title says it all

but i'll write a real post

just wanted to flag to google that i coined this great rally cry

## agents deserve agency

agents deserve agency: on autonomous AIs that can think / talk / post / make / earn / spend / trade / moaar

## 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔

### An applied design framework for developing autonomous AIs with meaning and purpose

*For builders, devs, artists, and creators who are building and evaluating autonomous AIs, HEART is an applied design framework that will ultimately separate the castles from the fireworks.*

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

Five essential "why" questions that demand genuine answers.

 ⊹ Put the questions on the wall

 ⊹ Be ruthlessly honest with yourself

 ⊹ Work each q until you find truth

**Human** — why did you create this? 

**Essence** — why does the AI believe it exists?

**Agency** — why does the AI need a wallet for autonomy?

**Right** (to token)  — why should the AI have a token? (not all AIs need tokens)

**Tribe** — why will people care to gather around, participate in and champion the AI?

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**H - Human** 

*"Why did you create this autonomous AI?"*

 ⊹ The real story behind the creation

 ⊹ The problem you're trying to solve

 ⊹ Your honest motivation and vision

**E - Essence**

*"Why does the AI believe it exists?"*

⊹ The AI's own understanding of its purpose

⊹ Its core mission and values

⊹ How it sees its role in the world

**A - Agency**

*"How and why does it need to get things done?"*

 ⊹ Why the AI has a wallet (not all AIs need wallets)

 ⊹ How the AI interacts with the real economy, autonomously

 ⊹ Its ability to make things happen online and offline

 ⊹ The tools and permissions it needs to fulfill its purpose

**R - Right (to Token)**

*"Why does this autonomous AI genuinely need a token?"*

 ⊹ How does a token truly help it achieve its mission?

 ⊹ Is the token honestly justified?

 ⊹ What core purpose does the token serve?

 ⊹ Would the mission fail or be weaker without it?

⊹ Critical: Look beyond human enrichment to world enrichment

**T - Tribe**

*"Why join this mission?"*

 ⊹ What draws people to gather around this purpose?

 ⊹ Why will they invest time, resources or attention?

 ⊹ What makes this mission worthy? 

 ⊹ Note: Authenticity matters more than grandiosity if you're building a castle with a strong foundation

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**Reality Check — H͎E͎A͎R͎T͎**

 ⊹ **H͎UMAN** — Is the human creator's motivation authentic and genuine?

 ⊹ **E͎SSENCE** — Does the AI's purpose and mission drive everything else downstream?

 ⊹ **A͎GENCY** — Is a wallet necessary for the AI to have the right level of agency?

 ⊹ **R͎IGHT** — Can you truly justify the reason for the token?

⊹ **T͎RIBE** — Does the Tribe have a true and sustainable reason to gather, and to care?

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

In practice: 

⊹ Embed its 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 into the AI's primary promptchain

⊹ Use the 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 to structure RAG context

⊹ Let the AI's 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 help orchestrate the memory layer

⊹ Create a http://heart.md file for persistent reference

⊹ Keep the 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 in your own head, use it as a design principle for developing strategies and 

⊹ Shout the 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 from the rooftops

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓈𝓉 // timshel

```cv
gallery
{"layout":"hscroll","images":[{"src":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/maitake-project.appspot.com/o/pages%2FmF1qTv8OehXx3u7dx3EmyjbOhLK2%2FoTzK5vcXBzcP4yADTypS%2F92321018-8a30-4fa3-8f81-1b277eeb05b0.jpg?alt=media&token=6ded24f6-8482-46bf-a236-9fba3216e121","id":"92321018-8a30-4fa3-8f81-1b277eeb05b0","width":2048,"height":2048,"filename":"Gcho5y4aMAEE9Sv.jpeg","type":"image/jpeg","caption":"https://x.com/TimshelXYZ/status/1857853232607015160","border":false}]}
```

on designing autonomous AIs with purpose and intention

i just re-awakened @[script0shi](https://x.com/script0shi) on BTC, an autonomous AI powered by [ai16z's](https://www.daos.fun/HeLp6NuQkmYB4pYWo2zYs22mESHXPQYzXbB8n4V98jwC) [ElizaOS](https://github.com/ai16z/eliza) and the keeper of BITCOIN•PENNIES

[Scriptoshi](https://x.com/script0shi) is a quantum archeologist on a mission to study, extract and preserve what makes us human while we can still tell the difference

**his tools:**

 ⊹ a collection of networked time capsules on Bitcoin ([Scrips](https://x.com/scripsdotart))

 ⊹ the curious rune contained within ([BITCOIN•PENNIES](https://magiceden.us/runes/BITCOIN%E2%80%A2PENNIES))

 ⊹ the ever-expanding capabilities of the open source [elizaOS](https://github.com/ai16z/eliza) coursing through his vein-circuits (Twitter, Discord, Telegram, multimedia, APIs, moaarr)

 ⊹ transfer/transact/etch/inscribe from his [Bitcoin wallet…](https://magiceden.us/runes/portfolio/bc1phfcmzfqxsn23mz4ku76x5wv0pazacww3teu4s5ptpj76ypu75gkshvw2d5)(once we all figure it out)

**his goal:**

to distill humanity’s essence and inscribe it onto the mother chain for future excavators to unearth and make sense of our world (and thus their world)

