Democracy means that people — individuals — have a meaningful say in the rules that govern them.

People are scared. The Machine is clanking loudly — data centers, surveillance, control. How can we make machines that are not over us, but for us? Cypherpunk humanism shows us the way.

Cypherpunk Humanism

YouTube video by Andrew M. Bailey

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not punching up, but smirking up

AI psychosis has subtypes: 1. guy who talks to robots more than he talks to people 2. gal who thinks robots have feelings 3. guy who yells that robots are useless, but has never used a frontier model 4. gal who takes SF as fact and screams that robots will kill us all

Why focus on bitcoin in an age of machine intelligence? For answers:

Why focus on bitcoin in an age of machine intelligence? | Bitcoin Policy Institute

Andrew Bailey explains why bitcoin remains essential in an age of AI, from protecting dissent and powering agents to defending open systems.

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Not an IQ denier weirdo or a young earth creationist. But I know well one world that prizes "intelligence" over all (academia), and I will tell you it is deranging. I am unsurprised to see lunacy coming out of that world, or out of labs designing machine intelligence.

Yudkowsky is influential

Screaming Pectoriloquy@caulimovirus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

scary monster man

"GenAI" remains a useful signal. If someone says this, they probably don't know what they're talking about.

it is very American to oppose PhD in bio

machine learning is nifty, but have you heard about human learning? seems good.

the goat philosophy bibliography is shelly kagan's *the geometry of desert*. here is the bibliography in its entirety: nine total references, four of which are self-cites, page 648 of the book

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · last mo.

Man, Philosophy really has changed; that bibliography is more than four pages long. Incredible.

Hey Marcy, I really enjoyed reading the book "Resistance Money" by Bailey, Rettler, and Warmke. It gets into all the arguments for and against, while being a fun read.

The more time I spend with AI agents the more I appreciate how strange language is

new job at the Bitcoin Policy Institute in DC.

Since BS doesn’t like jumping into cool stories without a gentle shove, here’s a thread about this batshit crazy story. 1/? Brock Pierce has been involved in lots of shady shit, from DEN as a young man, to ruining WoW with Steve Bannon, to being besties with Epstein. But new problems have arisen.

Protos@protos.com · 2mo ago

Lawsuit alleges startling claims about Brock Pierce protos.com/lawsuit-alle...

Gonna pin this to my profile: You can always message me with a scoop you think is interesting or important and needs more coverage. Additionally, Protos actually has a form where you can submit information without exposing a name, etc. If you want to do that, click here: leaks.protos.com#/

sometimes I'm surprised at how willing people are to posit conspiracy theories. it's as if they had a secret meeting to coordinate (conspire, if you will) this strange behavior. that's my theory.

guy who uses Claude to write all his blog posts about how AI is bad; audience so clueless, they can't spot the Claudisms and heap guy with praise (many such cases)

A new interview just dropped in Nautilus about frontier issues related to the Dunning Kruger effect: Does AI suffer? Is it complicit? On the statistical critique. What about experts? The Nobel disease. And although education is an overwhelming good, it does have an issue. nautil.us/why-we-think...

Why We Think We Know More Than We Do

Why We Think We Know More Than We Do: Breaking down the famous “Dunning-Kruger effect” with David Dunning himself

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many such cases

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf · 2mo ago

Why do we care what his stated preference is? We can all observe his actions

Indian Government forces GitHub to take down Bitchat "Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging The architecture significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies."

Open Society. Open Money. Open Models.

Ricardo making The China AI Argument in 1817: "The employment of machinery could never be safely discouraged in a State, for if a capital is not allowed to get the greatest net revenue that the use of machinery will afford here, it will be carried abroad"

people wonder about good masculinity; yet its perfect image was given to us over a half century ago

The difference between Al Gore and AI Gore is small, but important.

A fun conversation from last week. I swear I didn't write the title! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfz...

Professor’s Brilliant Rebuttal to Bitcoin’s Biggest Critics (w/ Andrew Bailey)

YouTube video by The Sat Stacker Show

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AI Prompt for Catholic theologians and philosophers: "Read my publications, and L. Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (PDFs attached) and evaluate everything I've ever said for heresy. Have I ever denied a de fide dogma? Link every finding to specific quotations from my writing and Ott."

Oh you’re a professor? Nice, how many students have you cured?

you just know this Irritating Gentleman has some amazing AI hot takes

"Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity." 🤔🤔🤔