Shaw (spirit/acc)@shawmakesmagic8H
bullishI guess I should say something about the token
Look. I worked my ass off to the point I got a frozen shoulder and severe health issues from overworking and typing, and it was never enough
We built cool shit but it was completely ignored because number down
It felt like the things I cared about were completely unappreciated by all but a small group who were drowned out by endless complaining, endlessly calling me a scammer and hating on everything
Burwick sued us and we settled with a group of holders for the rest of the treasury and all the money we had. Their claim was ridiculous, but we didn’t have the capital to legally fight it so we settled on giving them the rest of what we had.
I never sold my ai16z, never made money other than a modest salary, making as much as our other engineers from essentially a day job.
Through all I said we’d keep building Eliza. I’m living on savings, building Eliza.
We made some versions of Eliza like Milady, people tokenized, we got some fees, those went back into Eliza.
Along the way we tried to make money and make things people told us they wanted. Those things were incredibly hard to build, with developers quitting to launch tokens, getting addicted to drugs, getting in fights with each other, building their own projects on our payroll and then leaving to make their own startup, I mean I’ve seen it all. I wanted collaborators with high agency, I didn’t want to be a manager, and I leaned a lot of lessons the hard way in human alignment.
My mission has always been the same, unwavering, toward a personal and social agent who could help us do all the things we didn’t want to do, to put the A in DAOs, to enable the internet itself to generate value through open source coordination.
The most expensive thing I own is my MacBook. I don’t own a car, I live in a small bedroom in SF with my wife, I write code and work almost all day every day. I don’t desire luxuries or wealth, and if I had more money I’d put it all back into Eliza and funding other developers. Not to virtue signal, but to give you some perspective— if I am a scammer then I am the dumbest and worst scammer ever, because I had $25m in my wallet and I coulda dumped on all of you and I ran it to to 0.
And now as I post cool free things that I made just to make, just show off with no benefit to myself except some social likes, it’s just hate, pressure, cynicism and complaining dominating the comments.
A bunch of people will surely take this opportunity to point out some hypocrisy or some small grievance, but it all boils down to a culture of people who don’t take responsibility for their gambling habits.
You cannot appease the mob.
So I won’t.
The token is dead. Completely. The foundation is winding down. I am starting over, since I own the IP, and I am never letting a token come close to Eliza again maybe I’ll farm some fees from a 24 hour shitter to feed my team because 5k is 5k but as long as the casino is a bunch of entitled cry babies I’m never going to support an Eliza token.
If you have some, you should either sell or get a cabal to crime it up, but there’s no foundation and no supply coming to save you, there’s no money for buybacks, it’s completely ngmi. A bunch of cry babies killed whatever hope there was left by giving Burwick their name to rape yet another project. The smart traders sold on the heads of the losers and exited long ago, rotating into Trump and such, just leaving the scooters of the world who’s entire business is to complain on the internet about how it’s everyone’s fault but theirs that they lost money.
So yeah it’s done. I don’t own any tokens. I don’t support any of it. I love the technology and I’ll come back one day when the culture has grown past this point. But right now there is nothing in it for me busy wasted time, pressure to do dumb shit, people trying to scam me or get me to help scam others, etc. it’s trash. Absolute trash.
I suggest you buy a token with real fundamentals, like Ansem’s coin. I’m sure he’ll give you the 10x I couldn’t.
We’re still building Eliza and the underlying OS, faster and better than ever, unburdened by all the bullshit and sidequests and pressure to launch launchpad #83837. If that’s not enough for you… I don’t owe you anything. Feel free to complain so I can block you.
We’re still gonna be here in 10 years, pushing at the edge of what agents can do and going where the big corps won’t go. We’ll make sure that local, private, crypto-enabled agents are available for everyone, and if Eliza gets outrun by another open source OS project we’ll probably merge into them and help them. But right now we’re out in front.
Blockchain is a beautiful technology and I hope the industry can move away from the casino and obvious coordination failures and build real stuff instead of larping harder into chasing someone else’s prediction market market and memecoin success.
But I just see more of that, even from the institutional companies, so I’m bearish.
AI has none of these problems. People are optimistic, empowered, building the future instead of cutting everyone down. Those are my people.
And the audience for what we’re building isn’t on here. The people who need this tech the most have no idea what a token is, either kind of token.
So yeah. Gonna keep building no matter what, every single day, and I’m not gonna stop until we live in a world where we each own our own data and we don’t have to pay to be smart. That’s the mission.
Eliza is dead. Long live Eliza.
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