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Over a year ago, Jay, Maxim and I started with an idea.
Today, that idea becomes real.
$KUVI is live.
this is so fucking stupid and also ethically fucked if true.
JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is NOT Palmer's company at all, his company Anduril is only supplying the tech for the dogs, and this is a wholly owed Collosal entiity
x.com/palmerluckey/s…
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i wanna see the version of this story directed by Gaspar Noe
They turned a $10B retail fraud scheme from a group of degens in an amphetamines-addicted sex cult living in a $100M Bahamas compound into ... a normie love story
This movie was never going to be good, but man what a missed opportunity
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i lived through this era, and i have been in crypto since 2011, and i always hoped there'd be some big budget film about crypto etc one day, and to have it be about this sad shit and the fact that crypto got co-opted by tradfi and a fascist president just gives me the ick.
LATEST: Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming film about Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX CEO whose crypto empire collapsed in 2022.
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Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
"what's your moat" is such a shitty question in the AI era
of course others could just go build it. why ask in the first place if that's your response?
imma start asking VCs "okay, then what's your moat vs Sequioa? whats stopping Benchmark from winning deals from you?"
Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
100 first followers on X.
Probably not a big number for most of you, but I only started posting last month and I'm happy to see even small growth.
I don’t think the insinuations of foul play are warranted here. Her own final post says she’d previously attempted suicide, describes an extreme period of illness and distress, and explicitly says she’d accepted that this could end in “death.”
We obviously don’t know the cause of death yet, but if I had to infer from the information available, suicide seems substantially more plausible than some conspiracy to silence her over an employment dispute. Her post reads less like a warning that someone was going to kill her than a very troubled person contemplating the possibility of her own death.
That doesn’t make her allegations against @hack_vc true or false. They should be evaluated on their own merits. But her death shouldn’t be used as evidence of murder without actual evidence.
1/ gm. gm. Name is Hsin-Ju.
I have a dark, kinda tragic personal announcement.
I've decided I'd rather take $0 than accept a settlement that requires me to stay silent about what happened to me. I have since fired my lawyers at @sanfordheisler & will be releasing all the evidence from my time @hack_vc on Wed 8/26.
INTRO: I've been in crypto for 9 years. Most recently I was a partner & head of platform @hack_vc which is a $600-700M crypto VC firm. Many of you may know me from my time as Head of Growth at @StellarOrg in 2017 (worked w/ the Mt. Gox founder), @Solana in 2018 (joined under ~10 ppl, but quit before my cliff), & @Fhenix in 2024. Or have attended one of my @DystopiaLabs ETH events (2019-now).
Last year, I was forced to work through a serious medical emergency while at @Hack_VC due to threats by @alpackaP @dbulaevsky, saying that they would blacklist me from the space if I quit before finishing the hacksummit conference & side events that I was helping with during @kbwofficial. I was working 13-14hr days, 6 days a week, sleeping 0-4 hrs a night, and had documented Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, and severe insomnia. I repeatedly asked to quit. Hack VC refused. This + other threats and intimidation went on for almost a month.
The conditions got so bad I attempted suicide.
The fucked up part is that, even after the suicide attempt, I told everyone at Hack VC (in writing) that I had no plans to sue. I was scared & extremely sick. I just wanted to leave. I told them that as long as there was no retaliation or badmouthing - I had no plans to sue.
@Hack_VC chose to retaliate.
After just 1 month after my near suicide, Hack VC mishandled my COBRA health insurance, refused to fix things, kept shooing me to customer support (when it's legally Hack VC's responsibility to fix this), and my insurance had issues and was not fixed for almost 4 MONTHS. Hack VC did not fix everything until I hired lawyers and had them force Hack VC to adhere to the law & fix my COBRA insurance issues. The sheer cruelty of an employer harming someone's health insurance almost immediately after they nearly committed suicide is extremely fucked up.
And, even during the legal engagement, Hack VC continued to lie & attempt to harm me through their lawyers and other employees/partners (multi-million dollar carry & clawbacks can make even the nicest ppl willing to turn the other way or lie). @0xRodney @IsTheBaron @roshunpatel @Alex__Botte.
Now. Almost an entire year of engagement & my near suicide anniversary coming up, our lawyers (mine & Hack VC's) have reached the point of preparing for private mediation and settlement. And...I realized that I just can't do it. I don't want money in exchange for silence. I'd rather speak.
