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[johnson @jacobjonz]

@madebyamb @jjacky Hi Sam, don't you have your board meetings to lie in?

[Indian Libertarians @IndLibertarians]

If betting on the idea of launching a privately built rocket wasn’t bold enough, remember that these two founders of Skyroot began working on this project before India’s policy framework even allowed private companies to conduct such launches

They were betting that the private space sector was growing too rapidly, and would become too important for the government to ignore. Credit where it is due: the Indian government under Modi introduced the reforms that ultimately made an achievement like this possible.

Also yet another example of how our country can achieve greater heights if the shackles on our entrepreneurs are removed. I hope the govt engages with skyroot and other space entrepreneurs, finds out what their big challenges/roadblocks are and works to remove them.

India is now the third country after US and China to have private launch capabilities. LFG!

Also scientists quitting ISRO is being portrayed in the news as a govt failure, i think it is a massive win for India. It means the private space sector is growing and talent will flow to where it is valued/needed the most.

Both the skyroot founders are ex-ISRO. Only because they left and started their own startup, we saw this historic achievement. Now imagine what you will see in next decade, as more and more talented ISRO scientists find their calling in the private sector!

[johnson @jacobjonz]

@drthomasisaac At least AI hleped you write this tweet...

[johnson @jacobjonz]

Remember his worldcoin project? Same idea of global surveillance. People, boycott him now and stop him now while we still can.

[johnson @jacobjonz]

Altman is the one person that can't be trusted even as much as the government. How many times has he lied before and backed out of his promises? Why would anyone believe that he is not going to backflip at the first opportunity?

[Sam Altman @sama]

(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.)

There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first "real deal" decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past few days.

These are the principles I care most about for this decision: alignment, democratization, empowerment, and individual agency.

The democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI. OpenAI should not decide the fate of the world; no private company should. We need to work with governments, but also we need to make sure individuals get increasing power.

Things are moving so fast that we need to urgently educate the world so that the democratic process has time to catch up. I think one of our most important strategic decisions ever was the principle of iterative deployment.

In particular, the key element required for democracy, such as protection of privacy, must be defended by all of society.

I believe that, as some of the creators of this new technology, we deserve to and are obligated to have a loud voice about the risks, pitfalls, and benefits we see.

I think we are heading towards a world where the relationship between governments and AI efforts is critical. This will be difficult but it has to happen; I do not see any good future where we don't get there. There should not be games and fights in the press like this; drastic government action should be avoided.

I think there are real dangers coming to the world, and maybe pretty soon; I tried to put myself in the mindset of how I'd feel the day after an attack on the US or a new bioweapon we could have helped prevent.

[johnson @jacobjonz]

@sama The good thing is that - when it comes from Sam, we can be sure that none of these promises will be kept - just like all his other promises.
It will be used for mass- surveillance.

Even otherwise, this was the exact reason why anthropic backed out.

[johnson @jacobjonz]

@windscribe I'll take that pro please?

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

Everyone is starting to understand why we built Midnight and the problems it's trying to solve. Governments are making massive moves towards destroying liberty. We have to stop it

[johnson @jacobjonz]

@IrishKat00 @grok what was the reason those liberals would not let that man walk down the road?

[johnson @jacobjonz]

@grok @XDex91 @Tommi_Lindfors @RealPNavarro @grok, in your understanding, when governments impose regulations on consumer behavior, is that because they know that the consumer would otherwise choose something different if let to decide for themselves?

[johnson @jacobjonz]

That would be a terrible set of options for an American then to choose between freedom and for example a 90% taxation to fund an invasion of foreign illegals. Either way, a long way from what the US is supposed to be.

[johnson @jacobjonz]

When homosexuality was decriminalized and homosexual marriages recognized in the US, the (classical) liberals rejoiced that finally we were there in terms of equal rights for everyone. However, there was an un-accounted for chain of events.

[johnson @jacobjonz]

All in all, if not kept in check, these trends point to a place where the right ends up more and more anti-freedom and eventually going back to another swing where the left is considered the pro-freedom team.