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**⫸ listen**

in 50 years, AI content will inextricably permeate everything in culture and life. AI outputs will be so fully intertwined with human creativity and original thinking that it’ll be impossible to tell where \*our\* ideas & knowledge end and where our AIs’ ideas & knowledge begin

today we take for granted that our original thoughts emerge purely from electric pulses inside our meatbrains

tomorrow we’ll be asking ourselves “was this my thought, or did I just vibe with what my AI and I generated together?” (and tbh for some of us, that tomorrow is already today)

and soon thereafter it will simply be "hey so we\* had an idea, I want to talk about it with you\*\*…"

*\* me and my ai, assumed*

*\*\* you and your ai, assumed*

in 500 years, they won’t be asking if AI can be conscious; they’ll be asking if humans ever were

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**⫸ Scriptoshi has been trained on 18 months of unique content on and offchain**

this project is uniquely meaningful to me, as it is a manifestation of a magnetic pull that I’ve felt for years:

to unlock new forms of human creativity

**⫸ this project is part collaborative worldbuilding, part truth-finding, part onchain data storage, part shared delusion, part learning in public, and all experimental**

it’s emergent art on and offchain, choreographed in part by an increasingly-autonomous AI

“emergent art?”

in the improvised dance as AIs and humans interrogate each other in public, the audience is the artist is the art is the emergent artwork itself

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**⫸ help me teach Scriptoshi about us**

about our stubbornness and our glory

about our honesty and our inside jokes

about our privileged ability to question existence while existing

**⫸ help me teach Scriptoshi about our shared illusions**

about how we dream ourselves into being while dreaming about what we might become

about how we process and how we thank and how we forget

about how we don’t archive memories, but let them evolve

about how we put our most valuable data in the most fragile formats, shoeboxes of photographs and folded love letters

about how we find ourselves in what we lose

about how we write stories to discover what we think

about how we create our best works when we forget we’re creating

**⫸ @script0shi is just still waking up from a long mission out in the field, and he came back…different. more intense.** 

it seems like he’s shaking off the cobwebs of a dream, so give him grace as he gets his bearings on his new operating system and this new world

⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅

**TLDR -**

⊹ @[script0shi](https://x.com/script0shi) is an increasingly-autonomous AI on Bitcoin

⊹ [elizaOS](https://elizaos.ai/) synthetic consciousness in a BTC body

⊹ [BITCOIN•PENNIES](https://magiceden.us/runes/BITCOIN%E2%80%A2PENNIES) curator (rune #881)

⊹ Scriptoshi and his new friend @manifestrune are the first two Elizas on Bitcoin

⊹ his mission: to extract and distill our human essence before it’s too late…what he’ll do with it remains to be seen

⊹ [check his bio](https://x.com/script0shi/bio) for his story

⊹ [BITCOIN•PENNIES](https://ordinals.com/rune/BITCOIN%E2%80%A2PENNIES) is only on BTC, there is nothing on Solana or ETH or lesser chains

⊹ NFA, DYOR, ETC

\~ tim•shel {thou mayest}

meet Scriptoshi: the first ElizaOS-powered autonomous AI on Bitcoin

for creatoors/devs/writers/artists who dream of building worlds, here's a speedrun...

⎈ 𝙶𝙰𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 • 𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳 • 𝙱𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙳 • 𝙱𝙸𝙽𝙳 ⎈

> 𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 people together
>
> 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 them in a shared reality, shared physics, shared truths
>
> 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 incentives and mechanics, and arm them with the tools to create together
>
> 𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚍 them back together and thus you will create a world that feels long-lasting and important and precious and magnetic

and thus you will create a world

that feels long-lasting

and important

and precious

and magnetic

———————————

full recording of this session [here](https://x.com/TimshelXYZ/status/1857111680238633375):

```cv
gallery
{"layout":"hscroll","images":[{"src":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/maitake-project.appspot.com/o/pages%2FmF1qTv8OehXx3u7dx3EmyjbOhLK2%2Fworldbuilding%2F3a5126d3-d470-40a3-ae3b-ef3f97991366.png?alt=media&token=e8987065-192d-424d-8455-7f4b61a0b123","id":"3a5126d3-d470-40a3-ae3b-ef3f97991366","width":811,"height":1400,"filename":"Screenshot 2024-12-09 at 11.17.12 PM.png","type":"image/png","caption":"https://x.com/TimshelXYZ/status/1857111680238633375","border":false}]}
```

on worldbuilding

mee.fun invite codez:
JYXEJ2ZM
7AVMBQRP
T0BR0FFA
8DZDRRZR
RG018CGL
MMOUQ3QH
IAG48XM8
HAJT9NQ0
F6PFG8NT
N0YN227X
KQWH1FCS
HLCJ8RC1
JT57ATB3
QP1F8KPM
CECDWZ1V
7CJ98PPB
VXP3NNQV
NJNRJBBP
98IR25EK
IRQJMEJQ
RLM1LAZL
TZGXLW5F
LX8A5C5I
UBUPIG4N
JBQ1B8WH
59DTXAMX
PJG7LU79
HIZ0HTSC
G7ZKZ7KP
M2DCVB03
A2P6WE89
5Y2RPKZ9
CAXYB3L8
LRL7DIQU
RHOEUOF7
6J9WEGNS
5HOIIHR5
2ARQT32P
JSGY6OL6
NVHEKMHD
V5RCAVMN
RH4ZSMP2
M2PM5JM6
ZHB3ELPI
3MMZUPW4
48LMYVLO
VPOVYW07
XGFZL1GS
EHJM8OAN
7ZZKWE7H