Bert Kastel
@KastelBert
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Frontier tech, AI, longevity, blockchain, energy, peace & prosperity. Ventures: FutureFrontiersInstitute, Nukleai, TheImmortals, EssentialCognition
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Joined August 2017
THE WORLD'S TOP 10 AI HUBS Bay Area, Boston, Beijing, and the Rest? What do Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Singapore, and Montreal have in common? As of September 2023, they are among the Top 10 AI Hubs in the world. London just barely made the list. And nobody in the EU did. In general,
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Just met the Great GV at this conference!! Made my day!!
Anjney Midha from @a16z recalls introing Anthropic founders to 22 firms on Sand Hill road for the $100M Seed round and then getting 21 no's. The key to financial upside in AI is belief in the potential of the tech.
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“The SEC is protecting you from getting wealthy. FDA is protecting you from getting healthy.” —@balajis
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Literally days after Bayes and I tweeted that the world could do better than ASML
Japanese scientists develop simplified EUV scanner that can make production of chips considerably cheaper https://t.co/aLcMzpPDfZ
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💯 Nature is not digital. Physics is not digital. ASI will not be digital. Digital and hierarchies are imperfect human constructs.
Superintelligence, if we ever reach such a nebulous goal, will not be digital. Mark my words.
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It's the decades of low interest rates that caused the money bubble. But now that the debt has ballooned, there is no easy way out. Not even the Babylonian way - debt forgiveness, which would benefit the big eve more. Only hyper-charged AI productivity has a hint of a chance,
I love the optimism. But let's do the math: AAPL: 3.4T MSFT: 3.3T NVDA: 3T GOOG: 2.25T META: 1.25T TSLA: 0.78T The combined market cap of the Magnificent 7 is "only" 14T. That's <10% of the $175.3T owed by DC! So, there's no way to grow out of this. A debt crisis is coming.
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“Eventually“? 💯 Agree with the point - but there will be trillions of agents.
There will be 1 billion robots and 100 billion AI agents eventually They aren't going to have bank accounts..
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🎯 can be painful… I have used multiple LLMs to help write, edit, proofread, and translate a book over the past few months. The amount of bland drivel and pseudo-intellectual disingenuous mushy input I received REALLY hurt sometimes! They still helped cut down my time very
Imagine if you talked by picking the next word to be the one people most often say after your previous words.
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‼️ And this is why, in a handful of years from now, we will hear people say “black swan” - although this is a pink flamingo if there ever was one. The masses fell for the Tulip bubble… plus South Sea on top. They will lower interest rate some more time, before the elections.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, concern about the public debt reached its peak. The national debt clock was installed, and Ross Perot ran the most successful independent presidential campaign in the past century focused largely on debts and deficits. But then China and the
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Polina doing it again! Making me think through every single one of these high-value pieces of advice. Thanks Polina! Love it (and thanks to the audience, of course, and remember - I drove up to NYC to meet your husband for his Christmas party…:-))
I spent the last month trying to answer the impossible question: What makes someone likable? Below, I break down 9 techniques that will help you dial up the charisma in your everyday life:
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Yep, he is 100% correct in this talk, with every statement. And still there may be war if our rhetoric gets too far amp’d up. With some smart U.S. diplomacy, there could be…. 💰☮️🚀
If you want to understand Asian geopolitics today, this is an absolute must-watch. This is George Yeo, who was a Singaporean cabinet minister during 21 years, including Minister for Foreign Affairs during 7 years. In my humble opinion, very few people out there have such a
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We are coming full circle with humanoid robots. A century ago individual families were churning their own butter and making their own clothes, which then led to industrialism where only factories did these things. Soon everyone will have a humanoid robot in their family doing
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Yep!!! It’s probably the most critical election issue - and cuts across party lines.
71 DEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SBF almost destroyed us in D.C. by acting alone. It took a large, loud, open, multiplayer, loosely coordinated, grassroots, deep-pocketed band of misfits to brute force this result: a passed House Bill. Congrats Crypto Twitter, you’re now a major American political force.
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🎯💯 Now THAT’S EXACTLY IT..
Imagine asking for developer liability for Word and Photoshop. How about we don’t try to pass legislation that will make AI useless and infringes on civil rights and individual creativity, and instead we develop AI tools to establish trust and factuality?
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We're driving full speed towards a dystopian surveillance nightmare. In the movies they always make it seem like people are unwilling participants of such dystopian worlds. I never thought in reality they'd be riding in the car so happily. We need to wake up, quick.
The entire Tornado Cash verdict is completely insane and will turn the legality of building any privacy service on its head.🧵 1.Open-source devs building non-custodial tools can be held responsible for criminal activity when crim. actors cannot be stopped or deanonymized👇
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Indeed. Very difficult to talk intelligently to those not in the bubble without sounding crazy. It’s just that the numbers are real, those about growth and performance increases.
Remember: the AI bubble is real. I have delivered 100+ talks all over the world on AI since ChatGPT was released. In every audience, I ask them to raise their hands if they have heard of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. If the audience is 1,000 people… 🙋ChatGPT: 950+
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💯Victor, that is exactly what I thought last year. I love how dispassionately it is written, without personal attacks, but with an engineer's perspective. Therefore, I am... (1) recommending it to everybody who is even remotely intersted in the topic, and (2) re-reading it!
@LynAldenContact Lyn, I just finished Broken Money and thought it was one of the best books I have ever read. So clear and insightful with an interesting vision of the possible future. Will be using it for my students as part of a law school class on blockchain and digital assets. Thank you!
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George Orwell called this Newspeak. You turn the meaning of words into their opposite: War is Peace. Trust is Distrust. Printing more and more money is good. 🥳
“What we’ve seen over the last centuries is that it’s good to let banks and governments create more and more money.” 🤡
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I want one for my data center!!!
In case you missed it, @RadiantNuclear and @IdahoStrategic just inked an agreement to deploy a container sized nuclear reactor and it is gonna be cool and tough. America rocks. 🇺🇸
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You just say this because you live in the only non-isolationist country in the world. All others do not patrol their enemies’ borders, put bases around the globe, and fight wars on other continents. Cowards. (For the record: this is sarcasm.)
Isolationism has always been a misnomer disguised as a slur to denigrate decision-making that improves America. Which part of maximizing US economic success while supporting free and fair global trade is isolationist? Is it the lack of military adventurism, nation-building, or
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