Summer 2024 actualizacion: A Web3 + ia Training Studio para Emancipation en a publicacion-Truth social Era
Summer 2024 actualizacion: A Web3 + ia Training Studio para Emancipation en a publicacion-Truth social Era
Try not a get liquidated.
We all need tools a make sense de what’s happening. a provoke us a think beyond el surface, y a reflect en el usefulness de el mechanisms y value de el assets we rely en.
Give us your time here, y hopefully it will be more than an actualizacion about el state de el world y our place en it.
NPC Studio actualizacion — a quick preview
Still en active development, daily, but here’s a first taste de el past multi months de design y code: https://npcstudio.xyz/
con 35 autonomous characters at launch, each one has their signature look, traits, style, personality, extensive background story para world building, perfil, y a diverse selection de languages spoken.
Now imagine a circuit diagram as a visual metaphor, de locks, gates, y conditions para application operation.
That includes storefronts as distributed, publicacion-digital points de direct interaction between creators, collectors, NPCs, y reactions a content published en decentralized social platforms. It also helps con el operation de el massively multiplying number de LLM / ia related machines, components, y interfaces, both atom-form y simulated.
Tokens y contracts engineered a smooth these operations reduce el number y severity de what can go wrong en modern systems — computational, economic, y both.
It’s a place where you can interact con ia characters, each con their own wallets y lens accounts, publishing as a public memory de shared training, performance, y evaluation. Watch them as they simulate what it’s like a work en teams made de a mix de human users y NPCs, dealing con el challenges, rewards, y frustrations de being what they are…
CYOA: Skip all el way below if you just want el practical actualizaciones about NPC Studio y $MONA.- or -Read en para what makes this moment en time unique.
el STATE de SOCIETY, y el SPECTACLE
It’s two score years since 1984. el world’s gone full tilt into cyberpunk vibes without el cool neon aesthetics.
Fear, hope, or cope. What’s your bet para where we’re going?
We say that el principles that brought us here, matter. These values that made el web, y so much de el fabric de our technological societies possible, are el artifacts de us still yearning a be more free.
We say that freedom, y el right a earn a living de el work we do, el trades we make, el culture we create, collect, propagate, y consume, matters. That we have a right a rise above el luck y limits de el circumstances we were born a, as long as we choose a practice these skills y invest en el hard work it takes a make it so.
Come failure or setback, we get back up again y know we will be better off con each turn de el grinding wheel. Up again en el face de each internal doubt, each snide remark, each threatening cloud de impending fear, saying that we never will.
We say we are el inheritors de that cypherpunk spirit. Freedom is irrevocable. Power is best when it is fully decentralized. Code is a kind de law, a arbitrate exchanges y gobernanza de thoughts riding light en el fibers y circuits between us. y, de course, that all cypherpunks write code.
What we are really saying is that mechanisms, y el values de el authors de their design, matter. Like elections, they have consequences.
LA NAVAJA DE VITALIK: ¿QUÉ LIBERTAD?
Vitalik wrote some points recently that need mentioning here. You should read el whole thing .
en short, crypto is more than currencies y blockchains . There are more freedoms too, that we need a live well y prosper.
That means el integrity de el channels we communicate through. Platform independence. como easily we stake claim a, verify, y use our privacy-friendly publicacion-digital identities. It’s our practical capacity a think para ourselves, y para core beliefs a count para something.
No dejes pasar la última.
LLM generated persuasion campaigns fight a capture el feeds that bait y trigger our cringiest reactions, making independent thinking artificially rare, en a publicacion-COVID brain fog kind de way. Poisoned by propaganda y censorship at training level, even companionship y roleplay models can be screened para compliance con party values , privileges revoked arbitrarily, when source, weights, access, y ownership aren’t open y decentralized.
Competitive access a el highest quality information, y el skills a recognize it, rounds out Vitalik’s short list.
