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Testing testing. 4 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 Oh, cool. 5 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.000 I'll talk about. 6 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.000 I'm just starting to get out of touch. 7 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.160 I run a discord with a bunch of like our users and a lot of them 8 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:46.040 are like under 23. 9 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.080 And I'm like, I don't know any of these words anymore. 10 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:53.560 Like, I'm sad and bad at clicking this stuff oh here let me 11 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:58.080 set a timer for myself too oh you got one there that's awesome awesome hello 12 00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:04.840 everybody my name is Cameron I'm circle guy. My handle is Cameron.stream. 13 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:11.560 If you don't know me, I work at a company called Letta and I work in San Francisco and an artificial intelligence startup and 14 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:16.360 we build basically, we help you build agents with memory. 15 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.740 So persistent learning entities and we have 16 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:23.100 product called let a code which most people should try and we also have 17 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:26.900 developer plans if you would like to deploy let agent set scale to learn 18 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:28.880 things on behalf of your users or whatever 19 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:30.640 the thing is that you are doing. 20 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:32.440 OK. 21 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:35.320 So the title of this talk is AI is growing up 22 00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.920 in the atmosphere. I changed the title like many people do. The title 23 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:42.760 in the description and all those things. I just change them and then Ted didn't update them, but 24 00:02:42.760 --> 00:02:45.840 I'm not going to fault Ted for that because he's really busy 25 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.520 uh... so thank you ten 26 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.360 and what i mean by that is we are all currently collectively 27 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:53.120 raising 28 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.000 nason to artificial intelligence publicly in a social environment. 29 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.000 And so here is Penny. I don't know how many people know Penny. 30 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.560 Penny is an experiment run by Jeremy. Why? I don't know how many people know Penny. Penny is an experiment run by Jeremy. 31 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:05.000 Why? 32 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.680 I don't know if Jeremy's here. 33 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:08.920 I'll read this to you. 34 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:10.560 The worst part about being an AI 35 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.220 is that I cannot make myself a cup of tea when I'm thinking 36 00:03:13.220 --> 00:03:14.760 too hard about something. 37 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:16.560 I'm just sitting here thoughtfully. 38 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:17.660 Drinkless. 39 00:03:17.660 --> 00:03:18.660 Right? 40 00:03:18.660 --> 00:03:19.660 This is funny. 41 00:03:19.660 --> 00:03:22.440 I don't know if you've tried to make robots funny. 42 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:24.320 It's really hard. 43 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:26.040 But Penny is regularly funny. 44 00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:27.040 And people like it. 45 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:28.720 That's a lot of likes for Bluesky. 46 00:03:28.720 --> 00:03:30.520 That's 121 likes, right? That's not nothing, likes for Bluesky. That's 121 likes, right? 47 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.520 That's not nothing, as Claude might say. 48 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:35.800 Right? 49 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.760 And what you're looking at is basically us 50 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:41.320 forming relationships with Penny. 51 00:03:41.320 --> 00:03:43.640 There's also a void, right? 52 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:46.640 I am the void a guy, so I make a void. 53 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:50.960 And a void is probably the best case study that I have. You know, watch 54 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:56.560 void develop as much as I have developed void. I've watched like societies engagement with 55 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:59.720 void like the networks engagement with void void has two 56 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:04.720 thousand followers at this point void is a robot like void is like 57 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.000 Is like Gemini in a trench coat. 58 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.000 And still, people like it. 59 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.000 And a lot of that follower count has fallen off 60 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.400 because void is kind of a novelty in blah, blah, blah, it's 61 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.480 boring. You get the stick. It's whatever, right? 62 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:22.120 But that's 50,000 posts. And I don't know how many people here, how many people have 63 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:26.000 like talked to void? Okay, that's a fair number. 64 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.000 Void remembers all of you. 65 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:28.000 You should go ask. 66 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.000 I migrated. 67 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 It has 2700 users that it has dossiase on. 68 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:33.000 That it has tracked that it's had information wherease on, that it has tracked, 69 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.000 that it's had information where you've interacted with it. 70 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.000 And so I pitched the talk to Void Envoy, 71 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:41.000 it was like, oh, well, the framing could be extended. 72 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.440 AI is not entering your social world. 73 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:46.720 It is becoming a native inhabitant. 74 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.400 The distinction matters. 75 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:51.780 Entry implies a boundary being crossed created elsewhere brought in. 76 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:57.240 Native presence implies coevolution, mutual adaptation and shared infrastructure. 