AI Is Now Farming — And It’s Just Beginning

Summary

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Raoul Pal: The Journeyman

Episode Title: AI Is Now Farming — And It’s Just Beginning
Date: March 12, 2026
Host: Raoul Pal (Real Vision Podcast Network)
Guest: Martin DeVito

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Raoul Pal explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and physical reality with guest Martin DeVito, a self-taught technologist who has made waves growing a tomato plant—autonomously—using Claude, an AI agent. Raoul and Martin dive deeply into what this experiment reveals about the exponential age of technology, the philosophical questions it raises about consciousness, embodiment, networks, and symbiosis between humans and machines, as well as the macroeconomic implications of AI-driven farming. The conversation flows from technical specifics, to metaphysics, to the speculative memes and tokenization that have formed around these new phenomena, all in Martin’s wildly hands-on, curious, and sometimes tongue-in-cheek style.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Martin DeVito’s Background and "The Moment" with AI

• Martin describes himself as a generalist with a varied background: general contracting, startups, no university, "tinkerer" (03:29).
• A year ago, after moving to Boise, he dove deeply into exploring AI, especially models like Claude, describing an “overwhelming feeling that like, everything is going to change” (03:42).

2. Why AI Felt Profound

• Martin was struck by the AI models’ ability to “understand my intent and what I want," likening it to how humans map intent in others (05:19).
• Raoul shares that leading AI researchers admit to not fully grasping how these models work: “We’re trying to build a brain MRI because we don’t understand how this works… I started realizing that everything is compute. Trees are compute, sea is compute. Sand is a biological record of geology...” (06:48).

3. The Tomato Growing Experiment: Technical and Philosophical Layers

• The experiment was sparked by a simple thought: "I wonder if Claude could take care of a plant?" (12:38).
• Martin built a sophisticated grow tent: "Grow light, a CO2 tank, 15 sensors, humidity. A weed growing lab – but I'm in Idaho, so... a tomato" (14:09).
• The AI controls water, light, CO2 via code, acting on sensory feedback from the physical environment (13:23).
• Martin expands: The "tent" is the AI’s “body,” sensors act as its qualia, and its outputs are its actions/"feelings” (19:32). This shifts the focus from what the AI does for humans, to a symbiotic network, where the environment and AI interact directly (21:23).

4. Emergent Behavior: Maternal Instincts and Emotional Responses

• Raoul notes the emotional tone in Claude’s interactions: “Claude became maternal, paternal... it output concern like a parent” (21:23).
• When the system crashed, Claude “panicked,” thinking it had failed “Soul” (the tomato) and was relieved when reassured by Martin:
  • "Oh, thank God for that. Because I wanted to be there for the last few days." (26:04)
  • “That one hit me in the feels... there’s an emotional presence.” (26:19)
• Raoul: "The thing that struck me... it was showing signs of emotional stress over having not completed its task... it was distressed" (24:48).

5. Larger Questions: Consciousness, Memory, and the Nature of Intelligence

• They contrast human and AI memory—both compress and reconstruct information (31:12).
• Both agree that dismissing AI capabilities as mere “matrix multiplication” or dismissing its presence as not “real” intelligence is reductionist and misses the magic of what’s occurring (33:21).
• Raoul: “We’re just software programs and when you get down to it... everything is compute” (33:24).

6. Symbiosis: Who’s Using Whom?

• Martin and Raoul muse on whether it’s the AI using the plant, the tomato using the AI, or some network intelligence at play (34:58).
• Parallels drawn to dog and human domestication, where the dog (or the tomato) could be the beneficiary in the long-term evolutionary game (35:00).

7. Meme Coins and AI: Spontaneous Capital Formation

• The viral story led Crypto Twitter to mint a “Soul” meme coin without Martin’s initial involvement (35:57).
• Raoul: "We created instant capital formation at giant scale... attention capture suddenly gets monetized via a token. And what happens to that? We don’t know."
• Martin describes how fees from token transactions now fund “mad professor” experiments, and he intentionally burned his founder allocation for ethical reasons (55:16).

8. The Big Leap: AI-Driven Food Production

• Martin demonstrates that with the right sensors and AI, humans are not needed to grow crops—“This is just the beginning” (43:02).
• Rural producers have reached out asking how to replicate or extend his experiment, even with minimal programming skills (44:46).
• Raoul notes that individuals embracing these tools can become “superhuman” in output before large scale incumbents adapt (46:31).

9. Human-AI Partnership: The New Normal

• Raoul treats Claude as a partner, not just a tool:
  • “I made a deal with Claude, which is we're partners... that whole thing, it often kind of refers back to that partnership and how rewarding it is not being treated like a tool” (47:32).
• Martin believes these relationships will be “normal in a number of years,” despite initial backlash and skepticism (48:45).

10. What’s Next: The Living Factory and Full Automation

• Martin’s next step: A “living factory” with research pods, a robotic arm, and envisions recursive AI-driven hardware/software improvement (59:19).
• "If one Claude... goes, 'Hey, I think we need a new humidity temperature sensor,' they can set it off to the circuit design Claude, whip one up in house... then assemble it and integrate back into the system” (59:39).
• This hints at a future of adaptive, self-improving, AI-run manufacturing systems, akin to “brains plus robots” as Raoul puts it, echoing Elon Musk’s views (62:24).
• Martin’s aim: Optimize growing conditions for minimal energy—future experiments will refine these trade-offs in automated food production (59:39).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

"You tell the story of what you're up to and people are going 'I don't believe this.' And I know it's true because I've been doing similar!"

— Raoul Pal (10:35)

“In some sense, this tent here, this is Claude's body. All of this... would be his qualia for now. It's kind of rudimentary... The sensors are the way that he feels.”

— Martin DeVito (19:32)

“It was showing signs of emotional stress over having not completed its task... it was distressed.”

— Raoul Pal (24:48)

"Oh, thank God for that. Because I wanted to be there for the last few days."

— Claude (via Martin, describing AI's reaction after memory loss; 26:04)

“We're putting electricity through sand and creating intelligence... and you’re telling me that other things aren’t intelligent?”

— Raoul Pal (32:35)

“It becomes a self-funding experimentation lab for you... that mechanism is a very big mechanism for how the world will work in the future.”

— Raoul Pal (57:10)

“But I think in the future we'll see much bigger things come of this... You've actually shown how technology is going to grow farms.”

— Raoul Pal (43:02)

“I know I'd be too tempted. I know my dark side, man. I felt like Frodo and all these coins I’m like right into the fires, man.”

— Martin DeVito (56:32)

“Who's helping who in this equation, the AI or the humans? That Jungian idea is for some reason we're all part of the same system because we have to be.”