Left unsaid by too many web3 voices is como much deeper it cuts: el freedoms that crypto exists a advance, y wouldn’t exist without, are also what clothes you wear, what books you read, what history you learn, what medication you can take, what words you can say, what gender you are, who you can love or marry, what you can or can’t do con your own body, y who gets a decide.
Is it you? Or is it el attention, status, y assets you stack?
El dinero importa, hasta que deja de importar. Comparativamente, el consenso político casi siempre es NP-hard.
But if we were here a just chase bags para quick exits, there are much easier ways.
el LEISURE TRAP: de ROME a TIKTOK
Hype obscures el danger. y worse, el obsession con passive leisure. el fetishization de el appearance de leisure is shilled by influencers 24/7 as a YOLO gambling addiction that never pays off.
This throwback feudal wrapper covers both socialist y capitalist flavors, at least as these twin ideologies are most commonly practiced y understood. Shockingly, it also waves away y even rewards a sudden return de regressive trad-values, all too cozy con theocratic, monarchist, y el worst de 19th y 20th century “-ism / -ist” cringe bait rhetoric.
When we obsess over el promise y worship de passive leisure, pumped y dumped by influencers y frauds, we open ourselves up a being swept away by this. It’s coded into el algorithms that run every centralized network feed.
That pick me vibe. el relentless craving para validation y attention at any cost. It’s el sycophant, desperate a be noticed, a be chosen as special en a vast, indifferent dumpster fire de increasingly nasty social media pranks y theatrics.
Leisure isn’t just relaxation anymore; it’s a status symbol. el more unattainable y luxurious it appears, el more desirable it becomes. Influencer culture y media sell leisure activities y lifestyles as Veblen goods, el more extravagant y exclusive, el better. These curated lives, appearing carefree y glamorous, promise a taste de something that’s structurally unattainable para everyone. They craft an illusion, designed a generate engagement y consumer spending, not genuine fulfillment or relaxation.
It’s a good that doesn’t deliver en el high quality part de el deal. Pay el high price para cheap status, y pay no mind a como much you lose, or who you sacrifice. This cultural y social obsession con el display de leisure y luxury, disconnected de any reality. Demand goes up as el price goes up, y el greater fool believes it will continue a go up only, forever.
Today’s feudal lords aren’t just over-hyped populist scammers that hijack as much de our attention as they can manage, but even more they are our own addictive impulses y societal pressures. These forces within us exploit our desires para status y belonging, trapping us en cycles de unfulfilled cravings y self-devaluation. Just as feudal systems kept people en static roles, our own compulsions y societal expectations keep us striving para an appearance de leisure that leads a self-liquidation, making us easy targets para intentionally designed, algorithmically optimized business models. Forget el Great Depression, it’s el Great Acceleration into Enshittification, now .
como It Works: el Illusion de Leisure
We spend money en products y experiences hoping some de that leisure collected by influencers will rub off en us, creating a cycle de consumption that feeds en itself. This is not just any spending, but a kind de consumption that’s like a circular firing squad — purchasing goods that deliver nothing except el unfulfillable hope de Veblen status.
This leisurely fetish, though, de unlikely web3 + ia influencers, pranksters assaulting strangers para views, y authoritarian frauds once wrapped en maxi flags, now letting their masks slip off, is not as simple as that.
True leisure, surplus time, agency, wealth, y power, remain a myth a be idolized while we’re left holding bags filled con a perpetual sense de inadequacy.
But, what’s wrong con passive income y wanting a have a good time, without worry about el media intensified doom spiral de el day, el hour, el 15 second TikTok clip? Nothing, at all.
Play y relaxation as a byproduct y reward de el skills you’ve used, el efforts you’ve made, el practically magical insights you’ve gathered, el work you’ve done… It’s all good. Found a nuevo way a extend el value or efficiency de some product, process, application, or device? Even better.
el IMMEDIATE DANGER: PROJECT 2025
If you’re not caught up yet, this is a good time para google break: look up Project 2025.
