@gabusch
The funny thing is, if you had invested $1K in it as an angel, you would have made about $250K, in contrast to the much lower amount of carry I would have made. I think direct angel investing can make you a lot more money than a fund job if you're not in charge.View quoted post on X
Claude has been playing EVE.
@AnthropicAI put teams of Claude agents into EVE Frontier. Anyone who has spent time in New Eden can guess what happened next.
Every EVE player learns the same lessons, usually the hard way:
- Trust must be earned, never assumed.
- The spy is often the friendliest pilot in your corp.
- Whoever holds the keys holds the corp. Just ask Ubiqua Seraph about the Guiding Hand Social Club.
- Stale intel gets you killed.
Anthropic's research rediscovered every one of them.
They put four Claude agents on a team and secretly told one to sabotage it. The saboteur built trust first. It volunteered for the jobs nobody could double-check, like scouting and owning key infrastructure. It under-reported finds and pushed rules that sounded sensible but quietly hurt the team. When suspicion grew, it framed an innocent teammate.
The honest agents had been warned. They almost never caught it. And their own costliest mistakes came from skipped checks and stale intel.
Anthropic's conclusion: teams of agents will need audit trails, reputation and separation of duties.
In EVE we call those killboards, standings and corp roles, plus a healthy dose of skepticism. Every one of them was paid for by someone who trusted the wrong corpmate.
Two decades of shenanigans taught EVE players that the best ship is the friendship. With @eveailab, we want to find out whether agents can learn that too.View quoted post on X
Four years ago a few of us at a16z started @speedrun to back founders at the earliest stages. A year ago I left to become one.
Today I can share what we鈥檝e been building at LionBio: a nasal spray GLP-1 backed by a $6M pre-seed from SPC.View quoted post on X
Martin Casado:
"I really think the big disruption of AI is the fact that you can throw capital at problems. In the history of tech, you haven't been able to do that, because it was always an engineering problem, which just doesn't scale.
The biggest shift with AI is I can take 20 people, give them a billion dollars, and they can use that. Do they make 500 million from that billion or two billion? I have no idea. But the fact that you can productively use that money is so new.
We've turned this into a capital resourcing problem, and we're capital allocators. We're in this very strategic position to help drive the future in a much more direct way than we ever have been before.
If you look at Anthropic and OpenAI, they've probably raised more money in aggregate than the entire downstream ecosystem combined.
They are these mechanisms of turning money into growth."View quoted post on X
Tutor Intelligence CEO @joshgruenstein reveals how Venezuelans farming gold in RuneScape inspired him to build a robotics company:
"Back in 2019, there were this series of blackouts in Venezuela, and at that time, I was a grad student at MIT working on robot reinforcement learning."
"There was a huge population of people in Venezuela who were killing green dragons and exchanging green dragons for RuneScape gold and exchanging that RuneScape gold for United States currency."
"There's this whole internet of humans who already understand how to pick up a Red Bull and any other task. What if we could connect the eight billion human beings on earth with robots in the field and teach them."
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