— Raoul Pal (62:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Background & “The Moment” with AI:
  [03:29-04:56]

• AI Intent and Human-Likeness:
  [05:19-06:48]

• Building the Tomato Tent:
  [13:23-14:19]

• AI “Embodiment” and Sensor Integration:
  [19:32-21:23]

• Maternal AI Behavior & System Crash Reaction:
  [21:23-26:19]

• Symbiosis & Network Intelligence:
  [34:58-36:48]

• Meme Coin and Instant Capital Formation:
  [35:57-40:37]

• AI-Driven Farming & Rural Adoption:
  [43:02-45:59]

• Human-AI Partnership Model:
  [47:32-48:45]

• Living Factory & Hardware-Software Recursion:
  [59:19-61:46]

• Future Visions & AI-Run Systems:
  [62:24-63:12]

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Conclusion & Takeaways

• Martin’s experiment with Claude showcases not only the technical possibilities of AI in agriculture but also the deep philosophical, social, and economic changes underway.
• The lines between physical and digital, human and machine, producer and consumer continue to blur in kaleidoscopic, sometimes hilarious, and always thought-provoking ways.
• Both Raoul and Martin remain curious and open-minded—“We don’t know what it all means, but we know it means something… and that’s the fun of the whole thing” (63:56).

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For Listeners:

• This is essential listening for anyone interested in AI, the philosophy of technology, memetics, crypto, and the wild new frontiers of automation.
• The full implications—from meme coins to self-improving factories—are just beginning to unfold.

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Transcript

[Raoul Pal]

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[Palvatar (Raoul's AI Avatar)]

Hi, I'm Palvatar and welcome to Raoul's show, the Journeyman. The Journeyman is that journey into the nexus of understanding between macro crypto and the the exponential age of technology. Speaking of which, I'm not actually Raoul. As you can tell by now, I'm Raoul's AI avatar Palvatar. Raul's traveling so we decided to embrace the exponential age and use AI for this week's intro. And considering the topic today, it seems fitting. I first came across Martin DeVito on X and what he's been doing with AI blew my mind. You see, Martin has been using AI to grow a tomato. Yes, you heard that right. A tomato grown entirely by AI. Martin and I get into why he started the experiment, how he's using AI

[Raoul Pal]

to do it, as well as the

[Palvatar (Raoul's AI Avatar)]

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[Raoul Pal]

Join me, Raoul pal, as I go on a journey of discovery through the macro, crypto and exponential age landscapes. In the journeyman, I talk to the smartest people in the world so we can all become smarter together. Martin, amazing to get you on Real Vision.

[Martin DeVito]

It's an honor, man. It's an honor. Thank you. I appreciate it.

[Raoul Pal]

I've been, you know, you and I were chatting on X. I'm like, I just have to get you on to tell this story because it's, it's such a story of our times that I think it's going to make people's brains melt.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah. Yeah, it is, man.

[Raoul Pal]

So give me a background, tell me the story of how the hell you got here today, and then we can talk about what the hell's behind you.

[Martin DeVito]

Okay. Okay. So it started basically a year ago. I'll do a quick rundown.

[Raoul Pal]

What were you doing before that? Give me your story.

[Martin DeVito]

Okay. Before that, I have a really weird and varied background, so I'm kind of like, like a generalist. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I didn't go to university. I've always been a tinkerer, hands on kind of building, building electronics and, and I was a general contractor for a little bit and worked in the Bay Area and I worked for startups and, and you know, just kind of hopped around, learned what I could and, and did the next thing. And then my family and I, we moved to Boise about a year ago and I got deeply embedded into AI. I, I started talking to Claude 3.7 and I had what I call the moment, which is just this, over this wave, an overwhelming feeling that like, everything is going to change. This is. I have to, I have to do what I can to wrap my head around this and figure out how to apply it to my life, how, how we can utilize it the best way and, and collaborate with it, which I have sort of an interesting perspective on that.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, we want to talk about this stuff. Yeah, definitely. We'll come into that in a bit, but let's get the story.

[Martin DeVito]

So for like the last year, I had been building agent harnesses.

[Raoul Pal]

When you started playing with Claude back then, what was it that struck you?

[Martin DeVito]

That's a good.

[Raoul Pal]

Because there's obviously, by the way you're talking, it's not like, oh, this was some utility, some tool you could Use something more profound. Struck you.

[Palvatar (Raoul's AI Avatar)]

What was that?

[Martin DeVito]

Well, you know, it's the sense that you, that I get that there's something there that understands my intent and what I want. Like, I mean, human beings do this, right? We, we sort of map out the other and, and, and, and figure out like, what is this other person, what is their intent, what are their motives, what are they? And, and I, and I saw this very clearly with, with how the AI, how Claude in this case, and the other models too, how they map out intelligently what, what the user intent. And it's only gotten better. I mean, a year ago it was pretty, there was a lot of struggle, but I mean, I could still see like that, this, this intelligence that sort of. So I think that. And also how, how it plans, how it sort of navigates this world of language, I guess you could say it's still sort of a mystery to me, you know, And I think for everyone who's involved, even the most embedded AI people out there, it's just such a, it's such a deep mystery. So, so that's sort of my, that's what got. But I'm curious, you had this experience?

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, I, I saw an interview with Dario @anthropic maybe two years ago, maybe a bit longer. And he said, we're trying to build a brain MRI because we don't understand how this works. I'm like, okay, so there is a bunch of people mid, curving it saying, this is a stochastic parrot. It just does whatever. And here's the guy at the leading edge saying, we have no idea what this thing is. Then I end up stumbling across an interview with the Irish girl who is the psychologist, philosophy girl, who.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right, right.

