Al

on my journey. Books, kids, btc, ai

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[Al @krixus1]

@Alice_Weidel 💯

[Al @krixus1]

@markjeffrey Thanks for sharing this Mark 🙏 another nail in the coffin of centralized AI labs

[Mark Jeffrey @markjeffrey]

@BarrySilbert @fintechfrank This is my attempt at a 'for new people' -friendly explanation.

https://t.co/X2ecN0P2Ri

[Al @krixus1]

@taodaily_io @ExploitSummit I get message that code is invalid or expired, can u check?

[Al @krixus1]

bitcoin has lost his virginity now at 17,5 years old and is preparing for adult phase from 18.
very few geeky persons will now trust in self custody and governments are ready to welcome coins on officially Mica regulated exchanges who just coincidentally 01.07.26 were filtered out and now government can easier tax poor former anarchists providing hope

[Al @krixus1]

It’s ok to question AI portion against BTC. I personally don’t use BTC when searching how to cook or where to go, but I do use AI/Intelligence for that. in which currency will the usage of intelligence be converted? Well, hard question. I am unsure that Blackrock or Microstraregy will own 4-5% of the world’s intelligence ever created

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Al @krixus1]

@gladstein @ck_SNARKs Great catch. There is a good attempt to address it. Called Bittensor #TAO

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Anthropic just published a support page that should terrify anyone holding its shares on the secondary market.

"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, that has not been approved by our Board of Directors is void and will not be recognized on our books and records."

Void. Not restricted. Not pending review. Void.

That means if you bought Anthropic shares through Forge, Hiive, or any other secondary platform without board approval, you are not a stockholder. You have no stockholder rights. Your transaction is invalid.

It gets worse. Anthropic says it does not permit SPVs to hold its stock. Any transfer to an SPV is void. Investment funds claiming to offer indirect exposure are "most likely relying on mechanisms that attempt to circumvent our transfer restrictions." Forward contracts, tokenized securities, synthetic exposure products, all of it potentially worthless.

Their advice to investors: "Assume that it is invalid."

There is a multi-billion dollar secondary market in Anthropic shares right now. Platforms are pricing the stock at $265-$1,400+ per share based on a $380 billion valuation. Real people have put real money into these positions. And Anthropic just told them none of it counts.

This is the purest possible illustration of counterparty risk. You can buy a share of a company and have the company itself declare your ownership void because you bought it through the wrong channel.

[Dan Hillery @hillery_dan]

When saylor said that they will use the bitcoin to pay strc divs he refuted every single claim of a Ponzi scheme that there had been

[Al @krixus1]

@Justin_Bons „But also implies that the network will entirely collapse, as it is fundamentally unsustainable, just like BTC“

Have you explained this to Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, etc that they bet on something unsustainable?

[TFTC @TFTC21]

BitMEX Research just published a counterproposal to BIP-361. Don't freeze any bitcoin unless someone proves the quantum threat is real.

The mechanism is a "canary fund." A special address is created where no one knows the private key, but the public key is published. Any spend from that address is cryptographic proof a quantum computer broke Bitcoin's signatures, and it automatically triggers a network-wide freeze via a pre-loaded soft fork.

Users can donate bitcoin to the canary through a 1-of-2 multisig, where one key is theirs and the other is the canary. This creates a growing bounty that incentivizes whoever builds a quantum computer to prove it publicly rather than quietly drain wallets.

There's also a safety window, quantum-vulnerable spends would be allowed but locked for roughly one year. If the canary triggers during that window, those coins freeze retroactively.

The catch: this assumes the first entity capable of breaking Bitcoin will claim a bounty rather than steal millions of BTC. If that bet fails, Bitcoin gets the catastrophe it was trying to prevent.

BIP-361 trades freedom for safety on a fixed timeline. The canary trades safety for freedom until the threat materializes. Neither is perfect. Both force the same question, how much of "your keys, your coins" are you willing to sacrifice for quantum insurance you might never need?

[Al @krixus1]

@caprioleio So people will mine with PCs then)) it’s worth it to use electricity to get something that cannot be inflated away. Your fud will not work. Idea is what matters

[Al @krixus1]

@AdamBLiv Morgan Stanley buying?

[Al @krixus1]

@JR_Openheimer @QuintenFrancois You can’t decide what is moral or legal or lies, sorry. No one can.

[Al @krixus1]

@JR_Openheimer @herelle_jean Who decides what is lie in current world? You try to sound like a lawyer but it is tricky.

[Al @krixus1]

@pete_rizzo_ @BTCtreasuries Please stop, it’s just not true

[Al @krixus1]

Sounds good. Hopefully it will help.

Apart of that I like this phrase especially:
„Just as we cannot escape AI, AI should not escape us.“
I want personally this movement to be a kind of cult in some sense, to know which values to pursue these days will be vital for generational survival

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”