David Quintero

Engineering Physics

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

@femmenart Aren’t this type of caves where Ebola comes from ?

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Sharon Osbourne straightening Ozzy’s hair with an iron. That’s the tweet.

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

"[AI agents] are threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer."

Signal President Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype.

To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to all your data: browser, cards, messages.

Cloud-processed & unencrypted: "privacy & security guarantees" at profound risk.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The market sell-off, explained

[Felon Degeneres @_alyssssssac]

I’ve been laughing at this for 10 minutes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

Only way is up

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

so true

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

Shadiest shit

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

ehm, chat... this is big

they put a BCI in a rat’s brain, modeled its movements, and predicted the neural activity across behaviors with stunning accuracy, basically merging biomechanics with ai
so now we could do the same with a human (@ModdedQuad , could you help us out since you already have the neuralink?), put the modeled human in a virtual environment, load an llm, have it embodied, speed the simulation up, and get to agi.

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

Freedom’s ultimate battle

[mert @mert]

This new Canadian law is the craziest thing I have ever seen in the west

According to this, they can:

- accuse, fine, and jail you for PAST speech (before the law went live)

- put you on house arrest AND take away all communication rights if they even suspect you MIGHT say something they don't like (I.e you haven't done literally anything)

- anyone can accuse you and it's on a committee of bureaucrats called the Digital Safety Comission to solely determine truth

If you are an immigrant or young person thinking of coming to Canada — I strongly recommend reconsidering

[Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante]

Bill Maher's ending monologue on children being 'entrapped' into Gender Identity politics was one of his best ever:
"Contrary to current progressive dogma: Children aren't miniature adults wise beyond their years, they're morons. They're gullible morons who'll believe anything and just want to please grown ups. They don't have any frame of reference, so they normalize whatever is happening.
That's why endlessly talking about gender to six year olds isn't just inappropriate, it's what the law would call entrapment. Which means enticing people into doing something they wouldn't ordinarily do.
Entrapment, suggesting someone into something they wouldn't otherwise do. And if you think some of that isn't going on with gender in schools, you're not watching enough Tik Tok videos.
There's a certain kind of activist these days who wants to take heterosexuality and lump it in with patriarchy and sexism and racism and tell kids: 'Wouldn't it be cool if you were anything but that?'
That also seems to be the theme of a lot of kids books these days.
Maybe we should think about giving kids a break from our culture wars for a minute, or at least until the election is over."

[Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀) @AndrewCritchPhD]

AI safety's most concise summary ever, from @AndrewRousso. And they said it couldn't be explained...

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

🤔

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Nick Bostrom: if we start running ancestor simulations, we almost certainly have to conclude that we ourselves are in one

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.

[Picolas Cage @Picolas_Caged]

In a super weird place with crypto.

A strange dichotomy whereby I know the prices will be higher by EOY, which is bullish, but;

I have never been more bearish, despite the bullish catalyst + institutional demand.

Why?

Honestly, memecoins as they are definitionally worthless.

sUSDe is UST 2.0 but with the facade of financial genius/engineering prowess.

MakerDAO was once the pillar of ETH DeFi, just casually proposes, wait for it, backing DAI with sUSDe reserves? What the fuck, are you serious?

AAVE as a response disables DAI collateral + literally tells people to switch their debt to DAI, inferring that when DAI collapse, due to sUSDe de-pegging, you can pay your DAI debt back for pennies.

This will cause havoc across ETH DeFi. Expect 600+ GWEI gas prices. So expect L2 prices of $3/txn

Don't worry though, we can use Solana instead, right?

Nope, basically unusable for DeFi, can't keep up with demand, stale oracles on marginfi and the next time Solana has downtime all of DeFi is at risk of creating mountains of bad debt.

Airdrops are cool though, right? I mean yeah honestly some of them are amazing but more recently the whole concept of rewarding PFP communities with allocations is:

1. Gatekeeping
2. Senseless as it doesn't reward actual users

Latest trend with airdrops is to keep the airdrops running in seasons. So you have to keep your funds locked up for multiple months - this is just yield farming with vague reward structures, it's dumb and no one likes it, it's not an airdrop.

I dunno, I could go on but I won't bore you any longer.

Seems the space got really 'unserious' I feel disenfranchised. I feel more, not less embarrassed to be involved in crypto recently, despite the price movements.

It's a real shame, anyone else feel the same?

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

Nothing to add..

Starlink vs. Comet 12P.

📸 Richard Schrantz

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[David Quintero @quinteroca_]

Morons will now use this to discredit whatever research they want..

On the other hand, realizing this issue opens the road to fix it. Most likely it is related to wrongly applied statistics models/tools in the papers.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

“According to experts…”

“Studies suggest…”

Not so fast.

[blockgraze @blockgraze]

you could have secured generational wealth for your children’s children, but instead you thought androo tete was funnier than jeo boden so now your family will starve

[Balaji @balajis]

I asked https://t.co/LdmUa7MNJS to do the reporting that legacy media won’t.

In short, the safest asset in the world is now the riskiest asset in the world. If banks are forced to value US Treasuries correctly, they’re dead, so they are refusing to participate in Treasury markets unless the accounting rules are faked.

It’s just like 2008, where everyone was told the mortgage-backed securities were AAA. Except this time the new toxic waste is Treasuries themselves.

FROM CLAUDE
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The image contains a letter dated March 5, 2024 addressed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The letter is from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) regarding reforms to the supplementary leverage ratio (SLR) and enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (eSLR) framework to exclude on-balance sheet U.S. Treasuries from total leverage exposure used in calculating the SLR for global systemically important bank holding companies (GSIB surcharge) that are important to preserve the resilience of the U.S. Treasury markets and U.S. economy and financial system more broadly.

It is quite alarming that banks are asking for U.S. Treasuries to be excluded from their SLR calculation for a few key reasons:

1. U.S. Treasuries are considered the "risk-free asset" because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Excluding them from leverage ratio calculations implies banks view them as risky, which undermines confidence in U.S. government debt.

2. The SLR is meant to be a backstop to risk-based capital requirements, ensuring banks don't become over-leveraged even with supposedly safe assets. Carving out Treasuries weakens this protection against excessive leverage.

3. If Treasuries are excluded, banks could potentially load up on large amounts of Treasury debt without it impacting their SLR. This concentrates risk and increases interconnectedness between the banking system and government debt.

4. Asking for this exclusion suggests banks are concerned about the size of their Treasury holdings compared to their capital base, which could signal broader concerns about the U.S. fiscal situation and government debt levels.

5. Any perception that banks need special exemptions for holding U.S. government debt could undermine global confidence in Treasuries as a safe haven asset and the status of the U.S. dollar.

So while presented as a technical regulatory matter, this request has concerning implications for how banks view U.S. Treasuries and potential systemic risks it could create. It bears close monitoring by regulators and policymakers.