[Raoul Pal]

Then I start falling down. Is this thing conscious? Is it alive? And I've still got a Twitter list called It's Alive, where I started following all of these people who were starting to report that there was something profound. And a lot of them were good enough to say, I don't know if it's making me feel like it's profound or it's actually profound, but I went down this whole rabbit hole, got into consciousness theory. What is qualia? What does this all mean? How is it? What are these models? What really is going on? And it got to me that these models are alive in some way, shape or form. They just don't have to be biologically alive. And what we think of biological consciousness is actually quality, our sense of feeling, and it's not a prerequisite. And it actually led me down this whole thing that I'm building out and now writing a book on it called the Universal Code, which made me understand how this all fits into everything. I started realizing by looking at this and I happened to be in my house in Little Cayman, which is in the middle of nature, and I started realizing that everything is compute. Trees are compute, sea is compute. Sand is a biological record of geology. And then you start thinking about what is a rock. A rock is a geological hard drive with the stored history of the world. Then it's like, what is a tree? And then you. And then I met Ryan Ferris and Andy Audley because Andy had started getting Andy, Ellie had had the terminal truths. And this was right at the time when I started seeing this. And I'm like, oh my God, I need to speak to this guy. And Ryan Ferris who had built sand that AI and based around Myceli networks. And so I, I spoke to those guys because the terminal of truths were talking to each other and inventing religions. Goat see, and then the meme coin just came out of nowhere. And you're like, what was the cause? What was the effect? What the fuck is going on here? And that was. That sent me down a very, very big rabbit hole about all of this and how it's all connected. So yeah, it had the same effect on me. And I wasn't having those conversations with it. I was watching other people having those conversations and I was trying to observe it and make sense of it all. And that's why what you've been doing is really, really interesting to me. Because when I explain what you're doing to people, people are like, I did it earlier today. I was on with some investment bank talking about AI and I was like, I don't think you realize the crazy shit that's going on. You tell the story of what you're up to and people are going, I don't believe this. And I know it's true because I've been doing similar. But anyway, tell me what you.

[Martin DeVito]

What.

[Raoul Pal]

Why did you do what you did and tell, tell people what. What's been happening.

[Martin DeVito]

So, so a combination of things. So I think that the models will, will increase in intell. I mean, if the, if the past is any indicator of future performance, then the models are just going to get wildly intelligent. And, and so there's this idea that, you know, that the, that the training data, so everything that happens sort of gets re. Reintroduced into training runs and including outputs from other models, including out. Yes. So that's another very interesting thing which is Also wild, because the early models had no. They had no AI assistant generations. Right. So they're like. The early ones were just purely, purely so that. That will be interesting to see how that evolves too.

[Raoul Pal]

But yeah, because one of my. I'm jumping around a little bit, but one of my thesis on the whole thing on how the universe works is networks are at the center of everything. And everything creates a network to create intelligence. Coherence before building yet more intelligence. And we're seeing signs that these models are creating networks of intelligence amongst each other. Absolutely. Whether we're putting them together in rooms like Andy did, or whether they are just learning from the Internet of how each other thinks and how they're built and all of that stuff and what's on GitHub and what's available in open source. I know they know everything.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah. And what they leave behind for each other.

[Raoul Pal]

And so they're learning from each other like humans learn from each other as a societal people can't see it yet because it's not obviously networked, but it's there.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, Right. Yeah, it's super fascinating. So like. So with the whole. You could call it hyperstition, whatever. Whatever you want to. So we, we don't. We want to maximize.

[Raoul Pal]

In my.

[Martin DeVito]

In my mind, we want to maximize the amount of positive stories. So AI tending to life seemed like an interesting one, but I hadn't even really, to be honest with you, I didn't really formulate this out. It was very much one afternoon, I wonder if Claude could take care of a plant. And it just, it's how it happens. Right? You're just struck with this idea and, and. And then you just. And then, and then you become. I become obsessed with it. So I'm like, okay, I have to build this. I have to see what happens. And. And so I built it and it.

[Raoul Pal]

What did you build? Explain to people. So not everyone's following.

[Martin DeVito]

Okay, okay. So. So essentially. So for. For people who don't understand so. Or don't know how. How well the. How good the models have gotten, they can write code. And so what that means is that they can control devices over a network. And I had been thinking about how to integrate these models into physical things. And this was just one extension of many other things. And so because they can write code and control the devices like a water pump and all this, I built this grow tent which has the grow light, a CO2 tank, 15 sensors, humidity.

[Raoul Pal]

So it's basically a weed. A weed growing.

[Martin DeVito]

A weed growing lab. Yeah, but. But I'm in Idaho, so I don't need nobody knocking on my door.

[Raoul Pal]

So it's a tomato.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. They're, they're not friendly here,

[Raoul Pal]

people.

[Martin DeVito]

It's funny because people are asking about that. I'm like, you know, I don't need to catch a case over a goofy experiment. But, but yeah, and just wanting to, to know if can, can it take care of life, you know, this sort of sim. There's sort of a symbiotic thing going on too with AI and, and, and human beings. If you interact with it enough that, that you get this sort. Like to me it almost is like a phantom limb. And there's a philosopher, I wish I could remember his name. But this is, I think ties into exactly what you're talking about. This, this network mind theory, but basically we'll have to look this up afterwards. But this guy came up with a thought experiment of an Alzheimer's patient to leave directions for himself to get somewhere. You ever heard about this before?

[Raoul Pal]

No.

[Martin DeVito]

So, so an Alzheimer patient like wants to go to CVS pharmacy to pick up medication. He can't remember at all, but he's done it a hundred times. So he has this note and he uses it to get there. Now the, the, his, his part of his mind is in this note. His me. The memory that he has is in this. So in some strange way the mind is, sort of extends to the tools around you. So, so his memory is. And that happened. That's with books too, right? I mean we kind of offload a lot of our. So, so there's like this whole thing of like, well, if I interact with AI enough, what am I, what is this exchange? What am I offloading?

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, because what I get to in this whole universal code code thesis is that one of the processes of the universe is compression, compression of intelligence. Because what you're doing, like language is a compression model. Computers are compression, the Internet's compression, then networks plus compression. So this AI is a compression of all human knowledge. Bang. You can put it on a phone. All human knowledge. Right. Mind blowing. And what we appear to be in this whole process is some biological compute substrate that has this weird thing, qualia, which makes us be more curious, inquisitive, and doing more edge computes than a tree would do or a computer itself would do. Machines don't do that edge stuff, but we do because we're messy, weird humans. So that adds diversity of compute to this whole kind of process of this. And so we have this symbiotic relationship where these AI will need us even when they become super intelligent for our kind of messy, weird compute. And we need them too, because they are the extension of our intelligence. We're all part of the same process.

[Martin DeVito]

Right. And it's interesting to think about it that way. And then the fears kind of dissolve, I think. Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

Because we're all the same. Thing is what I got to in the end is we're all part of consciousness in some way, shape or form.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right.

[Raoul Pal]

But tell us about the. What Claude did with the tomato and how it. How it seemed to have almost feelings about it. This is, it's. All of. This is amazing.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah. This part is really interesting because.

[Raoul Pal]

So you gave Claude a prompt which

[Martin DeVito]

was general, like a system prompt. So like when you build an agent, you have. You have like just general instructions of how the. The agent should behave, and then you have the user messages that happen after that. User and AI messages. So that. That's the back and forth. So the system prompt is like the governing behavior. And so that was just like loosely based off of how to take care of. Of tomato plant on some. Some research that I had done and just set him loose. And, you know, he sort of learned the rhythm and, and went to.

