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Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
If I have to go to a dashboard to use your product, I'm not going to use your product.
If anything, I'm more likely to tell Claude to rebuild your product.
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
The concept of being at Princeton in 1970 and befriending another grad student just so you can coauthor an algorithm with his name after you earn your doctorates, and only admitting it was for this express purpose in his memorial tribute.
Name a single BL that is half this good.
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
Hayek: “Socialism protesting against production for profit objects to what makes the extended society possible.”
“Profit is a signal which tells us what we must do in order to serve people whom we don’t know.”
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
the older i get, the more i realize that this is everything
homes, churches, cities, water, power, courts, relationships, everything, everything must be tended with care and dedication, or it will be devoured
civilization is an act of creation, and therefore love
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
If you, an unbiased person, take a look at this graphic by Elliptic, do you come to the conclusion that "unhosted wallets" are what enable cartels to launder money through cryptocurrencies?
Or could it be that the actual problem is that cartels still somehow manage to deposit their cash in the financial system, despite extensive AML/CFT frameworks imposed on banks?
And if these frameworks are already exploited by cartels, can you outline precisely how imposing these same AML/CFT regulations on "unhosted wallets" would stop cartels from exploiting them – and not just impose unproportionate burdens on the average user?
Given what Elliptic has outlined in their newest report, lawmakers should be extremely wary of relying on for-profit marketing materials to inform their decisions, and keep in mind that the expansion of AML/CFT frameworks to "unhosted wallets" would drastically enlarge such firms' addressable market, constituting a clear profit motive – while likely doing nothing to stop actual crime.
A new report by the Blockchain Surveillance firm Elliptic showcases how cartels exploit deficiencies in current AML/CFT frameworks, raising the question whether "unhosted wallets" are really the problem.
Full story 👇
therage.co/new-elliptic-repo…
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
No, child, I am saying that superintelligence is to Mossad as Mossad is to you.
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
Mossad is much more clever and powerful than novices implicitly imagine a "superintelligence" will be; in the sense that, when novices ask themselves what a "superintelligence" will be able to do, they fall well short of the actual Mossad.
Gonza Alcaraz ⚡ retweeted
This is going to sound very anti-intellectual, but has anyone in the history of documentation ever said "fuck yes, thanks for that diagram, I prefer that over just 30 lines of examples"?
