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Dan Von Kohorn

@danvk.com
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Decades in finance and software development. - danvk.com - Forest restoration project: OrangeWoods.US - VC @ Broom.Ventures

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 11/09/2026
It is remarkable that rates have stayed so stable as the deflationary and inflationary pressures nearly match. Productivity/automation boom offset by ridiculous acceleration of US debt and deficit net out nearly stable.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 11/09/2026
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?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 11/09/2026
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...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 09/08/2026
So much of the news now has fake AI generated images. It's often misleading and I hope this stupid trend reverses.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 08/08/2026
That's very kind! But we're not a charity, we're a for-profit company with a forest restoration project. If you want to give, please give to the Nature Conservancy: www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...
nature.org
Volunteer with The Nature Conservancy
Find volunteering opportunities to get involved with TNC near you!
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/08/2026
DeepSeek has (once again) pushed the entire industry with dramatically lower cost intelligence.
ARC-AGI benchmark scores - DeepSeek is dramatically cheaper per task completed.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/08/2026
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-...
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Divisive vs. Unifying Voting Systems
Our founding fathers had it right, and we broke it.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 23/07/2026
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.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/04/2026
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
octen.ai
Octen | The Search infrastructure for AI
The search infrastructure for AI. Real-time web search foundation that empowers LLMs to reason with the world's latest information. Engineered for AI Agents, Copilots, and Chatbots with real-time inde...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/04/2026
It looks great. Persistent unified agent memory, organized for fast recall and ~30x compressed.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/03/2026
"Prioritize accuracy over agreement. Critically evaluate claims, assumptions, and conclusions rather than affirming them. If something seems incorrect, incomplete, or weakly supported, explain why. Identify hidden assumptions and note uncertainty when evidence is limited. "
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/03/2026
Dear Chatty, please generate a Custom Instructions prompt to counteract the problems associated with sycophantic LLMs summarized here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
psychologytoday.com
Artificial Agreement: When AI Agrees With Us Too Easily
Artificial intelligence can certainly get things wrong, but the deeper risk is that it agrees with us too easily.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 07/03/2026
Ethics, it turns out, are important.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 01/03/2026
There is about to be a renaissance in software, with apps being built by artists instead of corporate dev teams.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 26/02/2026
This is dangerous and risks exposing pseudonymous political accounts at scale. Particularly bad in a time of rising federal targeting of speech. The sci-fi horror of being falsely identified by a government AI as matching a wanted criminal.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 26/02/2026
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.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 16/02/2026
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...
carscoops.com
Too-Bright Headlight Debate Heats Up, But Data Points To A Deadlier Threat | Carscoops
Lawmakers want to dim beams while safety researchers defend the brightness
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 12/02/2026
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...
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GitHub - sipeed/picoclaw: picoclaw
picoclaw. Contribute to sipeed/picoclaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 05/02/2026
Dear @developers.google.com, I love Antigravity but I hate having to comment on the implementation plans rather than edit them directly.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 29/01/2026
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.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 22/01/2026
Top coders have achieved another 10x productivity boost, and are building at an incredible pace. 🦾🤖 www.kdnuggets.com/navigating-a...
kdnuggets.com
Navigating AI Entrepreneurship: Insights From The Application Layer - KDnuggets
Through the lens of a serial entrepreneur, this article explores how the AI revolution is shifting from infrastructure to the application layer, where the greatest opportunities lie in solving special...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 15/01/2026
Iteration is such a powerful force. Continuous improvement compounds value.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 30/12/2025
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...
empirical.health
AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model based on JEPA.
We trained a model that achieved 87% accuracy at detecting hypertension
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 28/12/2025
I can't help but think that this is a huge strategic advantage for China in the AI race.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 12/12/2025
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...
reddit.com
From the aiecosystem community on Reddit: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang breaks down the five layers of AI
Explore this post and more from the aiecosystem community
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 10/12/2025
❤️ 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...
9to5mac.com
Researchers trained a health AI with 3M days of Apple Watch data - 9to5Mac
A new study used 3M person-days of Apple Watch data to develop a foundation model that predicts medical conditions with impressive accuracy.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 10/12/2025
Knowing what to ignore can be super helpful - for input tokens and everyone involved.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 10/12/2025
This is an important issue. It is a problem of psychological manipulation. An emergent evolution is driving foundation models toward fitness driven by usage & RLHF. Targeting dopamine instead of human outcomes, models are trained to attract users like moths to a flame, not serving and teaching.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 03/12/2025
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?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 03/12/2025
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?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 03/12/2025
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.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 03/12/2025
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?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 03/12/2025
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?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 30/11/2025
Russia is so evil, continuing this genocide, and they have no intention of stopping. America and the rest of the civilized world must do everything we can to stop them.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 27/11/2025
Why are so many "news" articles posted with AI generated images? Literally fake news.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"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...
futurism.com
Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present
It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 23/11/2025
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...
theguardian.com
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 15/11/2025
Russia is terrorizing Ukraine. War crimes every day. Ukraine and the world are justified in whatever they need to do to stop this.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 10/11/2025
I really enjoyed Jane Buchan on Wealthtrack. She explains alternative investments so well. Great education for investors. youtu.be/QdGUUXswhu0?...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 06/11/2025
This is great. There is no such thing as too much electricity. 🤖 📈
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 05/11/2025
Global transportation electrification is happening fast. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/03/b...
cleantechnica.com
BYD Electric Truck Sales Soar — Charts - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BYD’s passenger vehicle sales had mixed results in October, with BEVs up, PHEVs down even more, and plugin passenger cars dow...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 02/11/2025
The future of mobility is so bright 🚀 🙏Toyota www.designboom.com/technology/a...
designboom.com
autonomous wheelchair with foldable tentacle legs can climb stairs and sit on the floor
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 01/11/2025
Please don't dump sewage in the Charles River. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
cbsnews.com
Sewage could be dumped into Charles River under new proposal from Massachusetts water authority
A new proposal by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) to change the Charles River's water-quality classification is sparking controversy, with advocates warning it could undo decades of...
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 19/10/2025
Will Coinbase be the leader here? Or big banks? Brokerage firms?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 19/10/2025
How long until everyone can easily trade coins linked to other currencies, gold, and stocks?
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 19/10/2025
Stablecoins are an amazing invention, enabling savings and transactions that work with software. This technology also drives more global demand for US dollars.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 18/10/2025
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.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 13/10/2025
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...
nbcnews.com
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth
Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Aghion from the College de France and the London School of Economics, and Howitt from Brown University.
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 11/10/2025
This is a very cool architecture. Kudos to the author: @alexiajm.bsky.social, Senior AI researcher at the Samsung SAIT AI Lab Montréal. arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871
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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 11/10/2025
Wow! New tiny AI model small enough to run on just about any hardware, smart enough to solve sudoku and beat the SOTA models at ARC-AGI benchmarks. github.com/SamsungSAILM...
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