Matthew Bishop

building big things out of small things

[Dire @golfingguy250]

@NSACyber NSA pissed their back door was made public

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@AdvancedForged If we all did this it would crash the economy.

[Calcifer🔥(nukes in bio) @itsmecalcifers]

@joekent16jan19 Notice how there was the "good" uprising in Syria, but the "bad" uprising in Yemen...
Double standard as usual.

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@Ibrahym22Nagi "Shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honours
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman."

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Autumn colors..

Look at the spaces between the crowns of each tree.
160-year-old beeches sway in the wind, yet none of them step on each other’s toes. This phenomenon is known as crown shyness.

Each tree lives its own life, holding its own space to breathe and grow, yet together they create a perfect whole.

Impermanence is an inseparable part of life everything flows, nothing lasts forever.

Every leaf, every gust of wind, every single day is merely a moment in nature’s grand cycle.

Barycz Valley Forests - Poland

🎥 DJI Mini 5 Pro

Video by @jakub_wencek Jacub Wencek Obrazy Lasu
IG: tanczacachmura

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

Al Ghayyah is an otherworldly breach of the strict domain coherence of the Arab peninsula. Is it possible that the most ancient sentients reach a point when, having transcended all primitive ambitions in previous aeons, there is nothing left to do but to cultivate garden-worlds?

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇸🇦 A Village Built on a Rock in Saudi Arabia.

High in the Asir region, this old stone village sits on a smooth rock more than 700 meters above sea level. It once had around 15 stone houses, an old mosque and a water well, surrounded by agricultural terraces. The village was eventually abandoned in the 1970s.

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@abemurray I put it in the language of money but meant whether the sacrifices of our predecessors been worth the good that our lives produce. But yeah, you might be a VC if you heard "what's my ROI?" and then reported what age you were when you became an NPV- positive project. 😆

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

YES I have heard about the new cat
NO you cannot have one
PLEASE stop @-ing me

I am begging you to behave yourselves

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

Looks like their Harkonnen vanity project Neom will go the way of Ozymandius before the house of Saud even finishes laying its foundation.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇾🇪 ANSARALLAH LIBERATED YEMEN’S ENTIRE RED SEA COAST IN JUST 18 HOURS!

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Bob Kraft couldn’t cancel this

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

2028: dudes buying GPUs without IDs at Wyoming gun shows, e/acc and militia talking specs, cowboys and hippies vs. oligarchs

[Hunter Weiss @Hunter_Weiss]

The goal is open-source death

The AI cartel must be formed to save them from blowing up "trillions in value"

The last few years were scale, ship fast, hate each other. Now it's unite and slow down

When you're supply-capped, "let's pace the frontier" costs you nothing

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@abemurray @aphysicist Incredible how fast the battle lines are being drawn. Nobody is buying it. Getting really 2nd amendment out there on a Saturday...

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@abemurray @aphysicist So dawns the cyberpunk dystopia with high-tech black markets. Many of us kind of wanted this as teens in the early 90s...

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

The hook has been set. Now they will have to deal with open models and self hosting. Fear will shift to the use of unregulated AI. Restrict access to those, now the underclass has no option but to buy your tokens forever. This was always going to be a two-tier system run by oligarchs.

[Jun Song @jun_song]

Massive regulations are coming for open weight AI.

They are going to take self-hosted intelligence away from us.

This will create a permanent underclass, split society into rigid castes, and turn people into slaves to API tokens.

No regulation will ever stop open source AI.

We have to win this.

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@sama The last independent evaluator at OpenAI who voiced ethics concerns got suicided in his apartment after ordering takeout...

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@hilbertspaess Simplest version of the Great Filter: (1) all tech is weaponizable, (2) tech invariably goes exponential, (3) tech-pursuing lifeforms cannot evolve higher sentience exponentially, so technological & moral growth curves decouple to catastrophic effect. p(self-destruct) ---> 1

[Matthew Bishop @bishop1681]

@a16z Given sufficient compute & spatiotemporal density of visual data (e.g. urban environments w/ flock cams & cybercabs feeding next-view prediction) the interpolated 3D map becomes indistinguishable from present visual reality. Robocop fleets will have public-square omniscience.