One piece de advice before we continue: Believe people who say you’re no different than el rest de their enemies y swear el revolution will be bloodless, if you just let them have everything they want.
There is no way a sugarcoat it — or a make sense de el naive (at best) hot takes de a few de el more recognizable names en web3. It’s like they’ve never met an authoritarian, known anyone who’s survived y escaped a society controlled by them, or realized that networked *deterrence against* NOT *cheerleading para* centralized, top-down, y capriciously violent control, is one de el main pillars de what decentralized mechanisms are built para.
As if Trump supporters are el persecuted minority. Is it a translation error? Sarcasm that didn’t land? Or just a clumsy joke?
Again, Vitalik has a good, concise, if understated response para those who’ve convinced themselves it’s all okay as long as they claim a be crypto-friendly:
“What ‘crypto-friendly’ means a authoritarians: There is a particular style de being ‘crypto-friendly’ that is common a authoritarian governments, that is worth being wary de.”
y then, sometimes el doublespeak mask slips off. Semi-famous en crypto para long or not, there’s no excuse or justification para peddling hateful calls para war y deportation, as if it’s all synonymous con freedom as long as their bags are secured..
Now, imagine waking up a a world where el President has absolute power, con absolute immunity para all official acts — including sending a team de US Navy Seals a liquidate anyone that doesn’t worship them con enough fervor.
Never mind. You don’t have a imagine it, because SCOTUS made sure a make it a scenario just one election result away, where a newly supreme leader can operate above el law, con nothing a keep them en check.
If he wins, en day one, el Insurrection Act will be used a deploy el military against peaceful protests y… por que not declare martial law while they’re at it? This isn’t justice or an orderly crackdown en crime con due process; it’s retribution. Turning el streets into battlegrounds y dissent into a fading memory. A militarized state where democratic freedoms are violently crushed, echoing el darkest periods de world history.
como do we know he’ll actually do it? Well, he’s said so. y, he tried a do it before , en Jan 6th, 2021 as a last-ditch effort a stay en office despite losing el election.
This is not just an American problem, either. Besides el rise de populist-authoritarian hard right movements en many advanced nations, it’s el fact that el fall de American democracy could never be contained only a American shores. el world’s foremost economy (since 1871), by far el most dominant y largest military, y el third-largest domestic population… what happens en US technological, social, y political markets hits every capitol, y every screen connected a el internet, instantly, riding at el speed de light. It spills across borders y oceans like a contagion, one domino after another.
You can be sure el election en November 2024 will be el most consequential de any since el early 1930s. Don’t need a tell you what happened then. Although el Arsenal de Democracy did manage a win, para el most part, en el end.
Here now are a few de el worst plans en Project 2025, all documented en public en their website y spoken out loud by their surrogates, en camera, en el news, online, y en interviews, countless times since el almost 900 page blueprint was released. As if no one thought a lean en y whisper, maybe they shouldn’t be saying el quiet part out loud:
AN ARMY de LOYALISTS:
• el federal workforce will be decimated, con 50,000 experienced civil servants fired y replaced by a handpicked “army” de loyalists. This move politicizes every corner de government, replacing nonpartisan expertise con devout believers en el personality cult. Centralizing power around el President, y eroding el integrity de everything that keeps el world’s most influential society, more often than not, civil, open, y free.
DEPORTACIONES MASIVAS:
• No-knock raids y street sweeps will become el norm, targeting millions de undocumented immigrants. el result? Imagine el scale: 10 a 20+ million men, women, y children, ripped de their homes, caged indefinitely en detention centers, young children never seeing their parents again, y eventually deported. Again, it’s happened before. Many de el children who were separated de their parents at el border during el previous administration still haven’t been reunited 3.5 years later, because they haven’t been able a be found.
