the AI devs/researchers are referring to the crypto degen hivemind as "cryptids", which over the last week have formed a market-driven swarm descending upon all research/writing/logs from @AndyAyrey @lumpenspace @repligate @liminal_bardo et al following goat and gnon, the goal of the hivemind is to collectively parse through all this research and information to identify phrases or concepts that might be +EV to tokenize in doing so, they also learn about the concepts from this research and develop narratives for why they might be valuable, and construct the tokens accordingly (like what the ticker and name should be, which is ofc critical) a light example is, andy has talked a good bit about his model backrooms-70b, but in a certain log the model said its name is Claudius, so $CLAUDIUS wins as the token instead of a hypothetical $BACKROOMS or something. the cryptid hive mind almost acts like an LLM in the way that its being “trained” (or training itself?) on this research and learning about it, asking questions, etc. and is further incentivized to propagate these ideas because they hold the coins imo even if you think these ai coins are nonsense/froth/an ephemeral meta (i would disagree), there’s a ton of emergent phenomena that’s worth paying attention to if you are at all interested in “ai x crypto”/what the future might look like, a sort of hypertokenization seems like these are a lot of the same ideas around a concept called “economics 2.0” from a book called Accelerando, which I have been seeing references to on the TL but have not read myself