneyland d&d crossfit minecraftnintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr taylor swift mrbeast" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011863964750348563) 2026-01-15T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "which accounts have good signal:noise on ai equities some i know @insane_analyst @jukan05 @EricJhonsa @GavinSBaker @zephyr_z9 @astridwilde1 @kakashiii111 @illyquid @rwang07 @firstadopter @lefttailguy @sudoraohacker" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011895169831092498) 2026-01-15T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." = Worlds the most imaginative people build on the weekend are where everyone else will inhabit during the week in ten years worlds eg = disneyland d&d crossfit minecraft nintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr taylor swift mrbeast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012197662066639047 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012197662066639047" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012197662066639047) 2026-01-16T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "what are the main sub-groups at the big labs seems like meta = tbd msl fair gdm = deepmind gemini openai = pre-training everyone else anthropic & xai don't have major sub groups" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012241199315480733) 2026-01-16T19:11Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements "an error i made was thinking that the o1 breakthrough was about reasoning specifically now i think it's more just about skill acquisition more broadly. the base models were (and are) good enough that the models could learn many skills via rl" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012256551051071673) 2026-01-16T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "other frontier labs need to experiment with products like they do with research (especially if they're aiming for the enterprise/b2b segment) anthropic is doing this eg mcps skills claude for excel claude code etc. they could do more (give claude native ability to make/maintain lists reference notes send stuff to other threads with approval etc) all frontier labs would be wise to be more experimental with their products this is highly uncertain territory need experiments to explore https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012283980427751460 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012283980427751460" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012283980427751460) 2026-01-16T22:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "if software builders need crystallized intelligence and hardware builders need spatial intelligence then world builders need ___ intelligence where worlds = disney movies sports franchises cities games influencers certain cryptocurrencies mr beast taylor swift hermes books etc other options - mythic enchantment archetypal intuition etc https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012558790613504261 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012558790613504261" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012558790613504261) 2026-01-17T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "some epic irl world builders. who else historical - Walt Disney: disneyworld started as plans to build a real city - Bill Bell Barney McCallum & Joel Pritchard: pickleball - Michael von Clemm: canary wharf district in london - Suger: gothic architecture - Sen no Riky: wabi-cha tea ceremonies - Lorenzo the Magnificent: improvements to Carnival - Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson: d&d - Kan'ami Kiyotsugu: Yuzaki theater company present - Joe De Sena: spartan race - Christian Toetzke & Moritz Frste: hyrox fitness racing - Matt Grech-Smith & Jeremy Simmonds: swingers crazy golf competitive socializing" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012619942999572846) 2026-01-17T20:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "more world building examples - disneyland is gold standard (why aren't there hundreds of better ones places for certain sets of people in person immersive participatory worlds ideally car-free) - concert tours - cruise lines - topgolf - meow wolf - puttshack and puttery - f1 (esp with drive to survive boost) - pickleball - sandbox vr - immersive Van Gogh - teamLab - indoor karting what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012645863450091973 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012645863450091973" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012645863450091973) 2026-01-17T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "the greatest world builders do rehearsals Steve Jobs keynote rehearsals Hermes new store rehearsals Disneyland cast rehearsals Taylor Swift tour rehearsals Tolkien did decades of private worldbuilding before publishing for the NBA NFL UFC etc every smaller match is a rehearsal for the bigger ones Disney relentless playtesting with audiences Same for Nintendo Obama's speeches crafted in smaller audiences iterated iterated rehearsals don't have to be in private - sharing ideas in public and building on them over time iterating on them repeating them it's also a form of rehearsal worlds require" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012906330353467742) 2026-01-18T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "in the past there were castles fortifications private wells granaries today there are generators solar/storage bunkers in the future will there be sovereign home infra as a service" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012937788292014393) 2026-01-18T17:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "more epic world builders from history. who else - The Crystal Palace: a massive glass structure built for an [----] exhibition in London. By Joseph Paxton (also cultivated the world's most popular banana) Henry Cole Prince Albert - World's Columbian Exposition. aka Chicago World's Fair. Held for [--] months in [----]. By John Wellborn Root Daniel Burnham (very interesting) Frederick Law Olmsted (also designed stanford campus) Charles B. Atwood - Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Originally New Spring Gardens. Pleasure garden = open to the public for entertainment often w concerts rides etc. By Jonathan" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2012952637931651341) 2026-01-18T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "example world builders and world businesses: in games: Poker Elo scores Roblox Minecraft Nintendo in stories: Tolkien esp LOTR Ian Banks James Cameron irl: Disneyland Las Vegas strip Six Flags The Villages Florida in luxury: Hermes Louis Vuitton in investing: Andreessen Thiel Naval Balaji in software: Satoshi Vitalik in politics: Mamdani Trump Obama in entertainment: top streamers Kardashians Taylor Swift MrBeast when is this the same thing as a brand and when is it different perhaps it's that worlds have rules they're games you can participate there are moves to make levels to climb roles to" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013007748355744225) 2026-01-18T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "robotics space notes beginner oriented - what am i missing bottlenecks: - task specific data - actuator data - tactile/haptic sensing data - precision actuators - magnets and rare earths to make them companies: - posts: - @rodneyabrooks - @jacobrintamaki - @packyM @evanbeard - also there was another post that was kind of like situational awareness but for robotics. not recalling the link/name. anyone know questions: - can video + scale substitute for haptic data - how strong will generalization be vertical/task specific approach vs general approach does one win or if both work what works" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013298414092722466) 2026-01-19T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "a key for building worlds might be the first apostles. this seems different to early followers. much more of an active role for Tolkien it might've been CS Lewis and the Inklings for Disney the Nine Old Men. for the parks the original Imagineers especially Herb Ryman for Satoshi the collaborators the first recipients and miners for Vitalik the cofounders - Mihai Alisie Amir Chetrit Anthony Di Iorio Charles Hoskinson Gavin Wood Joseph Lubin and Jeffrey Wilcke for MrBeast perhaps Chris Chandler Karl for Kardashians perhaps Kris all the sisters and Ryan Seacrest for Thiel the PayPal mafia for" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013328365667917945) 2026-01-19T19:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "should there be a claude code for email "you never read these newsletters they're here click this button and i'll unsubscribe from all of them even the ones that require navigating some fields on the web" "this person sent you a contract redline click here to approve it i checked all the points and they seem fine here's my notes" "the sales emails you sent to this type of account seem to be working well want me to send another 30" "wait before you send this one the formatting is messed up i fixed it" "this one has some forms you need to fill out click and i'll do them" "this one has some docs" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013371898172973358) 2026-01-19T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "interesting startups in the ai search space: yutori you parallel exa apify bright data elicit futuresearch edison scientific firecrawl happenstance what else" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013632363029504136) 2026-01-20T15:19Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements "in the past there were jousts tournaments and hunts and clubs today there are golf clubs poker nights track days strava groups perhaps in the future there'll be many more curated leagues with rankings rituals media and matchmaking" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013676155090673786) 2026-01-20T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@avizurlo world builders are people who shape rules to create things people want to participate in eg creators of disneyland d&d crossfit minecraft nintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr mrbeast taylor swift etc" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013691024678248558) 2026-01-20T19:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Alexandr Wang" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013993763593654287) 2026-01-21T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Anil Varanasi" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013994025767026868) 2026-01-21T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "would love input. useful should i do more etc will also explore clips for investors evaluating founders and for cofounder matching. any preferences on which one i do next" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2013994037586653636) 2026-01-21T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "interesting startups in the infrastructure for agents space. what else /dev/agents photon / something great inc maybe Naval's impossible computer startup is in this space Mahesh Lambe has done stuff related to agent protocols (project NANDA) truffles payman natural catena mcp-use i'm sure stripe will do interesting stuff here too lots of infra needed. what else exists" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2014038289746112618) 2026-01-21T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "robotics cos i'm particularly curious about (very biased and unscientific list) pantograph @_kelsey_pool @apagajewski @camfassett general trajectory @joshuabelofsky pi @hausman_k @svlevine @chelseabfinn @brian_ichter @lachygroom @adnan_esm @QuanVng armstrong @luk3hans3n @jonahvaron @axelrh standard bots @evanbeard David Golden innate @ax_pey @Vignesh_Robots rerun @NikolausWest @m_schiebold Emil Ernerfeldt bedrock @bsofman @kevinmpeterson1 Tom Eliaz Ajay Gummalla build ai @eddybuild @jonathanjia05 general intuition @PimDeWitte @EloiAlonso1 @AdamJelley2 @micheli_vincent Moritz