Chairman @oviohq, investing in the post web, supporting the digital arts, hyperstitioining p/acc
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Next, you might tackle wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Ideol… — Guilds facilitated self-interested defense of the state, to secure continuity in the state-backed guilds. Once guilds were abolished, a standing army was needed for defense, because young men no longer had a stake in preserving the system.
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A Chinese tech company from 🇨🇳Shenzhen, China's tech hub, just combined humanoid robots with industrial robot arms!
This is what happens when your country invests in technologies instead of funding wars!
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Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/…
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Keep in mind that one can cause "harassment, alarm, or distress" in England and Wales by uttering a true statement of fact to someone who doesn't want to hear it, or by offering an honestly-held opinion or belief, spoken or written, which also offends.
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The observable universe may hold around one septillion stars. Your brain isn’t built for that number.
Write it out and it looks like a typo: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s a one followed by 24 zeros, and every single one of those zeros is pulling its weight.
They aren’t packed into one neat corner of space, either. Those stars are scattered across an estimated two trillion galaxies.
Two trillion galaxies. Each one loaded with its own suns.
And we’re on a single planet, orbiting one of them.
The interesting thing is the political entrepreneurship of Network States ultimately want to be recognised as sovereign states.
That’s cool but history offers a more interesting template in the Hanseatic League, a polity of trading posts defined by the commerce it protected rather than the territory it held.
For economies of humans + agents, that's the more interesting model; extra-territorial, flow-based, bound by charter rather than borders.
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elon popping the AI bubble after front running the Anthropic and OpenAI IPO is like watching an episode of billions and succession lol
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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Magnificent essay by @vgr
“The crucial economic question then becomes not how much intelligence people can produce, but how much intelligence they can find uses for.”
this is the future of universities - to lead discovery of the uses of intelligence
open.substack.com/pub/contra…
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A cut of ‘Generative’, a documentary on the history of generative & computer art, will be screened today in Marfa at 3.30 PM, at the Crowley Theatre.
@Generative_film
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2003: "Few collectors have the resources or the space to preserve and display video art. The Kramlichs understood the challenges and hired curator Christopher Eamon from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to maintain and expand their collection."
Below: Eamon shows the Kramlich collection.
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BREAKING: anthropic announces verified solutions to 482 open problems in philosophy in advance of IPO
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Displaying Digital Art Residentially in 2003
2003: "Over the last decade, the Kramlichs have acquired more than 200 media-based artworks... [they] live with their collection day in, day out, and that has created some challenges..."
From KQED, Pamela & Richard Kramlich, 2003.
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One of my most candid / human conversations on air.
Talked about my journey, theoretical physics, from quantum to thermo computing, the principles of e/acc, human psychology, scaling a movement, the need for an intellectual revolution, Kardashev Research, & more
on the physics of intelligence & being human
in conversation with @beffjezos
04:30 the masks we learn to wear
21:43 thermodynamic computing
32:52 the origins of e/acc
56:06 forgiveness & boundaries
1:01:41 keeping an open heart
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3/7 We're also investing £120m more in @AISecurityInst, £60m in a new National Cyber Shield and £70m in a new National Exposure and Real-Time Vulnerability (NERV) Centre.
These investments will strengthen our ability to understand AI risks, identify cyber vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure.
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2/7 We're launching a £165m National AI Biosecurity Initiative, including £100m for a world-first AI Biosecurity Lab.
This will harness British scientific expertise and latest AI to detect biological threats and protect people from emerging risks.
As with our @AISecurityInst, I want the new AIBL to lead the world in capability.
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1/7 I have two simple tests for British AI, driven by our values. Is it safe? And is it ours to shape? 🇬🇧
Today, Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP is announcing a major, ambitious package of investment to strengthen Britain's defences against emerging threats, back British innovation, and build our technological independence.
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a two-year-old mining company has raised $400M. @a16z, @khoslaventures and the CIA's venture fund are all on the cap table.
@jclozano9897 co-founded @MarianaMinerals with @tbc415 and @baker_tilney, two friends from stanford. it's now worth $1.6B. they buy mines after the market gives up on them, then run them with software and AI.
i asked him how you actually buy a mine, why AI's real bottleneck is metal, and whether he'd hire me for being good at claude code.
nontechnical, episode 3.
00:00 $400M and the CIA's venture fund
02:19 you can just buy a mine
04:41 2 years, $400M, $1.6B
08:58 cold emailing VCs vs. their first check
13:46 when to buy a mine (right after the market gives up)
19:54 every mining truck is a robot without a brain
25:08 everything human-made is grown or mined
26:15 the cheapest AI company wins
28:31 AI's real bottleneck is metal
30:55 america doesn't have enough miners
33:27 space mining and asteroids
43:13 how a $1.6B founder hires
46:17 would he hire me for claude code?
48:43 "slop cannon"
