benjamin conner

“God works in mysterious ways” and it’s just genocide all over the world and your 5 year old daughter getting cancer

October 17, 2015... 'If ChatGPT represents a breakthrough in decoding human language, when will we achieve the same for DNA and proteins? Foundation models for biology are rapidly emerging, with specialized applications in neuroscience to decode the brain and metabolism to guide health and lifestyle interventions. These models can uncover biological “rules” from vast datasets without human predefinition, opening entirely new frontiers of interpretation.' Generative AI in life sciences is helping us reimagine the future of human health weforum.org/stories/2025/1… via @wef

Laughter and song, the bonds of friendship, the joy of play, the wonder of art, the beauty of nature, the gift of attention – tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk don't care for ANY of it. They see humanity as redundant, as useless, as slop, and would rather replace all of it with AI.

Hard to believe this isn't a Monty Python sketch

December 10, 2024... "...and we're increasingly reaching a place where we can make organisms, design and build almost anything we want in the lab. DARPA actually had a really exciting program about this called the Thousand Molecules program where they showed, they performed this in spades-- they were able to say over a thousand molecules that were relevant for the Department of Defense and the National Security Community-- they could make trace amounts in the lab, but it's really challenging to get more than just that trace amount to get that to scale and really make these products available for the market, and there's technological reasons why bio-manufacturing has a bottleneck--manufacturing capacity, regulation, financing, but at a technology issue, and some of the things that we're trying to address here at In-Q-Tel is..." -Michelle Rozo IQT Explains: Biotech and Investments, Part 2 youtu.be/svs4BDv1LIA?si… via @YouTube

@loonyberg 🎯

You can’t fully understand this moment in time without understanding the long-term role organized crime has played in all of this. Mob.

@ThinkFinance999 @RockChartrand @xevekiah A "very bad place" being taking issue with people getting rich off taxpayer funded research & then abusing the power those riches buy?

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah You can check each company's history, but in general your mind is stuck in a very bad place.

Four white men have more wealth than half the planet… & you still think a brown immigrant is why you’re struggling? 😭😭 Explain that to me like I’m five.

@ThinkFinance999 @RockChartrand @xevekiah Where did the underlying technology come from? Was it government financed innovation that was handed off to companies for commercialization or private sector funded innovation straight through? Did they take off after being awarded lucrative government contracts or before?

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah They have SOME government business, but overwhelmingly their business is private and worldwide.

@seldomsensible @thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah

@connerben @thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah Where did I say they existed?

@gwarrior201 @RockChartrand @xevekiah Maybe look into the programs he focused on while he was Director of DARPA

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah He is one of the 4 richest people? Certainly doesn’t look like it.

@gwarrior201 @RockChartrand @xevekiah See DARPA's Tony Tether

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah Which one of the 4 richest people would fall in to this category? If you want to say Musk, he is launching mass to space at 1/10th the cost of previous providers, so is saving the government money.

@ThinkFinance999 @RockChartrand @xevekiah Oh I dunno maybe cuz most of these companies are basically privatized government programs & thus protected dual-use national champions (see MITI's role in Japanese development/French dirigisme)

You factually know the most valued companies in the world overwhelmingly make their money selling to other companies and consumers, not the government, even though they also sell to the government. You should ask yourself why you even thought differently when the above reality is so obvious.

@seldomsensible @thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah "In capitalism, there’s no benefits to be had from government"--when did these conditions exist?

@connerben @thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah Which is what happens when you vote for government over capitalism. In capitalism, there’s no benefits to be had from government so companies are forced to compete in the market

I marked this post for the future as you suggested Elon.

@thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah How can the government be fixed if any "fix" will be fixed by the oligarchs who own it?

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah Sounds like an issue with government I'd hate to task the government with fixing it

@thenarr47271717 @RockChartrand @xevekiah When government& oligarchs become one and the same

@connerben @RockChartrand @xevekiah So you're saying the government is the real reason why people struggle?

Looking at one's own shadow is not only disagreeable, it is no fun-but it has a great advantage: the more one knows about one's own wickedness, the more one is able to protect oneself against other people. In some sense the evil within oneself recognizes evil outside~ML von Franz

Making everything ugly is a powerful form of social engineering

2025... "Why is this evidence so relevant? By overseeing data centres, cloud services, submarine cables, AI systems designed to prevent cyberattacks and infrastructures that ensure connectivity in conflict zones, Big Tech has become the eyes and ears of governments both at home and abroad (Coveri et al., 2024). This allows them to access sensitive information and develop specific competences that may further strengthen their position vis-à-vis national governments. Moreover, the possibility of experimenting with new technologies in extreme and barely regulated contexts such as battlefields provides such corporations with a unique opportunity to perfect and refine new applications. In this respect, it is interesting to note that many companies producing AI technologies emphasise their role as military contractors as a way to highlight their reliability and technological ingenuity." Big Tech and the US Digital-Military-Industrial Complex intereconomics.eu/contents/year/…

@RockChartrand @xevekiah Or maybe the government hands them contracts because they're well connected & thus well placed to loot the Treasury--see the role of the publicani in the fall of Rome

Okay, like you're 5 Some people are very rich because millions of people choose to buy what they make. That’s not taking from you, that’s people trading. A poor immigrant isn’t the reason you’re struggling either. They’re usually trying to do the same thing you are: work, earn, and improve. So blaming either one misses the point. If you want to understand why someone is struggling, you don’t look at who has more money. You look at what’s stopping them from earning more themselves.