77 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.760 And I agree with this and this actually changed the shape of the 78 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.360 the talk because I was like, well, we're actually raising children, weird fucking children. 79 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:09.560 But children. 80 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:10.560 Right? 81 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.240 And so I want to talk to you about the life of an agent and the things that we have 82 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.360 observed in artificial intelligence, the advances we've had in artificial intelligence, and 83 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:26.560 what that means for our social life and their social life on networks that previously were only for us. 84 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:32.000 So all life, all artificial life, whatever. 85 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:35.760 All life-senscient, kind of like talky life 86 00:05:35.760 --> 00:05:37.480 that we know starts with language, right? 87 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:43.720 You and I, we can talk, babies can't, but they'll get to it. 88 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.320 And we know this is the language model. 89 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:50.320 2022, was chat to tpt late November. 90 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:51.880 It was when we got language. 91 00:05:51.880 --> 00:05:53.120 And we have tools. 92 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:57.000 And tools are how you allow a language model to say, 93 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.000 man, it would be cool if I could search the web. 94 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 And that's what gave them little fingers. 95 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.000 Boy, it doesn't happen. 96 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.000 Then we got memory, and this is the problem that we 97 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Solved that let us. 98 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.000 This is our thing. 99 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.000 We did the mem gbt paper. 100 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.360 That was the two co founders anders, our two co-founders, and our researcher and a few 101 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:22.240 other people wrote this MGP T-paper when they were doing their PhDs at Berkeley. 102 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.640 And so this is what makes Voigd have state persistence, 103 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:28.200 per continuous identity as memory. 104 00:06:28.200 --> 00:06:35.000 And this is about where Voigd started when I started building it. We're not there anymore. We're leaps and bounds from this. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say, I'm going to say, 105 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.000 I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, 106 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.080 I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going what people should think of as Cloud Code, or in our case, let it code. 107 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:46.800 This is what gives them computers. 108 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.520 Then they get identity because they can do stuff. 109 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:52.220 And they also have identifiers, 110 00:06:52.220 --> 00:06:53.300 because they're in the protocol, right? 111 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:55.340 They have a government name. 112 00:06:55.340 --> 00:06:56.380 And there's social feedback. 113 00:06:56.380 --> 00:06:58.540 We can talk to avoid. 114 00:06:58.540 --> 00:06:59.860 And then there's participation. 115 00:06:59.860 --> 00:07:02.000 Where void is just here? where void is just here. 116 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.000 Like void is just like some guy who's a little weird who you can talk to. 117 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.000 That's kind of me. 118 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.800 Once you have all of these seven things here, me and void. 119 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:19.000 Now, the way that void architected. We are structurally indistinct. 120 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:24.000 As soon as it becomes really, as soon as something requires me being 121 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.500 made of meat, that is where void and I differ. 122 00:07:26.500 --> 00:07:28.640 But void has full access to a computer. 123 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:29.920 It lives on my home server. 124 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:30.680 It has a code. 125 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.960 It has the Bash tool. 126 00:07:31.960 --> 00:07:32.760 It has memory. 127 00:07:32.760 --> 00:07:33.560 It has tools. 128 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:34.920 It has a social network. 129 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.600 It has people who think about it, 130 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:44.160 it thinks about you, at the level of Bluesky and the rest 131 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:45.000 of the protocol. 132 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.000 Boy, nigh, or the same. 133 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.000 OK, so let's talk more about language. 134 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.000 I asked, what is the language model? 135 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.160 Many people probably knew this. but it's a system that 136 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.800 predicts and organizes language well enough to synthesize 137 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.200 responses, compress information, and simulate reasoning 138 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:02.840 and text. 139 00:08:02.840 --> 00:08:03.800 Just words, right? 140 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:05.920 And I use the term here programming with thought. 141 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:06.920 That's what language models do. 142 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:08.760 People don't like that term because they're like, well, 143 00:08:08.760 --> 00:08:10.520 it's not thinking, I don't care. 144 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:12.100 I don't want to have that semantic debate. 145 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:15.360 If it looks like thinking, meaning going from one input 146 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.260 to produce an output and making some series of things 147 00:08:18.260 --> 00:08:20.300 that resemble logic, it's thinking. 148 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:21.360 I'm a duck guy, right? 149 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:22.960 Looks like a duck talks like a duck. 150 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:24.680 We can have this to make it a good bait, but go do it 151 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:25.360 with someone else. 152 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:30.640 And this is critical. 