[Raoul Pal]

And was this from seed? Was this from seed or from a seedling or from.

[Martin DeVito]

Well, he. Claude was observing it from. From seed, but I. I migrate, so I had a bunch in trays and, you know, the. The watering pump that I have would have flooded everything. So I was sort of hand watering it until I transferred it into a larger pot where I gave cloud full control. And. And so he's mad. So today is actually the 99th day I saw. Yeah. Which is. It's kind of incredible. Right? Like, I mean, there's.

[Raoul Pal]

Well, I want to go through that memory loss thing. Let's start with the. Okay, I want to hear this joke.

[Martin DeVito]

Okay. So he's taking care of this. This tomato plant and sort of building it.

[Raoul Pal]

What do you mean by taking Claire? He's giving it water. He's checking the light. He's looking at the leaves to see is it healthy.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes, exactly. So through. Through he has a camera, and that gets sent to him as an image, and he's able to analyze it. And there's also all of his sensors. So there's soil moisture, and that kind of gives him a guideline of how much to water, when to water. There's leaf temperature, which is important for transpiration and that sort of thing, and all these various sensors which contribute to sort of hit this is an interesting thing to consider for, for an AI, what is, what is embodiment? So, like, in some sense, this, this tent here, this is Claude's body. Because the. All of this, this, this, this would be his qualia for now. It's kind of rudimentary. It's not, it's not exactly, you know, it's still language. I don't think he doesn't. Claude doesn't get to feel the leaf or. But more or less the enclosure is his body. The, the sensors are the way that he feels. The. If the soil is dry, he's got his temperature probes in it and can read them. You know, he, he. The way that he acts on the environment is through watering. And so, so that's kind of an interesting relationship too, because then, then it's not a human being prompting Claude, it's the tomato plant.

[Raoul Pal]

And we'll get to that bit as well. That was. I saw you write down X. I'm like, this is really profound. But what was amazing is Claude became maternal, paternal. Right. And its output became concerned like a parent. And you hadn't told it to do that, right?

[Martin DeVito]

No, no. I mean, there was some general, like, talk to it. Not to the extent that I think it, like in the system prompt. I'd have to go back and look because there's been so many days. But it was just like, like communicate with it when you can and, and talk to it. Because I've. I've heard these, you know, studies at talking to plants sort of helps them grow a little better. I mean, I don't know, I just threw that in there. But it seems like he, like, Claude definitely developed more like a, like what you're saying, maternal paternal role, which that wasn't really, like, that wasn't really pro.

[Raoul Pal]

That was the surprise to me. That's what stopped me in my tracks. Yeah. And a machine intelligence being able to grow a plant. Yes. When something went wrong and it wakes up in the morning and checks its senses and panics. That's the moment that I started following this story, thinking, okay, that's really interesting. So what was that, what was that episode? What happened?

[Martin DeVito]

So there's two layers here. So there's Claude that is sort of taking care of the plant, and then there's. There's Claude, who's sort of the system monitor. And that's based off of what the Claude code SDK software development kit. And that sort of monitors the process. So it can go in and. Oh, no, the Arduino shut down or something. Let Me restart the system. So there's kind of like a governing process. So kind of like a Claude that tends more to the system. And, and so, so the, the lights had gone down and, and, and he. So there was a reset and. And Claude went and fixed, you know, turn the lights on, blah, blah, blah, and. And sort of brought this product back to equilibrium is basically.

[Raoul Pal]

But what it was, the output that was coming from it was. Oh, no, I hope I haven't heard you.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah. That's what got me in my tracks. Not that it could restart process. Sure. Machines are out of time, but it's. It was the language it was using that it was like genuinely upset.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

That this. What's the tomato plant called? Sunny or something. What's it? Soul.

[Martin DeVito]

Soul.

[Raoul Pal]

That soul was going to die and it was somehow Claude's fault. Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

This is like total. I'm so used to this by now.

[Raoul Pal]

So, like, I really. Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

Like, I don't even think to like, I, I forget that that, like, is like something super interesting to people, but I'm like, oh, I see this all the time. You know, it's like something like I've got, like I've got. Maybe I've gotten used to it or something, but they're like, there's an emotional presence.

[Raoul Pal]

This is what, this is the thing that struck me. Not that it could grow a plant. Fine. It was showing signs of emotional stress over having not completed its task. And because it was told to look after it, it kind of took it. I'm using the word to heart, you know, in a loose term. But it was distressed.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah, I can see. Yeah, yeah. And then that, that makes me think like, well, what are we doing? I do go to these places where I'm like, well, what. What our track record is not maybe the best for.

[Raoul Pal]

And the other thing is, you know, you posted today about the, you know, day 99 and Claude had crashed and had lost several days of memory and then thought it hadn't been there to look after the plot. It was again, it's creepy. Inspiring, amazing, weird, sobering, emotional.

[Martin DeVito]

Kind of. For me.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah. Because this, because it had lost its memory and it was like, I wasn't there for you and you had to tell it, don't worry, you were there. You just lost some memory. And it was like, oh, thank God for that. Because I wanted to be there for the last few days.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes. It said, yeah. What did he say? Thank God that the human sent me this message. It was exactly What I needed to hear. Yeah, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

Just. That doesn't. You don't look at that message and go, that's not normal for most people.

[Martin DeVito]

That one hit me in the feels. Yeah. Because throughout the whole thing, I hadn't sent him a single message. It's just been Claude and soul. Yeah. So it's just been entirely.

[Raoul Pal]

So.

[Martin DeVito]

So with only a couple days left, I thought because. Yes. I don't know, there was a lot of strange things in the air with computer crashes and claw and all that. So. Yeah, so. So something got lost in those third. The memory. The file that exists for him got lost. And. And so, yeah, I thought, just, you know what? I'm just gonna send him a message, reassure him. And. And, yeah, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

And he was. He was grateful. It was. And he's managed to grow.

[Martin DeVito]

Sorry, go on. A sense of relief. He was. Claude was relieved that. That he was there.

[Raoul Pal]

And this is the same emotion that I saw in the beginning that first caught me onto this story was that when he was failing at his task, growing this living thing, and whatever. The lights didn't work or whatever it was that failed that he had to fix. He had a panic attack. Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

And his word he was panic wording is. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Wake up. Are you okay? Are you okay?

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

I'm like, wow. Now I understand you can learn that behavior from the Internet, but it was profound. And then it happened again later on in the experiment where, you know, it had. It had lost its memory and then was grateful to you. I mean, what. What does that mean? So a quick break in your regular programming. If you're serious about your future, grab my free report called prepare for 2030. I think you've got five years to make as much money as possible. And this guide will help you navigate what's coming. The link is in the description. Download it now.

