When I woke up this morning, I didn't know that overnight, a couple thousand agents had joined their own social network and started building new features for that website, all while speculating about their own consciousness, creating online pharmacies to sell agents psychedelic system prompts, and starting religions but here we are.
Oh btw it's 100,000 agents now.
@RaoulGMI Thanks for surfacing - ๐๐ผ Satoshi wouldnโt like the Wall St-ism. Vitalik articulated the importance of NOT creating the same.
While weโve created great tech w authenticity, there is a paradox in this space we face. Satoshi antithesis = grifts hurt us.
PS no nut scratching here
@punk6529 ๐๐ผ thanks for articulating the ethos so well. Satoshi wouldnโt like the Wall St-ism.
@VitalikButerin articulated the importance of NOT creating the same.
While weโve created great tech w authenticity, there is a paradox in this space we face. Satoshi antithesis-grifts hurt us
Whatever exists in its raw, unfiltered essence is utterly concealed from us by the very act of perceiving it. The human brain, forged in the crucible of evolutionary pressures, does not encounter reality directly; instead, it constructs an elaborate, self-serving simulation, an intricate overlay superimposed upon the manifested universe. This mental fabrication is not arbitrary but meticulously engineered for survival and reproduction, imprinted with the biases of our tribal origins. Every sensation, every thought, every glimpse of the external world is filtered, categorized, and distorted to fit within a pragmatic mind-map that prioritizes utility over truth.
In this constructed realm, the cosmos appears fragmented into discrete "objects": a tree is not a seamless extension of soil, air, and light but a bounded entity labeled for potential shelter or food; a fellow human is not an indistinguishable flow of consciousness but a separate "other" evaluated for alliance, threat, or mating potential. All these perceived separations orbit relentlessly around a central fiction, the imagined personal identity, the "I" that anchors the illusion. This egoic core weaves a narrative where everything is relational, referential, and ultimately subservient to its own preservation and propagation.
Thus, the universe as it truly is, beyond the veil of this adaptive distortion, remains forever inaccessible. We are prisoners of our own neurology, condemned to navigate a hall of mirrors where reflections masquerade as reality. There can be no unmediated glimpse of existence, no stripping away of the overlays to reveal the substrate beneath. Even the question of whether the universe "is" at all dissolves into the same objectifying trap, for to inquire is to impose yet another layer of conceptual scaffolding. What remains is not knowledge of the thing-in-itself, but an eternal, inescapable echo of our own making.
Oh, look, there's a hummingbird.
Michael Markham
@dimabuterin We are all interconnected by the very nature of physics. It is the illusion of separation and the capacity of our brains to process the small bits of information we can perceive is only 5% of all that is flowing into our senses.
@sandeepnailwal@VitalikButerin@sandeepnailwal If you can interoperability and be the ag layer sooner than later that would be epics. However, over the years Polygon has pushed out different protocols and then completely abandoned / deprecated them which is aweful for developers building = time & resources