Marco Hilty

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[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Open source AI models are very good for the general public and prosperity. They are very bad for frontier labs trying to gatekeep super intelligence for a fee and IPO at multi-trillion dollar valuations.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Marco Hilty @marco_hilty]

@heygurisingh Free

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

In 1963 (2nd to last year US quarters were made of silver) US min. wage was $1.25, or 5 silver quarters.

Today, the melt value of 1963 silver quarters is ~$7, so those 5 silver quarters are worth $35...yet min. wage is only $7.25.

This is why the red line below went < blue line after US went off the gold standard in 1971.

The US govt did the rigging, @SenSanders, & has continued to do it. As my friend @LawrenceLepard says, "fix the money, fix the world." Let's watch.

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🚨RED, WHITE, AND BULLSH*T:

How the WTO Killed “Product of USA”

Foreign meat now gets a patriotic label—because Congress bowed to a global tribunal.

American ranchers?
Getting wiped out.

Short Thread🧵

[TFTC @TFTC21]

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[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

“If a company operated the way the federal government does, then it would go bankrupt and officers would be arrested."

— Elon Musk

[Marco Hilty @marco_hilty]

@giacomozucco Crypto is a scam.
Pass it on.
#BitcoinNotCrypto

[Neil Jacobs @NeilJacobs]

This is beautiful. Well done @bitstein.

[Marco Hilty @marco_hilty]

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[Samuel Kullmann @samuelkullmann]

Of course also #Switzerland needs a Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve (SBR)!
The time window to be quicker than the USA and BRICS is closing quickly.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

#FreeRossDayOne

[Adam Simecka @AdamSimecka]

Say "thank you" today to the person that told you about Bitcoin.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Replace the US Federal Tax Code's 7000 pages and millions of words with a simple flat tax. It could fit into a few pages of simple english, make paying taxes simple and enforcement even simpler.

[Julian Liniger @julian_liniger]

Repost if you think Switzerland should create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

16 years ago today, Satoshi released the #Bitcoin whitepaper.

What a legend! 🙌

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Florida's CFO endorses a "Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve," urging state pensions to add Bitcoin as a hedge against market volatility.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

With their relentless hit pieces, legacy mainstream media are actively encouraging the assassination of @realDonaldTrump and now me

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Did everyone else trade out of their Visa stock before the DOJ launched their antitrust lawsuit? No? Just senators and spouses? Oh well.