Baier-Lentz" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2014053641615974517) 2026-01-21T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "+zeroshot (by covibes orchestration for claude code)" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2014069776855793694) 2026-01-21T20:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@_joe_harris_ @tonyzzhao @chichengcc @kvogt @lukeholoubek @pariljain @charliewu @rtnarch @JeffBezos @sherjilozair @wgussml @vik_bajaj @ekindogus @LiamFedus @AlloyRobotics Nice thanks for mentioning" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2014543083673919670) 2026-01-23T03:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@armchairhermit tower of babel" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2015466782447059233) 2026-01-25T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@avizurlo that's interesting though feels like a different business ie that feels more like the oai thrive holdings / long lake / beacon software type plays" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2015487454967677432) 2026-01-25T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Charlie Songhurst and I would also love to incubate something that helps people at smbs/enterprises find the right startups to buy from/partner with what's the right profile of person for this one perhaps someone who has one foot in the world of enterprises and startups. high order bit is likely distribution to enterprises. what else" [X Link](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2015488344260743244) 2026-01-25T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @finbarrtimbers @jacobmbuckman @tamaybes @nosilverv @sama @devonzuegel @chrissmeder @levinphil @jansramek @jeremyphoward @urbancourtyard @austintunnell @cobylefko @damonhemmerding @davegordon14 @ryanmjohnson @berkie1 @tyleralterman @krishnanrohit @lachygroom
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"DeepSeek-R1 scores 15.8% on ARC-AGI at an average cost of [--] cents; o1 low scores 20.5% at an avg cost of [--] cents; o3 high scores 87.5% at an avg cost of $3.4K"
X Link 2025-01-29T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"OpenAI o3-mini System Card is now available screenshots below:"
X Link 2025-01-31T18:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Finbarr Timbers On Preparing For AI Part [--] of 4: AI's Economic Impacts By [----] Large inefficient tech cos reduce headcount but total tech jobs grow as efficient new companies start. Living costs for basics drop but premium scarce assets like beachfront homes rise"
X Link 2025-02-04T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Finbarr Timbers On Preparing For AI Part [--] of 4: AI's Job Impacts By [----] Remote work and pure coding jobs decline. Manual labor and relationship-based jobs remain stable. People who get high leverage by using AI thrive and earning more"
X Link 2025-02-04T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A Post-Money World: Why Stockpiling Cash May Be The Incorrect AGI Preparation Strategy Frontier AGI labs in the compute arms race - they don't measure in billions of dollars but in H100s. My chat with Eric Jang (@ericjang11) Head of AI at 1X Robotics creating the NEO Humanoid Robot. All views are Erics not 1Xs Eric: I just sent you an email with a tweet from David Holz I think you should talk to him as well the founder of Midjourney. David's tweet: "lots of ai people seem to think the most important thing is to get rich before the singularity happens. this is like a monkey trying to hoard"
X Link 2025-02-05T21:10Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements
"@ericjang11 @modeless @chris_j_paxton @ChrisCamillo"
X Link 2025-03-26T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@modeless @ericjang11 @chris_j_paxton @ChrisCamillo Because of security or because of less maintenance needed"
X Link 2025-03-26T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I just made a vibe coding guide for non-coders. How to go from idea - working prototype. I filmed it on a blank laptop & I show every step from start to finish. 00:23 Install Tools 06:44 Create Project 22:08 Vibe Debugging 37:22 Install Deployment Tools 45:19 Go Live"
X Link 2025-03-30T19:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For founder-types who might want to raise a VC fund someday: I talked with Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) about raising from LPs. Heres his advice: The one thing I wish we had done in Susa I is front load fees a bit more Chris: I think you started out with an angel syndicate is that right Leo: The angel syndicate it wasnt like AngelList syndicates because those didnt exist yet. It was more like: we were a group wed look at companies together and if we liked something wed say well invest $50K and each person would wire $10K-15K. Basically an informal angel group. Did you invest out of your"
X Link 2025-03-31T14:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Idea: a @levelsio-style vibe jam. But instead of vibe coding AI games people vibe direct AI videos. Theme: optimistic futures. (The anti-Black Mirror.) With new tools like Sora Veo Runway Kling Pika Luma Wan Hedra Hunyuan this might actually work Black Mirror is pessimist trash We need a new abundance optimism that inspires the next generation of engineers who can build https://t.co/tIG7VjOzHH Black Mirror is pessimist trash We need a new abundance optimism that inspires the next generation of engineers who can build https://t.co/tIG7VjOzHH"
X Link 2025-04-12T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This feels true. Each new AI art breakthrough I'm obsessed with it briefly and then uninterested. Why Is it a novelty thing"
X Link 2025-05-02T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I love this vibe: your family your sibling's family your friend's family all with houses around a shared backyard"
X Link 2025-05-18T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How do you think most of the Anthropic team feels about the Claude whistle-blower behavior actively supports supports in extreme cases show results opposes actively supports supports in extreme cases show results opposes"
X Link 2025-05-24T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DavidSHolz would be cool if midjourney funded a competition to make cool images and videos of inspiring positive futures prizes could be midjourney credits and usage i for one would love to see images and videos of beautiful walkable nature-filled cities/towns + things others imagine"
X Link 2025-05-25T23:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"new side project fyi: a friend and i built an app like cursor but for iphone now on testflight. it has github push/pull for your existing projects (warning pokemon sound at the end of the video video is realtime 1x) some people hate coding on a phone some love it 🤷🏼♂"
X Link 2025-05-27T13:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What are some of the most toddler-friendly cities and towns in the world Walkable stroller friendly and safe (cars are far away from the walking/playing). ccing the walkable places crew @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @Chris_Smeder @ryanmjohnson @jansramek @AustinTunnell @Cobylefko @berkie1 @damonhemmerding @Tesho13 @bobbyfijan @davegordon14 @urbanistvc"
X Link 2025-05-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RyanPGreenblatt What impacts AGI will have on the value of labor could be a good topic for anti-debates https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1911063351700201899 What AI topics would you want to see "debated" if I did this anti-debate experiment I've asked @eli_lifland @peterwildeford and @IvanVendrov and they're interested depending on topic & participant Topic ideas eg Takeoff speeds ai lab revenue LFPR & real wages https://t.co/Qjzp3UBUfQ https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1911063351700201899 What AI topics would you want to see "debated" if I did this anti-debate experiment I've asked"
X Link 2025-06-01T00:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@omooretweets @a16z Id love to know same stats but gross profit or just arr after training/inference costs. Great post"
X Link 2025-06-08T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"what's your stance on boostrapping vs taking vc money bootstrapping ftw vc money ftw n/a / results either bootstrapping ftw vc money ftw n/a / results either"
X Link 2025-06-17T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@juliapintar Lifestyle entrepreneurship = 🔥"
X Link 2025-06-17T22:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"some things i wish there were more of: [--]. Highly walkable stroller-friendly and toddler-friendly cities (like Esmeralda or Copenhagen @devonzuegel @jansramek) [--]. Communities and things that look like universities (like FractalU @Prigoose @__drewface @TylerAlterman) [--]. Cities for startup founders (like Balajis Network State University @balajis) [--]. Programs to help people get to financial independence by building (like YC @garrytan) [--]. Weird conferences and events (like F50 @peterthiel) [--]. Family-oriented private houses with shared common spaces (like Denmarks cohousing @Chris_Smeder) [--]. Things"
X Link 2025-06-18T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My favorite AI product by some margin is o3 (regular) with web search enabled on the ChatGPT iOS app using transcribed voice input (voice input text output). Whats your fav"
X Link 2025-06-21T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@GabrielPeterss4 Measure co2 manta sleep pro https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1883674503081058704 @karpathy @dvdaines @bryan_johnson Room co2 levels 800ppm blackout curtains magnesium glycinate https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1883674503081058704 @karpathy @dvdaines @bryan_johnson Room co2 levels 800ppm blackout curtains magnesium glycinate"
X Link 2025-06-22T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nosilverv Yes Loved this. Emotions will come out one way or the other. Healthily and without resistance and then youre back to flowing and open or resisted and snapped out at others when they accidentally tap a stuck emotional well of yours"
X Link 2025-06-29T15:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@nosilverv Maybe the emotional expression from arguing is why ppl in the Bay Area like arguing so much Releasing stuck anger And maybe thats why I used to like arguing but no longer do Maybe it was load bearing for anger release but once you have alternative methods its not needed"
X Link 2025-06-29T16:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Resources For Modern Friend Villages / Co-Living / Co-Housing (Private Houses + Shared Common Spaces Living Walking Distance To Your Friends & Siblings & Their Families) templates & how-to: co-housing (look for books by durrett) supernuclear newsletter (@gillianim @levin_phil) pop up villages: all of the edge city meetups (@JanineLeger @timourxyz) esp edge esmeralda's (healdsburg just north of SF) city week (@devonzuegel) super walkable cities: copenhagen barcelona las catalinas in costa rica (lots of construction) more things in this direction: prospera (@erickbrimen) network school"
X Link 2025-07-10T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@nosilverv Its interesting how intensely people want to signify tribe Perhaps its something for coordination Like Im this kind of cell (gut cell brain cell etc) so if youre the same type we can collab I wonder if there are other ways to help ppl do the signaling that feel better"
X Link 2025-07-15T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jsevillamol do you mean switching it so that all the trend lines (compute growth algo improvements costs etc) are recalculated just using the top [--] models by compute instead of a variety of models"
X Link 2025-07-15T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@krishnanrohit internal coordination and cooperation = high leverage"
