Warren Whitlock

The gang got together and moved me back to my big old account! I'm leaving this in case you were looking for something. I'll follow all the verified account over at the real @WarrenWhitlock

Let’s talk about the blockchain economy twitter.com/i/spaces/1djGX…

@examachine @AlyzeSam @Douglas_Horn x.com/BackupWarren/s…

@BackupWarren @AlyzeSam @Douglas_Horn That's interesting. But how could they trick you? 🤔

My growth hacker hacked my twitter account. It took less than 24 hours, but I’m back!!!!! :)

@examachine @AlyzeSam @Douglas_Horn it's call a phishing attack.

@examachine @AlyzeSam @Douglas_Horn For the record. You don't know the fact here. The Korean gang wasn't after me, they were grabbing accounts to build numbers in a promotion. No Twitter employee in the gang. If they had that, they would not have had to trick me.

@AlyzeSam @Douglas_Horn @BackupWarren I told Warren what happened. I heard that a Twitter employee was banning highbie accounts and then selling them to crypto scammers. He was probably targeted.

lots of word salad. We all like unity and most of us favor competition when the group plays well together. It's an conversational deadend when we try to define there's a divide on the word "division"... like you want to disagree on everything LOL Competition of ideas is healty competition.

x.com/BrainstormingN… @MarkCCrowley @LeadToday @Wrix2 @gary_hensel @BackupWarren @FredMcMurray

@Shamanah @BrainstormingN @jeffsheehan @Scobleizer @BitAngels Weird thing.. as I type this, it’s exactly yesterday. Unless I look at the analytics with 100x viewership :P

@BackupWarren @BrainstormingN @jeffsheehan @Scobleizer @BitAngels OMG OMG! Am i just reading this!??? This made my day and week, absolutely so very happy to see this Warren! Huge hugs and welcome back, yes!!!😁🫂🧡

Click on my handle link in this tweet. It’s fixed. Thanks to you. I sent the lawyer letter Tuesday morning to 3 executives and got 3 “we don’t read emails” response. Posted that on X on @backupWarren.. couple hours later, I get a series of we need this info’s from the support dept and they reset the password with a new email. I was thinking about this, but you asking Monday made it happen

@BackupWarren @BrainstormingN @jeffsheehan @Scobleizer @BitAngels Any updates Warren? Be careful as i am sure you know with those instant auto help replies, lots are no bueno👏🧡

I got 3 robo repies from X that sent me back to their forms. No humans inovled. But the GOOD NEWS is that a 4th semi-automated message appears telling me how to ask for the password reset I need to get into X. Thank you X and Thanks to whoever nudged someone to move it forward. Dare I hope?

I just received a reply to one of the many form letter threads. They provide instructions to reset the password for my old account and set it to my address. I also got 3 other replies to today's email bouncing me back to the forms they don't read. But as of 5 minutes back, I'm hopeful.

@warrenwhitlock @jeffsheehan @Scobleizer @Shamanah @BitAngels Your previous account was popular and massive. It is a shame that it was hijacked. You will need a breakthrough beyond the automations.

Can't miss, scary WSJ story about @marlonwilliams has: 💰 Stolen Crypto 🔐Cybersecurity 👮🏽‍♂️The FBI 🧑🏻‍💻Remote Worker you haven't met 🇲🇰 North Korean Hacker Gangs wsj.com/business/he-th… @GordonEinstein @MehowHacks @anthemhayek @CryptoRocky @BitAngels @transformPR @btc_albert @adryenn @brandiveil @AlyzeSam @TheCryptoBlack @teedubya

@marlonwilliams Your adventure inspired me to finish up a project

@janrosenow Wood is just dead solar panels.

@Shamanah I’m preparing a post with today’s email to execs later today.

@warrenwhitlock Exactly, you see there is a new product lead here @ X, let's see if that does anything for this situation. Going to dm someone that i feel could push this forward into the right human hands, let's see. Don't give up, yet😅🧡

The crooks are still at it! The people who stole my 17 year old, 462,000 follower account are still at it. I fell for this when the photo was a Grok image that looked like a questionable copyrightable content. This time, they used MY photo. Go ahead and file your fake dispute. It’s as real as you want it to be (read the tweet on the wall)

We have an immigration problem. We're discouraging the exact same people we want on our side to compete.

@Scobleizer @samwoods What will you do with all that free time?

@warrenwhitlock @samwoods Probably. Hopefully soon.

