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Craig Wilson retweeted
There's an indicator species for evaluating the safety of your urban infrastructure, and it's not middle-aged men on bikes. It's women, seniors, and kids feeling safe enough to ride in their everyday clothes.
agentic insurance is something that i’ve been thinking about for a while to help people get comfortable with agents and also build trust and piece of mind.
questions for me
>who pays? can (for example) Town just offer it on top of their payment plan?
>what on earth does that financial model look like? does the math math?
anyone building here (thoughtfully) i would love to talk to
Sooner or later, we're going to see some kind of insurance for AI agents that “fat-finger” purchases.
Look at credit cards. There's a ton of fraud. People steal card numbers, and sometimes you get charged for something you didn't buy.
You call your bank, it's a pain, but there's a system for dealing with it, and often you can get your money back. Of course, all of that costs money, and some of it gets built into the fees on card transactions.
AI agents are going to spend money on people's behalf, and sometimes they'll get things wrong. And that'll just be insured by the credit cards.
Craig Wilson retweeted
AI IS AMAZING
I know it's hip to worry about the decline in book reading and how chatbots will impoverish our brains.
But TBH, this is not at all what I see. I wrote about how we're in this wild moment for intellectual flourishing and how all of us are the children of dancers.
So stoked for this team!
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Craig Wilson retweeted
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
>everyone thinks young people are doomed to stare at screens. they know exactly what they’re doing and they want more books
>boomers are the ones that are spending all their time diving into their devices
“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.”
These nuggets & more in this delightful @NewYorker profile of James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Managing Director of Waterstones: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Craig Wilson retweeted
The modern consumer:
Tech: "I will only trust a trillion-dollar conglomerate with my personal information."
Coffee: "If these beans weren't hand-roasted in a converted garage by a guy named Jasper who refuses to offer milk, get it away from me."
foursquare was so special. special people, special vibes. there is still nothing like it and there is still no better recommendation engine
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
my colleague hamza with very wise words. read the rest of them too
"comfort doesn’t absolve responsibility. We can’t just look the other way when the system materially changes the social contract to which over 340 million people pledge allegiance."
Craig Wilson retweeted
I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
dumb is the new smart
"After spending a month using flip phones instead of smartphones in 2025, the Dumb.co team learned that even some feature-limited devices have too much going on." — Kevin Cortez @TIME
time.com/collection/best-inv…
Craig Wilson retweeted
Notion’s COO Akshay Kothari keeps one “vault” in Notion that every AI agent he uses is connected to.
It has five parts:
Soul
Memory
Artifacts
Skills
Lessons
Soul is the rulebook every agent follows, such as never storing credentials and never deleting pages without asking him. Memory is a database with one fact per row, described as “shared memory between Akshay and agents”. Each row records which agent added it.
In his video the rows come from Grokbot, Muse and Instinct, and cover things like art preferences, restaurant bookings and holiday plans.
The agents write new memories, skills and preferences back to the vault, and it syncs every morning.
A neat example of a personal memory set up which makes switching agents cheap.
I've been personal agent-maxing lately, and loving it. The new products are proactive, useful, and so fun. They get even better when they know me well.
So I built a portable context vault in Notion and connected every agent to it. They write back new memories, skills, and preferences, then sync each morning.
Now, whenever I try a new agent, the first thing I do is connect my vault, and it instantly gets all my preferences in one shot. I can also start a project with one agent, and switch over to another seamlessly.
I shot a quick video to walk through the setup. LMK if you have any questions!
I need a pithy slogan for this, but again for those in the back, the intelligence is the gas and the context is the car. let's build the car. these two things should be separate bc then we get cheaper gas to run our better, purpose built car. You want a 4x4? You want a convertible? Two cars? You can have it all.
Right or Wrong ?
Switching costs for consumer AI, won't approach zero until there is a standardized export format for what is in a model's memory.
The more a consumer uses a model, the more it's memory stores. The more work to export and import
I'm not saying it can't be done. Obviously you can import from one model to another. But for regular users, that's a lot more difficult than saving to an xls or doc file
Curious what people think ?
Agreed. There are many already too. Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (collab btw Carnegie Mellon and Pitt), MIT, NYU among others. It's a perfect place for them and great for public-private partnership. Subsidized for researchers and students, accessible to private sector though too
Craig Wilson retweeted
what can mad men, reunions and marriage markets tell us about the future of social ai?
