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Founder Kindo (Usable Machines), WhiteRabbitNeo, LP First Close. CSO 3X at Bird, Clover Health, Riot Games, & Founder Zeevex. Veteran.

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Ron Williams
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The World’s first open source offensive cybersecurity AI @whiterabbitneos has been acquired by @KindoAI . WhiteRabbitNeo is a collection of powerful offensive cybersecurity models that provide security professionals and students an AI companion that can coach, analyze code for
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It’s an honor to announce that Kindo has acquired @WhiteRabbitNeos , the leading creator of open source, offensive cybersecurity AI models. They now have support to further fund & expand the capabilities of its datasets, models, & community. Congrats to @migtissera and team and
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@julesterpak Like the 1780-1830 Congress. Next they will bring back duels.
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@edward_the6 This is on par with trying to save cursive writing from the word processor. It’s also an un-winnable arms race. Last, the average American adult reads and writes at the 7th grade level after 70 years of mandated by law 12 grades of schooling. Essays ain’t worth saving.
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@IntelDoge U.S. just showed China we would spend (on top of all the planning and ops costs not in the air) $85K an hour for two F22 fighters plus several hundred thousand dollars more or up to $1M for an air to air missile to shoot down one balloon that costs what $2K-$20K?
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@Carnage4Life “We don’t train our AI on your data, our contractor does, and it’s not illegal anyway, so…”
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@JosephJacks_ @didier_lopes @CADeptTech racing to censor math tells you everything you need to know about who to trust with the future of AI.
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@US_Stormwatch We have only had weather satellites 64 years. We have no idea about what was happening with hurricanes before that time except the few that hit land in populated areas. Unprecedented is the wrong word.
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@HarryStebbings The first employee who steps into a role with only the founder’s vision to go on is a much different person than the ones that follow. They should be recognized for it and rewarded more as well (even more so if they jump in before professional investors).
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@sciam Humans have never been better off in the history of the world. Massively less poverty, famine, disease, war, etc.. Huge gains in lifespan and quality of life around the globe. There is zero data that says humans are worse off today than even yesterday let alone throughout
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@Babak_Javid_Lab @apoorva_nyc @WHO This is the fundemental problem. WHO is not being truthful because they only want to propose solutions for the lowest common denominator person. This hurts the poor and the rich alike. Viruses don’t care about your wealth status.
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@ClimateDad77 @VisualCap Humans create no mass. We are just moving it around.
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@Scott_Wiener The core issue Scott is that there is no consensus that there is any new risk presented by future AI models. You are creating a bill to regulate a totally unknowable thing that is only in science fiction. Are you also going to add to the bill a way to stop people from riding sand
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@MayorOfLA How many homeless people are camping in your yard Karen?
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@Perpetualmaniac There is zero evidence China is 10 years behind the USA in AI. In fact China has already shipped FREE open models that are on par with the bezt models the U.S. top labs like OpenAI are shipping including several Chinese FREE open models that exceed US based labs top model’s
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@Austen The core issue is limited seats. Harvard can fill a class with perfect SATs that apply every year. So schools have to juggle other factors beside academic and extra-curricular activities. A lotto of all applicants that meet some basic metric is probably fairest.
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@karpathy The reverse implications are also interesting. A two hour movie compressed to a few hundred kilobytes of text prompt that are further compressible via text compression.
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@jnightr007 @DanielleFong @bert_on_spec If it was just a magnetic thing vs superconductor grinding it down would still have some magnetic bits.
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@ValerioCapraro The data shows that university reviewers cannot tell the difference between AI or human generated work. Nor can so called AI detectors (snake oil).
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@tomgoldsteincs This is a mistake. Seriously undermines accessibility to AI to the groups most in need of it. If an AI can write better than a student then the curriculum needs to change not the AI. It will also compromise the quality of OpenAI’s outputs by making them more repetitive in tone.
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@canna_mimi @barstoolindy They get less per student in the state than the average school in the state gets. What they have is a community that supports great schools. Partners, teachers, vendors (not ripping them off), and School Board (competent and not corrupt).
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@carmguti They don’t eat corn they eat suck on tree sap.
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@FerragamoWx @TrackingFires lol no, the hurricane scale was not even invented until 1974. At most we have reliable records going to back to 1946 (with much less data) from US Air Force Hurricane Hunters.
