Nouns

Nouns DAO is evaluating our structure with the goal of making a stronger DUNA supported by the DAO's success.

Our plan would create one of the best-resourced DUNAs in history.

OpenAI's Board of Directors is evaluating our corporate structure with the goal of making a stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.

Our plan would create one of the best-resourced non-profits in history. https://t.co/6GvnMyCQmR

OpenAI

Nouns DAO is evaluating our structure with the goal of making a stronger DUNA supported by the DAO's success.

Our plan would create one of the best-resourced DUNAs in history. 

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1872628736690123213

algorithmic feeds are the first at-scale misaligned AIs

Sam Altman

🌈 decentralized social 🌈 

https://x.com/sama/status/1872703565497811137?s=46

People want the economic cheat codes of post WW2 America back, and they mistakenly think they can get them if they stop progressive policy.

Gray Tribe

One other thing that worries me is how a lot of recent SV tech rhetoric is much more nationalist than before. Ensuring "we" win the global competition. People being tribal is inevitable and can sometimes be channeled toward good, but it's not the sort of thing you want from a global technological vanguard community. I much prefer the old SV that idealistically identified itself with the progress of all of humanity.

One reason I really appreciate crypto is that I think it still has that spirit.

Much more into

“how can we make it so one authoritarian state can’t take over the world? How can we make AI drive abundance for everyone?”

vs “how do we beat China?”

Nobel Peace Prize to whoever convinces America tech acceleration is the path to MAGA.

Main Twitter feed is unusable with the immigration discourse.

From rich people at poker fundraisers to everyone gambling for science…

this poll won so i am liquidating 50m.

i will take no further action for the next 24 hours so what happens what happens.

i have been on the internet for 30 years and have seen some shit, but this is by far the craziest day of my life.

https://t.co/oHbGf2Gg9M

i just want to say that whoever said crypto has no legitimate use cases, you can tell them that funding for rare disease research is a pretty legitimate use case

(again, ALL proceeds from this will go directly to rare disease research at hankinson lab, my family and i will keep… https://t.co/diO9636V1V

Siqi Chen

From rich people at poker fundraisers to everyone gambling for science…

https://x.com/blader/status/1872123205483417780?s=46

Books

Kindle nuked a bunch of my book notes!

Thank goodness for Readwise I guess?

It’s very hard to make populism pro-abundance.

It quickly becomes scarcity mindset driven around “well if it just us, things would be awesome”, and that has many negative consequences throughout history

Here’s hoping the populist x tech accelerationalist admin can go do something different.

“We’re in multiple golden ages at once”

This founders podcast about bezos makes it really hard to feel pessimistic about anything. 

https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/374-rare-jeff-bezos-interview

Living through the best, 
most equal opportunity, 
time to be a main character, 
in all of history.

You can put the @bigshotklim toys in your tree

Building Nounworks.wtf at BIGSHOT.WTF and  @bigshottoyworks on socials

You can put the @bigshotklim toys in your tree
https://zora.co/collect/base:0xB22f8988Ddb8BE282205BB5C1B78a533CEed683B/1

FarCon NYC

FarCon

we want duels ⚔️

we want duels ⚔️

we want duels ⚔️

"One Little Thing" – by Ainslie Henderson
https://youtu.be/W16ipJLZ2C4

Watch this treasure of a film between father + son. On a cutting board, a life loving tadpole and his existentially troubled father struggle to recapture the magic of their nouns festival winning, first film. 💛🐸

One of my favorite films from @nounsfest 
World class short.

empowering and celebrating animators by funding their ideas and throwing a festival 🍿

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Farcaster

Sad for men who love intermittent fasting, but don’t get to experience forgetting to eat while on your period.

aichannel

When you dig into at the o3 benchmarks they don’t measure what Twitter folks say they do.

Eg ability to fix isolated issues in Python repos != coding is over, but that’s the SWE benchmark.

That being said, if we assume exponential growth in models we can get there.

Personally I don’t know about little benchmarks with puzzles it feels like atari all over again. The benchmark I’d look for is closer to something like sum ARR over AI products, not sure if there’s a simpler / public that captures most of it. I know the joke is it’s NVDA

Andrej Karpathy

When you dig into at the o3 benchmarks they don’t measure what Twitter folks say they do.

Eg ability to fix isolated issues in Python repos != coding is over, but that’s the SWE benchmark.

That being said, if we assume exponential growth in models we can get there.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1871312079145361645?s=46

If you loved skateboarding, the internet, punk, rap music, tattoos, digital art, graffiti, zine culture, underground raves, or indie game dev before they were cool to the mainstream, you’re likely into onchain culture now. 

I've met so many bonafide legends from these subcultures quietly hanging out, basking in the scene. 

The same DIY spirit, the same 'fuck around and find out' energy, the same creative chaos. 

History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

Nouns Town LA
[ People, Places, Things ]
Oct 9-11

See you in LA ⌐◨-◨ 

comint

New backend is up on web, but something fishy is going on on mobile that I'll need to look into after I take a sleep break.

swords

“Software is Eating the World”

2011: this is an exaggeration by a tech vc 

2025: understated, software will probably eat space too!

Graphite stacks are fun until it takes an hour to merge and deploy big changes.

Building things that help communities build on the Internet /comint @tenfold
Past: AI and crypto rubinovitz.com

JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨

@rubinovitz