Josh Levine

serial grasper | formerly: CTO Sense (acq 0x Labs), architect @MakerDAO

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@TheStalwart @tszzl obv idk. but I bet against kurzweil at my peril

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@TheStalwart @tszzl It seems likely that there are hard physical limits on the amount of intelligence you could get out of eg some number of flops / memory

Obviously i'm not an ASI and I don't know that, but it at least seems mechanistically possible that you need some baseline

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@irl_danB I’ve taken to typing “work flows” 😅

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@brockjelmore It’s a little outdated in the details, but I think this post still points in the direction of a strong case for https://t.co/yRnSmcV8Pe

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@jiaxinwen22 @RichardMCNgo fixing pre-training? you view current methods as broken somehow?

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@drorpoleg @krishnanrohit This still seems beneficial to the avg person in nyc. It was on ny state not to make this deal if it’s detrimental to them

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@irl_danB @RobKnight__ This is very cool and might be reason to pick that back up...

[Duncan Townsend @duncancmt]

If this is the response of Ethereum core devs to application developers talking about their pain in bringing dApps to market, then the EVM is truly FUCKED. The EF not only has lost touch with what people want, they are actively working *AGAINST* the people who consume block space

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@malinvested @multasapientia Anthropic has been loudest on this, and I was very glad to hear their case represented and responded to. Dwarkesh is doing a great job putting cases from both sides earnestly in front of the other https://t.co/XXZzzoSfLC

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

I play devil's advocate against my guests to test out their ideas.

As you pointed out yourself when I hassled Dario during *his* interview :)

Re China, when I had Dario on, because he supports export controls, I asked him, “Why can’t China and America both have a datacenter of geniuses?”

With Jensen, I took the opposite track.

https://t.co/kjNO73JGdX

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@trq212 Mostly an improvement! Scroll sensitivity feels odd, and sometimes the pane goes all black (scrolling up then back down seems to fix it)

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@nateliason @jonnym1ller The op was "little to no introspection". I do believe Lincoln with little to no introspection is not the great man he was

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@nateliason @jonnym1ller Lincoln is just such a clear example of this and is widely considered one of the greatest men in American history

[kenton @KentonPrescott]

Rumpel’s time has come to an end. While this isn’t the ending we envisioned, we ran it hard, and I’m proud of what we accomplished.

Over 4.5 years, the Sense/Rumpel team pursued two distinct visions in DeFi — fixed income (Sense) and liquid point incentives (Rumpel). We raised during the 2021 highs, weathered the brutal 3ac + luna + ftx winter, ran numerous MVPs, and pivoted to a product users genuinely wanted. Both protocols introduced new markets for exchanging risk, representing our bet on what DeFi does best.

I’m equally grateful to have built alongside a genuinely exceptional team. Founded on strong ownership, high autonomy, and low ego — we stayed lean, ambitious, and honest with each other. @jparklev & @0xstvn brought the engineering expertise that made both protocols possible, and @gophillionaire brought the GTM expertise to make our products shine. 0x Labs is lucky to have a couple of them.

To our investors and users, thank you for your trust, your feedback, and your willingness to use (& back!) something bold and new. It has been a distinct pleasure building for this community.

As for me, I’m not going anywhere. I still believe in the promise of DeFi, a new technology paradigm that brings greater access, expressivity, and capital efficiency to global markets.

Taking some time to decompress and think clearly. The next bet is already forming.

See you onchain, anon 🫡

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@gakonst For next, has to be https://t.co/5D9sm247pX

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@nateberkopec Why do you think this validates their priors? Honestly i've seen posting from eg @joel_bkr that runs the other way. eg https://t.co/cUZ8qjOGhp and https://t.co/DtyxnXW2ig

[Joel Becker @joel_bkr]

if any anthropic employees would like to put money where their mouth is on opus 4.5 self-reported uplift numbers (results resolving to METR-style RCT), i am keen to make bets with you. https://t.co/JW0dyJU1ka

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

excuse me claude you'll be doing what to my session

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@atelicinvest One interesting data point. There’s something going on here, and I don’t suspect it’s that anthropic has Pokémon envs (tho I could be wrong)

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@ajambrosino Exactly what i've been wanting!! Would be great if it could work with eg personal digital ocean droplets i provision. And if I could seamlessly move a thread from local to remote and back

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@irl_danB Also i'd love to chat about future ideas and what you're seeing for this project. Not sure you have a discord? Or if you want to send me a DM or follow me so I can DM 🤲

[Josh Levine @jparklev]

@irl_danB Amazing. This is a really cool program, dan. I had just last night forked open prose to add a "feedback" block, hah