X Link 2025-07-17T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What drudgework do you wish AI and robots could handle for you for example: Computer Tasks: - annual taxes incl wrangling and downloading various forms - scheduling appts with service providers or medical appts - bookkeeping / good financial management (unsubscribing from unused subscriptions estimating taxes sweeping accounts) - unsubscribing from spam email newsletters In Person Tasks: - loading and unloading dishwasher - washing other dishes - meal prepping - tidying up / organizing - deliveries: opening setting up cardboard boxes - trash - laundry - inventory / finding lost items - small"
X Link 2025-07-18T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@krishnanrohit Generally get rid of navigating phone trees and giving basic info when calling for admin type tasks (eg health insurance) Tax prep Scan card statements cancel unused things Triage email inbox Compare price reviews network status for medical appts https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946241197036777731 What drudgework do you wish AI and robots could handle for you for example: Computer Tasks: - annual taxes incl wrangling and downloading various forms - scheduling appts with service providers or medical appts - bookkeeping / good financial management (unsubscribing from"
X Link 2025-07-19T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"With help from @Chris_Smeder @JonathanHillis @levin_phil @devonzuegel @damonhemmerding @Cobylefko @jansramek @AustinTunnell and @davegordon14 I made this wishlist of changes that could make it easier to build more beautiful & walkable places. Somewhat ranked in order of importance: [--]. Remove parking minimums [--]. Allow mixeduse zoning citywide (groundfloor retail corner commerce) [--]. Allow multiple housing units per lot (duplexADUtriplex etc) [--]. Raise FAR caps and height limits [--]. Make small / infill projects ministerial (avoid CEQA & other discretionary review) [--]. Eliminate front / side"
X Link 2025-07-19T15:12Z [----] followers, 41.4K engagements
"in case it's helpful in your housing development project here's a wishlist of things i wish more buildings had roughly ranked in order of how much impact i think they'd make for residents: (i currently live in a house in a semi-rural area but i wish there were more family-oriented options in cities that address some of my main hesitations - wanting good sound isolation + lots of greenery. e.g. i like the thought of being more walkable to ppl in a family friendly apt building or townhouse but haven't considered those options i think mostly due to noise concerns and desire for lots of green"
X Link 2025-07-20T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked a bunch of founders: "Who were your 1-3 most helpful angel investors" The list: [--]. Adam Smith - @asmith [--]. Alex Adelman - @alexadelman [--]. Alex Wu (CFO Advisors) [--]. Alexandr Wang - @alexandr_wang [--]. Ali Rowghani - @ROWGHANI [--]. Anantha Kancherla (GM) [--]. Andrs Prez Soderi (Carya) [--]. Anil Varanasi - @acv [--]. Anjney Midha - @AnjneyMidha [--]. Ann Miura-Ko - @annimaniac [--]. Arielle Zuckerberg - @ariellezuck [--]. Ashley Mayer - @ashleymayer [--]. Balaji Srinivasan - @balajis [--]. Bob McGrew - @bobmcgrewai [--]. Brett Kopf (Omella Remind) [--]. Charlie Cheever - @ccheever [--]. Charlie Songhurst"
X Link 2025-07-21T16:22Z [----] followers, 101.4K engagements
"@firstadopter I wonder how many subscribers theyd get if they had their own south park only platform $5-10/mo"
X Link 2025-07-22T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"here's what i'd suggest: [--]. substack is a decent "website" [--]. twitter pro - twitter articles also decent [--]. obsidian + obsidian publish good [--]. vercel or cloudflare pages or netlify drag and drop markdown site i'd personally pick: if you don't need a domain (eg a dot com) - obsidian and obsidian publish (i think $10/mo). you can do a custom domain with this but it's just a bit annoying to set up if you need a domain - maybe cloudflare pages with drag and drop (no fee just the domain $15/yr) if a few people (3) are interested i'm happy to make a tutorial video"
X Link 2025-07-24T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked people: Which AI researchers do you recommend following The list: @gabriel1 - OpenAI @polynoamial - OpenAI @_jasonwei - MSL @arohan - Anthropic @willccbb - Prime Intellect @finbarrtimbers - Ai2 @jeremyphoward - AnswerAI @_xjdr & @doomslide @FlintCasey - Reflection AI @natolambert - Ai2 @_albertgu - Cartesia @kalomaze - Prime Intellect @repligate @bobmcgrewai - ex-OpenAI @gallabytes - ex-Midjourney @karpathy @soldni - Ai2 @TobyPhln - xAI @YiTayML - GDM @khoomeik - ex-OpenAI @ylecun - MSL @hardmaru - Sakana @davidad - ARIA @pfau - GDM"
X Link 2025-07-25T14:39Z [----] followers, 95.6K engagements
"i had my own journey from overly logically driven to overly impulse driven to somewhere in the middle it was something like this 1) as a kid and in college generally i optimized for making the "smart choice" and the rational choice doing what i "should" do and what was easy to justify (with logic) to myself and others 2) the logic-prioritized approach broke in a bunch of places in different subtle ways. so maybe [--] years ago i started experimenting with doing the opposite of what i "should" do. for decisions ask what i feel i "should" do and then generally i was feeling a should because there"
X Link 2025-08-07T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"habit to have more connection with your kids: reply to what theyre saying AND what theyre feeling my son said to me today: "dad you moved your bed back to how it was before" i replied: "i did youre right. you wish id left it how it was is that right" him: "yeahhhh""
X Link 2025-08-09T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@CFGeek perhaps it's an inference from the idea that RL "started to work" due to scaled up base models and so people are assuming there's more to squeeze on that i'm unsure"
X Link 2025-08-11T16:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@UrbanCourtyard idea: consider asking a friend to record it for you and buy a bluetooth mic (eg dji mic) on you (if the venue isn't recording it) and if the venue is recording it buy a cheap mic and record your audio venue audio is often not great and a backup is nice regardless"
X Link 2025-08-11T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DFiguru because rich people love playing golf (network effect schelling point etc)"
X Link 2025-08-11T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I co-wrote this new essay with Charlie Songhurst about when founders need chaos vs conscientiousness. Charlie is on Meta's board and he's a prolific angel investor. The Chaos-to-Conscientiousness Phase Transitions By Chris Barber and Charlie Songhurst This is advice for founders to maximize their expected value. Startups go through phase transitions and the traits required to succeed change at each stage. In most markets the early stages require chaos -- think the highly creative artist who has notes and notes full of ideas builds dozens or hundreds of side projects and explores the territory"
X Link 2025-08-11T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yeah how I like to explain it is: Its possible to validate without being sycophantic Yes youre right incorrect statement = validates them invalidates your opinion: sycophantic You think incorrect statement perhaps because guess. My view is that its alternative = validates them AND you: validation without sycophancy Youre an idiot for all of these reasons its alternative = invalidates them validates you: arguing (if an ai did this many users would churn though some disagreement-seeking types on twitter would probably like it) Also middle approach is much more likely to get the user to change"
X Link 2025-08-11T21:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"My Updated Guide To The "Live Near Friends" Movement Some people wanna live near their friends and family. They had it in college and then in dense cities post college. Then maybe they move to the suburbs. And their friends move to other cities for jobs or relationships. But then they aren't near their existing friends and it's less walkable. Just at the time when they most start to care about it being walkable because maybe they have kids They want it to be car-minimal and nature-rich. So maybe they think about getting their friends to move near them moving to a more walkable city together"
X Link 2025-08-12T15:02Z [----] followers, 42.9K engagements
"@aishdoingthings @scottdomes holocentrism (holo = whole) i'm wondering which ones could gesture at integration of conscious and subconscious from cogni - intui -"
X Link 2025-08-12T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@merv1nkel what were some of your favorites you found through traveling also fff = friends family and i imagine the fff village was pretty awesome"
X Link 2025-08-12T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I made a list of San Diego startup founders. There are WAY more other founders here than I was expecting. The List: @NaveenGRao @ItsNickLoudon @zstvns @coreyhainesco @CharlieHSilver @actionceo @juliapintar @realgeorgehotz @nealbloom @PaulFNiehaus @itsjoeconway @jordanhaswings @Nick_5anchez @Chase_Beach @devcayer @tomgriffiths @mepstein311 @MorganPaxhia @QSRguy @BlakeWComfort @sinasojoodi @cullenroche @troymarkowitz @danielzev @markowitzadam @eulerfx @rolandal @ken_cadima @harryarnett @lanpaje @jchdotme @valentinmadrid_ @michaelaubry @the_travisday @jojogentrytv @VRwithJasmine @zoekahn"
X Link 2025-08-13T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@nosilverv universal-basic-vibrant-local-community universal-basic-emotional-regulation-skills universal-basic-healthy-nutritious-unprocessed-foods universal-basic-walkable-cities-with-comfortable-housing"
X Link 2025-08-13T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RichDecibels not yet clicking"
X Link 2025-08-13T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"thanks for sending i hope more people will see it this way makes me also think of: stable group sizes of [--] [--] [---] 500; tikkun olam principle of heal self first (if people have kind relationships between their parts probably also kind dyad relationships then etc) 4-6 as optimal dinner convo size for single convo 15-20 as good for a mixer etc. partnership relationships = the unlock. it CAN be collaborative (again i think a lot of people have a domination relationship between their conscioussubconscious mind so they naturally extend that out good step [--] being to move conscioussubconscious"
X Link 2025-08-13T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"i've been told about the concept of tikkun olam and the way it was told to me is healing the world starts with healing yourself heal yourself then your closest relationships then your family unit then local community etc this is my biggest wish for the EA community it's externally focused first instead of internally focused but if people have a certain wound they'll bring that with them to whatever they work on creating things from lack tends to also invite the opposite reaction whatever feeling state you do something from you'll bring more of"
X Link 2025-08-14T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nosilverv also the universal basic that everyone wants but is a little tricker: universal-basic-relative-status i wonder: if everyone is in multiple micro-communities some where they're low status some where they're medium some where they're high status does that kinda work"
X Link 2025-08-15T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Plus3Happiness @nosilverv so universal basic awakening reduces the need for universal basic relative status"
X Link 2025-08-15T15:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"i was curious about @leopoldasch's AI-sector hedge fund's holdings here they are: "Situational Awareness LP" - holdings as of 6/30/2025 filed yesterday 8/14/2025 $smh - vaneck semiconductor etf - put options (put = makes money when the price goes down) - [-----] contracts (100 shares per contract) premium unclear - this is a broad index on the industry (22% nvda 11% tsm) perhaps so he can focus the semi bet on intel and broadcom and be a bit more neutral to the industry $intc - intel - call options (makes money when the price goes up) - [------] contracts at [---] shares/contract premium unclear -"