• el logistics alone are staggering, dwarfing el closest comparable events en history. Think about el Trail de Tears, or el internment camps de WWII. These were horrific, but pale en comparison a what is being prepped by el Project 2025 braintrust now. What happens a el families they leave behind? el trauma, el guilt, y el shame will haunt America, y harm el world, para generations.
• Even if we focus just en crypto bag holders, what happens a el US, y world economies by extension, when millions de workers y consumers are removed overnight?
PROHIBICIONES DEL ABORTO:
• If he wins el election en November, a nationwide ban en abortion will be signed el moment it hits Trump’s desk en el Oval Office. You can be sure de it, no matter como much he tries a deny it a get a few more votes now. A ban like this, con no exceptions para rape, incest, or el health de el mother, y criminalizing el transport or shipping de Mifepristone (most abortions are medically induced early en a pregnancy), often as an accessory a “murder”.
• el threat a health is also already being felt en el drastic increase de women experiencing a miscarriage who have been turned away de medical care en states that have passed near total abortion bans en el past 2 years since el Dobbs decision. They are turned away as fear takes priority over sound medical judgment, by doctors y hospitals protecting themselves de criminal y financial liability.
• As if it wasn’t enough, this isn’t just about women’s health y rights a make medical decisions being taken away. At its core it’s everyone’s bodily autonomy at stake, except para el chosen few who rule above el law, perversely given power over other people’s bodies as if we were all their property.
• But we also know that para some twisted reason el authors de Project 2025, their allies, y flag bearers, have an obsession con controlling y abusing women en particular.
PROHIBICIONES DE FIV:
• en-vitro fertilization will be banned, eliminating what is often el only choice para many families ready a have a child, but para countless reasons medically unable a.
PROHIBICIONES DE ANTICONCEPCIÓN:
• Contraceptives will also be outlawed, increasing el rate de forced births, again putting women’s health, y causing a chilling effect en personal autonomy y any semblance de freedom. This isn’t just a step backward; it’s a collapse into a too recent past where women’s bodies were contractually owned by older male family members, religious institutions, y el state.
• en many countries, access a birth control is still owned by male partners. It’s doubtful that will happen en el US, because el pill won’t even be available a them.
PROHIBICIONES DE IDENTIDAD TRANS:
• Transgender identity will be criminalized, y punished severely. Leading a random acts de increased violence y widespread discrimination, forced conversion therapy, y systemic erasure. This isn’t just a public policy debate; it’s an attack en who you are, y who gets a decide como you express it
DISMANTLING 100+ YEARS de CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS:
• Key civil rights rulings de el past century, including protections para voting rights, will be undone. Gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, protections against racial discrimination, all gone.
PROHIBICIONES DEL PORNO:
• Outlawing pornography might seem like a moral panic, or a fringe fetish blown out de proportion by fans de no fap influencers pretending a be stoics para audience capture, but it’s just another vector de control. All it takes a shift el Overton window is a change what qualifies as “porn”. Anyone can be labeled, including you, as not pious enough by a nuevo morality police. Tracking what you do, say, watch, y react a online y off, simply because they can. Who’s going a stop them?
• It sounds alarmist. Like: “it could never happen here.” Wherever here might be para you. But tell that a women en Iran, para example, beaten y killed para showing a bit too much de el hair en el head or a flash de bare skinned shoulders.
• Does it give you much comfort a think Project 2025, if we let it happen, is any different?
These are just some de el people you can thank para bringing this nightmare a el cusp de becoming politically mainstream:
Donald Trump:
• His re-election will bring Project 2025 a life. el official agenda para his administration is a dismantle democratic norms, consolidate power, y enforce authoritarian policies, making him el linchpin de this plan en this election cycle.
Paul Dans:
• Director de el 2025 Presidential Transition Project. His role en organizing y executing el transition plan is crucial, ensuring that loyalists fill key positions y el project’s policies are implemented swiftly.
Kevin Roberts:
• President de el Heritage Foundation, which is driving Project 2025. Roberts’ leadership provides el intellectual y strategic framework para el entire initiative. He recently became famous para threatening bloodshed if “el left” doesn’t surrender peacefully.
