Dan Von Kohorn

For about 10 years, I have been buying cut forests in Massachusetts and working to plant and restore native trees. 🌲 They slowly grow into a canopy and mitigate the invasive species. Animals return. All together, I estimate we're sinking about 1000 tones of CO2 per year now.

I'm super impressed with Google's AI ecosystem, but this is Gemini's brutal assessment of Google Antigravity:

Humanoid robots are hyped in the media. But I'm more excited for robots that are perfectly designed for specialized tasks. They will almost always be more efficient than our generalist human form. Why build our replacement instead of good partners?

Octen.ai is the best search tool for agents. Realtime knowledge from the web is a superpower. Ultra fast, discover context in any language and return it translated... top 3 performance and also super cheap to use. Highly recommended. Leaderboard: artificialanalysis.ai/agents/searc...

So much of the news now has fake AI generated images. It's often misleading and I hope this stupid trend reverses.

DeepSeek has (once again) pushed the entire industry with dramatically lower cost intelligence.

I've learned a lot over the years, but I stand by my post from 2017 arguing for Approval Voting. danvk.medium.com/divisive-vs-...

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.

Agents are omniglots. They can read and write in every language. They are going to use products and services in different ways than humans do -- especially search. I just invested in octen.ai

It looks great. Persistent unified agent memory, organized for fast recall and ~30x compressed.

There is about to be a renaissance in software, with apps being built by artists instead of corporate dev teams.

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.

This is why headlights and windshields should use opposite polarized lenses. The direct light from oncoming headlights would be less visible through your windshield, but the reflected scattered light would be bright. www.carscoops.com/2026/02/head...

Is OpenClaw hardware too expensive and power hungry for you? Try picoclaw on $10 hardware. This is all moving SO FAST. github.com/sipeed/picoc...

Dear @developers.google.com, I love Antigravity but I hate having to comment on the implementation plans rather than edit them directly.

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.

Top coders have achieved another 10x productivity boost, and are building at an incredible pace. 🦾🤖 www.kdnuggets.com/navigating-a...

Iteration is such a powerful force. Continuous improvement compounds value.

This wearable AI from @empiricalhlth.bsky.social detects hypertension (87% Accuracy), atrial flutter (70%), ME/CFS (81%), and sick sinus syndrome (87%). www.empirical.health/blog/wearabl...

I can't help but think that this is a huge strategic advantage for China in the AI race.

I still see huge opportunities for startups in the app layer. It’s so dynamic, and the value propositions are big and plentiful. www.reddit.com/r/aiecosyste...

❤️ 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...

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?

Why are so many "news" articles posted with AI generated images? Literally fake news.

"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...

Has the world given up on carbon pollution and climate change? In 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon was 361 parts per million. Today it's 427. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

I really enjoyed Jane Buchan on Wealthtrack. She explains alternative investments so well. Great education for investors. youtu.be/QdGUUXswhu0?...

Global transportation electrification is happening fast. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/03/b...

The future of mobility is so bright 🚀 🙏Toyota www.designboom.com/technology/a...

Please don't dump sewage in the Charles River. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

In software and AI, there is a lot of talk of "digital twins". These are simulations that allow AIs to learn before acting in real life. Think of the software digital twin as an imagination. It's a world where AI can learn and consider lots of alternate possibilities.

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for winning the Nobel prize in economics for their work on “innovation-driven economic growth.” www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

🚨 Electric grid storage update 🚨 BYD unveils the world’s largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system. 51% improvement in energy density, 70% reduction in maintenance costs, $0.014 per kilowatt-hour total life cycle cost. www.ess-news.com/2025/09/19/b...

Imagine if you could simulate the entire U.S. labor market - all 151 million workers with their 32,000+ skills - and watch in real-time as AI agents reshape our economy. How would the ripple effects spread across industries? What new opportunities would emerge? iceberg.mit.edu/blog.html

There is not enough electricity production in the US. But the solution is not to shut down data centers; instead, charge progressive rates: cheap for households with small demand, and more if you consume a lot. Solve the problem with better incentives. www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/gx03-char...

I do wonder if the Fed will prioritize inflation or the economy. Both look wobbly. This is why stagflation is so hard to fight.

We all believe in hallucinations, and none of us knows for certain which beliefs are wrong. We do our best to learn and approach the complete truth over our lifetimes. AI sometimes hallucinates, too, and it's hard to know when you can trust it.

Who should pay for all the damage done by PFAS? Should it be the taxpayers or the chemical companies who lie about the health effects and poison us? knsiradio.com/2025/08/26/s...

Of all the AI coding assistants, Google's Firebase Studio is the weirdest. It apologizes way too much, tells me that I should be frustrated, then becomes super overconfident and does a bad job of fixing bugs. @firebase.com

Musk did the same thing to Groq. His disrespect for the law is causing damage to these other companies. It's a pattern. cointelegraph.com/news/ethereu...