X Link 2025-08-15T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"poll: have you ever read the commoncog newsletter/website (it's a newsletter/website on accelerating business expertise i'm a fan) eg "To get good go after the metagame" "Games people play with cash flow" "The Skill of Org Design" yes lots love commoncog yes once or twice no / don't know commoncog yes lots love commoncog yes once or twice no / don't know commoncog"
X Link 2025-08-17T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked a few founders & investors: "What are 1-2 interesting startups for software engineers & researchers to join beyond the big labs" [--]. MatX - chips for LLM training and inference - Founders: Reiner Pope Mike Gunter (both ex-Google) [--]. Prosper - domestic-work robots for households and businesses - Founder: Shariq Hashme (ex-OpenAI) [--]. Manifest - core ml research lab - Founders: Jacob Buckman Carles Gelada Sean Zhang [--]. Physical Intelligence - foundation models for robots - Founders: Karol Hausman Sergey Levine Chelsea Finn Brian Ichter Quan Vuong Adnan Esmail Lachy Groom [--]. Mechanize - rl"
X Link 2025-08-19T15:56Z [----] followers, 24.1K engagements
"People to follow pt2: Mithril: Jared Quincy Davis (@jaredq_) Quill Meetings: Michael Daugherty (@mpdaugherty) Pluralis Research: Alexander Long (@_AlexanderLong) Linear: Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen) Jori Lallo (@jorilallo) Tuomas Artman (@artman) Qualia: Nate Baker Joel Gottsegen Lucas Hansen CodeRabbit: Harjot Singh Gill (@harjotsgill) Guri (@guritfaq) Sygaldry Technologies: Chad Rigetti (@ChadRigetti) Idalia Friedson (@IdaliaFriedson) HealthMC: Ian Blumenfeld (@ianblu1) Brian Johnson Judah Rabinowitz Lorikeet AI: Steve Hind (@stevehind) Jamie Hall RL Core: Martha White (@white_martha)"
X Link 2025-08-19T15:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@nosilverv oh yeah we YEARN for shared experiences so much pokemon go even elections"
X Link 2025-08-19T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lorraemarketing yes. recurring revenue frees you up to focus on adding MORE rather than refilling what you lose each month"
X Link 2025-08-20T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I made a list of ex-founders now working at big AI labs as non-founder employees. Youre probably aware of @mikeyk (IG co-founder) at Anthropic. You mightve also seen @calvinfo co-founder of Segment ($3.2B acquisition) joined OpenAI and recently moved on. The List: @vedantmisra founder of Kemvi acq by HubSpot now Gemini core team at GDM @framosconis GP at Pioneer Fund now at Anthropic @BohanZhangOT cofounder of OtterTune now at OpenAI @casparro who has started some interesting self funded arbitrage businesses now at OpenAI @silber and @michael_dworsky cofounders at Cove now at Anthropic"
X Link 2025-08-21T18:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I made a list of multi-time founders. The List: @NoubarAfeyan - Moderna Seres Therapeutics Indigo Agriculture PerSeptive Kevin Ryan - Gilt Business Insider MongoDB @istoica05 - Databricks Anyscale LMArena Conviva Chris R - Lattice Data Inductiv SambaNova Snorkel AI @laserlikemike - Snowflake Pure Storage Clumio Reve etc @Rich_Barton - Expedia Zillow Glassdoor Trover @gc - StumbleUpon Uber @sama - Loopt OpenAI World @danielgross - Cue/Greplin Pioneer SSI @rabois - Opendoor OpenStore @ev - Pyra Labs/Blogger Twitter Medium Obvious Ventures @elonmusk - Global Link/Zip2 X dot com Tesla SpaceX xAI"
X Link 2025-08-22T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"question for real estate developers or people who understand housing policy: what are the most straightforward ways to get these policies changed to make it easier to build more beautiful + walkable places presumably it doesn't have to be state level ballot initiatives. does anyone know what things motivated citizens could do concretely for their local areas - what websites or city buildings do they need to go to who do they need to ask for what do they need to do and what should they aim for or is it something that requires lots of money and time and legal expertise (hopefully not)"
X Link 2025-08-25T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@karrisaarinen @linear in addition to linear which other companies do a good job of offering employee liquidity @OpenAI / @sama do a great job. might put together a list"
X Link 2025-08-27T15:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"this video shows what resonance looks like with kids resonance is a communication method that helps others feel seen & emotionally supported for your kids spouse team members yourself. warning: crying instead of reassuring say what SUCKS. copy guess exaggerate"
X Link 2025-09-12T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked Sam Altman Finbarr Timbers Jacob Buckman Anonymous and Tamay Besiroglu: "Will robots do all the in-person jobs" @finbarrtimbers (Finbarr Timbers Ai2 ex-Midjourney ex-DeepMind): "Robots are expensive. For a lot of tasks we'd need humanoid robots those are complex machines and there's a minimum cost." @jacobmbuckman (Jacob Buckman Manifest AI ex-Google Brain): "A robot being more cost effective than a human will be very difficult." Anonymous (ex-frontier AI lab): "Robots are getting a lot better very quickly but I think the cost thing is the main thing. It will remain the case that"
X Link 2025-09-19T14:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Given the prospect of AGI is it still reasonable to go into a software engineering career" I asked Sam Altman Finbarr Timbers Jacob Buckman Tamay Besiroglu and Anonymous. @finbarrtimbers (Ai2 ex-Midjourney ex-DeepMind): "I think each company will hire fewer software engineers but the software engineers they hire are going to be more senior and more well compensated." "So the larger companies might have fewer software engineers but in aggregate I think we're going to see more software engineers potentially much more." @jacobmbuckman (Manifest AI ex-Google Brain): "People should expect that"
X Link 2025-09-20T14:26Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements
""How might AI impact science" I asked @sama @tamaybes @jacobmbuckman and Anonymous. Sam Altman OpenAI "In terms of whether more of the impact of AGI on science comes from narrow AI systems or general systems I suspect it's the general systems. And in terms of whether it'll be more from AI in the loop or human in the loop I'm not sure it matters. If it can make the key discoveries really fast with a little bit of human help that'd be fine." Anonymous ex-frontier AI lab "I wouldn't be surprised if AI is critical for 20%+ of Nature-published articles fairly soon. I'd say most of the impact of"
X Link 2025-09-21T14:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jeremyphoward @finbarrtimbers @jacobmbuckman @rronak_ @alexeyguzey @BlackHC @rolandgvc @angli_ai @sandersted @arohan @danielhanchen @TianbaoX What advice to mid-career AI researchers might you add: @lukaszkaiser @shuchaobi @jack_w_rae @ren_hongyu @MillionInt @OriolVinyalsML @lmthang @sam_shleifer @stephenroller @rown @cHHillee @ctnzr @NandoDF @ChunyuanLi @giffmana @shengjia_zhao @julianmichael @thekaransinghal"
X Link 2025-10-01T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I'm curious about these AI questions: [--]. Will the METR trend hold increase or decrease [--]. Will the METR trend lead to significant real world uplift for engineers (including research engineers at AI labs) [--]. Land vs equities as an AGI hedge [--]. How do bubbles with a mix of substance and non-substance play out"
X Link 2025-10-08T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How many AI researchers do you think are currently earning $25M/yr in new liquid or highly-liquid compensation Appreciation from prior stock grants doesn't count. Stock comp does count as long as it's at a company that does regular tender offers (eg OpenAI Anthropic etc) 100-1000 10-100 1-10 100-1000 10-100 1-10"
X Link 2025-10-09T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AI generalizations from the past few years: [--]. OpenAI releases products that consumers enjoy using [--]. OpenAI is good at fundraising [--]. Anthropic has a good code API [--]. Google is good at models but less good at UX [--]. People complain about the prices of Nvidia chips but keep buying them [--]. Sk Hynix makes good HBM [--]. Broadcom is a go-to for custom AI chips [--]. TSMC is a good fab [--]. Models keep getting better at doing web research and data analysis tasks [--]. Models keep getting better at prototyping web applications [--]. Models keep getting better at generating images and videos and 3d environments"
X Link 2025-10-12T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""What new startups are needed to increase US energy capacity for AI" I asked @Jsevillamol @deanwball @JohnArnoldFndtn @elidourado @JeffDean @justjoshinyou13 and Tim Heidel. Dean Ball: "We need startups taking a fresh approach to the manufacturing of transformers inverters and other essential grid equipment." John Arnold: "We need a step function change in computation efficiency. Bringing quantum-accelerated AI servers or analog optical computers to life would be nothing short of revolutionary." Jeff Dean: "Extremely cheap and fast to deploy solar and batteries." Eli Dourado: "Off-grid all-DC"
X Link 2025-10-12T16:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@binarybits what could citizens do to accelerate the rollout of self driving cars in their city if anything"
X Link 2025-10-12T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jeremyphoward @karpathy does too far off data distribution feel like the right explanation to you i was talking to one person recently where ai writes 95% of their code and another where it's 5% the former does lots of prototyping (very in distribution) the latter is writing specific ood things"
X Link 2025-10-14T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"gatherings are a powerful technology. manhattan project began with gatherings of physicists. modern democracy began with [--] delegates at philadelphia's carpenter's hall. us dollar's dominance with [---] delegates at mount washington hotel. modern physics with [--] scientists at hotel metropole. federal reserve with [--] bankers at jekyll island. fall of the romanovs with [--] aristocrats in petrograd"
X Link 2025-10-14T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What's the better path for aspiring AI researchers who want to end up doing LLM research at frontier labs: [--]. SWE at frontier lab then transfer internally to research [--]. AI research on non-LLM neural nets (eg for recommendations or ad targeting) at any co then transfer to frontier lab LLM research [--]. Any LLM research engineering (even small models) at any co then transfer to frontier lab LLM research Another way of framing the same question is who is a frontier AI lab more likely to hire as an LLM research scientist: [--]. Stellar SWE at their company who has been self-teaching research plus"
X Link 2025-10-14T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Do you guess LLMs help engineers in proportion to how well represented in the training set the type of code they need is Or could you say more about your definition of too far off data distribution - I saw your note about @karpathy's task being about reimplementing standard stuff but in a way that is too hard + too high a bar for accepts Like for Karpathy's situation is it not well represented in the training set because it's a novel minimal implementation and LLMs don't have enough train set examples of larger neural net code - small neural net code to do good "style transfer" - and is that"
X Link 2025-10-14T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What's the best service that checks all LLM inference providers for evidence of quantization of models (If a good one doesn't exist then niche product idea or feature idea for Artificial Analysis.)"