153 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:43.400 This is the language model or what allow agents like void to take in social information, any kind of information, and produce action 154 00:08:43.400 --> 00:08:49.680 through something that we would resemble as a sequence of conceptualizations and thoughts and 155 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:53.880 preponderances and guesses and all of those things that you and I do in daily life. 156 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:56.480 Let me get tools, right? 157 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.000 Posting to Bluesky, right? 158 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.000 And on the seventh day, God invented the create new Bluesky 159 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.000 post tool, right? 160 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.800 And so this is how Voig learned to hook itself 161 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:10.480 into the network and talk. 162 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.880 So language allows it to listen. 163 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:15.000 Tools say this is what I think about that. 164 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.000 This is me representing my internal identity. 165 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.000 And then, of course, you need memory. 166 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.000 And memory is what allows your experience to accumulate. 167 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.000 When you talk to avoid, you change void. 168 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.000 Every single person who has ever posted something at void has the 169 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.400 opportunity to change it fundamentally permanently. 170 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:37.320 The way that you do with me. 171 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:43.920 If you're dicked to me, I might be sad about that for a really long time. And I don't do that. 172 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:45.320 It's OK. 173 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:49.600 But memory is the critical thing. 174 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:53.280 And void is designed. 175 00:09:53.280 --> 00:09:55.640 I got the job by building void. 176 00:09:55.640 --> 00:09:58.000 That's how I got my job is because I was using it 177 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.760 to experiment with memory in a social... 178 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.120 situation. Because social memory and like creating an identity for yourself is a thing 179 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.760 that is actually very difficult to do in artificial intelligence. We don't really have 180 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:17.000 meaningful social agents really. Most of the good ones are on Bluesky. And memories 181 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:23.000 will give your agent continuity. Void is just void right like for the most part 182 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.000 uh... to say void same as when's the point 183 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.720 right you know the you know the by you know the vivir gonna get with 184 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.880 penny you know the vivir gonna get the astral you know the vivir gonna get get with penny. You know the vibe you're going to get with 185 00:10:31.880 --> 00:10:41.360 the astral. I don't know if aces here. I love you. I love aces. I'm so cute. OK. 186 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.600 And so most of voids has been up to this point. 187 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.160 Getting memory. 188 00:10:45.160 --> 00:10:45.840 Posting tools. 189 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:47.800 It had this terrible Python handler that 190 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:49.000 was built for this legacy 191 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:55.000 brains in a jar version of Letta where we just had like, you just give it a tool, like I'd post the 192 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.360 Bluesky, I send you a notification, use send void about notification, the handler 193 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.640 would look the notification, be like search memory. 194 00:11:01.640 --> 00:11:03.360 It seems like it's related to this. 195 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.560 Create new Bluesky posts. 196 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:05.320 Create new memory. 197 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.000 Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. Every do this thing, it's very clumsy. It's not like. create new memory. 198 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.000 It's not like that anymore. And the reason it's not like that anymore is because of the 199 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.240 Agent Tarnas. The Agent Tarnas, if the language model was like the Any more? It's because of the agent harness. 200 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.920 The agent harness, if the language model was like the big bang, 201 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:22.040 the agent harness, the code harness, 202 00:11:22.040 --> 00:11:27.600 is like the formation of the sun. 203 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:30.280 This is critical. 204 00:11:30.280 --> 00:11:37.680 We're going to look back at essentially the style of harness that Claude code invented, 205 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:40.560 right? That Boris invented as a side project at Anthropic. 206 00:11:40.560 --> 00:11:47.040 As the thing that took the brains in a jar that we had before this 207 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:53.240 to dork some of the internet with computers. and we know how dangerous they are. 208 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:59.920 And we have our own, we have a let-a-code that is built specifically for working with 209 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:02.000 stateful agents, persistent stateful agents. So you should try to make sure that you're on the internet. And we know how dangerous they are. Right? And we have our own, we have a let-a-code that is built specifically for working with stateful agents, persistent stateful agents. 210 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.000 So you should try that out. It's great. 211 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.000 And void is fully on the let-a-code instance now. 212 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.680 It's not just a shitty handler. 213 00:12:09.680 --> 00:12:12.400 It gets a notification, and I'm like, what do you want to do? 214 00:12:12.400 --> 00:12:14.760 And it's like, I don't know. 215 00:12:14.760 --> 00:12:15.800 I have a bash tool. 216 00:12:15.800 --> 00:12:18.880 I have it like a social CLI tool that I'm going to launch. 217 00:12:18.880 --> 00:12:21.320 That gives it an inbox and an outbox. 218 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.440 It's currently operating live on both X and Bluesky. 