I'm already obsolete. My digital twin can interview a founder about a new product better than I can. Certainly cheaper and faster. So, in that world where AI can do things better than me, what does it mean to be human? @samwoods asks that question below. Well, human relationships still matter. For some reason entrepreneurs would rather have a human come over and talk to them about their business. Second, it seems many of you still want a human done video, even though we could have Notebook LM do a pretty competent version. But the question is bigger, and one that a lot of us are thinking about: what will jobs look like in a decade? And, if there are no jobs, how will we put food on our family's table? First, I see a lot of pain ahead for a few years as jobs get removed. No way to minimize that. Especially since we are so divided as a country, so don't have a good safety net for those who lose their jobs due to AI and robots. If we were all working together we would have something like the GI Bill, which helped my dad escape poverty. Forget about serving in the military, but having access to the capital to go to school to learn something new is something we all need. Learning something new, even something like plumbing or electrical work, takes time. We should have a policy that gives every American a fair shot at the American dream. That means having two to six years to go to school to learn something new and gain a skill that the world needs. Now, can someone who has driven a truck for a decade, learn something new? Yes! But that truck driver can't learn if he or she is having to work three jobs trying to feed their family. We should have a way to get them fully paid for a few years to have them really learn something new. That said, I don't see that happening and I don't see the guaranteed minimum income ideas that have been floated by many ever be accepted by Americans. Communism/socialism is too distasteful for most, and, where we have had people sit at home to collect a paycheck we've seen nasty social consequences. I've visited native American communities and they face a ton of problems with alcoholism and hopelessness. So, back to the real question: what does it mean to be human? Humans are happiest when helping others. Seen this over and over while on my recovery journey. Can we reorient our economy to rewarding those who help others? Interesting idea, but hard to sell to politicians and even ourselves, especially in today's narcissistic times. Another way to look at happiness? Connection to other humans. We have super computers in our pockets that can translate French to English. So, if you are on a trip to France, will you use it? I do. But where I put a little effort into learning the language I have had the joy of extra connection to people, who value a stupid American putting in some effort. So, maybe, we just all need to find new ways to connect to other humans? For some that might be working on social media. After all, this helps connect you with other people and is a reason I put so many hours joining audio spaces here on X. By doing that I've been invited to hang out, visit homes, and these new friends come over and hang out. What's better than social media? Building things. My step mom doesn't need to work anymore. She hangs out with local artists and creates art with them. Others I know help build homes for less fortunate. Yet others have machine shops in their garages and welcome others over to rebuild cars, or build new things. My next door neighbor and I built a sailboat together, a memory that still brings joy decades later. AI is not going to take away this impulse to build things, even if we are in a world where a humanoid robot could build them faster or better. Ask the Amish about the joy of building someone a barn and you'll hear it. Or visit some billionaire who doesn't need to work who gets joy hanging out with those in the community. @lyndaweinman is one of those. She donated a clay working studio to the community and when I visited everyone was having fun learning to make new things and hanging out with each other. It's one reason why I'm so bullish on the Holodeck. If we don't have a lot of resources to build physical things (having a kiln, or a band saw, or a lathe costs money) we can do the same virtually. Which is one reason why I say the future is weird. The weird will have a lot more to offer in the future. It is the weird who come up with interesting new ways to build things, do things, create things. They make great teachers too. Took a class from a weirdo recently who taught me to make virtual beings that were unique and different from everyone else's virtual beings. That was total joy. The builders, creators, innovators, will lead the way. The other side of this coin is addiction and gambling. Which leads to a bad humanity. I've studied that myself a lot. It leads to social problems and despair. So, what will it mean to be human in a world where robots take our jobs? Follow the creators and join in. That's where the fun is. And it should be fun to be a human, especially in a world where there are no jobs. Now, the problem is how do you make money to do everything you want to do. I have to face that question myself often. It requires finding a customer/sponsor/benefactor. Which gets back to entrepreneurialism and creativity. Human connection again. Or, maybe, a human/AI connection. Seems that lately a bunch of my work is teaching AI about me and the world. There will still be many new jobs, but they will need to be created. Luckily with AI that's very possible now. So many new ideas are being worked on that were too difficult in the age before AI. It is why I keep asking myself, and others, what kind of world do we want to create? I want one where the weirdos teach us to be weirder. Which will lead us to all sorts of new things, from new materials to dress up our robots with, to new drugs to help people have less suffering, to new kinds of entertainment. Oh, I just dreamed up a new kind of Burning Man, but instead of one week a year it's 24 hours a day all over the world. Think about it. It has its own economic system. It's own spirtual growth. And the ones who have the most fun there? They build temples and then burn them down with a big fire. Last year I visited a city in South Carolina who closes the main street every Saturday and throws a party. Met a builder there who told me "I tried staying home and watching TV all day long, got bored. This is a lot more fun." She was doing a great business selling my wife things she didn't need, or certainly that China could make cheaper, but that had human meaning. Sorry for the ramble. I don't have all the answers. But I have learned to join in with the weirdest creators. This is even true for sports people. I once met Dick Fosbury who invented the backward high jump. His name is on the sport now. That's weird thinking of a past age. Maybe now we need to have robot competitions. @cixliv is having a lot of fun getting his ready for battle. And I love it. I'm not too worried about humans, we'll find something to do, and we'll make a new economic system doing it. But we do need a lot more weird thinking than I've seen so far. AI isn't good at weird thinking, luckily. Maybe soon it'll be better, but human weird thinking is needed both by other humans, and even AIs/robots. Now excuse me I'm gonna go talk to @lovart about some weird designs. Might use this as a prompt. :-)

@Ember_web3 What you say used to be true. Keeping up is no longer and option. AI can do that. Now its Innovate or perish

@warrenwhitlock Adapt or perish, that's the name of the game.

If we’re not innovating, we’re dead.