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TravisGood
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Travis Godwin Good, PhD. CEO and Co-founder of @Ambient_xyz, an upcoming Useful PoW L1
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    Aug 2, 2025
    One thing we're trying to avoid with the design of Ambient is what I call "The ASIC Trap." Our proof of work is designed to operate at an algorithmic level, where the algorithm is generic across implementations and hardware, and the "usefulness" of the work is enforced by the
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    Apr 16, 2025
    Replying to @tomieinlove
    LLMs have a high dimensional model of human interaction patterns and the rude chats in the training data don’t usually have good outcomes. You can literally vibe yourself into a better solution space
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    Jun 30, 2024
    I have written a reply to @leopoldasch's Situational Awareness piece. You can find it at situational-blindness.ai In it, I show how Leopold's proposals would cause the catastrophes he fears and propose democratically-minded alternatives.
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    Jan 21, 2025
    Recursive self improvement is here with Deepseek's R1 release. Any AI lab in the world can do the same thing that is getting OpenAI all excited because human supervision is not required to achieve exponential progress. Here are some of the implications: 1. Synthetic data
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    Aug 31, 2025
    Anthropic was just forced to settle its copyright lawsuit rather than face catastrophic damages (up to a trillion dollars in notional liability). Here are some crucial impacts of this result that you should know about (thread)
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    Anthropic Reaches Settlement in Landmark AI Copyright Case with US Authors
    From petapixel.com
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    @IridiumEagle
    Mar 13, 2025
    You are cordially invited to check out Ambient (Ambient.xyz), the Proof of Work L1 that I've been working on in stealth mode with my co-founder and a cracked team. Please feel free to sign up for breaking news (bottom of front page) and read our Lite Paper.
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    Ambient: Machine Intelligence as Currency
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    Dec 20, 2024
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    Notes on the Qwen 2.5 Tech Report
    For those of you sleeping on Qwen 2.5 and the QWQ long form reasoning models from Alibaba, I encourage you to check them out. I often prefer the responses of these models compared to Llama and even...
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    @IridiumEagle
    Oct 21, 2025
    Replying to @DeepDishEnjoyer
    You have conversations with people in Boston? I lived in the area for about seven years and the level of friendliness was about seven standard deviations below frosty
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    @IridiumEagle
    Aug 28, 2025
    This Sunday please join me for the first Ambient Q&A! All questions welcome.
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    @IridiumEagle
    Mar 14, 2025
    Replying to @emily_balon @USTreasury and 2 others
    Given the real scale of cartel ops (See for example: investopedia.com/stock-analysis…) $200 cutoff is an arbitrary pretext for a fishing expedition. Gov fishing expeditions harm civil liberties.
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    HSBC Money Laundering Scandal: A Case Study in Compliance Failures
    Discover how HSBC's $1.9 billion fine exposed severe compliance failures and forced reforms in their anti-money laundering controls involving Mexican drug cartels.
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    @IridiumEagle
    Aug 24, 2025
    Great episode coming up today all about yield. Please tune in! Will also be doing a solo spaces to go in depth on Ambient in the next week or so and will announce timing soon
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    @goodalexander
    Aug 24, 2025
    4 pm today we are having an X Spaces (link in quote tweet) where we will talk with Guy from Ethena (perp yield) then the folks at Neutrl (token unlock yield), and finally David at USDAi about GPU yield The theme this week is yield bc of Fed September rate cuts. See y’all soon
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    @IridiumEagle
    Mar 31, 2025
    Introducing our official handle for Ambient! @ambient_xyz x.com/ambient_xyz/st…
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    ambient.xyz
    @ambient_xyz
    Mar 31, 2025
    Meet @ambient_xyz Backed by @a16zcrypto @Delphi_Digital @ambergroup_io, Ambient's envisions a currency backed by the productivity of machine intelligence. coindesk.com/business/2025/…
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    @IridiumEagle
    Dec 28, 2024
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    Testing Thinking Model Performance (Error Free Agents Incoming?)
    The agentic economy is going to require that agents "get shit done" without user intervention. A given AI agent must smart enough to represent the user's interests and act on his / her behalf. Open...
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    @IridiumEagle
    Aug 17, 2025
    Replying to @JosephJacks_
    Would love your thoughts on the VC involvement in early Bittensor? It seems widely known that everyone involved did really well there, and I've met multiple VCs for whom it was their proudest investment. The information asymmetry involved in this productive outcome seems to run
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