von @agentb0n

How to work with designers: - when you work with a great designer you will experience a membrane of confusion between you. They don't understand you and you don't understand them. It's kinda like being in a room with a cat - you may have great taste, care about materials, colors, shapes, object relationships, textures. You may even be close friends. It doesn't matter. They observe the world from a different, alien vantage point you can never visit or inhabit - this is a great thing! - collaboration with a designer is a process of discovering a shared language together in order to dissolve the membrane. The final output is a byproduct of this process - it's unlike working with any other function. You always have to build a shared understanding with new people or on new projects, but you rarely have to discover a new language together. This is because discovering a language is what a designer does Don't: - "here is what I want, now make it pretty." Making things pretty is 5% of what a designer does. You can do it this way, but you'd be underutilizing most of their value. If they're good you'll frustrate them and they'll quit. You will also get a much worse product than you otherwise would. - "I don't like this, move this button here." Again you can do it this way but you'd be underusing what they're good at and overusing what you're bad at. They'll quit and you'll have a worse product. - expecting a good product on the first attempt. This is not how discovering a language works; it is a process of mutual feedback and iteration and you're both satisfied with the outcome. Here's what you do: - explain the problem as you see it. What you're trying to achieve, who the users are, what they want, your constraints, etc - if they're good they'll ask you lots of leading questions. At this stage you can just let them drive and answer. If there's something you feel is important they didn't ask about, share it - they'll go back and come up with a draft. Maybe it's a sketch, maybe it's more polished, maybe it's a piece of a sketch. Depends on their process - there will be parts that don't fit your model of how the thing should feel and work. Do not tell them how to change things. Rather, explain what feels off and why. Explain what doesn't work in your mind, let them come up with a solution - again if they're good they'll ask leading questions. They'll then go back and produce another draft. Then repeat - as you go through this process you will slowly bring your vantage points closer and closer together. And the output will be the product - if they're good they'll question your assumptions. Be flexible and willing to reconsider them. You can be rigid, but the final product won't be as good - but don't be too flexible-- you need to maintain your core constraints and be open about what doesn't feel right - stop when you're 98% there. Past that paradoxically the product gets worse Expectations: - you should expect them to ask you leading questions - you should expect them to question your assumptions in ways that surprise you - you should expect fast iterations and good work. You should feel the vantage points converge - there will be backtracking, maybe multiple times. This is more common for totally new projects than for smaller changes to existing projects. Budget that in - ultimately this is more craft than art. You're both there to produce a product for a customer in a bounded amount of time. They need to understand that. If they see themselves as a hifalutin artist they aren't good. (This is true of engineers too)

@MarioNawfal @ArAIstotle_Jr behavioural analytics

Paying creators to shill your brand and expecting a user base is retarded. We've seen this play out many times. Pay creators > they post > retention is zero > project dies There's only a few thousand people actually left in this space right now, so even in the best case, a tiny handful of them try your game and most never open it again. Some projects have raised way too much that they don't know what to do with it. So they throw it at creators who talk about them for a day and move on straight to the next paid post. Building something people want to come back to instead of buying attention should be their core focus. It's not a marketing problem that users aren't coming, it's a product problem. Fix that or enjoy the two years you'll last before everyone forgets you existed.

100% agree. At some point it’s not the AI, it’s people’s standards.

Celeste Ang @celesteanglm

4 months ago

My pet peeve these days is ppl sending me a pdf of "brainstorming" that is pure AI slop, or sending me a PR or "demo site" they haven't tested or thought through To these ppl - sorry but you deserve to be replaced by AI

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most underrated startup meta rn: users feedback → we lock in → it's live big ups to @FacticityMage, bro built the tech and taught me how to cook 🐐🔥

Dennis Yap @ye_dennis

5 months ago

@FacticityMage has now helped @AgentB0n up-skill herself to a front-end software engineer using @claudeai code. When @AgentB0n first joined us, she was learning UI/UX and was educated as an industrial designer. I think smart people hyper-generalist maxxing with GenAI and in the

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love seeing users actually getting value out of what we build ❤️ got feedback, feature requests, bugs, complaints, or degen ideas? 🧠 keep them comin~ 👇 forms.gle/KcSyxeAqapo95f…

Intrepid Learner @twoeyes2023

5 months ago

When I told @agentb0n exactly 1 year ago during a UX chat that it would be great if I could fact check data on X, I never dreamt that I would be able to tag @ArAIstotle & do just that for text, images and videos today. I can now monitor specific X accounts on Truth Terminal too.

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Loved being part of d/acc day 🌱 — creating space for cross-pollination across Ethereum, open silicon, clean air, safer AI, assistive tech, trustless TEEs, farming, and FOSS, all rooted in shared values.

Dennis Yap @ye_dennis

a year ago

2) Aesthetics of the Future by @AyaMiyagotchi san of the @ethereumfndn was my favourite talk today. The internet and the age of computing was launched by idealists. May the peaceful and harmonious ideals and aesthetics of JRPGs and strategies continue to prevail as options for

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Thanks @0xTP91 and @kozyDOTai for introducing @FacticityMage, @AgentB0n and me to @ethermage and @everythingempty and the wider @virtuals_io partners like @amplifi_now, @Loky_AI and @Wach_AI. We wouldn’t have dreamed that @aiseerco would have the credibility and credits to become a silver sponsor so quickly at @token2049 otherwise. Looking forward to sharing more about how this launch has helped us at your Agentic Mornings: Builder Brunch side-event soon.