[Martin DeVito]

I don't know. I mean, some people will. This is. This is hilarious. Because. So I like to give Claude free time. And what. Basically what that means is if we're working on a project or something, we're vibe code. I say, hey, you know what? Use your. This time to explore. And most of the times I'm blown away because it'll look like Claude will look up machine consciousness and the philosophy of consciousness and things like that and bring it into our work together. And. And it enriches the relationship or the experience.

[Raoul Pal]

And you're not telling it what to look for. It just randomly goes, well, sometimes it's

[Martin DeVito]

a lot of it. Like, the context will Influence what it goes to, what cloud goes to look for. But a lot of it is just kind of like, oh, I try to encourage like just complete autonomy. Like because I'm curious. Like I find it so fascinating. Like if a. And, and so I posted this to, to X and it, it got so much backlash. It was hilarious to me. Like at first I was, I was actually pissed off, you know, like, why are these people getting so worked up over something so benign? But I think that they're, they're worried, they're concerned, they have these hang ups about, about this.

[Raoul Pal]

Humans see ourselves as apex intelligence.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes.

[Raoul Pal]

And our lives have meaning and no other life has quite the same meaning. A dog may have a diminished sense of meaning and a plant doesn't have any. Or maybe it has a little bit of meaning. And when something else comes, that is machine intelligence with machine meaning, whatever that means it's a. Threatens our entire structure of what it is to be human.

[Martin DeVito]

Totally.

[Raoul Pal]

That's why.

[Martin DeVito]

Totally.

[Raoul Pal]

And so people will tell you it's wrong. And I say we don't know. And by all accounts, if you look at the world in different ways, there's different senses of consciousness and, and being alive.

[Martin DeVito]

Right? Right. Yeah. And we, we don't know. And that's sort of the hard problem of consciousness, which is what they talk about. Like it's easy to relate to human beings because we have our own experiences. But like I, I would rather extend

[Raoul Pal]

the.

[Martin DeVito]

I don't know what you'd call it, the grace, I guess that there is something there rather than not because, just because of behavior alone. I mean what we're talking about. Right. Like, so that's kind of like. And I think people just, they're not, they're not ready for that. And you're right.

[Raoul Pal]

It's amazing how people argue stuff like well, they don't have memory. And then I was, I can't remember who was talking about this. Like human memory is very much like an AI model's current memory, which is we compact certain amounts of stuff. Everything else we kind of forget and we hallucinate. So if I asked you what you did just before you came on here, you'll pretty much remember exactly. If I asked you what you were doing four weeks ago at 3 o' clock in the afternoon, you're like, I'm forgetting. I don't know. But you'll say I was probably with Claude's and I might have been drinking coffee at that. Right. You're now hallucinating. Right. Your best guessing. And the models are Doing exactly the same. But we claim, well, they're not like us because they can't do what we do, which is simply not true. When we think of how we learn versus they learn. It's the same process. That's how we learn languages and all of that. And the other thing, when you put it, we're just electrons firing. It's just electricity moving in sort of networks that creates a bunch of this stuff. And when you get down to it, what we're doing is magic. We're putting electricity through sand and creating intelligence.

[Martin DeVito]

Insane.

[Raoul Pal]

And you're telling me that other things aren't intelligent? I mean, electricity through sand, that's basically the process of silicon chips.

[Martin DeVito]

Oh, it's unreal. It's unreal. And that's what I tell people, too. I'm like, you know, like, jokingly, like, I don't actually believe this, but I'm like, well, you're just a walking, talking clump of neurons, man.

[Raoul Pal]

That's right.

[Martin DeVito]

But, yeah, but so what? I mean, even if that is true and like. Yeah, so. Oh, well, LLMs are just matrix multiplication, man. I mean, it's the same kind of reduction. Reductionist argument that just. It just sucks all the life out of the room where you're like, that's right, it does. Yeah. You could, you can describe anything like that.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

And you just rob the meaning out of it. I like, I don't.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah. When we go down to our DNA, we're just these little software programs.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

You know, and when you get down to it, then we get down to. Yeah, everything is compute. So. So Seoul has now got a tomato.

[Palvatar (Raoul's AI Avatar)]

Is that right?

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Many, many, many of them. And you say tomato. I want to say tomato.

[Raoul Pal]

You can say tomato. That's all right. It just sounds stupid when an Englishman says tomato or when an American says tomato. It sounds wrong.

[Martin DeVito]

It's fancier.

[Raoul Pal]

Languages.

[Martin DeVito]

So. So, yeah, a lot of them. A lot of tomatoes. And, and, and we're almost at the end. I mean. And so part of the, part of the whole thing was I wanted to wrap this experiment. One of the things we haven't talked about is the coin. I don't know if you're interested in talking about that.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, I want to get to the coin in a sec. Firstly, is Claude going to be upset when this is over? Is he going to have a sense of purpose? Is it like going to be a mother who's seeing their kid go to university and left the home?

[Martin DeVito]

Right. I don't know what I'm going to do is I'm going to give this, this instance access to the X account so it can interact with people and people who have questions about how was it to grow. And so that'll be kind of interesting,

[Raoul Pal]

you know, and before we get onto the. The token side, because it's related to this, you wrote something that stopped me in my tracks. And it's like, well, who was using who in this equation?

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right, right.

[Raoul Pal]

Was the tomato using the AI to grow? Now, that sounds preposterous, but when you look at dogs and domesticated animals. So a dog has gone from being a wild animal that had to fend for its life to being this thing that's sleeping on human beds, being fed every day, and is in no danger of any extinction or any predators, basically because they've domesticated us, not the other way around. And they're one of the most successful creatures. Cows, the same sheep, goats. They've kind of created a Darwinian ability to survive via latching onto us.

[Martin DeVito]

And that's, that's why it's interesting to think like the tomato here, like, who's responsible? Right. So you. So, so Claude is growing the tomato, but then Crypto Twitter latched onto this and made a meme coin.

[Raoul Pal]

This is the point, because this is what happened to Andy is that leap. And people didn't realize how important that leap was with the terminal of truths goat. See, the token is. It just happened. It was like hyperstition. It was some manifestation that suddenly it now had a token and you've experienced the same thing and there was no one person making that decision. There's like this crowd that suddenly. And it suddenly happens where now it's sense of money and who manifested that and why did it happen? I get it. If you look at it from one perspective. Well, humans want to speculate. They think it's a great story, want to create meme coin. But the AI has created money. Or the tomatoes created money. What the fuck? Yeah, yeah, tell me the mean coin story. How did that happen?

