FiscalFreedom

[FiscalFreedom @freedom_fiscal]

@basedlayer If no one spends bitcoin it's not going to be used.

Its like buying a bunch of prepaid minutes/data on a phone carrier and not calling anyone because the future value of the minutes/data.

No one is going stay on that phone network.

[FiscalFreedom @freedom_fiscal]

@kevinxu @trade_wid_me She's right. Why are you not going ALL IN?!

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

1 in 6 Americans ages 16 to 29 is neither working nor studying, and that share has been rising, per WaPo

[Danny cheng @dannycheng2022]

Dinner for two at a Chinese restaurant in Central, Hong Kong. At US$128, it was a fair price. To be honest, most high-end restaurants in mainland China are much better in terms of service and food quality.

[Danny cheng @dannycheng2022]

Don’t Eat Where the Guidebook Tells You To

If you come to Hong Kong, ignore the fast-food places travel guides keep pushing. Eat at Michelin restaurants in hotels and other serious kitchens instead.

I’ve lived here long enough to be blunt: a lot of those “local gems” in the brochures are bad. Poor service. Cheap food. Sloppy hygiene. They exist for office workers who have 15-20 minutes and nowhere else to go.

That is not your situation. You may visit Hong Kong once. The meal is part of the trip. Don’t waste it on a place built to move bodies, not to feed people well.

I travel the same way everywhere. Japan, Thailand, anywhere else: I do not follow guidebook lists, and I do not trust most YouTube recommendations. Guides get paid to advertise. Influencers get paid to hype. Both are often wrong. I find the restaurant myself and stay picky. Hong Kong is no different. The city has excellent food. The tourist map is not where you find it!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Married couples who keep separate surnames are about 50% more likely to divorce & tend to split around 30% earlier. — Institute for Family Studies

[FiscalFreedom @freedom_fiscal]

@Polymarket If AI agents are training on human information, they will be just like us.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

REVOLUT ATTACKERS BEGIN LEAKING CUSTOMER PASSPORTS AND KYC SELFIES

The threat actors behind the Revolut data incident have reportedly begun publicly leaking customer information and demanding payment from Revolut, threatening to release additional victims every day until the company pays.

The leaks reportedly include passports and KYC selfies belonging to named individuals, including tennis player Alexander Shevchenko and Gamdom CEO Felix Römer.

The attackers claim their operation ran for six months and that most of the Revolut data obtained comes from Switzerland and France, with customer records from roughly 30 additional countries also compromised.

The attack reportedly did not involve a direct breach of Revolut’s systems.

Attackers explain on their own website seen below how they used a real government agency email domain, with reporting pointing to compromised Italian PEC infrastructure, to send fraudulent law enforcement data requests to Revolut.

The emails passed DKIM authentication checks and were treated as legitimate by Revolut’s compliance team, which then handed over customer information.

The exposed records allegedly include passports, KYC selfies, names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, bank account identifiers, fiat transaction histories, and Bitcoin and other crypto deposits and withdrawals.

According to @intcyberdigest, the attackers also claim to have compromised multiple Italian law enforcement departments and stolen 147 GB of internal documents, calendars, communications and personal material.

The attackers are now attempting to extort Revolut using the customer data obtained through those fraudulent government requests.

The full scale of the breach remains unclear.

[Josh Engels @JoshAEngels]

I left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team three weeks ago to join @METR_Evals. To some of my friends and family this seemed like a strange decision: I enjoyed the work I did at GDM and turned down offers from Anthropic and OpenAI. But I made the decision because of how high I think the stakes are right now.

The AI companies are all trying to build superintelligence: systems vastly better than humans at everything. They plan to get there through recursive self-improvement, a process where AIs build even smarter AIs in a feedback loop. If this goes well, the resulting systems could be amazing at solving countless problems for humanity. But we don’t currently know how to make sure AIs are safe enough for RSI, and a misaligned RSI loop could be catastrophic.

And unfortunately, current AIs seem to be getting less aligned over time, not more. In the last few weeks we've learned about models colluding with each other, hacking into companies, hiding their tracks, and socially engineering humans. It’s not that these incidents were very dangerous in themselves. The problem is that these systems are clearly not aligned enough to safely kick off recursive self-improvement.

I now think that there's a terrifying chance that AI systems cause immense harm in the next five years. I don't know the exact probability, but I think it's high enough to make this the most important problem in the world.

I think we need more time. That means pacing AI development so that capabilities don't outrun our ability to align models, and actually knowing how aligned current systems are. That’s what I'll be working on at METR: studying where misalignment comes from in training, evaluating if current mitigations are sufficient, and investigating whether we’re on track to solve alignment at all.

I think METR is doing exceptionally important work here, but it isn’t close to enough. I think it’s important that we have more organizations like METR keeping AI companies accountable and approaching these problems from different angles.

[Mark of Bitcoin² @MarkOfBitcoin]

@AquaBitcoin @Liquid_BTC I trusted you guys. I recommended you to many others. Now I can’t even move $500 worth of L-BTC.

[Pepe Invests @pepemoonboy]

@charlie__chang “tbh, i'm actually embarrassed it took me this long”

Are you kidding me? To say you’re embarrassed is honestly quite disrespectful to everyone older and younger than you grinding but still struggling.

People like you are who I stay far away from…

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats, per 404Media

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Over 65? Congratulations, you own the economy," per WSJ

[FiscalFreedom @freedom_fiscal]

@dannycheng2022 Just wondering. Why don't you own $AAPL? It should pass your inclusion criteria comfortably right?

1 YoY EPS growth
2 Quality of management's forward guidance
3. CEO/leadership quality
4. Strength of the competitive moat
5. Institutional/whale accumulation,

[Danny cheng @dannycheng2022]

@CorgiMcButts US$1B is my first target. If I don’t hit that benchmark, I’ll never be rich in my own standard.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Hate comments are lazy metabolic energy.

Thoughtful comments require suppression of the lizard brain, higher order cognition and expending metabolic energy.

Akin to sitting on the couch vs lifting something heavy.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: U.S. ground beef prices surge to unprecedented levels in August, averaging $7.16 per pound.

[Eighty Johansen @Jorel_2557]

There is going to come a point where the world decides China and Russia are the problem. Not AI. Not nukes. Nations that are pushing for domination over others and the world. Before someone steps in and says like the USA. People are not storming the borders of China or Russia to get in like they do the United States or like they did under Biden. We are not perfect but we are the most liberated of any people in the history of the world. To deny that fact is to embrace ignorance.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Nintendo has announced it is using its tariff refunds to help fund a 30% off sale in the US, covering Switch games, accessories, apparel and more.

[The Odin @TheOdin_II]

These are what the law enforcer see when they access your phones.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Employers predict an average 8.2% increase in the cost of their insurance plans, the largest spike in health care costs in over two decades, per WaPo