I fired my lawyers yesterday.
In case it needs to be said, I did a good job at Hack VC. I was only there full time for 7 months; been part-time since 2021. I got a $50k raise to $300k, $30k bonus, and promises of additional carry that would have been implemented about a week or so after my last day. I was also offered admission into the GP entity (but not sure if admission was actually completed bc it was during my medical emergency). This + my resume, should show that me suing is not a money grab; I was genuinely harmed.
I'm aware that I'm just one person (who is not rich) facing a $600-700M VC institution. I've been told by @alpackaP that he's known most of the managing partners at most VC firms for almost a decade and he could absolutely blacklist me.
I'm also painful aware that the conclusion of this will probably be extremely poor for me or death - but I've accepted it.
Sharing with other web2 & web3 VCs:
@paulg @ycombinator @500STARTUPS @a16zcrypto @PanteraCapital @dragonflyvc @RaceCapital @hosseeb @haunventures @hiFramework @ElectricCapital @blockchaincap @Delphi_Digital @variantfund @1kxnetwork @archetypevc @shimacapital @robotventures, etc.
TLDR; I’m done with continued threats, pressure, and intimidation. I'm not going to take a payout and allow Alex or Hack VC to walk away from harming me. As mentioned, I'll be dropping the evidence from my case on Wed 8/26 (or before) -- privacy be damned.
Support here (or DM) please:
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Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
let's also not forget that insight is relatively cheap compared to the brute force of models.
we don't need acres of data centres and compute.
we just need a brain, some late nights, maybe some ramen.
So, the Navier Stokes equation was solved by AI.
BUT, it was solved by brute force.
It was not solved by an original insight.
Einstein’s reframing of gravity from a pulling force to a geometric (curvature) effect of space and time was truly original
and mindblowing.
It was one single insight.
The prediction of time dilation and twin paradoxes was also borne of one single insight.
As compute gets cheaper we will solve more brute force problems.
(Isn’t ‘brute force’ another word for experimentation?)
Physics has the experimental science aspect - where AI will excel.
Then there are the theoretical physicists.
Still, we are not anywhere close to the kind of theoretical physics insight that Einstein or Newton generated.
If AI can reconcile quantum theory and general relativity, then AGI is here.
That is another test for AGI.
That test won’t pass in the next 5 years is my view, and probably a lot longer.
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amen - i don't understand how as a society we can say someone is a cretin for kicking a dog or a cat, but not taking part in the mass suffering and slaughter of animals for food, work, or entertainment.
it is not a necessity.
it is a choice.
and it should be a very clear one.
put animals' well-being above your own preferences.
Vegan market in Toronto -
I wish we didn’t need to call it vegan and that it were just the norm not to enslave animals or use their suffering for our pleasure.
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Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
People killed by AI: zero
People killed by governments: millions
Let's give control of AI to the governments and call it safety
Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
If a plane had a 10% chance of crashing, nobody would board. Even 1% would ground it. So why are we treating a claimed 10% risk of human extinction by AI like something our governments can deal with later?
Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
Respect @dylandewdney and his take, and a lot of it is true. The ICO era is over and the "crypto reinvents everything" hype cycle is done.
I'd say the frontier has shifted rather than died. Tokenized RWAs, stablecoin rails, and AI agents transacting on chain are all still very early innings.
I've been around long enough to know this industry writes new chapters right when people call it finished. The "narrative" keeps shifting. Still a believer.
I’ve been in crypto since 2011, and it has been an incredible run.
So many stories. So many great people met, places seen, and things I was able to do that I almost certainly would never have experienced without it.
But the crypto I’ve known for the past 15 years is dead.
I don’t mean Bitcoin won’t go up. I don’t mean there won’t still be rocket ships, fortunes made, or important companies built.
I mean that, as a frontier, crypto is finished.
And that’s okay.
My journey into entrepreneurship began alongside the rise of crypto—but with a traditional startup. No SAFTs or token warrants. Just a pitch and a wire.
The ICO experiment, which I was gladly part of, began with a genuinely radical idea: what if we could democratize access to early-stage investment and allow users to own part of the networks they helped create?
That idea was perverted in almost every possible way. Insiders captured the upside, retail became exit liquidity, and the promise of decentralization was repeatedly used to sell assets with little genuine purpose.
