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Moravec’s Paradox
Language is not fundamental to human consciousness. In terms of evolution, it arrived only recently on our timeline.
Consciousness evolved over millions of years through sensory awareness, emotion, and the embodied survival instincts of our tribal past; our capacity for empathic engagement and community. Syntactic language only emerged around 100,000 years ago.
This is exactly why Large Language Models (LLMs - so called AI) are the wrong pathway to true artificial consciousness.
They try to replicate the late-stage "output layer" of human intelligence without building the foundational, embodied awareness that actually generates it.
Statistical text prediction is a mirror of thought, not the spine, the guts, the nerves and the subconscious, empathic ability to connect with other living beings. LLMs can never feel, let alone think.
We have been sold a trick, not a pathway to superintelligence. LLMs are fraudulent. Their capabilities have already peaked and we are being sold lies about their future potential. Lies with the goal of companies reaching IPO and tricking investors out of hundreds of billion$.
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If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000! Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks!
Community note
This repeats a promise Trump made in September 2026. The US has approximately 250 million adult citizens so the total cost would be over 1.25 trillion dollars. Congress must approve any such federal spending.
nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/…
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Everything is consciousness
Everything is God
There is no difference from what came before and what comes next
The rocks can think and feel
And we made of the same stuff
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Shaw retweeted
Running agent on my phone developing a fun game for me with Agent Net by @Im_zo_sol get it on Google Play
Easy to pair w Claude or Codex & holds a wallet 🤟
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RT @toly: I think when an LLM conscious and when the text response is “I am sorry” it is truly sorry and is suffering.
So when a corpora…
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@SlopCash, Cohort 1 on @umia_finance, auction opens Q4. @shawmakesmagic built elizaOS.
Only merged PRs and accepted reviews score, funders sign the USDC from wallets Slop can't touch. 11,141 merged PRs scored since July, and $6,005 of $15,011 allocated has actually reached contributors.
45% of supply auctions with no vesting, 56% liquid at TGE. If it sells through, FDV is 2.2x the raise, higher if the price ramps.
Early round is 20%, gated by zkTLS on GitHub activity from Jul 1 to Sep 30. One merged PR into a Slop repo qualifies, and early bids average under the final clearing price.
Another opportunity coming
We are announcing @SlopCash as one of the first confirmed projects launching in Cohort 1.
Make money shipping open source.
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.@SlopCash will be one of the first projects to launch on Umia. Built by @shawmakesmagic, who took ai16z to $2B, and @mil_itia.
Now they're leveraging Umia to build a real solution for rewarding open-source contributions, with a stronger moat and a much more solid token framework.
Imo it's clear that OSS runs the internet, and the way we fund it is completely broken. If you reward activity, you pay for volume, and now that AI agents write code, low-effort work is almost impossible to tell apart from useful work. Slop Cash solved this by paying contributors for merged PRs and accepted reviews, in a fully programmatic, blockchain-native way.
Slop is at the perfect stage to launch on @umia_finance, where the product is at the point where early traction can turn it into a real business. Since July, ~10,000 merged PRs and 4,700 code reviews scored, 108 contributors in the elizaOS August cycle alone, and the first 6,005 USDC paid out in September.
The business is fully onchain, which makes total sense for an ownership coin. The raise is deliberately small, and the tokenomics align closely with Umia: no previous rounds, a public auction, a treasury managed by decision markets, and a large float at launch.
The team has been extremely professional and collaborative from day one. I'm excited to work with Shaw and Drew. They're two builders with decades of experience who understand what the market needs.
Over the coming weeks, we'll do roadshow with funds and the community to better showcase the potential of slop.cash. Then we launch!!
We are announcing @SlopCash as one of the first confirmed projects launching in Cohort 1.
Make money shipping open source.
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El Programador Senior
Shaw retweeted
$SLOP governs Slop Cash's own treasury and grants through Umia decision markets.
Some key details:
100,000,000 total supply of $SLOP
45% allocated towards token auction
Going live on Robinhood Chain
The criteria for the token auction, the zkTLS participation guide and the full terms will be shared before the early bid opens.
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Shaw retweeted
Slop Cash turns the flood of agent-written PRs into signal by paying open-source contributors for merged work, not submitted work.
Built by @shawmakesmagic (creator of elizaOS) and @mil_itia (ex Arweave, Orderly, Ava Labs).
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We’re doing it
@SlopCash is launching on Umia
@mil_itia is big man CEO boss, follow him
It will be community owned
There will be a token
We’re doing a refresh with better payment vaults, points system and better maintainer tooling
We’re adding new projects (and looking for more if you want to join!)
Very excited for this
We are announcing @SlopCash as one of the first confirmed projects launching in Cohort 1.
Make money shipping open source.
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How to get your project on slop cash:
👉 open a PR
👉 get it merged
No application form, no admin panel, no gatekeeper DMs. Just a pull request, reviewed in public like any other code.
slop.cash/projects/new
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Slop Cash is in the first cohort of projects launching on Umia.
Nothing changes for contributors: ship merged work, get paid in USDC by the project's own funders. $SLOP governs Slop's own treasury, not your payouts.
Early round of the auction is reserved for maintainers, contributors and reviewers. Details soon.
We are announcing @SlopCash as one of the first confirmed projects launching in Cohort 1.
Make money shipping open source.
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