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@Sean_khatibi @DavidSacks No because their employer has bank accounts with payroll in them over $250K. Walmart needs $3B in an account to just make payroll in a month. If a dime is lost by customers of SVB every company is America will start a run at all 4,695 banks that are not the biggest 4 banks.
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@MrMatthewTodd Been flying for decades and every flight they tell people to keep their seatbelt fastened even when the seatbelt light is off. In seats with beds they walk through and make sure sleeping passengers have their seat belt fastened. Severe turbulence has always been a risk. Some
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@ednewtonrex So the person who invented the horse buggy should be compensated by the person who put an engine on it and sold billions more because the buggy person never thought engines were coming?
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The returns @close_first is going to have from underrepresented GP led funds that other LPs ignore is going to be the VC story of the 2020’s. The startups being funded as a result are wolrd changers.
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@BNOFeed Narrator: it’s not safe
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@hardmaru It wasn’t ChatGPT it was Stable Diffusion. ChatGPT only came out because of the threat of great open source.
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@AlecStapp Massive rapid inflation makes economic activity numbers seem robust while consumers are feeling the pain of it. When groceries, cars, and housing jump 40-60% in a few years very few will see that as a good economy. Eating out costs have more than doubled.
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@PGDynes No one was recording “global” temperature even 70 years ago. An accurate thermometer has not existed for more than 30 0 years and then only in the lab of of Gabriel Fahrenheit (happy 300 year anniversary to the Fahrenheit scale btw). Climate people who throw stats like “hottest
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@McLeemz Noma was less a business and more of an art school. Its closing is complex and driven by personal values of the owners and the government not stepping up to make the art more affordable to continue (instead choosing to harm the market overall). The skills a business teaches an
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@FinFloww Because mining for batteries may not be sustainable.
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@JohnBrownlow @edward_the6 Yes I’m aware word processors have been successful in many countries :-) Large language models are going to lift the communication capability of billions of people globally though currently GPT-3 is a heavily English biased model.
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@ErikSTownsend Besides some balloon physics at altitude the USAF is going to be paranoid about proximity explosives or other counter measures for close contact. Losing a ~$209M fighter and a top pilot to a $2,000-$20,000 balloon would be an untenable risk of life and embarrassment.
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@chelseabfinn @_eric_mitchell_ This is net bad for equitable tech accessibility. It also is the same as saying handwritten letters are more useful than word processor generated ones. A human does not need to write for writing’s sake anymore than they should only sing their own songs.
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@ylecun @bindureddy She’s right 👇
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For those that wonder why the closed AI model execs & their investors spend so much time in WashingtonDC, it is because they feared this day would come. When open-source becomes the market leader. Glad @FTC , @linakhanFTC are playing attention.
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@kimmonismus @tszzl The most concerning thing about OpenAI is the James Bond villain level vibes Sam gives off and their PR strategy that leans into it. Megalomania with “God” AI is probably not great for the World.
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@cremieuxrecueil Taxes on “earned income” you mean. Where most of their income does not come from. The rich pay way less tax on lots of other types of income they have that the not rich don’t get to earn.
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@GRomePow If your taxes were not paying for the police to protect you then someone else would just come and take your house. It’s only your property in so much as civilization is held in the right conditions for you to possess it.
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@bindureddy As Microsoft’s software revenue declines to zero due to AI eating everything I would expect OpenAI to buy Microsoft. A co-pilot is also a pilot.
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@Geiger_Capital The missing Schoolhouse Rock episode: Wait until you find out federal taxes collected don’t get spent, they just delete the money. The IRS is a money deletion machine. “Pay your fair share” means delete the money we order you to. It does not go to any government spending
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@gwilliams81 @BillAckman @SRuhle @POTUS @SVB_Financial How is a depositor supposed to know about a risk that regulators don’t?
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@QuinnyPig @0xdabbad00 Excellent risk management.
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@JohnArnoldFndtn Cars in the U.S. are insignificant to global climate change and pollution in general. Focus on industrial consumers of carbon specifically China, India and South America.
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@DanHendrycks Define “harmful” Dan? Do you have a manifesto you can share how you are working to protect us from ourselves? Once you have it working in AI models is the plan to also make humans not produce “harmful” outputs also? Are we going to appoint more comrades to the committee of
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What’s going on with Dogecoin ($DOGE)? Time for a thread 👇 1/18
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@sltrib We have endless cows and sheep that can be easily tracked and ranchers compensated if one is killed. Why do we need to kill wolves that control the rest of the herbivores who damage the ecosystem when unchecked?