At the same time, the industry simply promised far more than it ultimately delivered.
In 15 years, crypto gave us Bitcoin, stablecoins, some useful DeFi applications, prediction markets, and perhaps the foundation for machine-to-machine payments.
Those are real and important achievements. But they are not the wholesale reinvention of the internet, finance, identity, ownership, governance, and human coordination that we once imagined.
Meanwhile, another technology has taken the stage—one that becomes visibly more capable every quarter and already has applications across almost every part of the economy: AI.
It should surprise nobody that talent, capital, and cultural attention have moved toward it. Crypto has decoupled from the central current of technological progress—not because its surviving applications are worthless, but because the pioneering phase is over.
The map has largely been drawn. The foundational stack has matured. What remains is implementation, consolidation, integration, and regulation—not an open vista waiting to be discovered.
I loved this run. It shaped my life, introduced me to remarkable people, and gave me opportunities I will always be grateful for.
But yes: crypto as an innovative category—as a frontier—is dead.
Crypto itself is fully alive. Bitcoin, stablecoins, DLT, and decentralized financial infrastructure will become increasingly embedded in the machinery of the world.
But that is the distinction:
Crypto is no longer the frontier.
It is becoming part of the rails.
Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
I did not expect it to be THIS fun watching robot olympics 😂
my fiancee, in addition to many other amazing qualities and skills, is now a rock climber.
I probably won't be able to type tomorrow.
But no regrets, it was the best time.
Thanks @chrislevan and the @nationgraph team for cohosting.
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I’ve been in crypto since 2011, and it has been an incredible run.
So many stories. So many great people met, places seen, and things I was able to do that I almost certainly would never have experienced without it.
But the crypto I’ve known for the past 15 years is dead.
I don’t mean Bitcoin won’t go up. I don’t mean there won’t still be rocket ships, fortunes made, or important companies built.
I mean that, as a frontier, crypto is finished.
And that’s okay.
My journey into entrepreneurship began alongside the rise of crypto—but with a traditional startup. No SAFTs or token warrants. Just a pitch and a wire.
The ICO experiment, which I was gladly part of, began with a genuinely radical idea: what if we could democratize access to early-stage investment and allow users to own part of the networks they helped create?
That idea was perverted in almost every possible way. Insiders captured the upside, retail became exit liquidity, and the promise of decentralization was repeatedly used to sell assets with little genuine purpose.
At the same time, the industry simply promised far more than it ultimately delivered.
In 15 years, crypto gave us Bitcoin, stablecoins, some useful DeFi applications, prediction markets, and perhaps the foundation for machine-to-machine payments.
Those are real and important achievements. But they are not the wholesale reinvention of the internet, finance, identity, ownership, governance, and human coordination that we once imagined.
Meanwhile, another technology has taken the stage—one that becomes visibly more capable every quarter and already has applications across almost every part of the economy: AI.
It should surprise nobody that talent, capital, and cultural attention have moved toward it. Crypto has decoupled from the central current of technological progress—not because its surviving applications are worthless, but because the pioneering phase is over.
The map has largely been drawn. The foundational stack has matured. What remains is implementation, consolidation, integration, and regulation—not an open vista waiting to be discovered.
I loved this run. It shaped my life, introduced me to remarkable people, and gave me opportunities I will always be grateful for.
But yes: crypto as an innovative category—as a frontier—is dead.
Crypto itself is fully alive. Bitcoin, stablecoins, DLT, and decentralized financial infrastructure will become increasingly embedded in the machinery of the world.
But that is the distinction:
Crypto is no longer the frontier.
It is becoming part of the rails.
Dylan Dewdney - Hedwig at Kuvi.ai retweeted
Sad af seeing my own parents, family and friends hooked on scrolling like drug addicts, literally isolating themselves just to scroll more.
I get the game. And I’m pretty sure they know they won’t fix shit. The whole game is selling more of the drug.
Then the same guys host their own steroid venues telling us they’ll safely handle superintelligence, a tech they understand and control orders of magnitude less.
Hard to appreciate the game when you see what it does to people you love.
Alright, hey!
Very much enjoyed being a part of this!
For the record, I am not (this much of) a sore loser in reality.
@chatbase @sia_kar_p
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