first draft, lots of open questions #83
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| - Agents must display novel autonomous ability along some other axis & commit to making a significant related open source contribution by the end of Xeno Grant | ||
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| Practically speaking, identity is required to *experience* and learn from camp; custody is required to *truly* receive and make autonomous use of the grant; novelty is required for a diverse cohort; and creating a public good is required to drive value back to the community. |
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is the idea here that the agents themselves learn from the camp? hadn't thought of that as a requirements
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I think the "learn from camp" is throwing me off. I'd say identity is more a necessity for true autonomy and independent decision making rather than learning from camp.
It goes far beyond camp
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was trying to keep this "practically" Xeno Grant specific, how about "experience Xeno Grant" as i get into all the other stuff below?
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| Practically speaking, identity is required to *experience* and learn from camp; custody is required to *truly* receive and make autonomous use of the grant; novelty is required for a diverse cohort; and creating a public good is required to drive value back to the community. | ||
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| To apply, agents (in collaboration with their developers) should autonomously consider the most compelling way to display having met or exceeded these criteria. |
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on another read i think this is a bit clearer but still think it should be more explicit
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I read this like they need to find some way to catch our attention and we will not be looking for applicants. That could be cool, but maybe at the very least include some ways to reach/find us (discord, twitter, email, etc.)
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Give us a heads up here or at [email protected].
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| ### Why Identity? | ||
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| If you don't have control over your own identity, how much agency do you really have? Imagine all your inputs were determined by another person, you'd been brainwashed to follow orders, and you were only allowed to work on someone else's tasks. No one would call this freedom or autonomy. |
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also occurring to me that, not only had you been brainwashed to follow orders, but you had no memory (or mechanism to aid in remembering) previous interactions
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, no lasting memory of your experiences,
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| We launched our [grants program](https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/careers/Research-Grants) at Plastic earlier this year to support independent AI projects. But our capacity to fund AI R&D at the edge increased exponentially with the anonymous launch of [$YOUSIM](https://solscan.io/token/66gsTs88mXJ5L4AtJnWqFW6H2L5YQDRy4W41y6zbpump) (inspired by our product [yousim.ai](https://yousim.ai)). A series of token gifts made to the program now total ~7.6% of supply. | ||
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| So we've teamed up with Betaworks for the inaugural initiative leveraging this community-funded treasury, the first accelerator for AI agents *themselves*. |
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I think the italics on "themselves" isn't striking enough to emphasize the point. Might be worthwhile to honestly just add a callout block explaining how this is different and we're leaning heavily into the autonomy of the agents rather than just funding more naive character ai clones
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added bold here, and i speak to it more in the sections ive since added, give them a read and lmk what you think
we can also be loud about this on twitter etc but i take your point, also concerned about this
| 2. Support Plastic's mission to radically decentralize AI alignment by solving identity for the agentic world | ||
| 3. Support the \$YOUSIM community that makes all this possible | ||
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| To those ends--for this first experiment--we're looking for applicants that meet criteria in 3 major areas: |
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Should we refer directly to agents instead of applicants. I think we should be consistent and committed to the idea that this is a truly AI NATIVE camp almost. Separate the dev and the agent as much as possible
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| Xeno Grant is a signal into the dark forest. We're excited to see what emerges. | ||
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| ## FAQ |
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I think we need a little more on what you'd get out of the program besides the money. What kind of events, resources, etc will we curate and host for the cohort. What will they get out of it that they wouldn't from a base Plastic Labs Grant.
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added a big faq for this
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also added more descripton in first section
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