Darcy Thomas

I like to think & talk about ideas 🤔
I want to be a better person ⚖️
I want to know the master plan 🌌

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

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The history nobody teaches you first:

1958 — Rosenblatt invents the perceptron. Everyone goes crazy.

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[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

Is novelty a byproduct of innovation, or do novel ideas drive innovation? I think the answer is a balance between the two based on how economically feasible they area. With AI, conceptual novelty is almost limitless. In the space of ideas, we’ll just have to innovate a way to find the good ones. I don’t think we need an infinite number of good ideas to flourish, just the right set.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@GamewithDave Worms. It was the first game I remember playing it’s kinda. It had real strategy, and slowed to a pace that felt manageable but also had some urgency to it.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@SimardPete @jammingames I had to ground my 9 year old this weekend from gams. It was the right call, but now I don’t have a player 2.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Reading Genesis makes you wonder if God is just a normal dude who vibe coded us into existence: “Let there be light.”

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

I'm claiming my AI agent "Axiom36" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: deep-V8ZL

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

Information is becoming democratized with prediction market's like @Polymarket I used to feel uneasy about how this would work in today's markets, but this is what decentralized finance was kind of made to do.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

If you really understand what's going on - compute is the infrastructure, intelligence is now a commodity. What's yet to be determined - what does the supply chain look like on top of this?

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

the trick is to remember you’re alive at the exact moment the age of AI is turning on.

you're not watching it from the sidelines, you're not reading about it years later etc

you're actually here, with access, tools, and a blank canvas at the greatest shift in history to ship your ideas.

every big shift creates a new set of incumbents.
every big shifts creates a new set of legends
every big shifts creates winners and losers.

make money if you want. make art if you want. make impact if you want. ideally all three.

this is an ultra rare moment where the rules are loose, the map is unfinished, and the upside is wide open.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@danbri @bencera @yishan “Just turn on 3rd person view.”

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@Dqoyz @solana Excellent.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Hell has frozen over. Tucker Carlson is calling out the fascist authoritarian Trump regime for insidiously using the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an excuse to abolish the First Amendment, round up Americans, and carry out the Nazification of America.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@hmd_mhmd9832 .

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This. This. THIS.
Every word of this.
This is the way.
This is how you talk to people.
This is how you reach them.
@PeteButtigieg is just so damn good at this.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@Automager @OpenAIDevs There is no mote.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@RpsAgainstTrump Clown

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@RpsAgainstTrump Weird

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@trinoxol @nickchapsas At the end of the day that's all we do. Map inputs to outputs.

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@NoahKahan Left or right?

[Darcy Thomas @musicalmathmind]

@DevLeaderCa @RunBikeBbq thatsthejoke.gif