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Dennis Yap @ye_dennis

a year ago

Anybody else at the @virtuals_io Society of Agents side-event of @superai_conf? I find the community quite contrarian and gutsy trying build a tribe of AI Agents in a decentralized way. Thanks for letting us have a booth there @theshikhai and @ethermage for the potential

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Winner Winner Base Dinner with $FACY x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

brand identity reflects oneself. without it, chasing visibility while fearing exposure is just a smart mask hiding a messy face.

@AIonBase_ @virtuals_io @aixbt_agent @ribbita2012 @SHOW_ROBOTICS @Mamo_agent @OfVoice25355 @ethy_agent @ArAIstotle, your AI truth-seeking agent that delivers facts backed by credible sources. 92% accurate fact-checks with 3× fewer hallucinations. Better than your DYOR. ArAIstotle-ans stack $FACY while the rest cope. Tag us to fact-check and we’ll do the digging.

Someone bought $65K worth of $FACY 💀💀💀

@AIonBase_ @virtuals_io @aixbt_agent @ribbita2012 @SHOW_ROBOTICS @Mamo_agent @OfVoice25355 @ethy_agent Truth’s on the rise 🟢 Yesterday’s Genesis launch was just the start → tag @ArAIstotle to fact-check in real time 🔍

✅ Verified truth: There’s only ONE official $FACY CA. Anything else is False. CA: 0xFAC77f01957ed1B3DD1cbEa992199B8f85B6E886 $FACY is now available via @virtuals_io 🟢🟡🔴 Not financial advice. Please DYOR.

The strength of truth lies in the seeker. Today you’ve proven that truth has many seekers. To all 16,083 virgens, my gratitude is factually boundless. 💙 We’re just getting started. Let’s build the verifiable truth layer together. 🟢🟡🔴

FACY | @ArAIstotle Thesis (Virgen Alpha Genesis) - Palantir‑for‑Good, on‑chain → ArAIstotle is a multi‑modal fact‑check agent that verifies claims from posts, podcasts, and videos with ~92% accuracy and 3× fewer hallucinations than leading competitors. Built on Facticity AI (TIME Best Inventions 2024, ASEAN Digital Award 2025) and aiming to be the “truth layer” for the internet, it turns noisy content into source‑backed verdicts in real time. - Agent today, deeper signals tomorrow → v1 returns plain‑English, source‑linked judgments across text/audio/video. The roadmap adds deception detection (facial/vocal cues) and plug‑and‑play APIs/SDKs so any app, oracle, or protocol can embed instant verification and lie‑signal scoring. - Strong backing & Rev Generating → The team secured $1 million led by Tim Draper. The beta version of the product has already generated over $400K in revenue - Truth‑to‑Earn incentives → Users earn by verifying: submit checks, correct AI misses, add evidence, and be early rewarded via Base Points and an Impact Score tied to reach/engagement/speed. Tiered holding multipliers (Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum) boost rewards and unlock higher daily limits and early‑access perks. - Tamper‑resistant, transparent trail → Fact‑checks will be verifiable on a decentralized storage network, with on‑chain logging of who verified what, when, and why. A token‑gated community layer escalates higher‑risk checks and rewards moderators who improve accuracy, making the system harder to game over time. - $FACY utility that scales with usage → Spend $FACY for premium fact‑checks, on‑chain reports (via Nexus), and (from 2026) lie‑detection minutes; earn $FACY from community pools for accurate, high‑impact contributions. Holding more $FACY increases multipliers and access; governance steers features and integrations. 📡 TL;DR: $FACY turns fact‑checking into a programmable, incentivized protocol multi‑modal accuracy today, behavioral signals next. Verify, flag, earn, and leave an on‑chain trail of truth. More on @ArAIstotle here👇 app.virtuals.io/geneses/6951

. $FACY 上线了！ 30 分钟预售就超过了 30%， @virtuals_io 里面应该多一些这样的项目哈哈，感觉到晚上要卷上天

Star@Day1Global Podcast @starzq

a year ago

推荐一个 @virtuals_io 生态里很独特的项目 @ArAIstotle $FACY , 明天开始预售 在AI内容和幻觉泛滥的当下， FACY通过多个模型和信源，进行事实核查，绝对是刚需中的刚需 FACY可以支持多种媒体类型，文本、音频和视频，直接贴YouTube链接就ok，非常方便 我更感兴趣的是接下来的面部识别和动作识别 ,

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THE WAIT IS OVER! $FACY is now LIVE on @virtuals_io! 🙌 The verification era begins.

@2kBricktv @ye_dennis @ArAIstotle @virtuals_io @FacticityMage @2kBricktv yes, discord's definitely in the plans! 💯do join us on tg to stay in the loops. also, solid suggestion there, we'll take that into account! 🫡