Alexy

software architect | data privacy founder | luke 2:1-3 | 🏛️ @RPBLC_hq

[Daniel Boucher @Heunepremier]

Si, pour la première fois de l’histoire du Québec, toutes ses forces vives se mettaient à travailler dans le même sens, la contribution du Québec au reste de l’humanité, en tant que petit pays agile, inventif et
lumineux, serait absolument fulgurante.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is part of why China is going to lap America in biopharmaceutical research:

Americans will work on hypotheses that are fundamentally wrong but have appeared to be supported due to fraud

In China, they will find the frauds and you'll never hear from them again

As we should

[Yukon Strong 🫎 @YukonStrong]

While I love my Alberta friends, today I’d like to send everyone a reminder:

Alberta isn’t the only region that wants out and needs access and control over resource development

For example, the Yukon literally has two of the largest proven natgas wells in North America, sitting there ready to go

But we can’t get any products to market because of tanker bans, elbows up bullshit, environmental nonsense, indigenous obstruction

…which forces our territory on federal welfare…

Ottawa loves it because they can send as many govt employees from ontario up here as it takes to vote for their pay check and hold the riding.

But One pipeline would pay for the Yukon’s future for 100 years.

No one in this country needs Ottawa.

The federal govt is a solution looking for a problem. All ottawa does is cost us money, freedom and our economic future.

independence shouldn’t be a left-wing or right wing movement. It should be about getting rid of waste, taxation and expanding freedom and prosperity for all.

I look at Alberta’s new pipeline

Its an enormous amount of red tape, additional cost and taxpayer burden to produce a product that will be non competitive price wise, while clean energy all over BC, Yukon and alberta is sitting there ready to go

Why can’t the Yukon determine its own future? Why can’t Alberta? What is the point of confederation if it’s one gigantic obstruction?

Why is anyone even remotely opposed to a pipeline under any circumstance?

Carney is trying to privatize the profits, subsidize the losses, then pick and choosing which provinces win and which provinces lose in the future

All while making sure his insider friends score billions in contracts on both sides of the argument.

It’s all so corrupt

I want out and I want out right now

#WEXIT

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

Neutral and accurate description.

[tuna_fan68 part 2 @tunafan68]

"We have reviewed the incident and found that we have done absolutely nothing wrong"

-Police officers didn't attempt to defuse the situation despite being in close proximity as it was happening.

-It wasn't a "group of men fighting" it's one young man being ganged up on.

-Female cop didn't identify herself and her first action was to run up and shove him into a wall before he was even capable of looking at her.

-As the white guy was recovering, he was suckerpunched to the back of the head less than a second earlier, so he instinctively went to punch the one shoving him thinking he was still actively being attacked.

-After the man realized his mistake, he complied peacefully and wanted to explain the situation while the officers continued to antagonize him.

-Female cops arrest only him, letting the assailants walk away freely.

You really can't even blame the brits for preferring vigilante justice, these cops are malicious liars who just want to powertrip and endanger people.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

@yacineMTB Congrats!

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

@elder_plinius Wait until you realize we’re now prediction-policymaking

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

What a time to be alive 🚀🚀
The only way to escape this madness is to go faster than light.

Godspeed.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@elonmusk I support antimatter propulsion.

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

Freedom is always on the frontier

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The fact that orbital compute is (soon) the most efficient way to build datacenters says a lot about how much excessive regulation has harmed progress on earth.

It’s more efficient to fly to outer space than to try and build on land.

Freedom is always on the frontier.

The U.S. constitution was a breakthrough in that it protected citizens from tyrannical government. What it missed, and what we should try to integrate into the next constitution (on Mars, special economic zones, etc), is restraint against unchecked growth of regulation and government spending.

I’ve been slowly collecting proposals for how that could work. Might do a post on it at some point.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media.

Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals.

But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians have ever seen.

These bills hand one unelected commission power over what Canadians can say, what stays private, and who the state can watch.

As of today, the Federal Government is rushing to enact massive Internet Surveillance Reform into law without proper debate.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Marc Miller, you say that Canada and its G7 partners are committed to respecting Canadians' privacy. You also say that "...transparency and accountability are essential..." But your own government is rushing Bill C-22 through committee despite opposition from privacy experts, tech companies, and civil liberties organizations. Is your government transparent and accountable to the Canadian public, or just to its G7 partners? When Canadians disagree with the digital agenda being advanced by your G7 and European partners, whom do you listen to?

[Sound Dobad @SoundDobad]

So it’s still a nonprofit after all

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

It should alarm every Canadian that the primary use the Liberals have made of their new, backroom, bribe-bought majority has been to ram through legislation that censors the internet, spies on citizens, and lays the groundwork for a virtual surveillance state.

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”

Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

There are many good X articles lately, some superb, intellectual, and honest.

They are 1000x better than opinion columns in newspapers. I noticed my chat group has more X article links than links from MSM.

In the era of agentic AI, speed in reacting to truthful information is everything, or gradient descent can quickly go in another direction.

A rare sign of enlightenment.

[kache @yacineMTB]

Jokes aside, using frontier models to change the direction of human thought secretly sets an incredibly dangerous precedent - the fact that they were okay with setting this precedent speaks volumes about how extremist they actually are

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

@heavypulp Where can I invest?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I’ve listened to thousands of hours of great music since. What an awesome streaming service.

[Alexy @alexyboyer]

We’ve passed it months ago, yet 99.9% of the world doesn’t know.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope.

It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before.

Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.”

The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence.

We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard?

The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”.

But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks��. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence.

The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate.

Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over.

If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.