Unspoken fact: Many OpenAI employees deeply disagree with the fear-mongering propaganda narrative that cutting edge open models pose an existential threat to humanity. This is partially evidenced by the 400+ people who’ve _formerly_ worked there (LinkedIn data).

Help us define Open Weights! heathermeeker.com/2023/06/08/tow…

✨ NEWS: As promised, we are launching the Open Weights Foundation, Manifesto, and our first proposed License. Open Weights is Open Source applied to AI models (neural nets and specifically their weights). Very excited for community contribution and feedback! 🤝

It feels too early, but I should start talking about this: For 3 years, I’ve been building jazz - instant sync, a framework for building multiplayer apps super easily, and Johannes Schickling recently gave me a chance to do a first-look at it from a local-first angle: youtube.com/watch?v=pBvGeU…

Hi everyone, Allen talked with Erlend @erlend_shopen-source Founder of Fish Folk. Fish Folk is a collection of open-source games written in Rust. Listen now: rustacean-station.org/episode/erlend… #plangora #rustaceans #therustaceanstationpodcast #allenwyma #rustlang

Nomadic identity for the Fediverse... "Instead of building our own network, should we attempt to build on top of Noosphere?" aumetra.xyz/posts/nomad-id…

I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙 reddit.com/r/apolloapp/co…

Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

When there are 5+ actively maintained fast growing open source alternatives attempting to disrupt a given $$$$ proprietary incumbent, there is vastly sufficient evidence for the following things having a very high propensity for being true: — One of the open alternatives could

Two years ago, Chris and I began working on an idea we called Noosphere. Our dream was to unlock collective intelligence with a decentralized protocol for thought.

Shared a few anecdotes and learnings from my Matrix journeys with the EF and the DoD at the The Matrix.org Foundation Community Summit at c-base today. Lovely event, thanks for having me! 🥰

My book is available for pre-order on Kindle! a.co/d/84lYzqO

Pretty wild that Calm Company Fund 🦭 wrote its first investment check this month 5 years ago. I just published a big look back essay on what went right, what went wrong, and what I've learned (link in bio) Not sure how to share this stuff now, so would appreciate the amplification 🙏

Early Stage Value Investing is working

Incredible founder outcomes, well ahead of schedule

And much more in the full essay. If you've read my writing before you know there's tons of detailed transparent discussion about what went wrong, what we've learned from it and what we're going to about it: calmfund.com/writing/five-y…