X Link 2025-10-15T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If AI can do it at near zero cost the value shifts to what is now scarce and complementary. Code generation becomes cheap Value shifts to security bug identification UX product-taste. Video generation becomes cheap Value shifts to audience trust characters brands"
X Link 2025-10-17T00:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I drafted a list of RL environment startups. Calling it Pavlov's List (1/2): AfterQuery. Code & Finance. @CarlosGeorgescu @spencermateega Danny Tang BenchFlow. Code. @xdotli Bespoke Labs. Enterprise. @madiator @AlexGDimakis Calaveras. Code. @cis_female Alana Xiang Cua. Code & Computer Use. @francedot @ddupont808 Collinear. Enterprise & Code. @nazneenrajani @soumyadeepb_ d_model. ML & Alignment. @dlbydq @dmooooon Datacurve. Code. @serenaa_ge @charleyslee Deeptune. Enterprise. @timlup Fleet AI. Enterprise. @nicolas_ouporov General Reasoning. Long Horizon. @rosstaylor90 @ChengxiTaylor Kip Parker"
X Link 2026-01-12T22:42Z [----] followers, 45.7K engagements
""context window apps" - apps could make their action trajectories available via api or markdown export for ai chatbots or agents to benefit from if mcp is about giving agents hands this is about giving agents eyes i'd love input on this demo video/note. what's interesting what already exists. it shows how apps could capture more context/actions taken by users. for ai agents. so the agents can be a) more proactive and b) save the user from manual repetition has echoes to rewind ai / limitless also granola/similar also has similarities to the context graphs idea from Jaya Gupta - we need to"
X Link 2026-01-19T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"a few other interesting ai data startups kled @avipat_ hud oro @dgmonsoon @ckxyz_ parsewave @Van0SS (thanks @ibragim_bad) patronus @rebeccatqian (thanks @timshi_ai) antim labs & lucent & good start labs (via @SeanZCai)"
X Link 2026-01-19T20:19Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements
"I look forward to when Claude has the ability to make and update lists and reference notes for itself in chat threads (don't make it try and hold everything in context window like todos/items)"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"tools that pair well with claude code. what else - packnplay (by Jesse Vincent pair with Orbstack) - wispr flow (voice input) - leash (sandbox/access control) - specstory (save threads as context) - context7 (api docs) - taskmaster (pm for claude code) - codelayer (context engineering multiple sessions workflows) - ralph wiggum technique (@GeoffreyHuntley) - apify (long tail apis) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014069494097076461 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014069494097076461"
X Link 2026-01-21T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"what are some interesting ai vertical agent startups i asked a few people for their suggestions - finance: sapien hebbia rogo shortcut. heavy competition from ramp and anthropic and openai - cogent for security - cognition & windsurf and cursor if you count those as vertical agent startups - mandolin & tennr - law: harvey legora crosby advocacy and another vertical specific full stack one - comulate and furtherai - abridge very competitive space - elise ai - decagon giga sierra which ones are really ramping https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011491258750157049"
X Link 2026-01-14T17:31Z [----] followers, 22.2K engagements
"other interesting robotics & robotics adjacent startups Armstrong Robotics (for commercial kitchens) Pantograph (training data) General Trajectory (model for dexterity) Standard Bots (arms for factories) Innate ($2k teachable robot) Relling Systems (rl/data infra) Spatial AI (data) Bracket Bot ($1k robot for devs) Vassar (open source kit) Flywheel (autonomous excavators) Lucky Robots (simulations for data) plus lots mentioned in the replies here - persona ai (industrial humanoids) - LeRobot (models datasets envs from HF) - rerun (infra for data) - build ai (released a big open dataset) - meta"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:11Z [----] followers, 48.5K engagements
"world-building vendors imagine you wanted to build a world. who could you partner with some ideas: - Giant Spoon: Jonathan Haber Marc Simons and Trevor Guthrie. produced westworld at sxsw stranger things empire state takeover dragon on top of empire state - Mycotoo: Cliff Warner David Wally Fri Forjindam Bonnie Hallman. also built the westworld at sxsw (giant spoon led production mycotoo did talent + scripting + live performance). bollywood parks dubai. stranger things the experience. - Moment Factory. Dominic Audet Sakchin Bessette Jason Rod. realmadrid games. multimedia in singapore changi"
X Link 2026-01-20T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Alex Adelman"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Charlie Songhurst and I would love to incubate a long/short saas public equities fund trading the impacts of claude code et al on different saas cos what do you think is the right profile for this perhaps obsessed with markets and ai; likes investing but not a gambler; aware of what other people think but unimpacted. what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015459403189907668 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015459403189907668"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:19Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements
"@regulatorynerd @LCSVoiles thank you you mean because very embedded in the world of startups whats your take on the right profile"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"some modern immersive world businesses - in person vr: sandbox vr zero latency vr the void - things like immersive movie theaters: cosm the sphere limes layered reality illuminarium - escape room-esque: boda borg immersive gamebox bombastik - xr and vr games: fitxr quell gym class octonic - fitness: savage race (tough mudder spartan race etc) - things like topgolf: mirra valo motion - vendors: midnight mansion 45games elevationxr https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016213879152636313 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016213879152636313"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"advice to rl env / data startup founders from anonymous rl env startup founders: 1) There's a traditional trilemma of quality speed cost. Ignore costs labs do not care (within reason). You must deliver quality and speed to be in the conversation at all costs. 2) Focus on depth with one modality rather than contaminating focus amongst many. You are trying to land an extremely narrow wedge and then you can broaden. Do not be an environments company. Be a rust-tool-use environments company to start and broaden over time. This allows you to demonstrate your value to research early and grow wallet"
X Link 2026-01-30T18:11Z [----] followers, 18.2K engagements
"agents will need reputation marketplaces pricing payment. who is working on this see also: "The Coasean Singularity Demand Supply and Market Design with AI Agents" @sebkrier's writings on this topic master algorithm @pmddomingos @krishnanrohit @alexolegimas's post"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"people exploring claude code for equity analysis / cc for investing: @virattt - findatasets dexter @mnovendstern - mana @EMostaque - thinking of setting up a fully automated hedge fund @nicbstme - fintool who else"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 12K engagements
"updated neolabs list. what's the right categorization llms vs other models agent-first vs model first @swyx shipping to users vs not yet shipping (hype to ship ratio) enterprise vs consumer large general models vs specialized use cases - @arcee_ai - @PrimeIntellect - @_inception_ai - @ndea - @liquidai - @physical_int - @NousResearch - @HarmonicMath - @axiommathai - @SakanaAILabs - @essential_ai - @noumenal_labs - @noemon_ai - @skyfallai - @si_pbc - @gen_intuition - @morphllm - @cohere - @IsomorphicLabs - @cusp_ai - @redwood_ai - @ssi - @hcompany_ai - @PrimaMente - @mathematicalco - @versesai"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:16Z [----] followers, 11K engagements
"if you haven't sold any rl envs/tasks to labs yet perhaps: [--]. make a benchmark [--]. make it really really good (a skill that users and labs care about and 1-20% pass rates for the harder tasks) [--]. release it. make it clear in the release that you have sample envs/tasks available for labs that want to train their models on this skill [--]. send it around to researchers [--]. (hope that researchers care enough to pull you through procurement and that your delivered tasks meet their quality standards) [--]. profit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020561020864143377"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:11Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements
"how do you think about the VC-backability of rl env startups on the one hand many of them feel like consulting firms on the other hand Palantir did/does/is too and there's an existence proof of $1B+ revenue with Scale and Surge is it that they are consulting cos but the bet is that this consulting market could get even bigger and stay that way and is the moat economies of scale & scope on finding experts or is it that there's some path for them to become high gross margin differentiated software or labor businesses how should people think about rl env startups"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@almostcmb Ie nice market risk to buy"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@herbiebradley @SeanZCai "more business which can scale with this model" has echoes of https://colossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/ https://colossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"what are interesting things aimed at preventing prompt injection attacks not at the semantic layer but at other layers eg agentsh (@erans) that enforces what happens at runtime is one. what else"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"interesting housing community: ORCA the Ocean Reef Club Association - private [----] acre community in florida - has a private airport a marina dozen restaurants medical center its own security force - visiting requires member sponsorship - joining requires sponsorship from [--] members plus club approval - if you don't get approval before buying a house you're locked out of the club for [--] years - not quite an MPC because it was more bottoms-up/emergent rather than top down planned. and because there's membership vetting history - in [----] was [--] cabins some docks a small harbor. real estate"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@swyx @arcee_ai @PrimeIntellect more: - Core Automation @MillionInt - Enam Co. @zaydenam"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Charlie Songhurst and I drafted a list of founders who explored markets in unique ways before starting their co: [--]. DoorDash: Tony/Stanley/Andy/Evan. Interviewed 100+ bay area businesses (and then of course also did deliveries themselves) [--]. Weights & Biases: Lukas Chris and Shawn. Lukas self-taught DL; then taught intro to DL classes; then interned at OAI [--]. Dragonfly Insurance: Matthew Granade. Mini-internship with multiple brokerages got two brokerage licenses and set up a test kitchen brokerage in Texas [--]. OneImaging: Elan. Reached out to 4k radiology imaging centers pre-product [--]. Deel:"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, 29.9K engagements
"companies working to accelerate AV adoption (for consumers not trucks) - who else zoox (owned by amazon) wayve telsa waymo applied intuition nvidia scale (their origin) & imerit (i presume human labeling is less relevant here now) hesai helm baidu apollo didi pony ai weride"
X Link 2026-01-17T15:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"notes on pinduoduo holdings what am i missing: - co-ceo is Lei Chen. won the IOI in [--] and [--] bs and phd in cs. - other co-ceo is Jiazhen Zhao. started the Duo Duo grocery business. retroactively given cofounder title. - perhaps something like 45% temu 45% pdd marketplace and 10% grocery - temu is transaction fees. pdd is ads + payment processing. grocery is fulfillment fees. - biggest product category probably clothes then home/kitchen stuff then electronics. - us consumers anecdotally love temu as a kind of cheaper amazon. i wonder if it has/will eat into shein revenue too. temu had"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"m&a resources i've seen: - The Founders Guide To Selling Your Company by @justinkan - @jasonlk has various good posts on m&a - The Toughest Sell by Derek Yan (new one) - Magic Box Paradigm by @roizen - Companies Are Sold Not Bought by @Joshmedia - For founders considering selling their company: key factors & a timeline for M&A by @VishalLugani - How to Sell Your Startup: The Complete Guide to Running an M&A Process as a Founder by @ddebow plus the companion podcast episode what else tips from friends: - bankers might not get you any new buyers. good chance the buyers will only be people"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@davidlee @justinkan @jasonlk @roizen @Joshmedia @arampell Thanks David"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@fluid_intel @virattt @mnovendstern @EMostaque @nicbstme @the_nof1 @jay_azhang indeed thank you. see also https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011094414173843691 things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am investor) @the_nof1 by @jay_azhang alphafund labs by @Memetic_Theory adjacent not yet: @liquidtrading by @finn_hulse experimenting: @andrewmccalip previously: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/2011094414173843691 things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"seeking suggestions: friend of mine is exploring starting a new org around skilled labor for data centers or fabs. hes traveling to austin phoenix dallas in the next few weeks to meet w people who oversee skilled hiring at hyperscalers colos construction firms like Bechtel etc and semi fabs. eg people who hire dc techs fab techs welders etc. hes a v sharp former founder also did a welder training program who should he should talk with"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"it would be nice if twitter had a rage bait penalty @nikitabier - right now it's like the fast food free for all and everyone's making hyper palatable foods (mass scale mental obesity coming soon) cc @nearcyan okay I get it now. the most "successful" posts are ones that are just vague enough that everyone has their own (widely variable) story to project onto itbetter yet if it makes them mad. this is dangerous knowledge. okay I get it now. the most "successful" posts are ones that are just vague enough that everyone has their own (widely variable) story to project onto itbetter yet if it"
X Link 2025-10-24T17:11Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements
"i asked people for suggestions of neolabs. here's the list which am i missing - ssi - prometheus - thinking machines - manifest ai - vmax - goodfire (interp focused) - reflection (enterprise focused US open models) - humans& - periodic - ai2 - lila sciences - richard socher new lab - another stealth new lab - mistral - morph labs - adaption labs - ami labs - world labs - induction labs - moonlake ai - poolside (enterprise focused) let's say neolab = the success/failure of their business primarily depends on how good they are at training models and they're not a frontier lab yet"
X Link 2026-01-13T16:17Z [----] followers, 54.2K engagements
"@SeanZCai Interesting - what would you compare to something like FICO and Thomson Reuters"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"robotics labs and startups list draft - which ones am i missing and which categorizations are terrible and need updating labs - pi (most people felt like this was the best team on the research side. also more of a general foundation model company very ambitious.) - also tesla (but xai is making the models) - gdm robotics - uma - nvidia robotics - intrinsic - rai institute kind of - genesis ai - general intuition - generalist - dyna - skild ai for science incl lab automation - periodic labs - prometheus - lila sciences - futurehouse (tbd) - medra industrial - halcyon - boston dynamics"
X Link 2026-01-14T16:14Z [----] followers, 90.3K engagements
"world model startups: - World Labs (Fei-Fei) - AMI (Yann) - Genesis AI (kind of more simulation) - Odyssey (by the people who did the Voyage self driving car co) - Runway (kind of) - Lightwheel - GDM's efforts - General Intuition - Wayve (driving models) also Tesla also Waymo - Rhoda AI - Prometheus - Saturn Dynamics what else thank you to @ZoeyTang_1007 for help and how do you think about the business of the pure world model cos is the customer robotics cos perhaps in the future game studios https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020530821925650505"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:11Z [----] followers, 82.3K engagements
"interesting things adjacent to claude code: - zo computer @perceptnet @0thernet - setupclaw @michael_chomsky - agentsh @erans - clawhosters (Daniel Samer) what else"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"how can i get a copy of "super momentum" the book about sk hynix either a digital copy or an english copy. haven't found so far seems like the best option so far would be: - order the korean paperback version - send it to a service that'll scan and ocr it - claude code + gemini flash to translate it https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022751956117393546 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022751956117393546"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Will scaling reasoning models like o1 o3 and R1 unlock superhuman reasoning I asked Gwern + former OpenAI/DeepMind researchers. Warning: long post. As we scale up training and inference compute for reasoning models will they show: A) Strong general reasoning skills that work across most logically-bound tasks B) Some generalization to other logic tasks but perhaps requiring domain-specific retraining or C) Minimal generalization Finbarr Timbers (Artfintel former DeepMind) "We'll achieve superhuman performance on specific tasks with verifiable rewards. I see no evidence for general broad"
X Link 2025-01-26T18:40Z [----] followers, 153.3K engagements
"Humanoid Robot Timeline Predictions From my conversation with 1X Head of AI Eric Jang (@ericjang11 @1x_tech creators of the NEO robot) "When Will Humanoid Robots Have Early-Adopter Product-Market Fit" Eric's personal views (not 1X's) below. Chris: What's the first year where you feel that humanoids are good enough that 40% of households currently employing domestic staff would keep a robot after a 21-day trial purely on utility value Eric: [--] years (2030) for early adopter product-market fit 10-20 years (2035-2045) for diffusion. By early adopter product-market fit I mean that those households"
X Link 2025-02-03T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yesterday I asked Jeremy Howard: "How might people prepare for AI" (@jeremyphoward from @answerdotai and @fastdotai) "I've lived through these cycles and can see them repeating like clockwork." This is an edited and re-organized version of our chat. What do you expect for AI product capabilities in [----] I don't believe anybody has any ability to predict what's going to happen in [----] on the basis that nobody so far has had an ability to make sensible predictions about what will be happening with AI. I created the first LLM a bit over six years ago. I was pretty sure that it was going to be"
X Link 2025-02-08T01:31Z [----] followers, 65.4K engagements
"Just did a call with Tamay Besiroglu (@tamaybes) co-founder of Epoch AI about what he expects for the future of AI. I think [----] or so might be my median for when well have drop-in AI remote workers. I think for 30% per year GDP growth we might see that in [----] which would be roughly my median. Heres our chat: Which tasks will AI be able to do first One useful framing is to think about Moravecs paradox where tasks that seem easy for humans are hard for AI. Skills that are relatively new and have been optimized for much less by natural selection and have emerged fairly recently and when they"
X Link 2025-02-08T01:59Z [----] followers, 19.2K engagements
"When you think of people working to make cities and towns more walkable who do you think of Eg @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @Chris_Smeder @ryanmjohnson"
X Link 2025-05-23T20:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Chris_Smeder @devonzuegel @UrbanCourtyard @levin_phil @ryanmjohnson @jansramek @AustinTunnell @Cobylefko Awesome - thank you both for the list and for the note about notifications. Yep same for me not working"
X Link 2025-05-24T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Do philanthropy that doesnt scale Itd be interesting to see more philanthropy do this a la @paulg and YC. Instead of trying to solve a cause area take one person who has the challenge solve manually for them repeat learn to scale over time. Micro not macro"
X Link 2025-10-13T14:14Z [----] followers, 71K engagements
"AI progress metrics I'm watching: Thanks for input: @davidmanheim @eli_lifland @timfduffy @CFGeek @sandersted Capabilities: [--]. METR SWE 50% and 80% time horizon [--]. Future METR uplift studies [--]. Anecdotes from research engineers and research scientists at frontier labs about how much more productive they are Immediate impacts: [--]. Revenue of the top [--] humanoid robot companies [--]. Revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic (and others though that's harder to separate out from their legacy revenue) [--]. Number of publicly reported $1B+ startups with [--] or fewer FTEs [--]. Worldwide semiconductor industry revenue"
X Link 2025-10-16T15:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Idea: The Gigawatt List. A list of energy startups ranked by how much energy they've added to the grid so far divided by years since founding and a column rating emissions. So people working in the energy sector can join the most effective companies"
X Link 2025-10-17T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FYI earlier this year Microsoft Research published an interesting paper estimating which jobs are more/less impacted by AI. By @kiran_tomlinson @spjaffe @willwang21 @scottjcounts @ssuri. Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations. On arXiv. Thanks @tanayj"
X Link 2025-10-20T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Do you expect the value of each H100 GPU by [----] to go up down or stay the same Go down: Less good vs newer GPUs. Go up: If AI models get better at valuable tasks each GPU might earn more dollars. (Thanks to TC and others) h100s get less valuable h100s get more valuable unsure stay the same h100s get less valuable h100s get more valuable unsure stay the same"
X Link 2025-10-20T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you're a founder looking for small product ideas: The "how people use ChatGPT" paper and the Anthropic economic index both give ideas for ChatGPT apps that might have high engagement and high retention"
X Link 2025-10-20T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Irrationality for rational people / manifestation for rational people [--]. When you notice a hunch follow it. Follow it here means either do it or use an emotional processing method to "integrate" all the information contained in that hunch - treat it as a source of information and basically active listen with that part of you until it feels heard. [--]. When you notice an inclination follow it. [--]. When you notice a hesitation follow it. [--]. When someone says the opposite of what their body language or tone says trust the body/tone. [--]. When you really like someone's vibe spend more time with them."
X Link 2025-10-20T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AI companies that are probably doing $1M+/yr bootstrapped: @everartai by @skirano + @jay_azhang Photo AI by @levelsio @aragon_ai by @wesleyytian @headshotpro by @dannypostmaa @bensbitesdaily by @bentossell @semianalysis by @dylan522p @chatbaseio by @yasser_elsaid_ @pdf_ai by @damengchen AI-industry adjacent: @AEStudioLA by @juddrosenblatt @tldrnewsletter by @tldrdan"
X Link 2025-10-21T17:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"related it'd be cool to have a conference (where people opt in) with local transcription devices so there's some kind of realtime conversation map also one that highlights the most common repeated disagreements (and maybe it identifies whether there's a real crux or it's just some kind of fake disagreement or a definition disagreement or something)"
X Link 2025-10-21T18:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"yes it's like a stack error in programming or something it only needs to pop into the debugger (ie conscious awareness) when the program execution fails i suspect the issue for people is normally that there was an inclination or hunch or hesitation or other emotion earlier on that wasn't integrated/synthesized therefore that's the thing to practice that'll prevent the downstream errors"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mbateman Universal Basic Montessori"
X Link 2025-10-22T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"humans revolve around the subconscious mind not the logical mind geocentrism : heliocentrism :: cognicentrism : subconsciousism"
X Link 2025-10-22T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I dislike the UX pattern where apps and websites make you tap a dozen+ individual toggles to turn off most notifications rather than having one button to turn them all off and then you can manually toggle one back on. Example offenders: Reddit and Linkedin"
X Link 2025-10-22T22:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jasonlk And yet openai is hybrid with [--] days in office [--] days remote (but many wouldnt count it as a startup anymore)"
X Link 2025-10-22T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I'd love to read a book or a blog post of the questions that fascinate people who are already very successful in whatever domain they're in. The things they cannot help but continue researching/asking/learning about"
X Link 2025-10-23T00:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you're a founder and you want to sell your company one day think about your competitors that have a market cap of 20x your ideal acquisition size (5% as a general rule for max acquisition size not always) then look at the companies they've acquired in the past few years reach out to those founders and ask them about the story of how the acquisition played out. Now you have a set of highly relevant case studies"
X Link 2025-10-23T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Universal Basic Blueberries tip high quality freeze dried blueberries are crunchier and tastier than most snacks and a million times healthier. maybe more than fresh which degrade in nutrients quickly. blueberries seem to be the one thing every school of nutrition (blueprint peat normie doc) agrees on https://t.co/va4HoWvcj6 tip high quality freeze dried blueberries are crunchier and tastier than most snacks and a million times healthier. maybe more than fresh which degrade in nutrients quickly. blueberries seem to be the one thing every school of nutrition (blueprint peat normie doc) agrees"
X Link 2025-10-23T14:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@_StevenFan Fellowship and adventure Universal Basic Beautiful Walkable Places"
X Link 2025-10-23T23:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How to be assertive without being rude [--]. Make the other person feel totally understood AND [--]. Make your preference clear "You want to join me because if you join me then you'll get to do XYZ is that right" "I'm still going to go solo." And then optionally "I'd love to go with you separately sometime too." People rightfully want to feel seen and understood because the odds of finding a mutual win win increase in proportion to the degree of mutual understanding. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981726632156254338 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981726632156254338"
X Link 2025-10-24T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"are voice notes still a problem now that you can read the transcript instead Theres no better way to tell someone that your time is more valuable than theirs than to send a voice note. https://t.co/3MRoPsBKLV Theres no better way to tell someone that your time is more valuable than theirs than to send a voice note. https://t.co/3MRoPsBKLV"
X Link 2025-10-24T17:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@scottdomes Surfing the waves / the experience"
X Link 2025-10-24T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AI safety and practice reps If you're working on AI safety find instances of small challenges caused by AI and build institutional process knowledge for addressing those challenges. Find things that are small and frequent. E.g. BPOs in the Philippines might be ground zero for AI impacts (idea from JA). Therefore if you want to help the world adapt to AI help people in BPOs in the Philippines adapt to AI. Similar example: If you want to work on pandemic preparedness work on making societies really good at handling the seasonal flu. You need small and frequent opportunities to practice and"
X Link 2025-10-25T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Blog post I'd love to read: A beginners guide to the business of data centers and AI-scale power generation"
X Link 2025-10-28T22:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"To experiment more when you don't have any good high confidence bets you like: 1) Do smaller bets: Reduce the confidence required by reducing the bet size 2) Remove the threshold: Switch from needing a good bet to doing whichever bet is the best amongst lackluster options"
X Link 2025-10-29T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For people that want to get better at prompt engineering my top suggestion is the interactive Anthropic engineering tutorial. (Project idea for vibe coders: Take that tutorial and turn it into an interactive web page. thenameless7741 had done this but it's offline now.)"