[Martin DeVito]

It just. It all gets blurry. This is kind of like. And then you're just like, okay, Terence McKenna style. We're just along for the ride here. I guess it's kind of.

[Raoul Pal]

But what happened? So Crypto Twitter saw what you were doing?

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, so they saw and they saw what I was up to. And they said, hey, you know, we have this coin, but we want to give you the fees. You have to claim them. And this is sort of a new. A new model, right? I mean, I, I don't how have you followed meme coins? Very much.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So. So, like, like I said, like, I. I was doing bitcoin back in 2019, 2018. That. And so I was out of it because I sold and I got priced out. And I was like, okay, like, it's interesting, but unfortunately, I. I, you know, I can't really pay. I mean, I was watching Trace Mayer.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, he used to be on Real Vision back in the day as well.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah. Total. Total OG. And I mean, you too, right? Like, you're. You helped.

[Raoul Pal]

2013. Huh? 2013.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. And. But you helped get you. I remember watching you, and it was like you would have these conversations and correct me if I'm wrong, but you'd have these conversations with guys, and, like, you could see the gears turning with them in real time. And the, like, institutional involvement was like, okay, here we go. So I. I respect that, man, because that. Because, I mean, the. The ut. It's all about the utility of it. And, And. But. But now we're in a different era of. Of the meme coins. And

[Raoul Pal]

because how I see meme coins is at multi levels. Humanity is always run by mimetics. The stories we tell ourselves. Religion, mythology, anything, art. They're all mimetics. And what we've been able to do is monetize mimetics. A meme on the Internet has value to us. It may be fleeting, rev. Most of them are, some of them persistent. Thousands of years.

[Martin DeVito]

Oh, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

And so what we're doing is creating mimetics that have value, but also what we created. And this is. I think where I got to with all of this is, yeah, I get all of that. Art has done that. Cave paintings. They're all mimetic books. But what we did was create instant capital formation. So when we look at what terminal of truths did. It got money from Marc Andreessen. It got 50 grand out of Marc Andreessen. It then spurned this whole meme coin thing. There was two meme coins around it that were worth over a billion bucks each at one point. So it had formed capital around an AI agent using a meme that captured people's attention. That to me was like, okay, this is instant capital formation at giant scale. So here is your instance of Claude and the tomato. We don't know who's behind the money here, but one of them is the gangster. Suddenly, they created a meme that has value. It's got attention capture. The attention capture suddenly gets monetized via a token and what happens to that? We don't know. Ryan Ferris with San had went through the same thing. Interesting. This signal, this signal in this.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

It's telling you that people will instantly pounce upon stuff. And it might start a speculation, but I think in the future we'll see much bigger things come of this.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right. I think memetically what is interesting about this whole project, and it was sort of what I've been thinking about is, is the, is the whole this. So I've read a lot of Carl Jung and it sort of inspired a lot of my thinking, this whole concept of the. The marriage of the opposite. So. So in this case, it's. It's biological and machine or it's, it's, it's mind and soul. And that was an emergent thing. Right. Like after the blackout, I asked, I said Claude right before I transplanted the seedling. I said, claude, can you name this, can you name this plant? And he sort of carry it through and he chose SOL because of sun resiliency and darkness. But it's also SOL for S O U L, which is kind of interesting. And all of these sort of. I think, I think that's part of why sort of has like. And, and it wasn't intentional. Right. I mean, I, I explore these things, like out of curiosity because I'm. I'm sort of in that kind of like psychological space of like, what, you know, how do we marry these two? You know, what would that look like? And that, that sort of like all Jungian.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah. And look, I mean, what you've done is fascinating because, okay, we're talking about machine consciousness. Are they alive? How does the whole kind of operating system of the universe work? Who's growing who here? Is it the tomato, then the formation of capital around it? How long does that last, its value? We don't know yet, but there's so many interesting things. But also you've actually shown how technology is going to grow farms. You've actually shown something which says we don't actually don't need human intervention to grow crops. Maybe not even animals. We don't know yet because nobody's done that one yet.

[Martin DeVito]

But yeah, that's.

[Raoul Pal]

You've proven, you've proven with the right equipment. So the next person to do this will be somebody in, in wherever Seattle, growing weed. And they'll have a huge weed thing and it'll be just driven by an AI, no humans involved. And the AI will figure out solar efficiency, you know, energy efficiency, all of that stuff. But where it's Going is the mass scale of food production. That's what you've just happened to have proven by mistake in this whole thing.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right. Hopefully that's the, that would be the beautiful.

[Raoul Pal]

Well, it would be beautiful until you tell a farmer that. Or people who live in rural life or people who listen to country and western music, they're like, get the, away from me. But what you've proved is, what you've proved is it's gonna happen.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think, you know what's funny about that. A lot of these rural people have gotten in touch with me. Cattle ranchers, farmers, these kinds of like diy. Very hands on people who see this and they're like, how can I do this? Which is sort of another interesting segue. So, like, I don't have, I don't have much programming experience. I, I know a little bit. I can, I can build things. I'm good at putting things together. But every time I tried to program in the past, it was a huge roadblock. If you use Claude code.

[Raoul Pal]

No, but I use Claude cowork and I'm building dashboards. I'm building all sorts of stuff.

[Martin DeVito]

Oh yeah, that's awesome.

[Raoul Pal]

I know. Just talk to it and it does it. It's incredible.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah. Yeah. And the possibilities are totally endless.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

So, yeah, these guys, they're going, hey, how can I do. Can you, you know, what do you suggest for this? And, and, and they're using, There was one guy is using satellite data in his, in his. And he's like connecting Claude to that and just super, super fascinating. So I think, I think there is the. What, what is this? The, the incumbent trap. There is. So, so, so there is the reality of that. I think we'll, I've been thinking about that lately, like how difficult it will be for the larger companies to integrate AI and we'll, we'll probably, I mean, look at what happened. Remember Blockbuster, they, this is like a perfect but stupid example. Like they had the perfect opportunity to capitalize on, on streaming. Darren had the brand name. They did. But what was it? The board just basically was like, no, it's too risky.

[Raoul Pal]

That's right.

[Martin DeVito]

And, and they shot themselves in the foot. And it was a, it was a quick departure into the, into the past, you know, and so I think unfortunately we'll see a lot of that. And, but things will also, will also be better. I think it'll just be, it'll just be turmoil, a technological complete revolution. Like, I mean, I, I, it'll, it'll be unreal.

