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"Yours to Discover" by internetVin
My little talk at Toronto Tech Week 2025.
This was a new format and setting for me, I was pretty nervous about it, but I thought I would just try it out and see what I would learn.
Thank you for everything so far.
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Udara (@TGUPJ) on why he lets every project sit for months on purpose, and what that does to the work.
Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS.
In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own.
The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going.
internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage?
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka
00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From
00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works
00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems
00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI
01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI?
01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser
01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI
01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game
01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free
01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing
02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It?
02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems
02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone
02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context
02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You
02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything
03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent
03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas
03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next
internetVin retweeted
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on why the typical AI demo isn't what we actually want to use AI for.
"A lot of this technology still feels to me like 50% gimmick."
"I'm more interested in how it improves me as a person. How can I coordinate myself better? How do I get the most raw bandwidth out of myself?"
Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS.
In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own.
The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going.
internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage?
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka
00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From
00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works
00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems
00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI
01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI?
01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser
01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI
01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game
01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free
01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing
02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It?
02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems
02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone
02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context
02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You
02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything
03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent
03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas
03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next
internetVin retweeted
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on what years of learning are worth once AI can approximate almost anything.
"I expect to spend the rest of my career chasing. None of the shit that I've understood, learned over the last 20, 30 years is actually really relevant or durable."
"It is important because it gives me texture for what I can do with this technology. But it's not a durable advantage the way we had gotten accustomed to."
Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS.
In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own.
The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going.
internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage?
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
—
Timestamps
00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka
00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From
00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works
00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems
00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI
01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI?
01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser
01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI
01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game
01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free
01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing
02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It?
02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems
02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone
02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context
02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You
02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything
03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent
03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas
03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next
Need someone’s help for some test shots tonight in Markham. Already have FX3 and lens. Should be capable at photography. I can pay for your time and travel. Let me know.
internetVin retweeted
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on what happens to us once AI can do the work we used to do.
Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS.
In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own.
The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going.
internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage?
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
—
Timestamps
00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka
00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From
00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works
00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems
00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI
01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI?
01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser
01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI
01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game
01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free
01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing
02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It?
02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems
02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone
02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context
02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You
02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything
03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent
03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas
03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next
Montreal, NYC, SF, Halifax, Markham, Tokyo, Nairobi.
Traces (@tracesdotcom) interfaces embedded into Toronto highway visuals on The Other Stuff, this is a dynamic we can use in many different ways depending on the ideas, patterns and subjects being discussed on each episode.
internetVin retweeted
so ahead of its time...
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on the recent developments in video game modding, and what this reveals about what we value.
"This stuff used to happen over a really long period of time. People would take a game, mod it, and then a community forms around it. But now that's compressed to a day of somebody's work, or a week."
"In the past, the one constraint they had was that it was hard to do this stuff. All those things had a cost to it, and that cost was a filter."
internetVin retweeted
don't trace and drive
Traces (@tracesdotcom) interfaces embedded into Toronto highway visuals on The Other Stuff, this is a dynamic we can use in many different ways depending on the ideas, patterns and subjects being discussed on each episode.
internetVin retweeted
it's fun to one-shot shit but i think what's more interesting (and what we're going to converge on) is what are the new expressions of skill/understanding going to look like
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on the recent developments in video game modding, and what this reveals about what we value.
"This stuff used to happen over a really long period of time. People would take a game, mod it, and then a community forms around it. But now that's compressed to a day of somebody's work, or a week."
"In the past, the one constraint they had was that it was hard to do this stuff. All those things had a cost to it, and that cost was a filter."
internetVin retweeted
Super interesting. Never imagined Traces UI being overlaid like this. I really dig it.
Traces (@tracesdotcom) interfaces embedded into Toronto highway visuals on The Other Stuff, this is a dynamic we can use in many different ways depending on the ideas, patterns and subjects being discussed on each episode.
internetVin retweeted
they're taking mario and fucking putting him in halo
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on the recent developments in video game modding, and what this reveals about what we value.
"This stuff used to happen over a really long period of time. People would take a game, mod it, and then a community forms around it. But now that's compressed to a day of somebody's work, or a week."
"In the past, the one constraint they had was that it was hard to do this stuff. All those things had a cost to it, and that cost was a filter."
internetVin retweeted
Udara (@TGUPJ) and @internetvin on the recent developments in video game modding, and what this reveals about what we value.
"This stuff used to happen over a really long period of time. People would take a game, mod it, and then a community forms around it. But now that's compressed to a day of somebody's work, or a week."
"In the past, the one constraint they had was that it was hard to do this stuff. All those things had a cost to it, and that cost was a filter."
Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS.
In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own.
The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going.
internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage?
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
—
Timestamps
00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka
00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From
00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works
00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems
00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI
01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI?
01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser
01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI
01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game
01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free
01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing
02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It?
02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems
02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone
02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context
02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You
02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything
03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent
03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas
03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next
Traces (@tracesdotcom) interfaces embedded into Toronto highway visuals on The Other Stuff, this is a dynamic we can use in many different ways depending on the ideas, patterns and subjects being discussed on each episode.
this is interesting, I think they are beginning to blend interaction and functionality together because it provides more information about what the next form of computers should look like
in a world where i can get computers to do whatever i want, i want access too all functionality and types of interaction possible