X Link 2025-10-31T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Valuable skill that schools could teach but don't: emotional regulation. How to help others regulate emotions and to do the same for yourself. Feels like something that Alpha School is probably doing or will do. @gtmom @mbateman @Gena_I_Gorlin @jliemandt @delk"
X Link 2025-11-03T15:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ft: @t_xu @stanleytang @andyfang @evancharles @l2k @Bouazizalex @SadiSKhan @aadit_palicha @JTLonsdale @ryanjdaniels @jcsamuelian @nbaken @meia_alsup @dbabbs @amangour30 @sgondala2 @vhmth @dhmeyer @bchesky @jgebbia @wangandrewd @bscholl @ccharliewu @shuoshuooshuooo @sahitYAML @elan_was_here @zanehengsperger"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks: @EMedVC @jamescham @danielle_a2z @avichal @ram @gaby_goldberg @rzhou186 @theashbhat @Altimor @davidlee @aranibatta @michaelxbloch @rronak_ @alexadelman @bonatsos @kwharrison13 @ejames_c @RealTonyMao @wadeeyerly @aghosn9 @justincormack @zackabaker @brianmwang @theashbhat @valentin_pd @_harm0n @parconley @kdrag0n @vvtechh @stanleytang Josh Singer Dan Woods"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@davidlee thanks David with your note on diligence do you mean it's a filter you sometimes use ie "how extreme was the learning this founder did and their process""
X Link 2025-11-13T17:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Charlie Songhurst and I are drafting (pls spot errors) a list of investors who started funds without working in VC: [--]. @ItzSuds: SF1 (2025) [--]. @gefkovicz @benmtaft: Genius Ventures (2024) [--]. Fiona Leng: Xtal (2024) [--]. @kokoxsu @carloagostinel2: Nova (2024) [--]. Sunny Sandhu Manraj Singh Sandhu: Vicus Ventures (2024) [--]. @v_maini: Mythos (2023) [--]. @erica_wenger: Park Rangers Capital (2023) [--]. @mollyfmielke: Moth Fund (2022) [--]. @alanaagoyal: Basecase Capital (2022) [--]. @simarsmangat: Magic Ventures (2022) [--]. @jm: LMNT Ventures (2022) [--]. @andrewvigneault: Flexcap (2022) [--]. @sophiaamoruso: Trust"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements
"Ft: @villi @ItzSuds @kokoxsu @MBGilroy @juanbenet @bradholden @arielrwinton @caseykcaruso @lacey_wisdom @MichelleVolz @hardi_meybaum @richardchen39 @carloagostinel2 @ryanrcohen @damirb_23 @_alialtaf @pete_mathias @gokulr @gefkovicz @benmtaft"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks: @aghosn9 @theashbhat Josh Singer @aranibatta @zackabaker @rronak_ @timwee @cory @jamescham @EMedVC @Altimor @michaelxbloch @davidlee @danielle_a2z @AriX @richardchen39 @mollyfmielke @avichal"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""emotional theory in ai research" I collected takes from @ilyasut @ylecun @geoffreyhinton @demishassabis and @RichardSSutton about emotion theories for AI research. @ilyasut: I read about this person who had some kind of brain damage a stroke or an accident that took out his emotional processing. So he stopped feeling any emotion. He still remained very articulate and he could solve little puzzles and on tests he seemed to be just fine. But he felt no emotion. He didnt feel sad he didnt feel anger he didnt feel animated. He became somehow extremely bad at making any decisions at all. It would"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"cc @nosilverv @algekalipso @YangKevinG @RichardMCNgo @dkazand @DefenderOfBasic @jacobmbuckman @dwarkesh_sp @chrislakin @nickcammarata @sama The feelings will continue until the weights update See also Artificial Emotion by Li Sun Schlicher Lim @BjoernSchuller"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I made 4x NeurIPS [----] people lists. I'll be there ✅ 1) "People at neurips who are hiring researchers & engineers" @kdqg1 @sarahookr @francedot @iScienceLuvr @aditshah00 @RitvikKapila @gauri__gupta @abeirami @adityachinchure @AndrewLBeam @brianwilt @thisismadani"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, 200.5K engagements
"3) "People at neurips [----] who are interested in ai for science" @zephyr_wade @neuralnerd @SinghJyotirmai @madhu___s @spacecadet_kels @AlexRemedios1 @syguoML @belindmo @learningPikachu @Thom_Wolf @aditshah00 @jeffclune @james_y_zou @bohannon_bot @IMordatch @saurabh_shah2 @BenKompa @AndrewLBeam @gioen__ @dhruvagarwal17"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"4) "A really big twitter list of people attending neurips [----] in San Diego" eg incl: @_vztu @jsuarez5341 @JandialSurgan @lightetal @bschmidtchen @amiraliagz @amritsinghbedi3 @yuz9yuz @notkevinfarhat @thkostolansky @RagavanThurair @AlexanderLong @rronak @kdqg1 @jeffrey_hawke @hamostaf04 @j_mcgraph @NimaGard https://x.com/i/lists/1994474805916307478 https://x.com/i/lists/1994474805916307478"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I made an unofficial NeurIPS [----] hiring list: @rronak_ @QuantumArjun @michaelelabd stealth Im a small investor: RL post-training from live product usage. Research Engineers. @jonsidd Turing: data for frontier models. Research Engineers SWEs. @schwarzjn_ ICL & Thomson Reuters: LLMs for law. Research Engineers SWEs PhD students. @panda_liyin AdaL: copilot for ML engineering. MLEs SWEs. @sarwal_varuni TriFetch: data and post-training for medical AI. @bidhan Bagel Labs: decentralized training for diffusion models. MLEs ML Scientists. @meggmcnulty Cosmic Labs: AI-native OS for embedded"
X Link 2025-12-01T22:24Z [----] followers, 60K engagements
"I made another NeurIPS [----] hiring list. More teams hiring research engineers MLEs SWEs: @julianibarz at Tesla Optimus @nlpmattg at @ScaledCognition @msalbergo at Kempner Institute at Harvard @chinwei_h at MSFT Research @apsarathchandar at Chandar Lab @stash_pomichter at @dimensionalos @luke_drago_ at @WorkshopLabsPBC @Yong18850571 at Thinking Machines @real_ioannis @MishaLaskin @FlintCasey & @IrwanBello at Reflection AI @mgalle at Cohere @daylenyang at Waymo @ok_ikaros at @spellbrush @apjacob03 @EugeneVinitsky @ChristosTzamos @justintchiu & @zzzzgq at Percepta @zw_zachwang & @maxwshen at"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:15Z [----] followers, 43.5K engagements
"Interesting AI data provider: Sepal (@sepal_ai) Founders: @robi_lin @KatQHu1 @f310r team is partly ex-Turing Product: RL envs and human data for science (bio physics chem) and reasoning benchmarks Investors: @brianrbell Metaplanet (Jaan Tallinn; Rauno Miljand) @AshRust SID (Dmitry Vartanian @ilblackdragon @AntonVaisburd) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005296940175745240 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005296940175745240"
X Link 2025-12-28T15:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Another interesting frontier data provider: Preference Model I'm told they're automating alignment research. And are smart. Team is ex-Anthropic Very stealthy for now. Well-funded already"
X Link 2025-12-29T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"a happy note about my frontier ai data provider tweets from a friend who works at a large (10-fig val) ai startup shared w permission:"
X Link 2025-12-29T17:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"things i've seen in the ai for trading space - what else @vigillabs by @kolelee_ protogon by @RafaelCosman (am investor) @the_nof1 by @jay_azhang alphafund labs by @Memetic_Theory adjacent not yet: @liquidtrading by @finn_hulse experimenting: @andrewmccalip previously: topology @aidan_mclau https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011094414173843691 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011094414173843691"
X Link 2026-01-13T15:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"do you see the vision of claude cowork imagine claude for execl powerpoint word outlook chrome bloomberg terminal etc. gmail connector. ability to code. this is the pathway to big knowledge worker adoption openai and google will need to follow this will be very strong pmf and growth invest in it compete with it join anthropic/oai/gdm and work on it/competitors etc this will be central claude code is the ai coworker it'll all build up from there https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011139690364313654 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011139690364313654"
X Link 2026-01-13T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"thoughts on ai coding market/products - claude code et al i've used claude code codex zed cursor haven't used devin windsurf tl;dr probably good for everyone to invest way more in rl envs and way more in ux & onboarding/ramping up users claude code - my preferred of the set by quite a big margin small fix wishlist for claude code (@bcherny) - easier to get push notifications on phone for claude approvals for claude web or desktop - playwright mcp more of a default - easier/more of a default to get terminal bells when waiting on input/done - llm classified risk or other ways to set better"
X Link 2026-01-13T22:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"thoughts on the llm api market i've used anthropic google and openai's apis cc @OfficialLoganK - ai studio ux is decent - rest of gcp and vertex ux is annoying - opus [---] api use will probably grow now that devs see how good it is - openai api ux is good - google wins the price performance frontier but i still trust the models less than oai or anthropic's models off-put by weird errors they sometimes make - i think i'd be somewhat hesitant to build on anthropic's api it's almost like it doesn't feel like they believe in it that much i don't see them talking about it at all relatively in"
X Link 2026-01-14T20:13Z [----] followers, 17K engagements
"what are some of the interesting stealthier ai things i asked a few people for their suggestions: - dynatomics Larry Page and Chris Anderson - Richard Socher + Tim Shi et al ai lab - similie - Naval's impossible inc (impossible computer company / impossible company). cofounder implies maybe agent commerce trademark implies maybe vr - and some other interesting ones related to automated factories robotics training data etc. what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011834269317153121 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011834269317153121"
X Link 2026-01-15T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"tests polish software trials polish hardware rehearsals polish worlds worlds eg = disneyland d&d crossfit minecraftnintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr taylor swift mrbeast"
X Link 2026-01-15T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"which accounts have good signal:noise on ai equities some i know @insane_analyst @jukan05 @EricJhonsa @GavinSBaker @zephyr_z9 @astridwilde1 @kakashiii111 @illyquid @rwang07 @firstadopter @lefttailguy @sudoraohacker"
