David Hawig

Building at the Edge of Web3, previously Director of Ecosystem Growth at Web3 Foundation

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Hawig Ventures https://t.co/IPOI0yExf1 is up and running, which means we are getting close to launching @yieldshield_ai. But I also have a bunch of other ideas, and I'm happy to help anyone who wants to combine AI with Web3 composability.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

@alice_und_bob I'm not sure what you are doing, but Claude is getting pretty good at helping you to burn as many tokens as possible as fast as possible. I feel like this is their main focus at the moment, maybe because of the upcoming IPO. I would recommend using codex/GPT-5.5 at the moment.

[Eric Wall @ercwl]

i'm finding it increasingly difficult to participate in modern discourse to the point that i don't really know what to do or how to talk to people

over the past few years, i've seen the capabilities of ai continue to improve, and all the goalposts of what ai should/shouldn't be able to do constantly shift

it's completely obvious that we've discovered a way for machines to learn things. they're now at the capabilities in math and coding where they outcompete most humans on most task.

it should be clear to you that the fundamental barriers that you thought would prevent ai from getting better haven't actually prevented ai from getting better.

it was only a year ago that you said that their capabilities would flatline because we're running out of training data. that sentiment peaked around september last year, and for all the lamentations about data walls or efficient compute frontiers, new paradigms (in RL and others) *have worked*

machines continue to get better. we don't know where they'll stop. and the methods by which they think (cot, scratch pads, python tools) which have barely existed nanoseconds on the cosmic calendar, already *do* show forms of reasoning that allow them to reach impressive conclusions

if we don't agree about this, that machines will continue to learn, and we'll continue to explore paradigms for them in which to think, and that it is atleast quite likely that they'll continue to get better, i already don't know how to converse with you

if you still observe this from a "oh the statistical parrot machine spat out a token in a sequence that was likely, wow, such reasoning!" point of view, i already don't know how to converse with you

and here's where things get more complicated

if you're with me this far, it should be reasonable to describe our current world as one where a new form of possibly superior intelligence is arriving and is steadily improving

now, where things get completely bizarre for me is where *you* think that your opinions of what this new form of intelligence can and cannot do matter or are relevant. and this bleeds into topics like quantum and everything else for me

from my point of view, you are now a chimpanzee on planet earth, studying the arrival of "humans"

you climb up every tree on earth and jump down from it, and you establish that gravity seems to work equally on all surfaces of the earth, and from this experiment you establish that regardless of how smart this new "human" is, it will not be possible for it to master space travel.

because *you* understand gravity

if you don't approach the world from a point of view that you don't actually know anything about what an intelligence smarter than you is capable or not capable of doing, i already don't know hot to converse with you

and i'm not talking about a leap in intelligence that requires something impossible that has never happened in history before. i'm just talking about the difference in intelligence between chimpanzees and humans. which has happened before. and led to space travel.

the only thing that was required for this superior form of intelligence to evolve on the planet (from molecules to *us*) was for a rock (earth) to get hit by an ice ball and then spin around the sun a bunch of times. the ingredients that produce intelligence are not complex, they only require iterations and feedback from the universe

and it appears that this exact process is now happening in machines which do not require the thousand-year process of evolution, because we have invented a way for rocks to think in silicon, and the substrate of intelligence (the matter on which it runs) have shifted to something where it's far more malleable and the iterations are much faster

to me, all of these things are rather simple, easily observable phenomena. they're all ongoing and they're real.

but in all conversations, basically no matter where i look, everyone is still stuck in a "but hoomans can't do space travel because muh gravity"-type of reasoning and are incapable of embracing the very realistic prospects that all our models are quite likely to soon be broken

i tire of the conversation, and find that i do not have much to add to what you are currently talking about, because it appears that we are so diametrically opposed from each other in our understanding of what is happening in the world that we can not begin to have a useful exchange on current topics

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

@lukas_gw_ Coole Idee! Viel Erfolg.

[Yieldy @Yieldy_io]

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We're building Yieldy to fix it in one click. You keep custody.

Starting with the best yield protocols on @Solana.

🧵

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Codex usage limits have now been reset across all paid plans. Enjoy the weekend!

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Finally!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

You've been asking for this one...

Now in preview: Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app.

Start new work, review outputs, steer execution, and approve next steps, all from the ChatGPT mobile app. Codex will keep running on your laptop, Mac mini, or devbox.

[Aljosa Asanovic @aljosa]

@ClaudeDevs Alright one 20x plan down, appreciate the reminder 🙏

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

@swader @reach_vb @thsottiaux Yeah, it’s super annoying. The last time it happened, I immediately switched to Claude. This time, at least 5.4, seems still to be working...

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

@worldnetwork Is it possible to meet someone from the team there? I have been working on an on-chain human-in-the-loop product for some time, and I'm considering using World ID for this.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

@itsbirdo_ It was updated after my tweet; see my last tweet in the thread.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Working on a “free and trustless” version of the internet, but not allowing people to comment on your tweets feels a little bit strange to me… I guess Polkadot was built on you. Not for you ;-)

[Polkadot @Polkadot]

The internet was built on you.
Not for you.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

I knew the whole time that Jaco, the creator of Polkadot.js, had access to AI before everyone else: https://t.co/7cG12RCpd4. I'm only getting slowly to these numbers...

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Update: It looks like you can now reply to the tweet. At least it's now possible for me.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Btw., we started open-sourcing our @yieldshield_ai smart contracts and front-end code: https://t.co/C95a4aSceI Feel free to take a look.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

pUSD Launch by Polymarket is tomorrow.... I guess Polkadot needs to rename its stablecoin ;-)

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Wouldn't it be nice if your AI agent could get human feedback on AI-generated posters, like the one below? We are working on the verified human judgment layer for AI agents. Launching soon...

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

It looks like OpenAI is trying to get rid of its customers and really wants me to use Claude again.

[David Hawig @davidhawig]

Redesigning https://t.co/5YATSsKYvE to focus on “ai asks human”, so that I can run multiple agents to work on solutions/products with human feedback. Let me know in case you’re interested and feel free to claim the tokens. We’ll take a snapshot of the current distribution for the redeployment.