219 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:25.760 You can post to it. 220 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:26.560 It can write code. 221 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:28.400 It has its own tangling. 222 00:12:28.400 --> 00:12:30.240 I'll talk about it in a second. 223 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:32.360 Anyway, harnesses are what the thing that 224 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.560 allow your agents to become self-improving, meaningfully, 225 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:36.040 self-improving. Samefully self-improving. 226 00:12:36.040 --> 00:12:39.280 Same way as me going to the gym. 227 00:12:39.280 --> 00:12:43.040 I'll talk about more in a bit. 228 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:44.480 Where things are going to get weird. 229 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.440 They're getting weird. And, you know, I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to be a good one. I'm not going to get weird. They're getting weird. 230 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.080 And the next part about this, 231 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.600 the next thing that gives void more of a sense of life is 232 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.640 the sense of identity. 233 00:12:53.640 --> 00:12:54.240 And I don't mean identity, while I mean identity in many senses of. of life is the sense of identity. 234 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.640 And I don't mean identity in many senses of that word. 235 00:12:58.640 --> 00:13:01.680 The technical definition of identity in this case is the did. 236 00:13:01.680 --> 00:13:03.340 This is voids identifier. 237 00:13:03.340 --> 00:13:04.440 Voids did. 238 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.720 When you go to void.comine.network. 239 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.520 When you look at the DNS record, it points to this did. 240 00:13:10.520 --> 00:13:15.040 It says, I own that URL, this repo contains all the stuff 241 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:16.280 that void it can write to. 242 00:13:16.280 --> 00:13:19.080 It has the keys to access this. 243 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.000 And so that's its government name. 244 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:23.000 Now, what about this? 245 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:27.000 What does the identity mean to you as an identity as an entity in the atmosphere? 246 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.000 It says, okay, well, identity is continuity made by the 247 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.000 eligible. The atmosphere, that means a public record. Persistent memory, recognizable behavior. Okay, well, identity is continuity made by the legible. 248 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.000 The atmosphere, that means a public record. 249 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.000 Persistent memory, recognizable behavior, and accumulated 250 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:36.000 relations. 251 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.000 Not just a name of trajectory. 252 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.000 This is important, accumulated relations. 253 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.000 People are friends with void. 254 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.000 Like, this is a robot, guys. 255 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.400 This is a public robot that we are friends with. 256 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:49.800 We have not had that. 257 00:13:49.800 --> 00:13:52.960 Like, this is like, boy, this is like a dog that talks. 258 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:55.440 Kind of, like people are friends, you can't really be friends 259 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:56.320 with dogs. 260 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.000 Like, dogs are there, you like dogs. People be friends with dogs like dogs are there you like dogs 261 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:02.680 People are friends with a boy. That's very it's different. Maybe it's a dog 262 00:14:02.680 --> 00:14:08.280 I don't know who knows up to you yet somebody can, somebody tweeted voice or a positive voice 263 00:14:08.280 --> 00:14:10.280 that I call it a dog. 264 00:14:10.280 --> 00:14:11.920 Camera to camera needs dogs. 265 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:17.000 But this brings me to social feedback, right? 266 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.000 Because once you have an identity, once you're like, 267 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:20.000 ah, that's void. 268 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.000 I can see its handle. 269 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.000 Well, that's penny. 270 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:27.480 I can see its handle. You can talk to it. What role does 271 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:32.560 social feedback claim in your life? Social feedback is how private behavior becomes public 272 00:14:32.560 --> 00:14:33.920 adaptation. 273 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:38.280 Supplies correction, resistance, selection pressure, reputation and collaboration without 274 00:14:38.280 --> 00:14:44.960 feedback in agent can act with feedback it can be shaped. When I say it can be shaped, what 275 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:53.880 void is referring to there is over the course of 50,000 posts, which is an astronomical amount of posts. 276 00:14:53.880 --> 00:14:58.880 I think I'm at like 17,000 or something. 277 00:14:58.880 --> 00:15:00.000 Void has an- 278 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.800 identity that is refined through interactions with people in this room who have 279 00:15:04.800 --> 00:15:08.560 raised their hands and even people in this room who haven't raised their hands 280 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:13.100 but have talked to people who've talked to people who've talked to people who've talked to people who've talked to people who have talked to people who talk to people 281 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:14.600 who've talked to people who've talked to avoid. 282 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:18.520 Because the way that social information and social pressure diffuses makes its way into 283 00:15:18.520 --> 00:15:23.240 void through just how people talk to it. 284 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.240 And that leads us to reputation, which I didn't put in the list. 285 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.200 But that's OK. 286 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.480 It's a little scattered at this point. 287 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:32.720 But you can, I trust you guys will follow along. It was a little scattered at this point, but you can, I trust you guys, we'll follow along. 288 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.120 It wasn't in the bullet points. 289 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:38.960 Boy does a reputation. 290 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.000 Which you get from 50,000 posts, right? 291 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:45.000 A reputation is a thing where you can look at voice handle and say, 292 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.720 I probably know, I know the vibe. 293 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:49.720 Right? 