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[Supafray.eth 💫 @Supafray]

Grateful to have been a part of this incredible exhibition alongside so many talented artists🔥💚🔥

[Artpoint @artpoint_xyz]

GM ☀️

Last week was huge with the launch of the FOR THE CULTURE exhibition at @NFTFactoryParis and sale on @foundation. THANK YOU to all the artists who participated & collectors who acquired a piece!

Here's a recap of the past week:

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

We launched Geo Debates to give people a place to have structured conversations on the big issues.

From relationships, to politics, to AI. You can participate and vote and have your voice heard.

Please let me know what you think!
https://t.co/UurY2cJdDL

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

I’ve never seen the crypto industry this lost & confused.

There’s one thing that matters: open decentralized networks that improve people’s lives.

Let’s get it back friends

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

We have to find our way to collective wisdom.

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

Intelligence is the ability to make the best decision given the right context.

Knowledge is the context

[Geo @geoprotocol]

Feminism has made dating harder for both men and women.

Anthropologist David Lindstrom and relationship expert Laura Daniela debate on Geo

Full debate: https://t.co/3LZI4DVhzR

[Arturas @ArturasStoic]

I'm celebrating my 100th debate on Geo 🍾
Totally unbiased, of course :) it might be the most fun app I've used.

Finally, a proper way to argue with strangers on the internet
🌐🥊😁

https://t.co/Eut7IbxSUb

[Geo @geoprotocol]

With civil unrest and tensions between police and the public at a peak in Europe, the question feels more timely than ever.

Should police be able to use facial recognition, or is it a slippery slope towards mass surveillance and authoritarianism?

Full debate: https://t.co/mybsLxiOkw

@alexa_dominiuqe @RealNicoLagan
#debate #surveillance #facialrecognition #ai

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

A migration scholar is debating someone at the UN about the conflict in Europe on Geo. Neat!
https://t.co/ByYPbgtnqo

[Yaniv Tal @yanivgraph]

Love seeing what people are debating on @geoprotocol, on a wide range of topics. Can easily spend hours here.
https://t.co/ELuPy9LKKl

[Geo @geoprotocol]

Does AI pose an existential threat to humanity?

@alexa_dominiuqe (UN) debates with @ArturasStoic

Vote, and watch the full debate here: https://t.co/XkrHksWC8W

[Geo @geoprotocol]

50% of people think traditional gender roles make marriages stronger

Do you agree?

Vote on Geo & watch the full debate: https://t.co/GSnjEEfKhJ

@LScotloyd

[Geo @geoprotocol]

@blurky and @yanivgraph debate whether Gen AI is making us more creative.

63% think it doesn't.

Cast your vote & watch the debate on Geo:

https://t.co/v1YPNtIPrI

[Geo @geoprotocol]

The biggest bottleneck for AI today?

spoiler: it's not compute, and it's not how smart our models are.

[Mamman @cptmoh]

Geo debates: an open mind has room to grow

Having an open mind starts with accepting that you might be wrong. You can have an opinion, believe in it strongly, and still be willing to listen to someone who sees things differently. You can learn something new and let it change how you think.

I think that willingness is essential to growth. If every new idea has to agree with what you already believe before you consider it, you leave very little room to learn. A growth mindset means giving yourself permission to question your own understanding and build on it.

One way to do that is to voice your opinions and let people challenge them. Explain what you believe and why. Listen to the questions people ask. Sometimes you discover that you understand a subject well. Sometimes you realize you have been repeating something without really thinking it through. Both are useful.

That is what interests me about Geo debates.

The app gives you a place to explore trending topics and claims, take a position, and meet someone with an opposing view. You get matched for a timed video debate, with each person given a turn to make their arguments and respond. There is time to speak and time to listen.

The debate is saved, and the arguments you make are extracted into claims attributed to you. Someone watching can return to a particular claim, look into it, and challenge it too. The conversation becomes something other people can build on. Geo’s launch announcement explains how that works.

A claim on Geo is a short, self-contained statement. It should make sense even when you encounter it outside the conversation where it came from. Claims can express facts or opinions. Factual claims can be checked against evidence; opinions can be examined through the reasons for and against them.

For example, “Schools should allow students to use AI tools” is a claim you can debate. Someone might support it because they believe students need to learn how to use those tools. Someone else might oppose it because they are concerned about students depending on them before developing their own skills. Those arguments can become claims themselves, each open to further discussion and evidence.

This is what makes claims composable. A useful statement can support another argument, be challenged by a different claim, or appear in another relevant discussion. You can keep connecting what people know and think.

To understand why that matters, it helps to understand what Geo is underneath the debates app. Geo is a knowledge graph. People, topics, institutions, posts and claims are represented as entities, connected through the relationships between them.

Imagine a teacher called Amina. She studied at a university, wrote a blog post about AI in education, and made a claim during a debate about its use in schools. The connections would look like this:

Amina studied at the university.
Amina wrote the blog post.
The blog post discusses AI in education.
Amina made a claim that relates to the same topic.

Each connection gives you somewhere else to go. From the claim, you can explore the topic. From the topic, you can find other posts and arguments. From Amina, you can learn more about the person making the case. That is a knowledge graph in practice: things connected in ways that help you understand them.

