@ByrneHobart and I just published "Against Safetyism" in @PirateWires — a new piece that makes the case that safetyism — and not climate change or artificial intelligence — has become one of the biggest existential risks facing humanity:

"In bear markets, bitcoins return to their rightful owners."

What happened in 1971?

@dystopiangf The world beyond our slick user interfaces—which simulate a simulacrum of accelerated technological progress—is decaying; physical infrastructures are collapsing, and culture is trapped in the eternal recurrence of sameness. The catastrophic and salvific prophecies around AI are

Modernity is so full of wasted potential, evaporating energy. We have increasingly cyberpunk weapons (incredibly cool), but their primary (or even sole) use is to enforce managed decline across the First World

“ … what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificially intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.” (@xenocosmography)

The Singularity won’t arrive with artificial superintelligence. As Girard’s mimetic theory suggests—and as I argue in my @firstthingsmag article—it already happened:

@neuralshroud @Outsideness The Bitcoin White Paper is without serious question the most important philosophical text of our times.

@Plinz It’s immoral to waste energy by not turning it into intelligence and bitcoin.

On the zoomed out timeline of humanity, Bitcoin’s takeover happened virtually instantaneously Truly a zero to one moment

Believe in something.

“Today, Al-powered chatbots can book a flight to London while riding the NYC subway. But the subway was built early last century, and the flight will take longer than in the 70s. The infrastructure of the world beyond our smartphones is deteriorating” @ByrneHobart @TobiasAHuber

thousands of gpt wrapper startups yet no nanomachines startup what a sad future we live in

There are no limits to growth, only the growth of limits.

what is dangerous here is not some superintelligent machine, it’s the false idol of intelligence we create when we mistake a good imitation of language - the communication of thought - for thought itself

'Mars' is shorthand for cascading extraterrestrial techno-economic infrastructure.

Why reindustrialization is important for acceleration. Can't let one nation have a full stack monopoly over the ability to process atoms.

As we write in Boom, radical technological progress is singular and unrepeatable—it defies categorization. We’re excited to join @PatrickJBlum and Anomaly to uncover truly anomalous opportunities where the future hides in the present.

This decade will be full of crises. The solutions will not be found in consensus frameworks—but in the anomalies they fail to explain. I started a frontier tech fund last year to continue investing in these anomalies. @ByrneHobart & @TobiasAHuber are joining the next phase.