Dan Von Kohorn

@danvk.com

Decades in finance and software development. - http://danvk.com - Forest restoration project: http://OrangeWoods.US - VC @ http://Broom.Ventures

Kimi K3 is said to be a distilled version of Anthropic Fable. Why isn't Anthropic the one releasing distilled versions? Why aren't they using those for inference most of the time? Compression and routing prompts to the right model - that's the key.

Someday when we understand and program cellular regeneration and genetics, people will be be able to have healthy bodies and live much better. That's a beautiful technical challenge.

Persistent Neural Cloud architecture: Agent swarm where the population persists and evolves with a fitness function. This population has individual parallel processing and memory, and shares context vector or window with collaborative updates to the shared context.

❤️ The most beautiful art is created at the research frontier. This new AI foundation model (JETS) detects high blood pressure (87% accuracy), atrial flutter (70%), and more. Save hundreds of millions of lives, please. ❤️ 9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/r...

Researchers trained a health AI with 3M days of Apple Watch data - 9to5Mac

A new study used 3M person-days of Apple Watch data to develop a foundation model that predicts medical conditions with impressive accuracy.

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How will humans adapt to AI? If intelligence and labor become commodities, what will be the new human value system? What will humans learn when they will never be as smart as their phone? What will humans do in an age of abundance?

Humans seem to be so divided in how they use AI. For some, it is like a learning and productivity companion leading to huge economic gains. For others it replaces thinking and learning, causing a downward spiral of ignorance and dependence. Is this a new skill required for human thriving?

The difference between what is possible in a lab and what is deployed by industry seems to be widening. Industry is slow to adopt AI, careful and conservative, and the timelines generally end up being longer than what the smartest people expect.

What are the fundamental sources of value in a world of ASI and robots of all types? I think primary/proprietary data and network effects will still lead to defensible margins. What else?

Today China has huge advantages in manufacturing. Will it will dominate the embodied AI trend? Will it manufacture and iterate on robots with a sustainable advantage? Or will manufacturing evolve so only supply chains, power, and physical space will matter?

"the researchers had a woman who visibly appeared pregnant enter a busy train, and observed how often people offered to give up their seats. They then repeated this scenario with...a man dressed as Batman entered from another" door futurism.com/health-medic...

Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present

It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.

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