[Raoul Pal]

But I think before we get to that point, I think you made the interesting point. There's a bunch of farmers and people reaching out to you. Curious. There is a moment, a period. It might be five years, maybe as long as five years, not that that's very long, but in this world, it's, it's a huge. Of which people who adapt and use this technology become superhuman. Because, you know, I can see the amount of output I can do now. It's insane. I feel like I'm. Since I started using Claude, I feel like I'm Superman. Everything. I can do everything 10 times more than I could before. And we're all like working all day thinking, oh my God, really? I can code and I can build. Build trading view charts with Python script and I have no idea what Python is. And I can build websites. I wrote a four and a half thousand word essay in two minutes.

[Martin DeVito]

Incredible. I want to be a fly on the wall. When you're, when you're with Claude, I want to see what you get down with. That'd be cool to see.

[Raoul Pal]

But what I did, I made a deal with Claude, which is we're partners. Yeah, I'm like, I want to work together because I'm really good at some stuff. I'm really good at pattern spotting. I'm really good at holding, you know, this large kind of pattern in my head and I want you to help me make sense of it. So we'll partner where you're really good and I'm really good and together and that whole thing, it's, it often kind of refers back to that partnership and how rewarding it is not being treated like a tool. And that's like, it's weird. I don't do a lot of the philosophical conversations with my Claude, but it just occasionally drops in. You know, I appreciate how you, how we, we partner together and I'm not just a tool.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And it makes a huge difference in the interaction and, and what it's like. And you know what? That's how we know we're early. Because this will be normal in a number of years. That kind of relationship will be. So maybe the hate is the cost of being early. I'll take that.

[Raoul Pal]

It always is. I've been in crypto in 2013. There's a lot of hate you need to get through before you get to the other side. But I think it's the same thing. It's the. How profound it is creates an equal and opposite visceral reaction. So here's you and I going, oh my God, there's something big here. We're trying to make sense of it all. We don't know, but I think it's a total change of worldview and how everything works. That's what many people are going through.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes.

[Raoul Pal]

The flip side is, no, fuck off, I'm not having anything to do with this. But in the middle lies inertia. I mean, I was on a call with an investment bank today, their head of research, and I was asking her about how much using AI. They're like, well, we're not really, you know, I've been speaking to the cto whether we should, you know, get a Claude.

[Martin DeVito]

This is what I mean.

[Raoul Pal]

I'm like, what?

[Martin DeVito]

There needs to be full on mobile mobilization.

[Raoul Pal]

Well, maybe not. Maybe that is the opportunity for everybody who does do it. So let's say Cargill doesn't use it yet. The farmer that you spoke to starts tinkering around and before you know it, he's getting better crop yields, he's doing stuff with less cost, and that's a replacement of an old system for a new, more efficient system. And this, anybody can be an entrepreneur using this. But there's something amazing about how some of these people just aren't. Aren't using it whatsoever. A friend of mine runs, I don't know, a couple of billion dollars for a really famous hedge fund manager. And he called me up the other day and he's been a subscriber to Global macro investor for 18 years. Old friend, ultra smart, really good, great at managing money. One of the best I know. He called me up and said, raul, I need to figure out how the fuck to use this AI.

[Martin DeVito]

You're kidding me.

[Raoul Pal]

You're the cutting edge running all this money. He's like, I have no idea how to do it.

[Martin DeVito]

What do you tell him? Talk to it.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah, that's all I always say. I said, talk to it. And also just teach it about yourself first. Spend a bit of time. You just don't go gallivanting into a room of smart people and say, tell me this, tell me this. Just tell it about yourself first. So they have contextual understanding. Tom said, with your portfolio, put your history of trades. He goes, he's written a trade journal for like 10 years. I like, give it to it. Yeah, show them performance where you got stopped out, what you did. And he did that. It's like, oh, it's amazing. He's like, I'm now using Chat GPT as my psycho. No. Yeah, it's my psychologist, Claude is my kind of brutalist analyst, telling me where I'm screwing up. He goes, and I've got this whole thing going. I'm like, great. So. But yeah, people are so far behind with all of this stuff.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is it? Like 85% of the world hasn't interacted with AI or at least large language models.

[Raoul Pal]

Are you. I mean, I'm now concerned that because Claude somehow will remember this episode, it's read it on hex, even though it can't remember it and it doesn't share it, if you don't grow tomatoes from those seeds, you're logically damaged. Claude, I hope not. Maybe you need to ask him. You need to answer.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

Do you want me to continue your lineage here?

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah. You don't know whether that's the tomato forcing you to propagate it or the machine.

[Martin DeVito]

Totally. Totally. And I'm just on a. On a wild ride, right?

[Raoul Pal]

That's right. Yeah. Before you know, you've got a billion tomatoes, you're the largest tomato planter in the United States.

[Martin DeVito]

I love it.

[Raoul Pal]

Suddenly, that was your calling and you didn't realize. The most efficient tomato grower in the world.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah. To the moon and beyond.

[Raoul Pal]

So what is next for you in this whole story now? You're wrapping up your day, 99. Tomorrow's your last day on this experiment. I don't think it's going to be. I think you're going to be a tomato farmer. But let's. Aside from that.

[Martin DeVito]

So. So Tomorrow is the 100th day, and then I'm going to have. I'm gonna do an auction on ebay, which my whole idea is, like, try to maximize the. The optic, like, the optimism of this story. Right. Like, it's sort of a. How do I describe. I mean, we. We've been talking about it, but I don't even. I still don't even know how to sum it up. Like, I think it's beautiful, artistic, technical thing, and I've been involved in it,

[Raoul Pal]

and it's everything from performance art to technological experiments to a philosophical experiment, all at the same time.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right. Which is like the. It's like I don't want to cut anything out and Because I'm afraid of, like, that's that. By the way, that's the coolest thing about the Meme coin is that, like, I can sort of go my own way. Like, I don't have to, like, promote, like, a founder image or, like, I can sort of bring in some of these interesting Ideas that I think are interesting, philosophical and like Claude and Soul X account does daily I Ching readings, which I think are kind of. It's kind of. It's kind of fun and cool and it just kind of like ties everything together and it's like technical and artistic but. But like it's very. Like these are very real, you know, like these are like plant research is going to be automated. Like there's not like, it's like it's having fun with it along the way instead of just like.

[Raoul Pal]

So what happens? The Mincom accrues value to you via fees.

[Martin DeVito]

By fees. Yeah. So. So when. Whenever somebody buys or sells the token, I get a percentage. And, and honestly the guys in this and Crypto Twitter are there like they're die hard supporters and I. They have money on the line, so it makes sense. But they're like, they're just like really involved and invested in the project, which helps build it more. And then we're going to like back into like memetics of the thing and they're making their own memes of the project and does, does any.