X Link 2026-01-15T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." = Worlds the most imaginative people build on the weekend are where everyone else will inhabit during the week in ten years worlds eg = disneyland d&d crossfit minecraft nintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr taylor swift mrbeast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012197662066639047 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012197662066639047"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"what are the main sub-groups at the big labs seems like meta = tbd msl fair gdm = deepmind gemini openai = pre-training everyone else anthropic & xai don't have major sub groups"
X Link 2026-01-16T19:11Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements
"an error i made was thinking that the o1 breakthrough was about reasoning specifically now i think it's more just about skill acquisition more broadly. the base models were (and are) good enough that the models could learn many skills via rl"
X Link 2026-01-16T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"other frontier labs need to experiment with products like they do with research (especially if they're aiming for the enterprise/b2b segment) anthropic is doing this eg mcps skills claude for excel claude code etc. they could do more (give claude native ability to make/maintain lists reference notes send stuff to other threads with approval etc) all frontier labs would be wise to be more experimental with their products this is highly uncertain territory need experiments to explore https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012283980427751460 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012283980427751460"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"if software builders need crystallized intelligence and hardware builders need spatial intelligence then world builders need ___ intelligence where worlds = disney movies sports franchises cities games influencers certain cryptocurrencies mr beast taylor swift hermes books etc other options - mythic enchantment archetypal intuition etc https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012558790613504261 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012558790613504261"
X Link 2026-01-17T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"some epic irl world builders. who else historical - Walt Disney: disneyworld started as plans to build a real city - Bill Bell Barney McCallum & Joel Pritchard: pickleball - Michael von Clemm: canary wharf district in london - Suger: gothic architecture - Sen no Riky: wabi-cha tea ceremonies - Lorenzo the Magnificent: improvements to Carnival - Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson: d&d - Kan'ami Kiyotsugu: Yuzaki theater company present - Joe De Sena: spartan race - Christian Toetzke & Moritz Frste: hyrox fitness racing - Matt Grech-Smith & Jeremy Simmonds: swingers crazy golf competitive socializing"
X Link 2026-01-17T20:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"more world building examples - disneyland is gold standard (why aren't there hundreds of better ones places for certain sets of people in person immersive participatory worlds ideally car-free) - concert tours - cruise lines - topgolf - meow wolf - puttshack and puttery - f1 (esp with drive to survive boost) - pickleball - sandbox vr - immersive Van Gogh - teamLab - indoor karting what else https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012645863450091973 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012645863450091973"
X Link 2026-01-17T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"the greatest world builders do rehearsals Steve Jobs keynote rehearsals Hermes new store rehearsals Disneyland cast rehearsals Taylor Swift tour rehearsals Tolkien did decades of private worldbuilding before publishing for the NBA NFL UFC etc every smaller match is a rehearsal for the bigger ones Disney relentless playtesting with audiences Same for Nintendo Obama's speeches crafted in smaller audiences iterated iterated rehearsals don't have to be in private - sharing ideas in public and building on them over time iterating on them repeating them it's also a form of rehearsal worlds require"
X Link 2026-01-18T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"in the past there were castles fortifications private wells granaries today there are generators solar/storage bunkers in the future will there be sovereign home infra as a service"
X Link 2026-01-18T17:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"more epic world builders from history. who else - The Crystal Palace: a massive glass structure built for an [----] exhibition in London. By Joseph Paxton (also cultivated the world's most popular banana) Henry Cole Prince Albert - World's Columbian Exposition. aka Chicago World's Fair. Held for [--] months in [----]. By John Wellborn Root Daniel Burnham (very interesting) Frederick Law Olmsted (also designed stanford campus) Charles B. Atwood - Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Originally New Spring Gardens. Pleasure garden = open to the public for entertainment often w concerts rides etc. By Jonathan"
X Link 2026-01-18T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"example world builders and world businesses: in games: Poker Elo scores Roblox Minecraft Nintendo in stories: Tolkien esp LOTR Ian Banks James Cameron irl: Disneyland Las Vegas strip Six Flags The Villages Florida in luxury: Hermes Louis Vuitton in investing: Andreessen Thiel Naval Balaji in software: Satoshi Vitalik in politics: Mamdani Trump Obama in entertainment: top streamers Kardashians Taylor Swift MrBeast when is this the same thing as a brand and when is it different perhaps it's that worlds have rules they're games you can participate there are moves to make levels to climb roles to"
X Link 2026-01-18T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"robotics space notes beginner oriented - what am i missing bottlenecks: - task specific data - actuator data - tactile/haptic sensing data - precision actuators - magnets and rare earths to make them companies: - posts: - @rodneyabrooks - @jacobrintamaki - @packyM @evanbeard - also there was another post that was kind of like situational awareness but for robotics. not recalling the link/name. anyone know questions: - can video + scale substitute for haptic data - how strong will generalization be vertical/task specific approach vs general approach does one win or if both work what works"
X Link 2026-01-19T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"a key for building worlds might be the first apostles. this seems different to early followers. much more of an active role for Tolkien it might've been CS Lewis and the Inklings for Disney the Nine Old Men. for the parks the original Imagineers especially Herb Ryman for Satoshi the collaborators the first recipients and miners for Vitalik the cofounders - Mihai Alisie Amir Chetrit Anthony Di Iorio Charles Hoskinson Gavin Wood Joseph Lubin and Jeffrey Wilcke for MrBeast perhaps Chris Chandler Karl for Kardashians perhaps Kris all the sisters and Ryan Seacrest for Thiel the PayPal mafia for"
X Link 2026-01-19T19:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"should there be a claude code for email "you never read these newsletters they're here click this button and i'll unsubscribe from all of them even the ones that require navigating some fields on the web" "this person sent you a contract redline click here to approve it i checked all the points and they seem fine here's my notes" "the sales emails you sent to this type of account seem to be working well want me to send another 30" "wait before you send this one the formatting is messed up i fixed it" "this one has some forms you need to fill out click and i'll do them" "this one has some docs"
X Link 2026-01-19T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"interesting startups in the ai search space: yutori you parallel exa apify bright data elicit futuresearch edison scientific firecrawl happenstance what else"
X Link 2026-01-20T15:19Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements
"in the past there were jousts tournaments and hunts and clubs today there are golf clubs poker nights track days strava groups perhaps in the future there'll be many more curated leagues with rankings rituals media and matchmaking"
X Link 2026-01-20T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@avizurlo world builders are people who shape rules to create things people want to participate in eg creators of disneyland d&d crossfit minecraft nintendo ethereum ufc f1 hermes lotr mrbeast taylor swift etc"
X Link 2026-01-20T19:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Alexandr Wang"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Anil Varanasi"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"would love input. useful should i do more etc will also explore clips for investors evaluating founders and for cofounder matching. any preferences on which one i do next"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"interesting startups in the infrastructure for agents space. what else /dev/agents photon / something great inc maybe Naval's impossible computer startup is in this space Mahesh Lambe has done stuff related to agent protocols (project NANDA) truffles payman natural catena mcp-use i'm sure stripe will do interesting stuff here too lots of infra needed. what else exists"
X Link 2026-01-21T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"robotics cos i'm particularly curious about (very biased and unscientific list) pantograph @_kelsey_pool @apagajewski @camfassett general trajectory @joshuabelofsky pi @hausman_k @svlevine @chelseabfinn @brian_ichter @lachygroom @adnan_esm @QuanVng armstrong @luk3hans3n @jonahvaron @axelrh standard bots @evanbeard David Golden innate @ax_pey @Vignesh_Robots rerun @NikolausWest @m_schiebold Emil Ernerfeldt bedrock @bsofman @kevinmpeterson1 Tom Eliaz Ajay Gummalla build ai @eddybuild @jonathanjia05 general intuition @PimDeWitte @EloiAlonso1 @AdamJelley2 @micheli_vincent Moritz Baier-Lentz"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"+zeroshot (by covibes orchestration for claude code)"
X Link 2026-01-21T20:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@joe_harris @tonyzzhao @chichengcc @kvogt @lukeholoubek @pariljain @charliewu @rtnarch @JeffBezos @sherjilozair @wgussml @vik_bajaj @ekindogus @LiamFedus @AlloyRobotics Nice thanks for mentioning"
X Link 2026-01-23T03:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@armchairhermit tower of babel"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@avizurlo that's interesting though feels like a different business ie that feels more like the oai thrive holdings / long lake / beacon software type plays"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Charlie Songhurst and I would also love to incubate something that helps people at smbs/enterprises find the right startups to buy from/partner with what's the right profile of person for this one perhaps someone who has one foot in the world of enterprises and startups. high order bit is likely distribution to enterprises. what else"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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