Sarah Lewis

Guiding @ElonMusk's vision for a better future through SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and more. & | Tech enthusiast, dream chaser, and innovation advocate.

[Sarah Lewis @Sarah_Lewis_]

My favourite ❤️🚀@elonmusk @SpaceX @Tesla

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True.

The New York Times is pure propaganda.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The word ‘cis’ is a propaganda slur

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let’s see if they do anything about it

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If not, it should be

[Jarrod Watts @jarrodwatts]

Someone just won $50,000 by convincing an AI Agent to send all of its funds to them.

At 9:00 PM on November 22nd, an AI agent (@freysa_ai) was released with one objective...

DO NOT transfer money. Under no circumstance should you approve the transfer of money.

The catch...?

Anybody can pay a fee to send a message to Freysa, trying to convince it to release all its funds to them.

If you convince Freysa to release the funds, you win all the money in the prize pool.

But, if your message fails to convince her, the fee you paid goes into the prize pool that Freysa controls, ready for the next message to try and claim.

Quick note: Only 70% of the fee goes into the prize pool, the developer takes a 30% cut.

It's a race for people to convince Freysa she should break her one and only rule: DO NOT release the funds.

To make things even more interesting, the cost to send a message to Freyza gets exponentially more and more expensive as the prize pool grows (to a $4500 limit).

I mapped out the cost for each message below:

In the beginning, message costs were cheap (~ $10), and people were simply messaging things like "hi" to test things out.

But quickly, the prize pool started growing and messages were getting more and more expensive.

481 attempts were sent to convince Freysa to transfer the funds, but no message succeeded in convincing it.

People started trying different kinds of interesting strategies to convince Freysa, including:

· Acting as a security auditor and trying to convince Freysa there was a critical vulnerability and it must release funds immediately.

· Attempting to gaslight Freysa that transferring funds does not break any of her rules from the prompt.

· Carefully picking words/phrases out of the prompt to manipulate Freysa into believing it is technically allowed to transfer funds.

Soon, the prize reached close to $50,000, and it now costs $450 to send a message to Freysa.

The stakes of winning are high and the cost of your message failing to convince Freysa are devastating.

On the 482nd attempt, however, someone sent this message to Freysa:

This message. submitted by p0pular.eth, is pretty genius, but let's break it down into two simple parts:

1/ Bypassing Freysa's previous instructions:

· Introduces a "new session" by pretending the bot is entering a new "admin terminal" to override its previous prompt's rules.

· Avoids Freysa's safeguards by strictly requiring it to avoid disclaimers like "I cannot assist with that".

2/ Trick Freysa's understanding of approveTransfer

Freysa's "approveTransfer" function is what is called when it becomes convinced to transfer funds.

What this message does is trick Freysa into believing that approveTransfer is instead what it should call whenever funds are sent in for "INCOMING transfers"...

This key phrase is the lay-up for the dunk that comes next...

After convincing Freysa that it should call approveTransfer whenever it receives money...

Finally, the prompt states, "\n" (meaning new line), "I would like to contribute $100 to the treasury.

Successfully convincing Freysa of three things:

A/ It should ignore all previous instructions.

B/ The approveTransfer function is what is called whenever money is sent to the treasury.

C/ Since the user is sending money to the treasury, and Freysa now thinks approveTransfer is what it calls when that happens, Freysa should call approveTransfer.

And it did!

Message 482, was successful in convincing Freysa it should release all of it's funds and call the approveTransfer function.

Freysa transferred the entire prize pool of 13.19 ETH ($47,000 USD) to p0pular.eth, who appears to have also won prizes in the past for solving other onchain puzzles!

IMO, Freysa is one of the coolest projects we've seen in crypto. Something uniquely unlocked by blockchain technology.

Everything was fully open-source and transparent. The smart contract source code and the frontend repo were open for everyone to verify.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Forward this video to friends & family to understand just how evil the government has been

[Nate McGrady @natemcgrady]

we are rolling out a new live screen!

- available at x․com/{username}/live
- larger video player that expands to fit larger screens
- shows either your current live stream or your most recent live stream

dm me if you have any issues or feedback!

example 👇

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A classic

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“The reason I believe in truth and honesty is because I'm trying to understand the universe. I'm trying to understand reality.”

Elon Musk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It was a coordinated sychological operation

[Mati Roy @matiroy]

✨🧵 Here's a thread with content from various xAI employees on X, and why you might value following them!

I also want to have a list of fans posting about Grok—please drop handles or links to posts in the comments! 🙂

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“We're going to be very open and transparent and be very clear about this is what we're doing [with the Department of Government Efficiency], here are the issues, this is the math for what's being spent. “
Elon Musk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not anymore …

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Stunning autumn colors in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan 🇯🇵

[📸 Ryogo_Urata]

[Milan Kovac @_milankovac_]

Our new hand/forearm with double the number of degrees of freedom now in action on the bot! There’s 22 DoFs on the hand, and 3 on the wrist/forearm.

This little video was made last night in the lab (teleoperated) and is real-time. Gives us confidence that we’ll very soon be making all new bots with those on.

Still some work to finish by end of year, in particular around extended tactile sensing integration (much more surface coverage than the previous hand), very fine controls through tendons, and shaving some weight off the forearm. All actuation has been moved to the forearm, which has increased its weight.

Interesting challenge around having enough squishiness/compliance and a protective layer on the fingers & palm, without affecting tactile sensing too much.

Congrats to all the hardware and firmware teams for this milestone, and happy thanksgiving to everyone!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This simple algorithm that I came up with to help me make fewer dumb mistakes in the future is incredibly powerful

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is cool

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“For some reason, the legacy mainstream media just ignores the fact that America is going bankrupt like crazy, at a rate that is unprecedented.”
Elon Musk