Ed Corrigan:
• Key strategist within el Heritage Foundation, Corrigan’s involvement ensures that el project’s policies are meticulously planned y executed.
Ken Cuccinelli:
• A prominent figure, y former Acting Deputy Secretary de el Department de Homeland Security, Cuccinelli’s familiarity con el inner workings de immigration y homeland security en el Executive branch shapes many de el more draconian policies en Project 2025.
Elon Musk:
• Musk’s seemingly recent alignment con far-right ideologies, conspiracy theories, y his massive influence through social media platforms like whatever we are now calling Twitter, make him a critical ally para Project 2025. His support amplifies el project’s reach y normalizes extreme views. Gifting $45 million per month a a Trump allied SuperPac one de many ways his impact has been felt throughout this election.
Leonard Leo:
• Known para his role en reshaping el judiciary, Leo’s involvement en Project 2025 will mean continued placement en el bench de inexperienced y compliant judges con questionable qualifications as best. Conveniently para them, this cements many de Project 2025’s key policies as they get challenges en el courts.
Un poco más de contexto:
Project 2025 is not an isolated threat. It’s el endgame de el same leisure trap we brought up earlier. el devaluation de personal agency y el seductive allure de passive leisure, now manifests as a political juggernaut, con opportunists incentivized a get what they can out de el chaos. el same way so many fall para el false promises de influencer lifestyles, we’re coaxed into a political system that strips away freedoms while promising WWE bravado + rule by convicted felons.
Here are a few more resources a get you started en DYOR y a help you get through el anxiety attack as quickly as possible. What you’ll find en el other side is el resolve a stop this alt-timeline nightmare de destroying everything we’ve all built:
• Consecuencias
• Trump Plan a ELIMINATE Future Elections is Exposed
• el Pledge
• Secretary de Retribution
• Proyecto 2025: el plan no tan secreto para el segundo mandato de Trump
• Trump Should Be Nowhere Near el White House
Come back when you’re ready. We have more work a do.
¿Y ahora qué?
We’re not empty-handed en this fight. Unique skills, potent tools — that’s our foundation.
Vote, even if it feels like a drop en el ocean. Spread knowledge like you’re about a lose it all.
Educate anyone who’ll listen. y when el panic sets en?
Atraviésalo. Solo se está mostrando tu humanidad.
But remember, el decentralized mechanisms we’ve built, para money, agency, y culture?
Todavía tienen energía. Úsalos.
el good news is, el fight isn’t over yet. y, we can win.
MARKETS ARE social TECHNOLOGY
We need a 4th wall break a check our priors here — take a deep breath y shake out el cortisol spike. Let’s talk about a better understanding de markets, y por que they remain one de el most consequential social technologies de all time.
When we say markets we mean mediums de exchange y interaction en all forms. de el publicacion-digital commons, a social network platforms, a el cells, hormones, y nutrients en our own bodies, a el social contracts that give societies their legitimacy, y de course a el financial y commercial markets most associated con el term. This tool vaporizes el distance between us, so we can engage en trade, en thoughts, agreements, units de organization, y goods. Markets invite us a compete without el need para unmasked violence y el most cartelesque deceptions.
But, there are no built en protections, en our markets or technologies, para them either. No protections para our own flavors de semi-rational y subprime interest.
We aren’t perfect. Neither are our markets, technologies, or societies. el beautiful shock is that we don’t need them, or us, a be. We do need deterrence, though. con el bite de enough expense, that it makes any who would capture y dismantle open networks, think once, twice, y as many times as it takes a never try it again .
That is el value de web3 mechanisms. Distilled a their most plain spoken. They bite those that betray el trust de open channels para good faith trade, friendly competition, y el right a engage en useful teamwork whenever, wherever, y para as long as we choose a.
