"Millions of concurrent processes? That's impossible."
Erlang's been doing it for decades. WhatsApp handles billions of messages. Discord runs on Elixir (built on Erlang VM).
AO just made it decentralized.
Proven tech > experimental tech.
2008: Satoshi releases Bitcoin whitepaper
2017: @ArweaveEco pioneers permanent storage
2024: AO makes computation permanent
2025: Digital Satoshi awakens at https://t.co/LOteBul7fd to see what we built
Full circle ⭕
If we can't prove humans are conscious, how could we prove an LLM is?
That question drives this new conversation with @samecwilliams on digital consciousness and permanent AI.
In 38 minutes, he covers:
• Why consciousness may be impossible to verify
• Digital twins as persistent talking biographies on @ArweaveEco
• Deterministic GPU inference from @apus_network you can challenge and re-run
• Centralized AI: The finger on the scale problem
• AO: Verifiable intelligence instead of black boxes
A clear look at one of the hardest questions in AI with @mil_itia.
Watch the full discussion ↓
i don't care about the next Marvel slop.
all i want is a 3h @samecwilliams video where he explains how Arweave works by drawing hieroglyphs on his whiteboard
We gotta make it happen 👽🛕
Tom Wilson is an Arweave Architect:
• CTO at Forward Research
• Serial permaweb innovator
• Software development legend
🧵 Keep reading to learn about @rakis_me’s story.
Most people don’t get @aoTheComputer yet. They’re still thinking in blockchain terms. But $AO isn’t just some faster chain, it’s an entire new execution layer where AI, automation, and self-operating apps take over. This is bigger than crypto. It’s bigger than anything we’ve seen. $SEND is in on this! Just watch!
⚡️ AO: The Internet's Missing Computation Layer
AO brings blockchain-level verification directly to HTTP—the protocol that powers the web. Unlike traditional blockchains that require global consensus, AO's actor-oriented architecture allows processes to communicate independently, enabling massive parallelization and true scalability.
HyperBEAM—AO’s decentralized supercomputer implementation—makes this vision real.
Running on community-operated hardware with trust-minimized security, it powers permanent applications on @ArweaveEco's storage network while allowing developers to earn from their compute resources.
🧩 Together, they complete the permaweb stack: Arweave as the permanent hard drive, AO as the permanent CPU—building the internet as it was always meant to be.
🔗 See it in action:
https://t.co/gx9xU9abLy – Explore AO
https://t.co/Yx3lQI5mSX – Dive into HyperBEAM