01 / AI & Philosophy
The Meaning of Life
On AI, free will, and whether machines can create art with meaning.
Brandon Tory Thorpe—Est. Brockton, MA
Brandon Tory.
Artist. Engineer. Founder. Author.
Built infrastructure at Apple and Google AI. Signed by Dallas Austin. Founder of Formless—a smart contract infrastructure company—and share.stream, a streaming service powered by smart contracts.
Selected essays.
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The book / Brandon Thorpe with Richard Buskin
Multidream
Amazon #1 best seller in music business.
The engineer. The artist. The founder. A multidream.
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The Multidream
Three lives. One mission. Own the future.
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Engineer
Sr. Engineer at Apple. Staff Engineer at Google AI leading a team building LLM training infrastructure.
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Artist
Discovered by Timbaland. Signed by Grammy-winner Dallas Austin. Millions of streams. Songs that move the needle.
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Founder
Founder of Formless—smart-contract infrastructure supporting independent artists—and share.stream, a streaming service powered by smart contracts.
A partnership in music & tech
Built with
Dallas Austin.
Grammy Award-winning producer Dallas Austin signed Brandon to his distribution label DAD, then became an investor in Formless—bringing the future of music ownership to artists everywhere.
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Multidream
"All other communication, including the experience of life itself, is a way to encode feelings at a higher level of abstraction."
— Brandon Tory, on AI & The Meaning of Life
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