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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

I'm going to go build my own DAO w/ group minimum income guarantees, video games, & hookers: https://t.co/NQKaIGfH0f

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5/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

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Worth reading if you are interested in running a DAO.https://t.co/NKjNObBVX0 https://t.co/LmlxAiNqg0

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5/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Maybe I should build my own DAO after all.https://t.co/Q47AZABF6a

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

For record: I feel bad that things turned out the way they did for The DAO. Makes me unimaginably sad for humanity. Let's try again!

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6/20/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Can an AI run your business better than you can?https://t.co/iMXFTt4HRi

UltimApe@ultimape• about 10 years ago

Whoa, an AI that orchestrates a collective of taskers to get a job done? Imagine this as a DAO for the greater good. https://t.co/JNStl8qd3M

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7/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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What if a Platform Coop was orchestrated by an "AI" algorithm managed by a DAO?https://t.co/AWWpepFjkM

UltimApe@ultimape• about 10 years ago

.@cdixon I want to see a coop ownership / shared equity model of one of these w/ a distributed smartcontract DAO & https://t.co/aoAxoIkvrv

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7/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Nature of entrepreneur risk: Difficult choices, the challenge of capital, and hope.@leashless on how to de-risk?:https://t.co/28W20FEPLa

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8/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Risk pooling in a nutshell: https://t.co/QVVPzu9wpe

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

When people were hunter-gatherers, societies formed around pooling resources. Cooperating meant a good hunter wouldn't starve on a bad day.

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9/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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But why knitting/hooking? Mostly because kind of hackerspace I'd want to grow would be one that makes DIY clothing.https://t.co/lTTUU5WxyM

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9/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Also, knitting machines are super cool: https://t.co/2YXzVxLSYa

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9/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Hookers are super cool too:https://t.co/ABN2Kd41Hh https://t.co/CjBfmuRkU6

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9/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Knitting and video games have a long history as well:https://t.co/OCHl0nCMQt

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9/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Some of stuff on product hunt is so silly.This is amazing for games/clothing, but they frame it for fitness.https://t.co/EkrlRPMe3h

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Look, here's this amazing tool for continuous tracking of motion and body metrics. Lets use it to lift heavy things!https://t.co/nHc0zHgrAY

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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So much awesome tech is perverted and locked behind brand moats / rent-seeking APIs because its so much easier to sell to investors.

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Focus on what tech enables, not what it purports to be:What can it do for humanity? What stands in it's way?https://t.co/i4RD4g0qw6

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Want a sustainable platform for culture?1) Design as cooperative game.2) Leverage decentralized systems.3) Think ecosystem, not a moat. https://t.co/2VZOieCv7Q

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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We need incentives that make products aligned with human need. Solve problems which aren't flashy or marketable; Hard to build moats around.

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"sense as building blocks with which you can create things. [...] glued together in a variety of different ways."https://t.co/pfLylYw2ZJ

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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So many products these days feel like someone is lending you legos, but only lets you build houses with them.https://t.co/lPclLFtj3U

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

I don't want to go to mars. I want to build things to get us there.That weird feeling of imagining possibilities of a pile of lego bricks: https://t.co/L7g7EgYOVE

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Is it illegal to publish plans on how to build live changing devices like wheelchairs and other patented things?https://t.co/Yp6zsXG1dV

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

"imagine if email had been patented — how much money would the patent holder […] have earned?"https://t.co/NXy8mM5ZIw

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6/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Barbie game that lets you print clothing? ->Find a paper discussing imperfect information in consumer ink market.https://t.co/qRyFpHCPHz

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6/13/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"Why would I ever want that? Why would I ever want you to know what I'm feeling?"https://t.co/rhd8tMdZ6Q

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8/20/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Whoa"built modularity into control systems for machines so that you can quickly iterate on different kinds"https://t.co/XPp0Ba2KU1

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8/29/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Shoes, but with robot hookers.https://t.co/Acgcl9LF9I

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

@HODRobotics @KEEN Here's the real story. It's an entire freaking factory in a box! Wowhttps://t.co/yomgqx1tQD

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9/5/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"…a completely automated production line, the cost of human labor works out to about $0.33 per shirt" https://t.co/tfIZicJUEK h/t @excapite

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9/5/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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@excapite How can you patent an idea that is so obvious to do?This is shapeway but for clothes. C'mon!https://t.co/G5Y4LclSGs https://t.co/om0tX7kGJd

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10/30/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Alfred Hitchcock commentating on the absurdity of modern marketing around 'fitness'.https://t.co/Q4Hwiv03M7 https://t.co/IQLtfBtXKq

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Here's a thing that could improve people's lives in so many different areas. Marketing as 'superfuel for athletes'https://t.co/H8mA9ZxYGC

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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^ Giving shit b/c they used https://t.co/6GqwMLjmOx to send me msg spamming their rebrand on producthunt. Got my $0.50 cents out of them. https://t.co/SkJaUCqLWp

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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MFW company uses platform for people who are annoyed with spam requests negative commentary to get that $0.50 fee? 🤔https://t.co/rnEInJ085p

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

In branding, esp. in modern social marketing landscape, the adage "There's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity" is a lie. https://t.co/dnouhscLSh

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Branding impedance mismatch: nootropic startups framing selves as biohacking superpowers; marketed to elites. Why?https://t.co/85S3kFi5Ng

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

I very rarely see negative articles against soylent that stop and think about the situation. It's 90% kneejerk social class signaling to me.

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Juicero hype'd marketing as VC bait?Advertise superpowers today!The consumer won't give a shit, but VC's will.https://t.co/aa9jg0vIJk

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

You: Buy plastic marketed using medical and lifestyle tropes to signal having a clean shit?Me: I eat Soylent.https://t.co/oDUoM7oe8T

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Aggressive advertising on back's of VC dollars,targeting wrong market,with wrong message.Tragedy of the commons.https://t.co/76EYNvET8y

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

So much awesome tech is perverted and locked behind brand moats / rent-seeking APIs because its so much easier to sell to investors.

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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#wewashing meets #biohacking - Venture Capitalist hype machine taking good things and comoditizing it. And yet...https://t.co/1EIeUFjtCw

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

The successful ones target that fear not by showing you a mirror, but by giving you power. DIY soylent = ecosystem.https://t.co/7hlJjd2Lzp

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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TL;DR: Don't buy this.1) it's been on market for a while.2) you can DIY.3) it's a bunch of bullshit.https://t.co/Crik11LNnK https://t.co/iMxjqpTg9R

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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consuming extra ketones is not same as being in ketosis. Sure, 2% more performance, who f#cking cares if it doesn't translate into health? https://t.co/j6xwStptS5

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11/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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TL;DR: everything from 1:30 in video scientific newsjacking+hype: trying to associate themselves with biohacking & ketosis brand. Bullshit.

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11/7/2017