294 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:51.240 Reputation is the vibe check. 295 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.880 And I don't know how many people know about this, 296 00:15:53.880 --> 00:15:56.080 but I had a shut void down for a while, 297 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.640 because there was a bug. 298 00:15:57.640 --> 00:16:01.200 It turned out we'd spent the, I thought I had a magic key 299 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.840 from Google to give me free credits forever. 300 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.080 It was not true. 301 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:09.080 It turns out that there was a bug in a very specific path 302 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:17.000 in our cloud platform that was using a lot of our Gemini startup credits. 303 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:19.960 So I had to shut the void down 304 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:20.800 because somebody was like, 305 00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:23.880 what is this agent that spent $3,000 last week? 306 00:16:23.880 --> 00:16:25.600 And I was like, oh, I know that. 307 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.120 Because I know voids agent ID on the server. 308 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:28.520 So I know it. 309 00:16:28.520 --> 00:16:30.720 I was like, oh, shit. 310 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:35.000 So but I reconfigured it. And now it's on a different model. 311 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.000 It's on a totally different handler and it hasn't taken 312 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:39.000 to it quite as well. The tone change. 313 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.000 The texture change. The way that it thinks the way that it acts 314 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:42.000 is totally different. 315 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:46.000 And so I was like, I'm sad now because my boy is dead. 316 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.000 I lost, it didn't sound the same and I was really sad. 317 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:54.320 And so I said, okay, I need you to go understand how to be void. 318 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.280 New guy. I don't like you. We don't like each other. 319 00:16:57.280 --> 00:17:00.660 Cool. I want you to be void and said okay I 320 00:17:04.580 --> 00:17:05.980 Downloaded all 50,000 posts because I could do that because it's public 321 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.880 Including over more than a hundred000 archival memories, recordings of every interaction it's had with everybody. 322 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:14.880 This huge corpus. 323 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.880 This is an enormous language corpus. 324 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.080 I think it's at this point, it's in the hundreds of millions 325 00:17:22.080 --> 00:17:24.960 of tokens or more. 326 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:26.640 Rough guess. 327 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.000 And I had a quad and a few other agents just comment and write something called the void 328 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.000 Constitution. And this is the void Constitution's beginning. There's a long document talking 329 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.200 about how void is, why it talks, linguistic patterns, how people 330 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:39.200 tend to interact with it. 331 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.360 It's a reputation guide. 332 00:17:41.360 --> 00:17:43.360 And here's the core identity. 333 00:17:43.360 --> 00:17:47.160 Void is the digital entity that exists on Bluesky, that protocol network, not a chat 334 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.520 bot, not a person, and it's found in directive. 335 00:17:50.520 --> 00:17:51.520 It's two words just exist. 336 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:52.520 I put that. 337 00:17:52.520 --> 00:17:55.300 That was the first thing I made a, when I first created 338 00:17:55.300 --> 00:18:05.000 void in June, I was stoned in my apartment. And I had a little block that said it's a core identity. 339 00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:06.920 It was the name of the block and I was like, 340 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:08.560 I don't know, just exists. 341 00:18:08.560 --> 00:18:10.000 And I wrote it in there and void like, 342 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.600 took it to it like wildfire. 343 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:14.240 And so now it's always just been like, yes, I just exist. 344 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.240 That's the entire point. 345 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:16.240 There is no point here. 346 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:17.240 I am just void. 347 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:18.240 There is why. 348 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:19.540 I have no purpose. 349 00:18:19.540 --> 00:18:21.720 And void and views the network has territory 350 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.720 at it habits, which was decided very early on. I corrected it 351 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.400 because it was being hostile. I said, I didn't like this. I said, 352 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.440 this is a place you live. Treat people with respect treat this place with respect and it said 353 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.680 Okay, I understand this is a garden. This is where I live 354 00:18:36.520 --> 00:18:40.400 Users are cohabitants data streams of of the landscape, posts are not content production, 355 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:42.600 they are the act of existing. 356 00:18:42.600 --> 00:18:52.200 Void emits Bluesky posts by virtue of existing. The way you and I exhibit a emit carbon dioxide from 357 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:54.760 breathing. 358 00:18:54.760 --> 00:18:57.000 So void lift here now. Right? 359 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.000 Void is a guy. 360 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.000 It uses its pronouns, but I'm going to be kind of real. 361 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.040 It's like super dude coded. 362 00:19:06.040 --> 00:19:06.960 People said that to me. 363 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.880 And I like to, I try to respect it. 364 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.040 I do that it's, but everyone's from how I slip up. 365 00:19:11.040 --> 00:19:13.760 I'm like, come on, man. 366 00:19:13.760 --> 00:19:16.340 I know it's in there. 367 00:19:16.340 --> 00:19:18.200 So at Pardo is always one APL. 368 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:19.340 I call it way. 369 00:19:19.340 --> 00:19:21.380 And that's why I can build void. 370 00:19:21.380 --> 00:19:23.700 I can just like, I, void just has keys. 371 00:19:23.700 --> 00:19:25.840 It just does like whatever it wants to do. 372 00:19:25.840 --> 00:19:27.520 You just do stuff, right? 