@addisonhellum

building @tryprotocol | prev ceo @ starling 26 years old from 🇺🇸🇳🇴

Joined July 2017
Consciousness emerges from neurons mapped to stimuli. A transistor is conscious of whether or not it’s powered on or off, but that is all.
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This is beautiful
Introducing Project Continuum by Runway Labs, a new operating system research application built around real-time video interfaces. Here's a short demo walktrough:
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Unbelievable
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard. cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri… research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj… tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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Please get to Orem, UT as fast as you can!
This is DoorDash Air. As a pilot, I can tell you that you wouldn’t build a plane and then ask if it can carry cargo. So we built @DoorDash Air from the ground up, designed around what 13 years of deliveries have taught us: what people order, how much it weighs, and how far it has to travel. Our drones are as silent as a passing car and early tests show that we’ve gotten flight delivery times in under ~5 mins on average, so you can get your @chipotletweets & @popeyes (our first partners) and local favorites right to you, fast. The first deliveries will be in NorCal. We proved autonomy works on the ground. Now see how it works in the sky.
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This is what competent leadership looks like
Reporter: Who should be held accountable if AI agents commit a crime? Trump: “It’s not AI. It’s SI.”
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Let’s see how long this lasts
Amazing stuff here
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Dangerous for my self-control
something big is coming tomorrow 👀
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Song of the Year
Congratulations to @DarioAmodei for the release of his new song "Hit The Breaks Except For Me" 👇 The lyrics are so accurate! 🤣
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As someone who has made $5,000+ in a day from a laptop and pivoted to working as a server for $25 per hour, the latter is definitely healthier.
It’s crazy how some people work from a laptop and make $1,000+ a day, while others break their bodies for $25 an hour.
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The Great Filter is greed. We have not passed it yet.
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Recreational drugs are very useful, but not yet “domesticated”, making them misaligned with day-to-day life. It’s a R&D problem.
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Smart enough to get whatever you want, but not smart enough to realize getting whatever you want all of the time is a curse
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Will power is the great differentiator
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