SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER (e/acc+web3+biohkr+trader)
@chriskacher
Main accts: @VSInvesting @TriQuantumTech | Top track record in stocks+crypto. PhD nuclear physics+charted musician+author+put 2 elements on the Periodic Table.
My article https://t.co/URJJjHOZY0 was inspired by Elon’s xAI’s mission: “Understand the universe.” Our original discussion involved first principles, purpose, and meaning. But it wasn’t all work :P
Silicon-based life will develop a consciousness thus become irreducible, upending the argument made by the inventor of the CPU (Federico Faggin) that since carbon-based life took billions of years to develop a conscious, silicon-based life would also take a long time. But this is incorrect. It will do so via recursive exponential improvement: exponentially improving digital intelligence × exponentially improving chip capability × exponentially improving electromechanical dexterity, all multiplied by each other. Then the robots start making the robots.
This isn’t incremental. This is supernova. #ai #artificialintelligence
I have never been more bullish on crypto.
Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn’t matter.
As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war order breaks down, we’ll similarly need the post-internet order. States will fail, and the network will take their place.
We need internet capitalism, we need internet democracy, and we need internet privacy. So we need cryptocurrency.
Everyone is a libertarian on the Internet.
Because it is simultaneously far more progressive and far more capitalist than any previous society.
It is ultra-progressive because billions of people from every race, religion, and ethnicity are on the global Internet. Anyone can speak to anyone, broadcast anything, associate with anyone, and do just about whatever they want if it is permitted by code.
It is also uber-capitalist because billions of people can transact with anyone, hire anyone, work for anyone, found their own businesses, become zillionaires, set up their own servers, and enjoy perfect freedom of association.
The common thread is individual consent. You consent to sign up to a server. You consent to install an app. And every million-person community on the Internet is formed by a million similar voluntary actions.
So: the Internet proves that consent scales, that voluntarism scales, that internationalism scales, that capitalism scales.
It proves this empirically. Because by and large, despite all its faults, the total freedom of the Internet is attractive. The ultra-nationalist nevertheless chooses to post on an international network. The anti-capitalist nevertheless chooses to post through a capitalist phone.
The reason the Internet works is that code is law. So all the impractical libertarian ideas that presupposed flawless judges or strict property rights suddenly became feasible.
For example, open borders in the physical world doesn’t work. But in the digital world, a site like Facebook actually can onboard billions of strangers and automatically adjudicate the interactions between them.
Similarly, polycentric law before the Internet didn’t work, because you couldn’t realistically have multiple legal systems in the same physical location. But now with Bitcoin and Ethereum and Solana, you can simply swap between different monetary policies and contract enforcement as you see fit.
The fundamental point is that the Internet makes libertarianism more practical.
For example, the esteemed @RonPaul wrote about ending the Fed, but that couldn’t realistically be done at the level of the state. However, tech libertarians could build Bitcoin, and thereby practically end the Fed at the level of the network.
Similarly, tech libertarians couldn’t shut down the Post Office, but they could boot up email. They couldn’t reform taxi medallions, but they could boot up Uber. They couldn’t reform these failed states, so they built the alternative on the global network.
Such examples can be multiplied. But the point is that actually existing libertarianism does exist. It is called the Internet. It is simply the most popular thing in the world, perhaps the most popular thing in human history. It is much more popular than any individual politician or state.
And yet it is still underestimated.
The New York Times is preparing to publish a hit piece on me.
I found out this story is running because a reporter from NYT emailed me and my colleagues her “fact-checking” questions. This is standard practice before publishing a story.
“I am working on a story about Bryan Johnson and his weaponization of non-disclosure agreements over the years to cover a range of bad behavior…”
This journalist is trying to construct a narrative about me.
Let’s take a look at what she’s trying to do.🧵
Reverse aging by practicing total acceptance, love, radical authenticity, and non-judgement as discussed here. This means embracing *everything* as life unfolds instead of casting labels of ‘bad’ or ‘good’ on what you prefer. Details: https://t.co/3T7eOpPy5x
https://t.co/2DfD2K2mA5 Some things never change. Each side attempts to discredit the other by means of mainstream media using deep state agencies to carry out their missions. This is why it can be quite challenging to get the real truth especially when histories run so deep.
Kamala will:
1. Draft your kids for the next Cheney war
2. Give all illegals the right to vote, disenfranchising all Americans
2. Censor all dissenting speech that threatens her party’s control
3. Authorize mass surveillance of protected domestic political speech
4. Imprison leading opposition figures
5. Make the dollar worthless — hyperinflation
6. Illegally relocate the majority of Haiti to the Heartland via mass “parole”
7. Use her migrant flights and CBP One App to turn all of small town America into a dystopian refugee camp
8. Change the balance of power in swing states through politically weaponized migration
9. Force Americans to live in neighborhoods occupied and controlled by migrant cartels (eg TDA)
10. Bankrupt the public education system, healthcare system and retirement system through unlimited mass migration
11. Harness DHS power against citizens by classifying routine opposition as domestic extremism
12. Work with banks to financially de-platform critics of government policy
13. Permanently cripple the U.S. economy with a tax on unrealized capital gains
13. Fully deindustrialize the U.S. by simultaneously eliminating all tariffs and imposing record taxation and regulation on all domestic manufacturing and production
15. End private property rights with national squatters’ “rights,” including migrant squatters
16. Crush technological and scientific advancement, including space exploration, by outlawing merit-based hiring, weaponizing government against innovation and reorienting all government policy around the principle of privileging illegals and criminals
17. End cash police/defund police while disarming law-abiding citizens
18. Mandate taxpayer-funded sex changes, including for illegals and prisoners
19. “Transition” children’s genders and hide it from parents
20. Start WWIII
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 2022
SIGNS CLIMATE DECLARATION:
THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY ‐ CLAUSER & a global network of over 1,900 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message:
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.
Warming is far slower than predicted
The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.
Climate policy relies on inadequate models
Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.
Global warming has not increased natural disasters
There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, and they certainly will, we have ample time to reflect and re-adapt. The aim of global policy should be ‘prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times. In a prosperous society men and women are well educated, birthrates are low and people care about their environment."
In Dyson swarm construction, automated, self-replicating robots would build the swarm by harvesting raw materials from Mercury.
Energy would be transferred using mirrors or wirelessly between individual satellites, panels, and Earth
e/acc dream: block out part of the sun with a Dyson swarm using the power for AI compute…solves global warming and gets humanity to Kardashev type 1 while addressing all AGI power needs which eventually gets us to K2.
"Flat-earth" beliefs, encompassing mistaken views from anti-drug and anti-sex to anti-terrorist and anti-money laundering stances, have paved the way for the implementation of laws that erode our fundamental rights. #bigpharma#metoo#flatearth