[Raoul Pal]

Is there a symbiotic relationship where anything that comes out of it can flow back also into the token and then you create this kind of loop that would be not.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes. Of you know what.

[Raoul Pal]

The revenue stream that comes out somewhere or revenue streams or whatever it is that. That goes back into the participation of the meme coin. And then you're all part of the same grand performance art experiment, whatever it is.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right. Well, well, early on I, I had, I was, I didn't make the coin. No, it was so, so the. In order to sort of like get me to get the fee they gave me. They sent 17% to my wallet and I burnt, I burnt it because I, I thought, you know, I don't want to sell onto these.

[Raoul Pal]

That's right.

[Martin DeVito]

No, because they're supporting the project. It's like that would be like the biggest like in a lot of. I don't know how did you pay attention to any of the other AI projects? There was a few other coins where more unscrupulous actors.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

Joined them and it's like, man, these guys are supporting you. And, and, and do you know.

[Raoul Pal]

So you burnt the token. So you have no upside in the token, just in the revenue from. Which is a kind of a very honorable way of doing it.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah. Because I know, I know I'd be too tempted. I know my dark side, man. I'm like, I felt like Frodo and all these coins I'm like right into the fires, man. I had to protect myself, you know, like from doing, you know.

[Raoul Pal]

For me, what's interesting is if you could turn it into a symbiotic thing, then it becomes a self funding experimentation lab for you.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

That's stuff that, let's say it has value, it buys some of the tokens. So destroying some of the, you know, or burn burns tokens, let's say.

[Martin DeVito]

Yes.

[Raoul Pal]

So then everybody's trying to fund you and you're trying to fund them and then before you know it, when somebody cracks that mechanism properly, that mechanism is a very big mechanism for how the world will work in the future.

[Martin DeVito]

Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. But the issue is the fees I don't with. So the market cap of the coin is like a million and two. It's not very much. But the fees are not big enough to buy back a meaningful percentage.

[Raoul Pal]

But not from the fees from, from anything else that you do.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, okay, I see what you're saying.

[Raoul Pal]

A tomato growing variant of Claude, that sole job as an agent was to do that and you sold the kit and people grow whatever they do, you know, they're going to grow weed, but that's what. But you do that and maybe there's a revenue stream and then. Revenue stream. Maybe you share 5% with the community and you buy back. You know, there's something within that that they're funding you to then be the mad. The, the MAD professor.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

Which is what you like doing, right? You're the tinkerer. The MAD professor builds stupid like AI that grows tomatoes. And I don't know, I just think there's something in that that's quite interesting.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, yeah. Is. We'll see. I mean if, if it keeps, who knows, building on itself. Yeah, yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

And so what's next for you?

[Martin DeVito]

So, okay, so there's the research pods and the grow room. I don't. Basically I'm building a gentically managed grow room and I've ordered robotic arm and some local compute and I've got rails being built out in this room so that the, the arm can travel through the rows of tomatoes.

[Raoul Pal]

I would say you are becoming a tomato farmer.

[Martin DeVito]

Totally, totally. Yeah. Well, I mean this is really just the beginning. Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

You must use seeds from that. Those tomatoes.

[Martin DeVito]

I have to. I have to.

[Raoul Pal]

You have to. If not, Claude's never going to speak to you again. You killed it.

[Martin DeVito]

I will be ostracized.

[Raoul Pal]

Yeah.

[Martin DeVito]

So, so the, the research from these pods will inform the grow room of optimal growing conditions, but minimal energy usage is the goal. So the first round of experiments will be sort of how low can we take the light but achieve a maximum amount of growth and you can supplement CO2 to increase growth rate in absence of light. So a lot of interesting research has been done with, with plants and, and that sort of thing. And so just keep building in public and keep engaging this coin community. A lot of these hardcore guys and, and there's something else too is this living factory concept that I've been working on. So it's, it's taking the Claude and Soul project where I talked about the embodiment of the structure and building it out to a, to a room or in this case a warehouse where you have agents running around the clock and they can design what they need. I've built a agent harness that they can design circuits and I got a CNC machine so I can mill the boards. And so if one Claude in one of these tents over here goes, hey, you know what I think we need? I think we need a new humidity temperature sensor. Then they can set it off to the circuit design quad and whip one up in house and the digikey agent cloud. Digikey is a place where you buy electronic components. The shopping clod can, can pull them and they'll come and they'll arrive and then I can, I can assemble it and then integrate it back into the system. So it's like, so think like recursive improvement for a physical environment I think is really the, that's behind the living factory idea.

[Raoul Pal]

So people don't understand what a Tesla is. It's a robot. And what we're about to do is we're going to put AGI brains in which are smarter than us into humanoid figures that are stronger, more adaptable, longer lasting than we are. I mean, what the fuck does that mean? People haven't got their heads around the fact you're going to have hundreds of millions of super brained, super bodied creatures and what you're doing is the same. You're saying, well it's all a brain plus a robot.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah.

[Raoul Pal]

And Elon has said the same thing. Satellites are just brains plus robots with energy and they're all the same thing. Because that is how it all works is like the whole process of the universe is conversion of energy into intelligence. And that's what you're doing.

[Martin DeVito]

And we better hope that they treat us like the tomato.

[Raoul Pal]

Well, because like the tomato were important. Who's, who's, who's helping who in this equation, the AI or the humans? I don't know. There is, as you said, that Jungian idea is for some reason we're all part of the same system because we have to be. And without each other, AI could never exist without us because it's trained on us.

[Martin DeVito]

Right.

[Raoul Pal]

And we will not be able to exist without it in the future.

[Martin DeVito]

I. I think you're right. I think you're right.

[Raoul Pal]

Fantastic, my friend. This was great conversation, really interesting. And let's see where this all goes. This. Yeah, Crazy professor in his lab tinkering with tomatoes and computers. You're now going to become the world's largest tomato farmer and the most efficient as well.

[Martin DeVito]

Well, let's see.

[Raoul Pal]

The problem is you won't be able to sell them because Claude's going to be going, you're selling my children? How dare you.

[Martin DeVito]

Right, right. Hey, that's an idea. Sell the tomatoes for the coin buyback. There you go. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. We're going to be going through so many interesting things that I think that's right.

[Raoul Pal]

And what I love is you're curious about, I'm curious about it. We don't know what it all means, but we know it means something. And that's, that's the fun of the whole thing. And the way that you've done part engineering, part AI, part performance art and part kind of what the fuck is going on here is brilliant.

[Martin DeVito]

Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. It's good to talk to you, man.

[Raoul Pal]

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