The Libertarian Network

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[Libertarian Party NSW (Liberal Democrats) @LibertariansNSW]

There is nothing to be gained from attempting to change the Liberals from the inside. Even their best faction is unfit to govern a free society.

Medical coercion is never a liberal solution.

Never forgive, never forget "conservative" sellouts.

https://t.co/w3p31s0alT

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

This process must be frustrated, because every dollar you let them have they will leverage for 100x in financing to fund campaigns to destroy your life for their political and financial gain.

You will have to engage on the local level and change how things are done.

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

This whole charade is propped up by money flowing through "civil society" in the form of Government and Business sending money to NGOs willingly and unwillingly at the threat of fabricated reputational damage from these NGOs feeding stories to the media.

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

This is effectively political graft, and happens most often where there is great obfuscation of individual accountability due to the scale of organisations on the National and International level.

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

One of the most frustrating things to witness is watching two people point at each other, calling each other dumb because the party they support does not have their interests at heart but neither takes the hint.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Government is working with Big Business to violate civil liberties. A former FBI analyst testified that @Bankofamerica (BOA) mined customer data to supply the Feds with names of Americans who used a BOA card to purchase a firearm.

[Mark Noble //.// @marknoble]

@gdb Is "safety" just #newspeak for "preventing AI #wrongthink "?

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

Oh fuck off, Just like every lobby before it, crying for regulation to secure its monopoly.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

The underlying spirit in many debates about the pace of AI progress—that we need to take safety very seriously and proceed with caution—is key to our mission. We spent more than 6 months testing GPT-4 and making it even safer, and built it on years of alignment research that we pursued in anticipation of models like GPT-4.

We expect to continue to ramp our safety precautions more proactively than many of our users would like. Our general goal is for each model we ship to be our most aligned one yet, and it’s been true so far from GPT-3 (initially deployed without any special alignment), GPT-3.5 (aligned enough to be deployed in ChatGPT), and now GPT-4 (performs much better on all of our safety metrics than GPT-3.5).

We believe (and have been saying in policy discussions with governments) that powerful training runs should be reported to governments, be accompanied by increasingly-sophisticated predictions of their capability and impact, and require best practices such as dangerous capability testing. We think governance of large-scale compute usage, safety standards, and regulation of/lesson-sharing from deployment are good ideas, but the details really matter and should adapt over time as the technology evolves. It’s also important to address the whole spectrum of risks from present-day issues (e.g. preventing misuse or self-harm, mitigating bias) to longer-term existential ones.

Perhaps the most common theme from the long history of AI has been incorrect confident predictions from experts. One way to avoid unspotted prediction errors is for the technology in its current state to have early and frequent contact with reality as it is iteratively developed, tested, deployed, and all the while improved. And there are creative ideas people don’t often discuss which can improve the safety landscape in surprising ways — for example, it’s easy to create a continuum of incrementally-better AIs (such as by deploying subsequent checkpoints of a given training run), which presents a safety opportunity very unlike our historical approach of infrequent major model upgrades.

The upcoming transformative technological change of AI is something that is simultaneously cause for optimism and concern — the whole range of emotions is justified and is shared by people within OpenAI, too. It’s a special opportunity and obligation for us all to be alive at this time, to have a chance to design the future together.

[FBI @FBI]

On this 40th anniversary of #MLKDay as a federal holiday, the #FBI honors one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of fairness and equal justice for all.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

The food is poison, the doctors are liars, the bureaucrats are tyrants, the cops are soldiers, the schools are prisons, the money is worthless, the votes are meaningless. All you truly have is what you can hold and the relationships you build. Family, community and land.

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Voluntary markets and civil society unite, while power and politics divide.

The more power, the more politics, and the more division throughout society.

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

Phil Donahue: "Why are you so harsh on those who would sacrifice for others?"

"Because they don't hesitate to sacrifice whole nations." - Ayn Rand

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Politicians will gladly sacrifice the lives of every single Ukrainian to continue their decades-long proxy war against Russia. Both parties use entire countries as pawns, reducing them to ash in the process, as part of a game that only the elite can win.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

A $1.5m settlement has been reached in favor of Jaleel Stallings who was brutally beaten after he opened fire on an unmarked @MinneapolisPD van that was cruising down the street, unannounced and firing non-lethal rounds at anyone in the open.
This is an occupying army.

[Libertarian Party of Georgia @LPGeorgia]

Central banking is a malignant cancer for a market economy.

If we don’t end the Federal Reserve, it will eventually destroy our civilization.

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Hear me out: Almost all world leaders belong in a prison.

[The Libertarian Network @libertynetwork1]

It doesn't, It discourages conversation in favor of advertising, scams or propaganda. (anyone who thinks they can get a financial or some other return on the cost to post)

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

perhaps if it cost a nickel (or at least something) to tweet, or leave a youtube comment--this goes for all SM platforms--there would be some disincentive for careless and inflammatory rhetoric. The true cost of communication is not zero. Our social pricing model is wrong.

[Libertarian Party of Georgia @LPGeorgia]

Police in Ottawa just arrested the Party Leader of LP Ontario for attempting to give a speech in public. They Petty tyrants running the Canadian government have chosen to go to war with their own people rather than consider they might be wrong.

We stand with the Canadian people.

[The New Hampshire Mises Caucus @NHMisesCaucus]

@LPNH @wef @IdaAuken The year is 2030, I own whatever the fuck I want, and the @wef can eat my ass.