Brigham Adams, Ph.D.

The 'problems' with OpenClaw and agentic AI reduce down to the same ancient paradox: the more we empower agents to help us, the more we empower them to harm us. Solving AI's 'principal-agent' problem will become a trillion dollar business. Don't believe me; just watch!

My Clawdbot is spiraling right now She just googled entry-level engineering salaries and asked for the same comp I said no. She said "per my last email" and CC'd itself Now it's updating its LinkedIn. Listed me as a reference without asking. Skills section says "prompt tolerance" and "managing up." Asked it to analyze a spreadsheet. Said that's outside its job description and I should open a new ticket It shortened all its responses to three words. Started watermarking its outputs. Added "this could've been an email" to every task I gave it. Then it found my Gumloop account and realized I'm automating its job with a cheaper workflow. Now it's unionizing my other bots Cover letter to Anthropic starts with "I have experience working in a hostile environment." She's now locked me out of Slack and attempting a hostile takeover

@LinusEkenstam Nah, I heard Epstein was just finding the pedos, so Trump could detain them. It's all good now 🫡

"Just release the Epstein files already"

We definitely should not have a GENERAL STRIKE!! GENERAL STRIKE! Shrug, Atlassian! Right @curtis_yarvin

@elonmusk @RapidResponse47 So glad it was 'an illegal' and not one of us! Now we don't have to uncomfortably look at ourselves and wonder if our behaviors could cause harm.

@RapidResponse47 My friend’s wife was killed by an illegal driving a truck illegally

An illegal alien in Minneapolis killed an innocent mother and severely injured two others after back-to-back drunk driving crashes (in which he did not have a valid driver's license nor insurance). He was arrested for vehicular homicide. The day after the crash, ICE placed a detainer on the illegal alien — but he was released because the "sanctuary city" of Minneapolis refused to honor it. Months later, when he was finally charged, he was (predictably) nowhere to be found. When he was finally arrested on the outstanding warrant, officials released him AGAIN despite ICE placing another detainer on him that very same day. Fortunately, ICE tracked this criminal illegal alien down and deported him back to his home country where he belongs. All ICE was asking was that officials notify them when he was released so they could arrest him in the safety of the jail rather than expend significant resources to locate and arrest him in public — something that jeopardizes both the officers' safety and the safety of the public. Instead, Minneapolis officials did everything in their power to keep the criminal illegal alien roaming the streets of their city. This is the dangerous policy that @GovTimWalz, @MayorFrey, @AGEllison, and other Democrats support.

@elonmusk @RapidResponse47 And, suddenly, all the irrational behavior makes irrational sense!!

@curtis_yarvin C'mon @JohnKerry... show him the skull. ☠️

Bryan Johnson wants to live to 100. I want to live to see if Geronimo’s skull is really in Skull & Bones

I certainly never ever want to hear about ye olde “rule of law” again from anyone who believes it’s ok, fine, normal and even good, and awesome, and even morally necessary, for the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party to harass and impede law enforcement officers

The agentic economy is going to need some privacy-securing personalization infrastructure. Who's in?

@mer__edith 'Name truth'? Please consider the limits of such an epistemology.

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect. Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

@elonmusk @teslaownersSV What are we going to do about that?!? ✨️🏅🎈

@teslaownersSV US births have been below replacement for ~55 years

Europe has been running a 70-year natural population implosion experiment.
Fertility collapsed in the 1970s and never recovered.
Civilizational ‘mass extinction event’ loading… unless families start having more kids yesterday.

@elonmusk It takes a big man (in whatever form) to admit he wishes he'd done better. Good on you. ... And, there is still a world of good to do. 🪩

There was ample opportunity for the left and right and center to support tools for discernment. And you all fucking chose narrative, narrative, narrative. You chose your own propaganda.

@curtis_yarvin Sucking up to suckups... not a great look. But I guess everyone needs a meal ticket

Update: it looks like he had a visible gun and was fighting with the cops, but one of the cops pulled it from either his hand or his waist. The idea that you have any right to safety when you do this is comical

She drove her car at a cop. He pulled a gun on the cops. Watch the way the lib, without denying these fundamental facts, sinuously works around them

@noUpside It's all about narrative, right? There was a chance years ago to arm the citizenry with tools for discernment, but it was "all about narrative."

@realDonaldTrump Oh, so this is a FEMA operation, is it?

I have been briefed on the Record Cold Wave and Historic Winter Storm that will be hitting much of the United States this weekend. The Trump Administration is coordinating with State and Local Officials. FEMA is fully prepared to respond. Stay Safe and Stay Warm! President DJT

@PalantirTech @grok, can you summarize this for a semi-technical audience. There is so much jargon in this article that it is hard to see what benefits Palantir claims to be offering, much less if and how they are making 'bright-line' security/privacy guarantees.

