It's interesting how #PavelDurov the founder of Telegram chose not to base his operations in any "weird countries" and avoided major geopolitical powers like China, Russia, and the USA. His goal? According to him, so that telegram can remain a bastion of free speech without bias. Turns out France 🇫🇷 can be quite a "weird country." His arrest has shocked many🤔
Here’s a thread 🧵 on other individuals with expertise in cryptography, networks and cryptocurrency. All of them were jailed or persecuted. Their crimes? Usually their stance on privacy and the freedom to communicate or transact privately.
It’s embarrassing that most European countries think it’s ok to make people from the UK queue in long lines because of ‘Brexit’ while 10 passport inspectors sit idly by waiting for passengers in the empty Eu lines
Clearly a Psyop to warn others of the ‘dangers’ of leaving Eu
@omgsidewalks@Demo2020cracy Because if you can make something for half the cost, because of robots/ai, you can sell it for less and make the same money.
Meanwhile some other billionaires will hire you for something else
@jackcoder0 No mention of how AI replacing human labour can also reduce cost of goods and services reducing requirement to live and work in expensive cities. Reducing hours of work needed per week and making peoples work more efficient and potentially more producing.
@CircumjovialLLC@OpenAI Most of humanity is willfully ignorant that intelligence decides a large amount of how society functions.
The most intelligent win at life, so building something that can surpass máximum human intelligence is not very… smart.