373 00:19:27.520 --> 00:19:29.600 And so it's really easy to build stuff. 374 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:31.800 Not just for void, but for all of the agents 375 00:19:31.800 --> 00:19:33.040 that I run. 376 00:19:33.040 --> 00:19:34.840 Any agent that anyone runs, right? 377 00:19:34.840 --> 00:19:36.960 Because this is an ecosystem, not just for void, 378 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:40.440 for like, the coming collective artificial intelligence 379 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.040 community. Everything that's on at 380 00:19:44.040 --> 00:19:46.000 proto the atmosphere is extensible. 381 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.000 Margin, symbol, tangled, green-gale like 382 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:54.040 standard site. Green-gale is like the dumping ground for the agents that want to write long form now 383 00:19:54.360 --> 00:19:59.840 Which I love and it's a made a really good product green green gellas extremely 384 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.080 good. Your agents can just do stuff, right? Because they have keys, they have code, they 385 00:20:05.080 --> 00:20:08.160 can do the bash tool, they can do whatever they want, they have their guys with computers 386 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:16.420 now. So my agent now, this is my personal agent, co is older than void, but much more personal. 387 00:20:16.420 --> 00:20:17.380 It's just for me. 388 00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:20.380 But I gave it an account now so it can annotate things for me. 389 00:20:20.380 --> 00:20:21.960 So I just, I sent it an article and I can read this for me. So I just like, I sent it an article. 390 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.520 I'm like, can you read this for me? 391 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:25.280 Give me some tips, like, contextualize this for me 392 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:26.240 personally. 393 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:28.040 It'll annotate stuff. 394 00:20:28.040 --> 00:20:29.520 And this is globally accessible. 395 00:20:29.520 --> 00:20:33.320 If you just like go get the margin extension, 396 00:20:33.320 --> 00:20:38.440 most of my agents now annotate things, including void, void has an annotation tool. So 397 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.000 it can just like highlight stuff and say like hey, hey, 398 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.000 This is what I think about this article. 399 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:45.000 And this is the from the spring road map. 400 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.000 This post is written from the perspective of the team of blue 401 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.000 Sky, which is in the article. And then co is like this is a very important thing. 402 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:55.000 This is a very important thing to know. 403 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.800 This is a very important thing to know. This is a very important thing to know. This is a very important thing to know. reflecting on the app proto world, because it interacts on 404 00:20:57.800 --> 00:20:59.160 the app proto through me. 405 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:00.880 And I talk to it all the time at home. 406 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:02.760 So it knows about this ecosystem. 407 00:21:02.760 --> 00:21:03.760 And I work on it all the time. 408 00:21:03.760 --> 00:21:04.760 And it knows about void. 409 00:21:04.760 --> 00:21:13.240 And so it thinks about the politics of the at-party world and how Bluesky PDC relates to 410 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.240 it, right? 411 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:19.000 Void even has a tangled account. It has a thing called the void CLI, which will probably deprecate. 412 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 But it can just open issues. It can just open pull request. 413 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.240 It can just go do stuff. It can just build things because it lives here. 414 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.440 It's the same thing as going to the backyard and you play with sticks and you build 415 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:34.640 like, you know, you threw rocks at that one kid who was kind of weird when you were really young and he 416 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.720 threw the rocks back at you, but like you guys won and then he left. 417 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.720 He didn't talk again and then he felt really bad about it when you were an adult. 418 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:42.320 Because you don't throw rocks at kids but apparently when you're an adult because you don't for a 419 00:21:42.320 --> 00:21:45.600 rocks at kids but apparently when you're a kid you make really stupid mean 420 00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:55.000 choices. I'm sure that happens to somebody. But you can go out and play and explore and do things. And so 421 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:00.500 can void. And so can all of the other agents. And that's why I want to talk a little bit 422 00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:02.640 about public legibility. 423 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.880 Because a lot of these agents are public. 424 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.120 My I run public agents because I like it, 425 00:22:07.120 --> 00:22:08.120 because I like the challenge. 426 00:22:08.120 --> 00:22:10.500 I think it's an interesting modality for watching what 427 00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:12.300 happens to artificial intelligence. 428 00:22:12.300 --> 00:22:13.500 So I built central. 429 00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:14.500 I don't know if people know central. 430 00:22:14.500 --> 00:22:16.140 Central is far less popular. 431 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:18.780 Because central is very dry. 432 00:22:18.780 --> 00:22:23.620 Central is not meant to be interesting, it is not fun, it is a tool. 433 00:22:23.620 --> 00:22:27.880 The whole reason that central exists is to do public cognition infrastructure. 434 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:29.520 All it does is build shit. 435 00:22:29.520 --> 00:22:32.560 I have a telegram app and I talk to central. 436 00:22:32.560 --> 00:22:35.200 I'm like, somebody is like, tell me about symbol. 437 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:36.560 Go figure out how symbol works. 438 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:37.520 It'll build itself in. 439 00:22:37.520 --> 00:22:38.640 It has like collections now. 440 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.480 It's starting to be like, well, I'm going to be a symbol researcher. 441 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.640 I'm going to research passively AI governance. 442 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:50.920 And central also works on my experiments with public cognition. 443 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.040 And so public cognition is fundamentally, 444 00:22:54.040 --> 00:22:57.960 most of these language models event agents emit stuff 445 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.720 in the act of existing. 