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@vantumnoir @RaymondZino @WatcherGuru Stifling development in the US

@RaymondZino @WatcherGuru Crypto is global. Can't be stifled.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC says #crypto regulatory clarity may take years and they're in no rush.

here is an alternative path for society: ignore the culture war. ignore the attention war. make safe agi. make fusion. make people smarter and healthier. make 20 other things of that magnitude.   start radical growth, inclusivity, and optimism.   expand throughout the universe.

I'm middle of the road on the dangers of AI, but I know a statement with a spectacular possibility of not aging well when I see one. In fact, this may have set a new world record.

I asked SEC Chair Gary Gensler about his selective enforcement in the @KimKardashian settlement. Gary’s response? He can’t even answer the question. Reason 1000 why Gensler needs to go!

🚨I’m calling to restructure the @SECGov and the removal of Chair @GaryGensler. Watch my closing remarks from today’s hearing where I lay out the abuse of power and failure to protect investors that has occurred.

Only thing I'm seeing is that it's deflationary. That being said, bags are loaded for the hype cycle.

It's funny how government subsidized information sources seem to really hate being labeled as government subsidized media. Somehow in their bizarre world, the entity that gives you 70 percent of your operating budget has no influence or say over behavior?

If I raise a kid half as compassionate and understanding as the wrestler in blue, then I will have accomplished everything I need to in parenting.

@NowhereManPOV @ZubyMusic @bo1drealist In order to amass that wealth you have to take on enormous responsibility, commitment and develop the work ethic and life style to get there.

Based on personal experience, billionaires are generally much nicer than the people who don't think they should exist. 🤣

They're still out there. 🫣

10 obvious reasons that the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapons: 1) Nuclear weapons are not smarter than humanity. 2) Nuclear weapons are not self-replicating. 3) Nuclear weapons are not self-improving. 4) Scientists understand how nuclear weapons work. 5) You can calculate how powerful a nuclear weapon will be before setting it off. 6) A realistic full exchange between two nuclear powers wouldn't extinguish literally all of humanity. 7) It would be hard to do a full nuclear exchange by accident and without any human being having decided to do that. 8) The materials and factories for building nuclear weapons are relatively easy to spot. 9) The process for making one nuclear weapon doesn't let you deploy 100,000 of them immediately after. 10) Humanity understands that nuclear weapons are dangerous, politicians treat them seriously, and leading scientists can have actual conversations about the dangers.

@beffjezos @uncertainsys @lexfridman Are you going to go in person and speak with him?

@uncertainsys Get me on the pod @lexfridman

Ok so haven't watched yet but next should be @beffjezos

Surely this won't backfire.

This is not to be missed. The world has changed. Things are different now. We just haven’t noticed yet.

We’re leaving the Information Age and entering the Age of Intelligence. We have no clue what the implications are. Else then big. “The information highway” will look bleak in comparison to the intelligence fire hose we all will be fed. Near term everything and everyone will start using intelligence, with or without knowing it. It’s already happening. ChatGPT, Bard, Bing are here to stay, it’s what comes next that will make us all wonder in awe. We’re seeing early inklings of starting this with the release of Plugins for ChatGPT. Everything is slowly getting hooked up and connected to the intelligence. We’re breathing life into the beast. Once we get used to this new way of interacting with technology, googling will feel like communicating with smoke signals and sticks. That change has already begun. Googling something in many cases feels dumb and clunky and results have no intelligence. I’m expecting rich natural language results from google and when I don’t get it, I’ll leave and use one of the existing intelligent tools. This is just the beginning. All existing software is either completely re-thought or transformed to take full advantage of intelligence. And once the low hanging fruit is transformed. Enter the operating systems. Soon we will have intelligence embedded at systems level. Omnipresent entities that will know us better than we know ourselves. If you thought cookie tracking was a problem. Now imagine a digital entity that knows every intimate detail about you, both signal and noise. It’s hard to grasp the impact of this. I’m optimistic in nature, but this change is not akin to the iPhone, this is more like the Industrial Revolution or perhaps even the wheel. Entities that almost knows or very soul, if we chose to let it. I think we will. I think the positive outweighs the negative. I believe this will lead to us having tools to fight a lot of the struggles mankind faces today. Mental health, loneliness, connectedness, purpose to mention a few. This particular incarnation of intelligence might have a hard cap on its potential and capabilities. But we’ve opened the imagination and seen what’s possible, that means we will venture beyond this version at some point. Every single knowledge worker is poised to get augmented or enhanced by this new age of intelligence. The machines are scoring 90th percentile on bar exams. What comes next, we just don’t know. Should we be worried? yes. Should we panic? No The cost of intelligence is also on a race to the bottom. It will be cheap and abundant. It’s clear that the current version of intelligence is a true painkiller, solving real hard problems, and are reaching hundreds of millions of people in mere months. We’re living through perhaps one of mankind’s most important technological forks. What goes down here might either send us down a track of endless possibilities and prosperity for all, a bountiful world of plenty. Or the exact opposite. Regardless, the snowball has started rolling down the hill, hundreds of millions have tried drinking from the fountain of youth. We are entering the Age of Intelligence 24 Mars 2023 Linus Ekenstam

ChatGPT is overhyped. That's what I told myself after 2 weeks of trying (and failing) to use it well. Turns out, I was just a poor prompt writer. But after spending hundreds of hours tinkering, I've finally cracked it. And now, it's my personal writing assistant. Here's how:

Naval + David Deutsch is my favourite combination. spotify.link/jgIZiKLxpyb

The U.S. needs to update its financial system. The code is 40 years old and the laws are 100 years old. Cryptocurrency is not a financial service. It's a technology that can be used to update financial services. Let's update the system.

1/ Today Coinbase received a Wells notice from the SEC focused on staking and asset listings. A Wells notice typically precedes an enforcement action.

@johnnycrypto_2 @ZssBecker @twobitidiot This is not the 1 to 1 comparison you think it is.

@ZssBecker @twobitidiot Who’s using stocks for any other purpose than to make money? Yes, there are dividend paying stocks, but, by and large, people invest in stocks with the same intent as with crypto, IMO. Buy low, sell high.