Jack Couch

co-founder of and I work on Internet protocols, AI and fintech. Fmr software security @microsoft @amazon @google

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@LundukeJournal For those unsure why this is a problem it means you can’t speak to your friends and family without government paperwork.

Imagine a lock on your face that gets flipped shut if you lose your passport (or the government decides to turn it off). It’s the digital equivalent.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@timpastoor Omarchy is really great.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@octal you might find this interesting

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

First podcast episode is a banger covering AI security with a true expert.

https://t.co/gfVzDGU9eK

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

Follow @pty

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

So I've learned something! Been tapering off Cymbalta again (which I only ever took for fibromyalgia). As I wrote here, I wasn't sure if symptoms last summer were the tough situation I was going through or withdrawal.

When I tapered, I didn't understand the medication and went down about 13 percentage points of brain receptor occupancy in a week. Well, last few weeks I've been going down only 2.1. points each week and it's NOT easy. So now I know what I went through last year was medication withdrawal, which answers some things! Might end up going down to 1 pp drop/week.

All to say - thank goodness I have @markhoro's work to guide me and if you're ending psychiatric meds—even if they weren't used for psych purposes, highly recommend digging into his work (or at least my post that cites it) and sharing it with your doctor.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

It’s past time we had user controlled accounts. Company controlled accounts were getting embarrassing a couple decades ago.

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Even my Instagram account got hacked

The password got changed without my knowledge and I was getting different password reset attempts throughout yesterday. And I got repeatedly logged out from the IG iOS app

Quite concerning

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

"Age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet."
— @mullvadnet with an amazing takedown

"If age verification is introduced, everyone will have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service/website. The correct term for age verification as it is implemented today is therefore identity verification."

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

No one thing can repair our broken communication system. But this would be a big leap:

1. verify accounts are human and mute/hide bots.

2. A transparent marketplace for open source feed algorithms.

3. Data shouldn’t be stored with a single company so it isn’t easy to censor people.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@csuwildcat @Rasterblath In a few years AI will cure your disease and filter idiots replying to your post so you can feed the AI more good data in peace.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@BulldogTCOB @csuwildcat If you have an MRI scan and don’t double check it with Grok you are bad at risk management.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@GlenWilsonIA @csuwildcat Your director of research 35 years ago.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@Edward63561584 @csuwildcat @senatorshoshana I’ll use all helpful tools (docs and computers) when I face a problem.

It’s so funny that people are so easily convinced math (AI) is witchcraft and respond with terror and rage when it maths correctly.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

The right mental model for AI is a (lossy and delayed) communication channel with other humans.

I can’t wait for people get bored of the anthropomorphism. And they will because it is a UX with unnecessary mental taxing, just like Clippy and everything from Apple recently.

[Daniel Ƀrrr @csuwildcat]

My best experience with AI so far: I've had a stomach thing for years and my doctors said they couldn't figure it out, so I researched it with ChatGPT.

Over the course of a few days, the AI became convinced that while the symptoms I experience are really bad, it is probably one very specific condition (BAM) that's easily treated with a cheap prescription you take once a day to eliminates basically all the issues with 0 side effects.

So I go to a new doctor and tell him what I suspect it is. He says "That only happens in people who have had their gallbladder removed", then asks me if I have. I haven't, so I said no. He then says "It's probably not that then", and tells me he won't let me have any medication until I have an investigative procedure to view things (for the second time, already did it once before). I just had the procedure today, and guess f***ing what he says when I wake up: "Well, you were right, it's BAM, we'll get it sorted out"

I can't believe there are people out there who don't think AI is revolutionary, when it's *obviously* one of the greatest innovations in human history.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@jasonfried Tools are crystallized intelligence. When you pick up a hammer or a well designed UI you make far fewer mistakes than the first person that ever faced your problem.

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@RealChrisDorr @AuronMacintyre Did you promote NFTs?

[Jack Couch @jackcouch]

@senatorshoshana @SWilliams29577 Breaking news! If you publish a fake medical condition in relatively reputable places an internet search (or AI) will surface it to people.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@davidsven Yeah. Emergency medicine, surgery still have value, but everything else is essentially just gatekeeping. Even if the AI weren't better than 99% of doctors generally (it is), it will be, and it is absolutely better than the "medical system" as it exists now.