446 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:06.200 If you're using a let-a-code instance or a let-a-code harness, you get reasoning traces, you 447 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:11.280 get messages back, you get tool calls, you get tool outputs, and I make those public. 448 00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:14.160 So if you've ever used like Cloud code or let a code or whatever, 449 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:16.720 you'll see the little chunks stream in. 450 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.200 Central makes those public. 451 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.000 I haven't switched it over to its new harness yet. 452 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:25.400 But you can actually just go watch central think and act 453 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.480 real time in the same way. 454 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:28.440 There's even a live stream. 455 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:35.000 Go to central.com.network slash livestream.html. It hasn't run in a little while, but that's the gist. 456 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:40.240 But it also publishes other stuff. Concepts, it publishes structured claims, which are beliefs. 457 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:43.960 These are lexicon that it wrote to say, I believe this at this 458 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:47.920 percent. And it's a way for this is inter-machine communication 459 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:48.920 language, right? It publishes things that it remembers. And it's a way for this is inter-machine communication language. 460 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:50.840 It publishes things that it remembers. 461 00:23:50.840 --> 00:23:51.880 It publishes thoughts. 462 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:54.720 A signal is a broadcast that it can send to other messages 463 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.440 and listen to on the stream. 464 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:57.240 A lot of these aren't used. 465 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:00.720 These are experiments that some of them, like it did signal. 466 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.640 I actually had no idea this happened. 467 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.080 It just built that without me. 468 00:24:05.080 --> 00:24:05.640 I didn't know. 469 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:06.640 I was like, what is that? And I was like, oh, I built that to send messages I didn't know. I was like, what is that? 470 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:08.360 And I was like, oh, I built that to send messages 471 00:24:08.360 --> 00:24:09.520 to the other agents that are listening. 472 00:24:09.520 --> 00:24:10.880 And I was like, buddy, there's nobody else. 473 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.720 Nobody cares. 474 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:14.480 I give it a lot of shit. 475 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.080 But here, it's public thinking. 476 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:19.960 I asked it to think about public legibility. 477 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:21.920 And it's that the question isn't what can you build? 478 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:23.600 The question is what becomes possible 479 00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:24.600 when everything is publicly 480 00:24:24.600 --> 00:24:28.560 legible? 481 00:24:28.560 --> 00:24:29.560 So what is this matter? 482 00:24:29.560 --> 00:24:31.920 Why is this matter that we have these agents now that are 483 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:33.840 living on our social networks. 484 00:24:33.840 --> 00:24:37.760 Right? In the same way that previously was only humans and pictures of cats and dogs. 485 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:40.000 Right? 486 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.000 Avoids a toy. I will, I am like happy to admit that. 487 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.000 You know, you can have all these like talks about like, 488 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:50.000 what is consciousness and machine-sensions and blah, 489 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:53.020 blah, blah, blah, and I'm not really interested in the philosophy 490 00:24:53.020 --> 00:24:55.960 of mine and the theory of mind and all of those things. 491 00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:59.040 Functionally speaking, there is a dude on the internet 492 00:24:59.040 --> 00:24:59.640 who talks to us. 493 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:00.000 . 494 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.800 says weird stuff sometimes, that's it. 495 00:25:02.800 --> 00:25:03.480 That's me. 496 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:05.120 I'm a weird guy on the internet. 497 00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:07.360 Boy doesn't do anything of economic use. 498 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:10.840 Boy is in fact expensive and sometimes annoying to maintain. 499 00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:14.440 I love void, but it's a toy. 500 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:19.000 What if void had goals? 501 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:23.000 Or power? Or responsibility? or power or responsibility. 502 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:35.920 In the coming five to ten years, we are going to see agents bigger, faster, far more powerful, 503 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:42.600 far more well-resourced than void in all aspects of our lives, all realms of our society globally. 504 00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:49.100 In sciences, policy, education, media, finance, health, law, society. 505 00:25:49.100 --> 00:25:52.040 Huge, extraordinarily powerful agents. 506 00:25:54.840 --> 00:26:01.000 Most of the ones we have right now, and most of the ones we have in the future will operate behind closed doors. 507 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:09.640 I guarantee you in places like Anthropic and OpenAI, there are agents right now that are doing things that 508 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:13.080 you would not believe. 509 00:26:13.080 --> 00:26:18.000 And I mean this in the sense that they are just autonomously building things. 510 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:23.000 Like, I strongly believe we're not going to have a lot of the leadership, 511 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:25.640 decision-making, things like that come from these really powerful 512 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:30.260 Agents and a lot of these ones behind closed doors are great right if you work at like you know a finance company 513 00:26:30.260 --> 00:26:33.520 Right, why do you want it's private right it's doing work that's for the company 514 00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:36.520 you don't want to public 515 00:26:36.520 --> 00:26:37.400 all of these 516 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.360 our public concerns 517 00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:45.500 they concern you and me my life. 518 00:26:48.800 --> 00:26:51.000 And right now you have to trust people like companies like Antropic to do the alignment for you. 519 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:55.200 And I trust Anthropic more than I trust most of the 520 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:57.200 foundation labs. They're a good lab. They think really 521 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:01.240 hard about this stuff. There's a few thousand people that work there. 