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@Plinz Stanford has 64 GPUs to play with. Academia has no idea when AGI might arrive.
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@KellerScholl The unethical supporters of SB1047 is why the bill needs to die. It has not been amended to address the significant concerns everyone has. To say otherwise is to continue to mislead the public on the intent of the bill and its implications. Cults lie to you because no one
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@svscarpino In a few samples so far. More testing underway.
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@Lawgiver97 @DavidSacks Your employer isn’t covered by FDIC ether. Or your city. Or your hospital. Or your church. This is not just a rich person problem this is any company or org that has more than $250K problem.
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2 years
@Wertwhile @derivativeburke Totally doable with current AI and camera systems. Most cars built after 1997 already report speed and other metrics to the manufacturer in real time via built in 2G/3G modems.
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@Carnage4Life Killing their customer’s business is their end goal. Sam talks openly about this. It’s why he created Worldcoin. Every dollar you spend with OpenAI is being used to take away your job or your business.
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@edward_the6 This is going to undermine less privileged students who can benefit a great deal from GPT3. It is gate keeping of critical tech by elites and should not be supported. If my kids school used it I would sue to stop it. Harms kids. Additionally it is going to create false positives.
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@JamesTodaroMD Um, not the case: “We have reviewed our Surgisphere database and discovered that a new hospital that joined the registry on April 1, and self-designated as belonging to the Australasia continental designation,”
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@pmddomingos Diversification is a poor strategy to build wealth. A fine one to maintain it.
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@KelseyTuoc OpenAI execs also promise they will not train on your data…
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@burkov The now and future is AI. AI is basically a python creation. $GOOG
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@HarryStebbings Shahin @Farshchi in the weeds or in the fire he’s standing there ready to help.
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@emilyreadey Until I lived on the west coast I did not understand these paintings
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@DrNikkiTeran @martin_casado Today, in ten years this level of compute will be widely available at a tiny fraction of the cost. And you have no idea what level of compute can produce what kind of so called AI risk. This is just math censorship as a tool to kill innovation and open source AI.
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@kelseyhightower Wait until they see how cheap it is do it off Amazon in their own data center.
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@AISafetyMemes @ylecun @slatestarcodex Retired AI academics who are far removed from modern use of AI and how they work are not credible for insight on where AI is or where it is going. Science fiction fans worried about something they read about a future that will never happen are also poor sources for regulatory
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@kylecordes @benlandautaylor Iodine in salt tastes bad. Some restaurants still use it (more likely casual ones), it can give fried foods an almost burnt oil taste.
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@tszzl lol, you can easily take the position you are not birthing a new mind bro. It’s a rock with electricity making it dance. Take a breather.
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@elonmusk It is just a bill to require non-citizens to be counted by census workers so we know how many there are- From the actual bill which you can find in a few seconds on Google: “The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of
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@collapse2050 Power consumption is not an issue for climate. The type of power is. Nuclear 100% solves this issue.
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@vivianmshen @Scott_Wiener Scott thinks killing tech in California will set him up for a bigger role. There is already talk about a recall.
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1 year
Filtering AIs will create the bubble of truth each person wants to live in, media has a long history of doing this already. Hyper-personalization of truth has always been the ultimate path. We don’t want the government being the arbiter of truth so weird times around the corner.
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this whole thread is worth reading. and it’s chilling. the complete pollution of the information of the ecosphere that I have been warning about has begun.
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@ylecun @elonmusk For the record not seeing anyone at Meta step up and say unequivocally that WhatsApp data is not analyzed for ad targeting. Pretty easy for Zuck to go on the record.
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@benryanwriter Because airborne transmission has been observed and reported. Though if you want to send a video of yourself not wearing a mask sitting in a closed off room with some infected patients for 8 hours a day 5 days a week I am sure it would go a long way to quelling any fears our
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@TurnerNovak Companies that mandated a 60 minute Excel key features training course for everyone would see a 100x ROI on the time.
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@dwallacewells So you are pro nuclear power and lobbying your representatives in government to move quickly to deploy nuclear power plants at large scale?
