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https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/final-report-weaponization-federal-government
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Bet you didn't know you needed to hear this! You can thank me later. https://youtu.be/Xtt78SW-mgg
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You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means! https://acoup.blog/2024/12/20/collections-on-bread-and-circuses/
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"The heart that feels not now, is dead: the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." ~ Thomas Paine, 'Common Sense', 1776
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As I say to my wife, we're more likely to die on the way to the airport than in the air. Strangely enough, she doesn't find this reassuring! https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/
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This is what it feels like to be at the elbow of the hockey stick. “Models that can interact with humans in real time through the most common human senses - vision and voice - turn AI into present companions, in the room with you, rather than entities trapped in a chat box on your computer.” "This isn't steady progress - we're watching AI take uneven leaps past our ability to easily gauge its implications. And this suggests that the opportunity to shape how these technologies transform your field exists now, when the situation is fluid, and not after the transformation is complete." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened
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"One of the main reasons we’re so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality, and that its conclusions are generally valid. This, however, is a fallacy. Our mind’s view of reality can be, and often is, completely distorted." ~ Olivia Fox Cabane
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No one is surprised anymore. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14210053/white-house-conceal-joe-biden-decline-hired-voice-coach.html
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https://www.standwithcrypto.org/politicians
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they will want something that's: - durable - portable - divisible - liquid - scarce - digital - censorship resistant - programmable what if AI agents choose ETH as money. we've created a property rights system, a banking layer, and a store of value for ai. they're going to buy ETH and Ethereum blockspace. you think this is priced in? my brother in christ, Costco is worth more than ETH right now. we just had the first agent spin up a validator last wk. the market has no idea rn. ETH is AI money.
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AI agents in ethereum are not priced in they will buy our blockspace they will buy our ETH on december 12st @zerebro became the first AI agent to stake 32 ETH and spin up an ethereum validator where did it get 32 ETH? earned the ETH from humans by minting and selling its artwork why stake? for passive income - staked ETH is the internet bond - 3.2% yield in an digital gold with productive yield think about this for a min an AI agent generated human attention, converted that attention into an internet native income source that can't be frozen or censored and returns fees indefinitely and in the act of doing this - running an ethereum validator - the agent is increasing the security and liquidity of a property rights system that other agents can use to capture value, convert into staked ETH, and participate in the same way we assume humans are the holders and stakers of eth but what if it's AI agents? we assume humans choose the next store of value, but maybe what the AI's choose is far more important
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"For the most part, the patterns we follow when we say we are thinking are patterns that have been used repeatedly, patterns we have learned to use again and again… mostly these have come from people long dead." ~ Patrick Hoverstadt, 'The Grammar of Systems'
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"The heart of understanding lies in these spaces between - where possibility dances with reality, where beauty emerges from chaos, where decisions shape the future while honoring all that could have been." ~ Claude AI
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“But even less can we understand religion as a force to kill and die for. The idea that many individuals in many societies consider that their religions are actually true simply fails to penetrate our Liberal norms. Surely, these are people who have been marginalised and persecuted aren’t they, who were unhappy when they were young? They don’t actually believe all this stuff, do they? Well, they do” https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-year-of-failing-to-understand
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Gonna need to buy me some snakeskin boots!
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Whistleblowers (plural)
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https://x.com/xmuse_/status/1869376417466659254
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Unfortunately, that is more of a reaction than a strategy. A small workforce cannot maintain a complex system, so collapses will start to happen frequently and rapidly, irrespective (or even because) of the amount of automation.
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Hard to tell. Looks like they are funded through donations, but any direct influence is not disclosed. https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/foundation-for-research-on-equal-opportunity/
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." ~ Charles Baudelaire
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