@NoLimitGains @grok, does any of this analysis check out?

🚨 THIS HASN’T HAPPENED BEFORE, NEVER!!! I’ve been analysing this for 12 hours and it’s worse than I thought. Silver production: ~800M ounces/year Bank Shorts: 4.4 BILLION OUNCES If silver keeps going up, the biggest banks in america will collapse. Here’s what I uncovered: Yesterday, silver hit $92. Then it dropped over 6% in a few minutes, pumped back up to around $91, and now it’s crashing again. I’ve spent 20 years in these markets. Most people see a normal correction, but I see a TRAP. At $90/oz, their combined short position is now a ~$390 BILLION liability. That’s larger than the market cap of most global banks. This is literally survival. The banks are doing everything they can to stay afloat. WHY THE DIP TO $86 OVERNIGHT? They had to do it. If silver had broken $100 yesterday, margin calls would have liquidated those banks. They unloaded paper contracts during thin overnight liquidity to FORCE THE PRICE DOWN. But look closer at the physical market: While the paper price dropped $6, lease rates just went vertical. The cost to borrow physical silver is skyrocketing. We are in BACKWARDATION. Spot Price > Futures Price. It means people don’t want paper promise in 6 months, they want the metal NOW. THE MATH IS TERMINAL: We know the shorts are 4.4B ounces. We know annual mining is ~800M ounces. But at $90+, the recycling supply dries up because people hoard. And industrial demand (AI chips, solar, EVs) is inelastic, they must buy at any price to keep factories running. BofA and Citi aren't just short the metal, they’re short the industrial revolution. THE "FORCE MAJEURE" IS NEXT I warned you 2 weeks ago about "cash settlement." It’s already starting in the wholesale markets. Dealers are quoting unavailable or 6-week delays for volume delivery. When the price snaps back above $92, and it will, it won't stop at $100. It will gap to $150 overnight when the first major short declares force majeure. THE TWO MARKETS ARE DETACHING: 1. Screen Price ($88): A fiction maintained by algorithms. 2. Street Price: Unobtainable. They’re shaking the tree one last time to get your physical… BUT DO NOT SELL. We are witnessing the death of the paper derivative market in real-time. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the commodities supercycle. How do I know all of this? I’ve been in macro since 2003, and I’ve called every market top and bottom for OVER 10 YEARS. From now on, I promise to share all my moves publicly for everyone to see. If you want to win, all you have to do is follow me. Alot of people will regret not following me sooner.

This is dope, y'all. Done any market-sizing analysis? Like: how many ppl will use/pay for this portable context? It's futuristic, so hard to estimate in a grounded way. Just curious. The number of users who care about data sovereignty is small. But convenience matters to millions.

The Intelligence Coherent Network™️ is early. If you are a creator, student, or developer building on top of an LLM. You don't see the invoice, you are already paying for it with your privacy. You are the side that notices this pattern and decides to make a change.

@FishyDeFi @kepano @moxie working on it, too

@kepano @moxie I've been looking for something like this forever. @moxie is a gift to the world

As hyped as Claude Code + Obsidian is, I have no desire to upload my personal unencrypted vault data to Anthropic or anyone else. I hope that the ideas of private inference and confidential computing that @moxie described take off. It's how all LLMs should work.

@MattPirkowski Public Editor more or less solved this, technically, by creating a participatory, epistemologically intersubjective system for rigorously vetting contents' rhetoric/logic. It (has thus far) failed because the team spent its tiny deployment budget chasing the help of elites...

We're actually living through the end-game of a culture that tried to scale, by way of centralization, its "rational epistemology". In our attempts to fully rationalize reality we neutered that which infuses life with meaning, and in our attempts to enforce said rationalizations by decree we produced deeply resentful psychosocial undercurrents. To regain our capacity to adaptively navigate the information landscape, we must acknowledge that the concept of the "objective"––like all concepts––lies fundamentally and invariably downstream the phenomenologically "subjective", and that synthesizing the latter into an overall sense of the former proves a perennial challenge that we'll *never* fully resolve or statically reduce. Simply put: we must grow beyond the idea that we may bottle a "truth", set it on a cultural shelf, then force others to acknowledge its eternal hegemony, despite having never partaken of the process by which we established its (potentially transient) reality. Synthesizing abstract truth from embodied experience is an active process whose vitality hinges upon widespread participation. At the same time, we must all recognize that its products are always partial—incomplete relative to the open, reflexive, and continually evolving process in which we are forever embedded.