The same idea extends to a person's profile. As information is added and linked, it can bring together their education, the institutions they attended, topics they contributed, topics and claims they voted on, tweets, blog posts and the claims they have made. You get more context about their interests, contributions and views. You still have to examine the argument itself, but you have more to work with.

This is where Geo becomes a rabbit hole I would like to spend time in.

You might arrive because a debate catches your attention. One person makes an argument you have never considered, so you open the claim. You explore the sources and see what other people have said about it. That leads you to a related topic, another debate, or a person whose work you want to understand better.

You started with one question and found several more worth asking. You might change your view. You might keep it, but understand much more clearly why you hold it and where someone else disagrees. You might find people who share your interests and people who challenge your assumptions. There is room for both.

That is the kind of experience I want more of online. A place where curiosity leads somewhere, where disagreement gives you something to think about, and where what you learn can help the next person exploring the same question.

We live in a world where everyone is trying to influence what we think, buy, support and believe. Having the tools to examine those ideas, trace their sources and hear different perspectives matters. For me, Geo offers a constructive way to do that, while contributing to knowledge that others can explore too.

If you are open-minded, curious and interested in making things better, come and explore @geoprotocol. Have a debate. Bring an opinion you are willing to explain and a willingness to hear someone else's. Follow the questions that interest you. Add what you know to open knowledge.

Build the world you want to live in, and leave room to grow along the way.
https://t.co/eiWOTgAXgH

[Geo @geoprotocol]

Should we slow down AI development?

A short debate between @warwickuni Professor @ProfSteveFuller and Jonathan, AI researcher part of @PauseAI_UK

Watch & vote!
https://t.co/PfhZGAi0lP

[Crypto Coin Show @CryptoCoinShow]

Crypto has no shortage of arguments. @geoprotocol wants those arguments to leave something useful behind.

@yanivgraph joined us to discuss Geo Debates, a new short-form video app where people take a position, debate a specific claim, and let viewers vote on the stronger case. The bigger goal is an open record of claims that others can challenge and build on.

We also got into why he spent four years building Geo after co-founding @graphprotocol, and how AI could accelerate Web3.

Timestamps:
0:00 Yaniv Tal: from The Graph to Geo
1:22 Why Web3 still doesn't exist
5:40 Why decentralized social keeps failing
9:56 Why AI and crypto go hand in hand
13:45 What Geo Debates is
20:09 AI's ground truth problem

[Geo @geoprotocol]

Introducing Geo Debates! 🎉

Let’s get closer to the truth, together.

Explore short-form video debates on the questions that matter. Hear different perspectives. Make your case. Vote on what you find convincing.

Join the conversation today!
https://t.co/8dtIdtpS5d

[Geo @geoprotocol]

“The only pathway through polarization is to actually cultivate some curiosity in other people.”

@Pieter_de_Vos is teaching a @UAlberta course on something most of us were never really taught:

"to understand and respond to political division"

His point is simple but easy to forget.
Online, we see the anger first.
Underneath it are often fears, values and concerns that are much more understandable, and sometimes surprisingly shared.

You don’t need to agree with someone to get curious about why they believe what they do.

That curiosity might be where productive disagreement starts.

This is very close to what we’re trying to build with Geo Debates.

[Geo @geoprotocol]

The story of how OpenStreetMap is an incredible testimony to the power of Open Knowledge initiatives.

After Haiti's 2010 devastating earthquake, responders needed up to date maps. None existed of Port-au-prince.

So, people who had never set foot in the country traced roads and other features from satellite images into OpenStreetMap. Within a month, more than 600 people had contributed.

These maps became the main resource for search-and-rescue teams, aid organizations and the UN.

Months later, during the cholera outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières combined the open map with patient records to identify clusters of cases and flag problems with water supplies.

A map built for earthquake relief had become part of a public-health tool.

That’s composability in practice: someone else can take what you contributed, combine it with their own work, and solve a problem you weren’t working on.

Geo is building toward the same possibility for knowledge. A source checked, a claim corrected or a connection made by one community becomes something others can inspect, improve and build into their own applications.

[Geo @geoprotocol]

The web is open. The knowledge layer AI uses to interpret it isn’t.

As AI takes over more of the work search once did, models need more than intelligence.

They need fresh information, retrieval, ranking, context, and a structured map of the current world.

Google spent 25+ years building one of the richest maps of the web.

Gemini can be grounded directly in Google Search. Other model builders cannot simply plug into the same index, and Google’s Custom Search API is closed to new customers and being retired.

So companies are building private indexes, retrieval systems, and knowledge graphs of their own.

The problem isn’t only duplication.

Private also means hidden:

Which sources were selected?
How was evidence weighted?
What was omitted?
Which assumptions shaped the answer?

As AI becomes our interface to knowledge, we risk outsourcing not just search, but judgment, to systems we cannot inspect.

Geo is built around another vision, championed by @yanivgraph:

A public knowledge graph where claims keep their sources, competing perspectives remain visible, and anyone can inspect, challenge, confirm, contribute, and build on what is known.

Not a single authority deciding what is true.

An open process for establishing what deserves belief.