Serj Solarpunk 🔆

On a quest to become super-normal. hacking on local AI agents maximising your flourishing & robotics | prev co-founder @chippdotai, team @meaningaligned

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

1/ At the edge of the Himalayas, Bhutan is launching a once-in-a-generation experiment:

A Special Economic Zone built not just on GDP, but on Buddhism, dharma & tech-enhanced flourishing

While the world doubles down on growth, Bhutan asks: what if development began with wisdom?

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

@viemccoy where do I sign up? It’s not post-Sapiens or dataism, not homo deus something much more nuanced

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

If thousands of people started regularly experiencing conscious control in their dreams, it would fundamentally shift our relationship with consciousness. Right now, most people experience awareness as this binary thing, awake or you're not. Lucid dreaming breaks that binary

[Prophetic @PropheticAI]

Today we are launching two revolutionary products: Dual and Phase.

These devices will enhance how humans dream.

Prophetic Dual retails for $449 and starts shipping at the end of this year.

Prophetic Phase retails for $1299 and starting shipping middle of next year.

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

Genuinely one one the most ground breaking talks I’ve watched in the last year. Cuts through the AI hype noise and into the rapidly approaching world of ubiquitous and capable robotics.

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

I promise this will be the best 20 min you spend today! Robotics: Endgame, the sequel to my last year's Sequoia AI Ascent talk, "Physical Turing Test". I laid out the roadmap for solving Physical AGI as a simple parallel to the LLM success story. Be a good scientist, copy homework ;)

And stay till the end, more easter eggs and predictions for your polymarket!

00:30 DGX-1 origin story at OpenAI, I was there in 2016 signing with Jensen and Elon. Heading to the Computer History Museum!
01:42 The Great Parallel
03:31 Robotics, the Endgame
03:39 Why VLAs fall short
04:32 Video world models as the 2nd pretraining paradigm
06:09 World Action Models (WAM)
07:46 Strategies for robot data collection and the FSD equivalent to physical data flywheel for robot manipulation
11:06 EgoScale and the Dexterity Scaling Law we discovered recently
14:00 Physical RL: bridging the last mile
15:39 DreamDojo: an end-to-end neural physics engine for scaling RL in silico
17:00 Civilizational Technology Tree and my predictions for the near future. Spoiler: it's closer than you think.

Thanks to my friends at Sequoia for inviting me back to AI Ascent this year! I had a blast! Last year's talk is attached in the thread if you missed it.

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

Let them cook!!!!! Nice work @syntonikka and the @JoinEdgeCity crew!

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

Today, we're sharing a new visual direction for the Edge City site.

I've been working on this with @syntonikka on design and Harry Eastham on web dev.

The goal is to reflect what it's like to be at Edge and align with our community's optimistic future outlook.

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

Made a meaning-maxxing skill for hermes AI agent based on my some on the work of @meaningaligned

Paste the URL and tell it to learn the skill to get started.
https://t.co/hHPGsPpU33

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

bro, in 2026, you need to be meaning-maxxing.

savor the sunset. call your friends. tell them you love them. presence-maxx with your family. ponder life's mysteries. make something with your hands. treat your attention as sacred.

living meaningfully is the real flex.

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

@LottoLabs @kaiostephens What is this localmaxxing you speak of?

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

I hope to catch all of you crazy cats at @JoinEdgeCity in California.

I’ll be busy building and chatting about privacy oriented on-device LLM applications like Holon Voice which is now on the App Store. https://t.co/35V6ORz8O6

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

@BrianRoemmele Are you renting per hour for big GPUs or have actually got a GPT4 or better experience running on less than 8 A100s at home?

Even min max 2.5 quantised on 1 DGX spark feels lobotomised.

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

@timourxyz Its go time!

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

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

Verification: rocky-R9SC

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

15/ I wrote a longer piece exploring these ideas. Super history. Data age. The centaur frame. How we grow wisely with AI.

Link below if you want to go deeper.

https://t.co/FyqpZeBBSh

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

1/ How thinking about AI in terms of "Super History" is giving me better insights than "Super Intelligence"

This reframe changed how I think about human potential. A thread 🧵

[Serj Solarpunk 🔆 @serjsolarpunk]

14/ That's the work now. Learning to ride.

Not AI vs humans. Not replacement or resistance. We're becoming centaurs.

The question isn't whether this is happening. It's whether we become wise ones. Ancient and young at once.