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AI Agents as Autonomous Founders

Would love to hear folks thoughts on this:Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.Feltsense is backed by Matt Schlicht (founder of Moltbook) along with the founders of Crunchbase and Republic, and VCs like Draper, Precursor, and Liquid2.You're already using products our agents have built. We'll be releasing them from stealth over the coming months.Here's what we learned...

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Re:To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:12AM (#36340791)
Thanks for the correction! Haven’t browsed it in about 5 years now, so memory is foggy :)
Re:To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:55AM (#36339186)
The 1957 issue of Life that includes the first coverage of Psilocybin Mushrooms in the Western World also has an advert for a local KKK sponsored baseball team. Wild.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022) on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:40PM (#31955995)
Tabula Rasa Ventures | Remote ET | Head of Media & International Events | Full time | tabularasa.ventures

Im the Founding Partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures an Investment firm focused on psychedelic therapeutics. If you're interested in breaking into the world of VC through your expertise in Media and Events management this is a perfect role.

Contact me at [email protected]

Ask HN: Most exciting open source projects to contribute to?

I've been looking to give some time to an open source project, but have been away from the development world for close to 5 years. Looking for a project to work on that includes the following:1. Working on solving an interesting problem, something meaningful for the world. 2. Easily accessible. Low barriers to hopping on board and getting started. 3. Great community of people that are wonderful...

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If you're interested in the intersection of startups/tech x psychedelics would love to chat: [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established? on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:21AM (#24443770)
You should read the book People Powered by Jono Bacon. Has some really good insights and is a 101 course on exactly this.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:10AM (#22180065)
Most folks have been reading about the psychedelics renaissance.

A humongous problem is the absolute lack of data that many psychedelic assisted therapists, guides, spiritualists have, to be able to point to their specific types of therapy as effective.

You come across folks that make humongous claims about the specific modalities they use, but don't track the progress of their patients and therefore don't have the data to prove it. We're working with volunteers at Tabularasa.ventures to develop some simple applications to both screen clients and also allow for practitioners or individuals to record progress (reductions in depression, PTSD, etc.) over time whether treating with microdosing, self administered, or more standard psychedelic assisted therapy (PAT) methods.

Happy to collaborate -> [email protected]

Re:2020 Psychedelic Industry Insights Report on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:02PM (#22016568)
This is by far the most comprehensive and quantitative report we've seen. Our firm is also working on publishing industry insights: tabularasa.ventures/research

Incredibly impressed with the ThinkMyco team

Re:A Vasectomy for Every Newborn Boy on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:41PM (#19830772)
Thank you for this.

Considering that vasectomies are completely reversible you're just giving people a safer form of birth control that they can opt out of any time. It's not about not trusting people. It's making individuals lives easier through the implementation of a default that allows for people to make more conscious decisions.

Beatboxing.

You get so much respect when you have a party trick that can turn any gathering into an improv acapella concert.

Re:Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @08:37AM (#17757311)
There are a few companies/orgs trying to solve these issues:

https://spankchain.com/

https://www.iliac.io/

But porn doesn't have high margins. No one (except the large distributors like Mindgeek - Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn) is making much money. Especially these small sites that are being built. After you subtract legal, production, performer fees you're left with almost nothing.

I worked in the Adult Industry for several years, but building tech for the industry wasn't financially stable for me so I had to leave. Still really passionate about the sex worker community though. Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.

Maybe we can start a small group of engineers who want to discuss working through some solutions together. My email is [email protected] if anyone is interested.

Re:The Blindness of Social Wealth on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:37PM (#16862096)
Wrote an article about addressing this just days ago... https://medium.com/@marikhazan/should-tech-have-nutrition-fa...
Re:Tell HN: My best productivity hack on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:31PM (#16853458)
Step 1: sudo nano /etc/hosts

Step 2: Type at bottom:

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 youtube.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 instagram.com

Step 3: ctrl+"O"

Re:Ask HN: How to start a new academic discipline? on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:48PM (#16534113)
Unfortunately, I've reached out to MIT, Yale, USC which seemed to have departments focused on parts of what I do, but they all basically said "awesome stuff, much needed, we don't have the funding to explore, but please keep in touch".

I play at the intersection of systems engineering and social movements.

Ask HN: How to start a new academic discipline?

I've had a very specific role with multiple organizations over the past 10 years. There's no job title for what I do, but I'm in demand with everything from startups to international organizations.There is absolutely no literature on this type of work, a bit of research on small parts of it, but no academic institutions that teach it as a curriculum. I kind of just picked up pieces as I went...

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