Alexander Skouras

I tweet in English and Greek about #econeducation , #Greece, #Freedom, #US politics, and individual rights. RT is not an endorsement, opinions are my own.

[Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης @AdonisGeorgiadi]

Ένας νεαρός Άνδρας από τη Βενεζουέλα πανηγυρίζει στην τεράστια συγκέντρωση στο Μπουένος Άϊρες στην Αργεντινή για την σύλληψη του Μαδούρο και την απελευθέρωση της Βενεζουέλας από μία Δικτατορία και λέει απλά και κατανοητά μια αλήθεια που κανένας αριστερός υποκριτής δεν θα πει ποτέ:

«Όσοι λένε ότι οι ΗΠΑ ενδιαφέρονται μόνο για το πετρέλαιό μας, σας ρωτώ: Τι νομίζετε ότι ήθελαν εδώ οι Ρώσοι και οι Κινέζοι;»
Συνταγή για αρέπας;»

Απλά πράγματα! Ένας Δικτάτορας που είχε κλέψει με στρατιωτική βία τις εκλογές και εμπόδιζε τον λαό του να ζήσει ελεύθερα συνελήφθη.

Υγ: Η
arepa στη Βενεζουέλα είναι ένα εμβληματικό φαγητό, μια στρογγυλή, ψημένη ή τηγανητή πίτα από καλαμποκάλευρο, που τρώγεται καθημερινά σε διάφορες ώρες της ημέρας, γεμιστή με αμέτρητα υλικά όπως τυρί, κρέας, αβοκάντο και φασόλια, αποτελώντας σύμβολο της εθνικής ταυτότητας. Φτιάχνεται εύκολα με προμαγειρεμένο καλαμποκάλευρο (όπως το Harina P.A.N.), νερό και αλάτι, και ενώνονται οι ιστορικές της ρίζες με τις σύγχρονες γεύσει

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

Would SpaceX provide Starlink service for free, uncensored internet access to Iranian, Cuban, or North Korean citizens, if funded by a group like the EU (similar to Ukraine)? #Starlink @elonmusk @SpaceX

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

@AdonisGeorgiadi Μην ξεχάσουμε και τους πασοκογενείς "φιλελεύθερους" που τον βάφτισαν ακροδεξιό και τώρα σφυρίζουν αδιάφορα ανήμποροι να επεξεργαστούν την επιτυχία του εντός Αργεντινής και την τίμια στάση του στον Ουκρανικό πόλεμο και τη στήριξη στο Ισραήλ.

[hanns @unclebinu]

Είσαι Ελεγκτής Εναέριας Κυκλοφορίας & παίρνεις 120.000€ ετησίως! Υπερδιπλάσια από ΑΓΕΕΘΑ+ανώτατους δικαστικούς. Δεν σου αρκούν & διεκδικείς περισσότερα κατεβάζοντας αεροπλάνα, δημιουργώντας χάος & καθυστερήσεις στα αεροδρόμια, εργαλειοποιώντας τα συναισθήματα πολιτών. Fair game

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

@elonmusk Friedman was truly wise. He was right on trade as well.

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

There’s a new TDS variant: MDS (@elonmusk Musk Derangement Syndrome). It’s spreading among elites, bureaucrats, and mainstream media—fueled by the 2024 election, lingering progressive cognitive dissonance, and a need to monetize outrage and disappointment.

[Łukasz Hardt @LukaszHardt]

I am delighted to be in Ancient Olympia 🇬🇷, where I serve as a member of the jury of the International Economics Olympiad. There is no better place to hold such a competition. I am excited to be examining the best students from around the world.
https://t.co/Qv6UCLDSB3

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is time for the people of Venezuela to have the chance for a better future.

Support Maria Corina!

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

If you think about it, Republicans have consistently outperformed Democrats in terms of quality, viability and like-ability of the candidates they put forth as opposition to Trump.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

An incredible opening statement in a debate about Zionism and antisemitism. A must watch particularly for those who say anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Great interview with @johanknorberg!

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

@StefanosManos Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! Τιμή στη φιλελεύθερη επανάσταση του 21

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As a Russian who resisted KGB dictatorship and war, I'm obliged to challenge @TuckerCarlson after his interview with Putin. Tucker, you appeared unable or unwilling to expose Putin’s lies. If you are interested in the truth, I will give you and your viewers the chance to hear it.

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

@skasselakis Αν σας ενδιαφέρει πραγματικά η νομοθετική ποιότητα, το Κέντρο Φιλελεύθερων Μελετών παράγει εδώ και τέσσερα χρόνια τον Δείκτη Ποιότητας Νομοθέτησης. Αντικειμενικά και χωρίς ιδεολογικό πρόσημο. Στη διάθεσή σας.
https://t.co/E9d2VaU9zU

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Today Elon Musk held a Twitter Space to discuss xAI.

