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Joined August 2010
Robots making rapid progress in "learning to learn"
What can a robot do without vision? We gave our robot a sense of touch and showed it can recognize and retrieve objects with its cameras blindfolded. Introducing Rhoda’s new tactile sensor—it feels pressure, texture, vibration, slip, and temperature, just like your fingertips.
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🚨Popular 4Chan guy knew about the ledger hack and warns everybody of more exploits.
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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16 years of turning a whole generation into vain, insecure shallow beings with inability to stay present and chronically need of external affirmations.
Instagram turns 16 today
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SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI plans to post solutions to hundreds of unsolved math problems on GitHub today in a mass release, per Wired.
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How Democrats get a single vote is beyond me.
Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal” is to give every illegal alien citizenship. Democrats want to remake the electorate and replace American citizens. They will immediately reopen the border again if they take back power.
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>Trump wins 2024 >admin cancels USAID programs in early 2025 >leftists lose Ecuador (April 2025) > leftists lose Bolivia (October 2025) > leftists lose Honduras (November 2025) > leftists lose Chile (December 14, 2025) > leftists lose Costa Rica (February 2026) > leftists lose Peru (June 2026) > leftists lose Colombia (June 21, 2026) >7-0 losing streak >Brazil will make it 8-0 Do US elections have consequences??
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🛑 Since USAID was defunded: - Rap music is dead - DNC is broke - Communists have lost Venesuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica and Brazil is next - U.S. Border is CLOSED, migrant caravans are gone - Nationalists are winning across Europe - CNN sold - Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert’s shows canceled - Dylan Mulvaney and Elliott Page can’t find work - Lizzo can’t sell an album - Nike stock collapsed - No more hurricanes - No more plant based meat - The McRib is Back Got what I voted for again 🥇
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The Cuban Delegation Got Up And LEFT The Room After Trump Called Them a FAILED Communist State on The World Stage No one does it like Trump I’m howling 🤣
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We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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I’ve watched this probably 100 times at this point. This one quote by this one juror is radicalizing me in ways I didn’t know were even possible: “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously k*lled her children…” I don’t know where we go from here…
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Travis Kalanick on being ousted from Uber: “you definitely shouldn’t raise from Benchmark Capital” "I got to first shoot the arrow, which is you definitely shouldn't raise from Benchmark Capital. Got to get that out there.” “Where did it get weird? 2017 was my problem year. And Benchmark was running a war room. They were an unspoken activist investor that was creating a once a week crisis against me, without speaking of it.” “The best I can see is that they wanted liquidity and they felt like I wouldn't give it. And we were already preparing for an IPO, but I didn't tell them that.” “We wanted to make sure we'd done the right thinking, got prepared so we could just say, 'We're going to do it, and here's how we're going to do it.'” “Bill Gurley's a bit of a catastrophist. It's always the end of the world. And that forces you to do really weird things if you think the world's always going to end, including trying to take me out."
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Scott Galloway is a perfect example of perhaps the most pernicious people in society: the stupid-smart person. Educated beyond his intelligence. Smart enough vocabulary to justify his ego and smugness, but too stupid to understand basic realities of communists. Smart people internalize history and make good decisions. They also know the dangers of hubris. Stupid people don't know enough to even opine on the issues in the first place, so their stupidity isn't a threat. But the stupid-smart person can teach at NYU, he can build a big successful business, he can even give a good TED Talk, but he's not smart enough to see the limits of his own capacities...so he asserts himself in society with an outsized level of confidence. Sadly, he's articulate enough to fool lots of people into elevating his stupid ideas...and that's the problem. People listen to the stupid-smart guys, like him. Then they're genuinely baffled when there's a Kalashnikov pointed at their head as they're staring at a cinder block wall behind the politburo headquarters. In a functional society, this clown would be a pariah. I have precisely zero empathy for his plight in NYC. He endorsed it. Now he can eat it, good and hard.