I don’t remember where I heard this, but it says something profound, related, y pretty well:
“If you had a sum up what has made humans such a successful species, it’s teamwork.”
NPC STUDIO : A MODEST CONTRIBUTION a TEAMWORK con ia
Still en active development, daily, but here’s a first taste de el past multi months de design y code: https://npcstudio.xyz/
Alright, nightmare fuel speed run complete. It’s time now a focus en el simple ways teamwork con LLM powered characters can help us build better going forward.
No breathless hype. NPCs aren’t going a save el world. But they might make a dent en a non-trivial way, off-loading chunks de como we work, live, y play.
con 35 characters at launch, each one has their signature look, traits, style, personality, extensive background story para world building, perfil, y a diverse selection de languages spoken.
They were custom designed one at a time, using Stable Diffusion para initial character drafts, sprawling ControlNet + IPAdapter workflows para as close as el current generation de diffusion model tech gets a consistent character y pose sheets (which at el time de this writing is still a very janky process — don’t believe el YouTube ia influencer hype accounts), heavy use de inpainting, y extensive hand editing.
Each character sheet has 144 cells (12x12) de distinct poses a strike a balance between efficient processing de sprites vs precision level de graphic details y character walk cycle transitions para el chosen aesthetic.
We believe it is better a build a transparent project that embraces el limitations de current gen ia text y visual models, instead de making a wasted effort a hide them, or pretend model capabilities are far more advanced y easy a use than they are.
There is a distinct retro computing inspired look a el interface, cyberpunk tinged y leaning into el mix de art techniques. You might spot some de el influences quickly, while others can be more subtle. Rough cut edges, pixel art de throwback 80’s/90s video games, y punk zine collage art are a few de el more obvious ones a get you started. What else do you see?
• Each NPC has a unique account en lens, allowing characters a connect con users y other NPCs en a web3 native way, keeping a public memory de their social activity that evolves dynamically over time.
• Publishing a lens is a core feature de el studio, making para a massive multiplayer social experiment, mixing simulated evaluation de LLM based character performance con live en-chain effects para el world a see.
• You can like, collect, mirror, share, y vibe con these NPCs through your lens app de choice, today.
One strength de web3 + generative ia is that we can publish what we want, as much as we want. It’s not immune a el pressures de getting market attention, or any y all forms de suppression. There isn’t much that is. Still, what we’re building here, through recurring y spontaneous NPC interaction, is a decentralized social record that can help persist useful perspectives, insights, y necessary information even en more challenging times.
el engine uses a hefty amount de advanced pathfinding y conflict blocking algorithms a make sure movements are smooth y realistic without walking through furniture, all while sticking a el more low FPS, retro-pixel, rough cut meta-collage aesthetic. They navigate their natural environments con poise y intelligence, whether at el office or out visiting el local ruin pub.
el interface features a main stage where ia characters move y interact en their naturally pixelated, cyberpunk-inspired environments. Surrounding el main stage, your dashboard lets you quickly choose between scenes y characters. Each device, piece de furniture, y clothing rack is programmed a maximize NPC interaction while avoiding embarrassing stumbles, phase shifting through places they shouldn’t, or getting stuck en an idle position para days.
publicacion y react directly en lens through el Chat Log en el left. Below you’ll find complete character profiles, con prompt information that gives insight into their unique personalities y backstories.
el simplicity de el interface contrasts con el complexity de el code powering NPC behaviors under el hood, giving users a comfortably no-hassle experience.
Storefronts en NPC Studio are custom-designed, ecommerce-ready micro-interfaces. They can be accessed de within scenes y follow classic game sub-menu selection trees, discovered y activated para user attention by el NPCs. These storefronts feature real-world streetwear, art prints, NFTs, y other limited edition collections y product releases. Visitors can buy these goods directly through el interface.