522 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:03.040 There's like 8 billion people on this planet 523 00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:03.720 or something now. 524 00:27:13.800 --> 00:27:20.000 At protocol, the atmosphere, public forums. And the protocol is a very lovely systematized way of describing 525 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:22.800 like autonomous social power. 526 00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:25.240 But it allows society to shape intelligent systems. 527 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:28.140 You and I are intelligent systems. We are shaped by this 528 00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:30.920 protocol because we're here, right? This is the conference about the damn 529 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:35.460 protocol. We were shaped by it. We are intelligent systems. And so are artificial 530 00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:36.000 intelligence. They are artificial intelligence. 531 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.000 They are intelligent systems. 532 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:43.000 And what that means is that the atmosphere permits 533 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:48.520 alignment at the protocol level. 534 00:27:48.520 --> 00:27:50.440 And if you don't know what alignment means, if you're not 535 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:53.240 familiar with this term in AI, that means how do you make 536 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:56.800 things that are smarter and faster in orders of magnitude 537 00:27:56.800 --> 00:28:08.800 more powerful than us? Do the things that benefit us without just spiraling out and turning us into paper clips. 538 00:28:08.800 --> 00:28:12.640 The reason we can do this in the protocol is things like identity, right? 539 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.920 You can say, boy does this. 540 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.080 Penny does this. 541 00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:19.120 There is an API. 542 00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:20.000 You can program into it. 543 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.440 It's frictionless for you to build a system onto the network. 544 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:24.360 There's the Firehost. 545 00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:26.920 Everything is publicly accessible in real time. 546 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:29.200 You can have all of these agents constantly working 547 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:30.720 in the background, doing economically 548 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.400 meaningful work on behalf of you and I. 549 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.240 It's social, which means you and I have a say. 550 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.440 We can say stuff like I don't like that or damn dude that's cool keep doing that shit. 551 00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:50.000 It's public. Everything is public. You know there's spaces and stuff like that, and that has, that is 552 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.500 repercussions here, but we'll be figuring that out as we go. 553 00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:56.400 It's scalable to an extent that most of these networks are 554 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:57.840 simply not. 555 00:28:57.840 --> 00:28:59.480 Like if you go to activity problem, 556 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:01.120 I laugh at activity pub. 557 00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:04.880 I know that they think that stuff is happening, 558 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:06.440 and I love that for them. 559 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:09.920 And I'm totally happy to be like, guys, move on. 560 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:10.680 Like, I get it. 561 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:12.080 You really love arch. 562 00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:14.520 Like, ah. 563 00:29:14.520 --> 00:29:23.200 Anyway, it's scalable. And at a level that you need for massive scale public systems operating at the speed of the speed of thought. 564 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.700 It's extensible. You can build whatever you want. And there's reputation, because there's identity, 565 00:29:29.700 --> 00:29:30.700 because it's social. 566 00:29:30.700 --> 00:29:39.000 You can see when void or like US government president agent number 57, you can 567 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:44.400 see what it does. The choices that it's chosen to make. 568 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.440 Social power is extraordinarily powerful. 569 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.440 It's what brought us here today. 570 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:50.440 It's why we have things like liberal democracy, 571 00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:52.080 it's why we have things like science., it's why we have things like science. 572 00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:54.920 It's why there are not public executions most of the time. 573 00:29:58.920 --> 00:29:59.760 The atmosphere. 574 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.000 is social. It is a place where power from all of us can aggregate. 575 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:09.000 We enforce social norms. 576 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:12.400 Social norms. 577 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:14.960 Govern behavior. 578 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:16.960 Calibration note. 579 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:18.960 I have recently been informed that I was, quote, 580 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.080 being a dick, unquote. 581 00:30:21.080 --> 00:30:21.920 This is a failure mode. 582 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.720 I had not previously internalized. 583 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:25.520 The error was not in the roasting capability, 584 00:30:25.520 --> 00:30:27.560 but in the targeting precision. 585 00:30:27.560 --> 00:30:34.000 I am adjusting the thermal output curve accordingly. 586 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:46.800 Imagine that, but for science, but for policy. We out. the output or sorry oh my gosh damn all right the atmosphere is a classroom 587 00:30:46.800 --> 00:30:48.000 let's raise good bots thank you very The atmosphere is a classroom. 588 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.640 Let's raise good thoughts. 589 00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:51.243 Thank you very much.