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@AnunaDe Communists need to spend more time reading the news about SpaceX Starship (which soon unlocks unlimited resources of all kinds), fusion power, and how cheap desalination is getting. We are on the cusp of providing unlimited clean energy, material wealth, water, food, and
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Marc should have disclosed A16Z is a Robinhood investor before Vlad the founder was called up by Elon. It appears the Elon Clubhouse thing was just a PR stunt to try to get Robinhood out of trouble. Vlad refused to say the clearinghouse was owned by the big Wall Sreet banks.
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@msdev Just use Kindo in VS Code and avoid having to share you code and how you use with Microsoft
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@GaryMarcus Any human can write this. They do. 4Chan and Twitter are full of it.
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@SaysSimulation Regan put Chevron in to help his admin regulate.
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@Kat__Woods You can’t certify that your product won’t create vampires when vampires don’t exist in the first place and no one has any idea how to create a vampire. We don’t do regulation on science fiction for a reason.
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@Dani_Knope @barstoolindy They spend less per student than the average school in Indiana spends.
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@polotek Marco would make a fine VP of Engineering. He was a key Software Engineering leader (one of only a handful of Engineering leaders) that took Clover Health to unicorn status and beyond. I worked with him for two years and would again.
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@SRuhle That same risk rule applies to your bank. Wells Fargo, BoA, etc. have all taken the same risks & underwater on them. The issue is how much cash for a normal bank depositor should be protected when a bank implodes? Walmart needs $3B a month in checking accounts just for payroll.
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@US_FDA Avoided the best vaccine Noravax, we have to stop the corruption that has overtaken the FDA. Americans should be able to trust their health care regulators.
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@jrichlive @Clear could help fix this by not asking to see a boarding pass three times before you even scan your eyes at the kiosk.
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@SamratSeek @quantumVerd @GavinSBaker @balajis A factory that accepts on demand designs from anyone and then creates and ships it out under the brand of the orderer.
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@danprimack They should remove the velvet rope. It will just get worse the longer it’s up.
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@TechCrunch Terrible idea. This will allow a hacker to call you, then redirect your AI voice to present you to anyone else they want to connect the call to. The hacker can also get a voice sample of you whenever they want to deepfake you in the future. @microsoft ’s thirst to get money back
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@Kat__Woods @Dan_Jeffries1 @GavinNewsom Unhinged Luddite saying science fiction should be used as a legal standard. All corporations of all kinds are already liable for any harm they do, not just mass causalities. The problem and lie within the @Scott_Wiener law is that a model creator has to somehow prove something
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@CribbsP @ThatKatyaGirl Science does not run by consensus, it runs only on repeatable experiments with outcomes supporting a hypothesis. It is however often greatly harmed by consensus and those afraid to stand alone in the arena.
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@TheRealAdamG @simonw These agreements and any claims about security of data are only meaningful if the company and its leadership exhibit behavior that is trustworthy. Otherwise it is just another big tech promise to not use your data that is bound to turn out not true.
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Enjoyed hanging out with @mikegiam the host of Customerland to chat about enterprise AI security and how Kindo makes it easy to securely deploy and manage AI 👇
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@rohanpaul_ai The debate on OpenAI is not about price performance it’s about not trusting them.
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@AssaadRazzouk Except they can’t 👇
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@invertedcapital @DavidSacks Bro it’s not about counter party risk, it’s about every business around the country that has more than $250K creating runs at your bank and taking the money to the 4 too big to fail banks. No one will trust any smaller bank if the govt let’s a customer lose a dime.
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@george__mack 💯Bet on humanity. We are the only way forward for life in the Universe to continue to exist. We must advance our technology or the only spark of consciousness we know in the universe will die.
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@Simeon_Cps Or maybe wait until anyone can even demonstrate there is any possibility of an AI safety issue.
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@Scott_Wiener @geoffreyhinton @lessig The word you are looking for is retired researchers. Not top ones anymore. Most have been out of the applied part of the field for years. Ignoring the actual AI experts in California some of who you actually represent is an interesting tactic.
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@HillaryRonen Imagine a world where the poor are not going to get paid next week or be able to buy food or gas because all the banks close. If you don’t understand how that might happen you probably should spend a little time on google or at the library or with a 7th grade history teacher.
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@GaryMarcus The guy asking leading questions. The correct answer like it is with all things, the person who applies the technology to do harm.
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