Here is a recap of what was discussed for those who missed it:

- The founding team was on hand to introduce themselves, and I must say it is an impressive team with an impressive background. They had very strong backgrounds with Deep Mind, OpenAI, Google, Tesla, etc.
- Elon Musk said the goal with xAI is to build a good AGI (artificial general intelligence) with the purpose of understanding the universe.
- Musk said that the safest way is to build an AGI that is ‘maximum curious’ and ‘truth curious,’ and to try and minimize the error between what you think is true and what is actually true.
- For truth-seeking super intelligence humanity is much more interesting than not humanity, so that’s the safest way to create one. Musk gave the example of how space and Mars is super interesting but it pales in comparison to how interesting humanity is.
- Musk said there is so much that we think we understand but we don’t in reality. There are a lot of unresolved questions. For example, there are many questions that remain about the nature of gravity, and why there is not massive evidence of aliens. He said he has seen no evidence of aliens whatsoever so far. He went further into the Fermi Paradox and how it's possible that other consciousness may not exist in our galaxy.
- If you ask today’s advanced AIs technical questions, you just get nonsense, so Musk believes we are really missing the mark by many orders of magnitude and that needs to get better.
- xAI will use heavy computing, but the amount of ‘brute force’ will become less as they become to understand the problem better.
- Co-Founder Greg Yang said that the mathematics they find at xAi could open up new perspectives to existing questions like the 'Theory of Everything.'
- Elon stated that you can't call anything AGI until the computer solves at least one fundamental question.
- He said that from his experience at Tesla, they have over complicated problems. “We are too dumb to realize how simple the answers really are," he said. "We will probably find this out with AGI as well. Once AGI is solved, we will look back and think, why did we think it would be so hard.”
- They are going to release more information on the first release of xAI in a couple more weeks.
- Elon Musk said that xAI is being built as competition to OpenAI, when asked by @krassenstein.
- The goal is to make xAI a useful tool for consumers and businesses and there is value in having multiple entities and competition. Elon said that competition makes companies honest, and he’s in favor of competition.
- Musk said every organization doing AI has illegally used Twitter’s data for training. Limits had to be put on Twitter because they were being scraped like crazy. Multiple entities were trying to scrape every tweet ever made in a span of days. xAI will use tweets as well for training.
- At some point you run out of human-created data. So eventually AI will have to generate its own content and self-access that content.
- Answering a question from @alx, Musk said there is a significant danger in training AI to be politically correct or training it not to say what it thinks is true, so at xAI they will let the AI say what it believes to be true, and Musk believes it will result in some criticism.
- Musk said it’s very dangerous to grow an AI and teach it to lie.
- Musk said he would accept a meeting with Kamala Harris if invited. He said he’s not sure if Harris is the best person to be the AI czar, but agrees we need regulatory oversight.
- Musk believes that China too will have AI regulation. He said the CCP doesn’t want to find themselves subservient to a digital super intelligence.
- Musk believes we will have a voltage transformer shortage in a year and electricity shortage in 2 years.
- xAI will work with Tesla in multiple ways and it will be of mutual benefit. Tesla’s self-driving capabilities will be enhanced because of xAI.
- According to Musk, the proper way to go about AI regulations is to start with insight. If a proposed rule is agreed upon by all or most parties then that rule should be adopted. It should not slow things down for a great amount of time. A little bit of slowing down is OK if it's for safety.
- Musk thinks that Ray Kurzweil's prediction of AGI by 2029 is pretty accurate, give or take a year.

I've love to hear everyone's thoughts on where you think xAI will go.

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

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[Prodromos Pyrros @P_Pyrros]

🧵 Χθες ήταν η ημέρα φορολογική ελευθερίας για το 2023. Για όσους μπορεί να μην καταλαβαίνουν περί τίνος πρόκειται, το @kefim_org δημοσιεύει κάθε χρόνο μία έρευνα στην οποία υπολογίζονται οι ημέρες που χρειάζεται να εργαστούμε για να καταβάλλουμε στο κράτος φόρους και εισφορές

[European Liberal Forum @EurLiberalForum]

How does economic illiteracy of citizens influence voting?

For #LiberalEurope🎙️@askouras, President of @kefim_org, shares with @ricsilvestre his insights on campaigning, winning elections & the importance of developing the #economic literacy of voters: https://t.co/91nlOK2xJt

[Alexander Skouras @askouras]

@ZelenskyyUa They’ll pay for this. Slava Ukraini.