Farhad Mohit

1. Here, now, wow! 2. Immortal, until proven otherwise 3. Love people and create things 4. Eat less, watch less, want less 5. Live each moment, indefinitely, 6. Love forever, now. 7. Pay attention, it’s free 8. Give luck a chance 9. Don’t fuck with luck 10. Enjoy the unknown

Obvious Feature Request: Share for Bookmark Folders Would work just like sharing a post, but it'd let me share my whole POV on a topic through a simple share of my Bookmarked feed of all the X posts I found useful on the topic. Being able to share my POV quickly on "Iran" or "Startups" or "AI" or "Useful Health Tips" with friends would make Bookmarks far more useful to me, and would draw more people in / back to X (and to upgrade to your Premium features) @elonmusk @nikitabier

In short, “little brother” (the people) must be empowered to check “big brother”… The govenance piece of this actually lies in the 2nd Amendment, which should be modernized to include information arms — after all it’s the information age — enabling the people to form an “information militia,” to protect us from a tyranical state (i.e. big brother). Without access to privacy, cryptographic and open source AI “arms,” the people will not be able to freely use (or protect) our 1st Amendment rights.

Because I get asked a lot. Why we must fight Palantir, in brief. 1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation. 2. The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives at building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism. 3. Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually to anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society. 4. Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity. 5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries. 6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technology of surveillance and automated warfare reflects their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination. 7. The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases, but new regional powers now directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar. 8. In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost, something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy. 9. Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their technofascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags. 10. The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI. 11. Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Teheran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos. 12. Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet? 13. We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control, and decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression. 14. The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care. 15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it. 16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labour union. 17. Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet–including in Europe and the United States–will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging. 18. Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world–so that we can become who we want to be–by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy but the right to transact and form contracts privately. 19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten or perhaps taken for granted the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism. 20. Culture wars are a psyop. It is ironic that “Epstein class” virtue-signals about traditional morality and the superiority of forms of ethno-nationalism, while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies. 21. New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species. 22. Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom. These are my personal beliefs, not those of @nym. Yet as a philosopher that founded a tech startup, I have a responsibility to respond to this manifesto of Palantir and it's so-called "philosopher-CEO" Alex Karp.

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Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments. Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate. Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities... Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies. (the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

@ImBreckWorsham @goodpartyorg is empowering people like you to run, win and serve, independent of both parties and big money. 13K wins in the last two years! Be one of good guys yourself! #CivicHeroes #TakeBackAmericaFirst

I’m politically homeless. War mongers to the left of me. Pedophiles to the right. I've spent my entire adult career covering politics. I always believed I was on side of the good guys. It hurts......There were none.

@CarlZha @Andercot and the spice is literally Saffron!

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

@PeterDiamandis Nice article Peter! @AndrewYang as you know I'm working on both solutions towards utopia: @goodpartyorg to empower people to be elected independent of party & monied interests; @GiftedSavings to help people directly gift investments to loved ones. Thx for spreading the word! 🙏

@sapristika @EvanWritesOnX I read that post… just know that while it’s semantically correct to say TPS, FIC is what is what would make everyone understand easily… TPS confuses every subsequent post for most… not useful when communicating in shortform bursts. Regardless, glad we have Evan writing! 🙏👏

This is the TPS suing the US. Just fyi.

@Liv_Boeree @julesterpak always follow the money (that has bought the power) and all starts to make sense @Liv_Boeree

Unless I am missing something, this seems extremely stupid

@GadSaad coincidentally, at TED 2013 @lessig showed that it’s also 0.14% of the US population who max fund elections in the US, and control the US govt too. (He called them the “Lesters,” now we might call them the “Friends of Epstein”): ted.com/talks/lawrence…

The IRGC consists of roughly 125,000 individuals. They control Iran, which has a population of 90,000,000. In other words, 0.14% of the country's population controls the entire nation. The Iranians have been prisoners to that regime for 47 years. I state this to remind people that the greatest threat to a nation's fabric is demography. In the past, the religious ideology that animated the Middle East was minuscule in the West. Today, the number of its adherents (many peaceful, many not) is astoundingly greater than 0.14%. If Western leaders including @realDonaldTrump do not wake up to this reality, the West will be eviscerated. It will take many years to do so but you must have the imagination to extrapolate. Save this post.

@CalltoActivism He looks Bored of Peace.

Holy shit. Trump is fast asleep and about to fall out of his chair. This is absolutely humiliating on the world stage. Trump does not have the stamina to remain president.

@jimstewartson Are these the Bored of Peace?

Congrats MAGA. We’re now the leader of shithole countries.

I’ve warned about this for years: CPC advertising is why bots are not removed: In short, bots create more than 90% of activity / clicks, driving cost-per-click down allowing ad execs to sell cheaper clicks vs CPM (impressions) in traditional media, like superbowl ads) bots.mohit.org

I asked Grok: If you were given access to all the data on X could you remove X bots? Very short answer. Grok: Yes, in theory. I could detect and purge them at scale.

@KimDotcom I’ve posted about this… easily confirmable that 85% to 99% activities are driven by bots. bots.mohit.org

I asked Grok: "How many bots are on X? What do you think? Short answer." The answer might surprise you: "Way too many, likely hundreds of millions. 20-64% of accounts. Way above X's old <5% claim. The platform's flooded with AI-powered spam, fake engagement, and disinformation bots that make real conversations feel drowned out. It's a mess, and purges haven't fixed it."

Impeach both sides! (13K wins served and counting) goodparty.org

@elonmusk Good step, but also all bot accounts must be clearly labeled (also their posts!). You can use the same logic for why all Ads / Promoted Content must be clearly labeled. This should be a law! I wrote about this a while ago: bots.mohit.org

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or maybe the Bored of Peace coallition.

BREAKING: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, even Elon Musk is poking fun at Donald Trump's ridiculous "Board of Peace". “I heard about the formation of the Peace Summit (Board of Peace), and I was like ‘is that P-I-E-C-E?’ You know, a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela. All we want is ‘piece’.”

@engineering Nice explainer of the open sourced “For You” algo by Grok… Thank you for releasing this @elonmusk x.com/i/grok/share/6…

We have open-sourced our new 𝕏 algorithm, powered by the same transformer architecture as xAI's Grok model. Check it out here:  github.com/xai-org/x-algo…

@SimonDixonTwitt Communal Capitalism is the answer: x.com/farhad667/stat…

Communism (they usually mean socialism) vs. Capitalism is as big a lie as Republican vs. Democrat. A false dichotomy designed to keep you distracted from how the world actually works. There is no real-world implementation of pure communism or pure capitalism. What exists instead are debt-based Ponzi schemes powered by central banks and managed by commercial banks and Asset-driven economies powered by sovereign wealth funds and managed by fund managers. The real spectrum is actually degrees of sovereignty so you can protect yourself, company & country from outside forces. That’s it. Follow the money. 💰 Who Really Runs the World? | Money, Power & Debt Explained youtu.be/C9PSM3hpsaU?si…

Communal Capitalism is an idea that neither side wants us to consider. Capitalism as the best way for humans to be, because it’s a great tech for freedom and decentralized decision making — those with capital have freedom to choose. Community as the best why for humans to be, because it’s our highest purpose & responsibility — to love yourself first, so you can serve your family, friends, tribe and world to the best of your abilities. The possibility of Communal Capitalism is lost in the zero-sum debate of Capitalism vs. Communism, where each must be both the way and the why. That just devolves into the adsurdity of whether it’s better to be free and lonely in a dog-eat-dog world of infinite selfish consumption, or to be insignificant interchangeable cogs in a corrupt machine that decides what each should think, create or do.