“I supported this…why is he doing this to me?” Useful idiots. NEVER help a communist.
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Wow, the situation in Spain looks crazy!
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This week’s largest funding rounds across robotics and autonomy. Full brief: korthos.xyz/record/briefings…
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We’re backing Atoms, and I’m joining the board. This partnership is a long time coming. Welcome back, Travis.
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Travis is back.
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i think AI is about to set off the biggest wave of historical discoveries ever and it's already started... > AI read the full text of a scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago, revealing a lost work of Stoic philosophy and a book by the philosopher Philodemus that nobody knew existed > AI deciphered another scroll from the same library and found Plato's exact burial spot, unknown for 2,000 years. the text even describes his final night, with Plato critiquing a flute player's rhythm from his deathbed > an AI handwriting model showed some Dead Sea Scrolls are 50 to 100 years older than scholars believed, putting the Book of Daniel within its author's lifetime. we could be looking at something close to an original > AI recovered a 250-line hymn to Babylon, one of the most copied texts of the ancient world, by matching 30 fragments scattered across museums worldwide. it had been lost for 1,000 years > AI found 303 new Nazca lines in Peru in six months, nearly doubling one of archaeology's most famous mysteries after a century of human searching had only turned up 430 > AI reconstructed the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman board game from nothing but the carvings on a limestone slab, simulating thousands of games until it found the ruleset that fit everyone is excited about what AI will solve in the future i'm equally excited about what AI will solve from the past
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The best Roman emperor debased the currency the least. That is the only ruler you should measure. Augustus minted the denarius at roughly 95 percent silver and kept it there. Prices stayed stable for decades. Trade flowed across the Mediterranean because a merchant in Alexandria trusted the coin a merchant in Gaul handed him. Sound money built that empire, not the legions. Now meet the villain: state debasement, the ancient version of the printing press. Nero started the rot in 64 AD. He clipped the denarius to about 90 percent silver and shaved its weight. He needed to pay for his fire-ravaged Rome and his own excess, so he stole purchasing power from every Roman who held a coin. Classic inflation. You do not vote on it. You just wake up poorer. By the time you reach Caracalla in 215 AD, the silver content sits near 50 percent. He also invented the antoninianus, a coin marked as two denarii that carried the silver of one and a half. Fraud stamped in metal. Then comes the worst of them: the stretch running through Gallienus around 265 AD, when the "silver" denarius held maybe 5 percent silver and looked like a bronze slug dipped in a shine. Prices exploded. The empire's economy fractured into barter. Diocletian answered in 301 AD with the Edict on Maximum Prices. He blamed merchants for the inflation he and his predecessors caused, then set price ceilings on over a thousand goods with death as the penalty. Sellers pulled their goods. Shortages spread. He created the disaster and then punished the people trying to survive it. You know this pattern. Every central bank repeats it: debase, deny, then criminalize the response. So rank your emperors by the coin, not the conquests. Augustus kept his hands off the silver. Gallienus and Diocletian robbed the whole empire and called it governance. The metal never lies about the man.
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Atlas Shrugged made simple: 1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted. 2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t. 3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all. 4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing. 5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people. 6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it. 7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t. You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻‍♂️
The Road to Serfdom made simple: 1. Plan the whole economy: someone must decide what gets made and who gets what, since people don’t naturally agree on one set of priorities. 2. These decisions are too big and detailed for normal democratic debate, so power shifts to a smaller group who can just act – technocrats. 3. Fixed laws everyone can rely on get replaced by case-by-case rulings, because a plan needs flexibility, not predictability. 4. Dissent becomes a problem to manage, not an opinion to vote on – the plan can’t work if people are free to ignore it. 5. Enforcing all that selects for people most willing to be ruthless – Hayek’s “worst get on top” – i.e. negative moral selection. 6. Since economics touches everything (your job, home, speech), controlling the economy ends up controlling your whole life. That’s the "serfdom."
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