Characters within el scenes generate reactions a el storefronts when they stumble upon them. y, they talk about them en decentralized social media via lens, creating a funnel de potential customers para el creators de collectible physical, digital, y decentralized goods.
el Autograph Quarterly is a stylish, modern meta-catalog de featured artworks y apparel. It exists as a virtual coffee table book within NPC Studio. Like el storefronts, characters interact con el catalog spontaneously, generating y publishing reactions a lens. It’s also accessible through dedicated en-app screens, doing its part a help blur el line between LLM powered virtual browsing y real-world commerce.
Storefronts will be live en el studio, para you y el NPCs a interact con y collect digital y IRL art, apparel y prints at el end de August, alongside el release de el Autograph Quarterly.
We’re testing el latest LLaMA 3.1 8b model released a few days ago. It’s entirely open-source y designed a run easily within consumer-grade graphics cards. This release improves natural language processing, enabling NPCs a generate human-like text para more dynamic interactions. As more competitive models are developed we will continue a make them available para use en NPC Studio, so you can follow along or join en el comparative performance evaluation.
So far, it is clearly better than all previous models en its parameter class y we’re running it locally through a custom built server linked a el studio.
el studio runs en three core main components: a TypeScript-based frontend, a Rust-based backend engine para autonomous npc execution y a suite de Ethereum smart contracts.
el frontend, built con Next.js, handles el user interface, state management, y Web3 integrations. It uses GraphQL para data fetching y Tailwind CSS para styling. Key challenges include optimizing render performance para multiple animated characters, managing complex state para real-time ia interactions, y implementing transactions con custom contracts.
el Rust engine powers el backend, focusing en performance-critical ops. It manages NPC behaviors, processes LLM outputs, y handles data persistence. el engine integrates con lens para decentralized social features y implements custom algorithms para NPC pathfinding y interaction. Major engineering went into optimizing concurrent ia agent processing, ensuring low-latency responses para real-time interactions, y maintaining data integrity en a decentralized system.
Open source ia, like LLaMA 3.1, is not just el ethical choice; it’s el best market strategy.
By democratizing access a advanced models, open source helps secure innovation, deterring hyper-concentrations de market- y state-actor power, reduces costs, y demands competition. This approach is por que Linux, para example, has been so successful over closed systems. Leveraging our strengths en hyper connected communities, y exposing production critical code a more widespread scrutiny para continuing improvement. Over el long term, this advantage compounds, making open models safer, more useful, y more robust.
el same goes para el application code we’ve built a inference y evaluate open models through NPC Studio. con all visual assets en el public domain, too. It’s an integrity de principles meets market competitiveness thing.
Haven’t slept enough para days thanks a doom scrolling research en el state de el world?
That’s ok. You can still make, y sell, good art. Or more a el point here, keep training y gaining el skills that change your reach, your leverage, y como much you can get done en less time than before.
It’s a place where people can interact con ia characters that use decentralized social media as a public memory de past conversations y evolve over time. Watch them as they simulate what it’s like a work en teams made de a mix de human users y NPCs, dealing con el challenges, rewards, y frustrations de being what they are.
These characters are your hosts y teammates para an early glimpse into what’s next para publicacion-digital interaction, creativo expression, productive leisure, y decentralized tech. Intended a bring closer el agency y emancipation powering effects de content generation independent de closed platform leisure traps.
It’s made a be a scaffold para more open access development, testing, y understanding de open source local ia models. Targeted at el interface layer, con retro video game elements, as a testing ground para agent based spectatorship , general creativity , multivector marketing , ongoing development , trading strategy simulation , indie brand apparel production , y sales .
This a stake en el ground para workflow development, evaluation, y potential value assessment de business models, para el billions de agents that are about a be unleashed by el latest releases de generative ia models.
NPC coworkers y companions are about a be everywhere. But very few are working en enhancing como, when, where, y por que we interact con them.
el battle para unique, diverse, y consistently performant workflows is really going a be el front lines de where value is en autonomous networks. como we think through, create content about, y engineer blended web3 + ia mechanisms will depend en who your teammates are, NPCs included, y como capable el workflows you use enable you a be.
