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An Anthropic pretraining researcher just resigned and went public. Jacob Coxon spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." On the difference between the two labs: "At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first." The same day OpenAI announces it solved a Millennium Prize math problem with 10,000 agents, the people building the models are walking out the door saying it's out of control.

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Joe Lonsdale: "It's AI. It's applying better ways of doing things. We're in the early innings of an industrial revolution. From 1870 to 1900, the median American working-class person became more than twice as wealthy in one generation. This is probably going to happen even faster this time." x.com/PFFeeley/statu…

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"A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial found magnesium L-threonate made participants' brains perform seven and a half years younger." Most people are deficient and don't know it. @NicHulscher breaks down which forms actually work and which ones don't. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

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.@blocks just applied for a national trust bank charter with the OCC. The entity is called Builders Bank & Trust and would provide federally regulated custody for bitcoin and stablecoins. Not a traditional bank. No deposits, no loans. Pure custody and fiduciary services under federal supervision. "We believe Builders Bank is well positioned to support Block's broader vision of economic empowerment."

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Liquid Network's full incident report is out. An exploit in the Elements software let someone create ~4,000 unbacked LBTC and peg out ~4,000 BTC, draining the reserve from 4,205 BTC down to 197. "No keys were compromised. The Liquid Federation functionaries were not hacked. The peg-out mechanism that authorizes withdrawals to whitelisted addresses operated as designed." The exploiters left a message on-chain identifying themselves as white-hat researchers. They've returned 3,400 BTC. Roughly 598.5 BTC remains outstanding, and discussions are ongoing. A patched Elements release (v23.3.4) is expected within 48 hours. The network remains offline until the fix is reviewed and 1:1 BTC backing is restored.

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Full-page bitcoin ad in today's Wall Street Journal. "Committees change their minds. Math does not."

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OpenAI's biggest day in a while. Claim a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem before lunch, drop a new image model after. 3 billion images generated per week on ChatGPT and they just made it faster, sharper, and added a sketch-to-image feature. x.com/sama/status/20…

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"84% of cancer patients saw their tumors regress, disappear, or stop growing after adding ivermectin and mebendazole. That signal is not even close to what you see with chemo." @NicHulscher on why nobody funds studies on drugs that can't be patented. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

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Jensen Huang on how he actually uses AI: "I take the answer from one AI, give it to another AI, and ask them to critique it. I ask the same question of multiple AIs, ask them to compare each other's notes, and then give me the best of all the answers."

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"BioNTech had to terminate their mRNA cancer vaccine trial because it killed more patients than doing absolutely nothing." Elon says mRNA has promise for cancer. The first randomized trial says otherwise. @NicHulscher explains why. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

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DHS has a secretive unit called the Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team that reviews Americans' financial activity in law enforcement databases, flags people based on spending patterns, then feeds their info to local police who find a minor pretext to pull them over. One man driving across Montana was flagged after analysts reviewed his "financial activity patterns commonly associated with illicit narcotics activity" along with his prior history. A state trooper then pulled him over for an "obstructed license plate." A DHS document produced in discovery revealed the PITT intel was the real impetus. The unit said its intelligence was "not the sole basis" for the stop. CBP says they "do not discuss specific analytical methods, data sources, targeting criteria, investigative techniques, system capabilities, or deployment details." They won't say what financial data they access or whether they obtain a warrant. As the Institute for Justice put it: "We fought a revolution for the idea that we are citizens, not subjects. Yet schemes like CBP's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team treat all Americans as if they are potential suspects." 404media.co/a-secretive-dh… h/t @josephfcox

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They're making a movie about the OpenAI boardroom coup and they cast Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Christmas Day release.

@TFTC21

An Anthropic pretraining researcher just resigned and went public. Jacob Coxon spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." On the difference between the two labs: "At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first." The same day OpenAI announces it solved a Millennium Prize math problem with 10,000 agents, the people building the models are walking out the door saying it's out of control.

@TFTC21

Joe Lonsdale: "It's AI. It's applying better ways of doing things. We're in the early innings of an industrial revolution. From 1870 to 1900, the median American working-class person became more than twice as wealthy in one generation. This is probably going to happen even faster this time." x.com/PFFeeley/statu…

@TFTC21

"A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial found magnesium L-threonate made participants' brains perform seven and a half years younger." Most people are deficient and don't know it. @NicHulscher breaks down which forms actually work and which ones don't. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

@TFTC21

.@blocks just applied for a national trust bank charter with the OCC. The entity is called Builders Bank & Trust and would provide federally regulated custody for bitcoin and stablecoins. Not a traditional bank. No deposits, no loans. Pure custody and fiduciary services under federal supervision. "We believe Builders Bank is well positioned to support Block's broader vision of economic empowerment."

@TFTC21

Liquid Network's full incident report is out. An exploit in the Elements software let someone create ~4,000 unbacked LBTC and peg out ~4,000 BTC, draining the reserve from 4,205 BTC down to 197. "No keys were compromised. The Liquid Federation functionaries were not hacked. The peg-out mechanism that authorizes withdrawals to whitelisted addresses operated as designed." The exploiters left a message on-chain identifying themselves as white-hat researchers. They've returned 3,400 BTC. Roughly 598.5 BTC remains outstanding, and discussions are ongoing. A patched Elements release (v23.3.4) is expected within 48 hours. The network remains offline until the fix is reviewed and 1:1 BTC backing is restored.

@TFTC21

Full-page bitcoin ad in today's Wall Street Journal. "Committees change their minds. Math does not."

@TFTC21

OpenAI's biggest day in a while. Claim a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem before lunch, drop a new image model after. 3 billion images generated per week on ChatGPT and they just made it faster, sharper, and added a sketch-to-image feature. x.com/sama/status/20…

@TFTC21

"84% of cancer patients saw their tumors regress, disappear, or stop growing after adding ivermectin and mebendazole. That signal is not even close to what you see with chemo." @NicHulscher on why nobody funds studies on drugs that can't be patented. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

@TFTC21

Jensen Huang on how he actually uses AI: "I take the answer from one AI, give it to another AI, and ask them to critique it. I ask the same question of multiple AIs, ask them to compare each other's notes, and then give me the best of all the answers."

@TFTC21

"BioNTech had to terminate their mRNA cancer vaccine trial because it killed more patients than doing absolutely nothing." Elon says mRNA has promise for cancer. The first randomized trial says otherwise. @NicHulscher explains why. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

@TFTC21

DHS has a secretive unit called the Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team that reviews Americans' financial activity in law enforcement databases, flags people based on spending patterns, then feeds their info to local police who find a minor pretext to pull them over. One man driving across Montana was flagged after analysts reviewed his "financial activity patterns commonly associated with illicit narcotics activity" along with his prior history. A state trooper then pulled him over for an "obstructed license plate." A DHS document produced in discovery revealed the PITT intel was the real impetus. The unit said its intelligence was "not the sole basis" for the stop. CBP says they "do not discuss specific analytical methods, data sources, targeting criteria, investigative techniques, system capabilities, or deployment details." They won't say what financial data they access or whether they obtain a warrant. As the Institute for Justice put it: "We fought a revolution for the idea that we are citizens, not subjects. Yet schemes like CBP's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team treat all Americans as if they are potential suspects." 404media.co/a-secretive-dh… h/t @josephfcox

@TFTC21

They're making a movie about the OpenAI boardroom coup and they cast Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Christmas Day release.