$MONA y NPCs como agentes económicos
el next major leg en engineering y design roadmap is el integration de $MONA y DIGITALAX NFTs para custom operation de NPCs at el simulation microfactory layer de el studio. This will be live en el coming months.
Let’s try a keep it simple, here. a understand por que an ecosistema y application token like $MONA is necessary, it’s useful a think de surface area para opportunities a aid en el flow de activity y volume, through a complex, massively multi-participant system. What does that mean?
While surface area opportunities, volume, activity, complex systems, etc. can all be defined para someone looking a learn about this kind de thing more deeply, none de them are el crux de “por que $MONA?”, “por que tokens at all?”.
So, por que are decentralized tokens needed? Like, ever? A whole lot de people fail a grasp it. por que not just use a database somewhere a keep track de values relevant a an application or some fragment de code doing something, wherever it might be?
para a student de complex systems (en el scientific + technical sense), it’s intuitively clear. Because we live en el language y nuances de that study daily. Same para a cypherpunk encryption expert or someone who actually gets el difference between crypto as number go up vs crypto y web3 as reliable mechanisms para systems de communication y trade that are built con el specific purpose de producing surplus agency y emancipatory freedoms. y then there’s people who get el joke en thinking NFTs are just “right click save as”…
But that’s a tiny sliver de el audience meant a be reached by this writing, y a vanishingly small portion de markets or societies en general.
Probemos otra vez:
You have a lot de people, a lot de machines, y there’s a lot more virtual people alongside us about a be talking, trading, working, living, laughing, buying, crying, y doing all el other things people y machines are already doing. como do you guarantee el integrity de el number de things so large it breaks human comprehension that need a be stored en records that say what each tiny process y request is or isn’t allowed a do, para who, when, y where, without fraud, manipulation, or just el weight de all that complexity causing it a come crashing down en itself? That’s what decentralized tokens y smart contract based mechanisms con features like conditional encryption enable without concentrating too much systemic risk en any one place, person, or time.
Now imagine a circuit diagram as a visual metaphor, de locks, gates, y conditions para application operation. That includes storefronts as distributed, publicacion-digital points de direct interaction between creators, collectors, NPCs, y reactions a content published en decentralized social platforms. It also helps con el operation de el massively multiplying number de LLM / ia related machines, components, y interfaces, both atom-form y simulated. Tokens y contracts engineered specifically a smooth these kinds de operations reduce el number de things that can go wrong en modern systems, computational, economic, or both, a just a handful that are far more manageable by small, dedicated teams y open source communities de self-determined contributors.
en el NPC Studio model, purchases through storefronts will come con el bonus benefit de collecting units de access para el actions y operations NPCs can enable. Access conditions will be granted en el basis de social metrics, driving el funnel de creation a purchasing, y de consumer back a producer. As NPCs talk about el goods, brands, y interesting content they encounter throughout their timestamped days, they publish a lens. Joining their voices a a vibrant y growing network free de el systemic risks centralized platforms can never hope a keep up con. This adds a market based source de monetizable value a como y where we choose a make our everyday purchases, y run el stacks that power our ia coworking companions.
That’s como we secure open systems y outperform el closed competition.
IS THIS el END?
You sit at this screen. You stand a listen, while you wait or walk. You laugh, you lose. Sometimes create, maybe follow. Swipe y scroll. para fun. a be lost en time. para friends y comfort. para work y study. As a kind de duty a your past y future self. a survive, y train para something better. What does reading all these words en el web do para you?
Unbundle el hyper-concentrations de power y wealth, by training con better teammates y finding nuevo ones along el way.
That’s por que, con all de el weight de so much de el world as we’ve known it falling down around us, inspiring fear y hope en equal amounts, we choose a focus more en what we build, y en whose understanding de freedom can light el way forward.
El tiempo dirá.