Sam Lyman

Head of Research @bitcoinpolicy | Fmr Senior Advisor & Chief Speechwriter to @SecScottBessent | @Forbes Contributor | @PrincetonSPIA alum

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.

Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

Senior Treasury officials come and go, making small tweaks to regulation along the way. But every now and then, one makes lasting generational change.

That was Luke Pettit. As Treasury’s policy lead on Trump Accounts, he helped bring to life the President’s vision to “make every American an asset-owner.”

Luke also had the Secretary’s trust and the deep respect of everyone in the building. Excited to see where he lands next.

[Luke Pettit @lukejpettit]

As my chapter at @USTreasury comes to an end, I want to thank President Trump and @SecretaryBessent for the opportunity to serve at @USTreasury.

It has been an honor of a lifetime to work with such talented and patriotic colleagues within Treasury and across the Administration.

There is a lot of great work still underway; I’m looking forward to watching the policy wins continue.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

Beijing's official line is that there is no AI race between the US & China.

And yet, the CCP has asked top AI researchers to surrender their passports. And now even their family members need approval to leave the country.

China's own actions prove that this is, in fact, a race.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

The same Senator who mounted the "Anti-Crypto Army," wanted to ban bitcoin, and hailed the benefits of a CBDC now wants to centralize and control AI development.

We beat her once, and we will beat her again.

Game on.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Let me be clear: AI companies regulating themselves is a nonstarter.

Our government has to step in, investigate independently, and set guardrails that prioritize the safety of the American people over corporate profits.

[Conner Brown @BitcoinConner]

Her comments are not random.

This is part of a well funded and carefully organized campaign to demonize open models and our civil liberties in DC.

Multiple Senate staffers have told me that outside groups are requesting meetings to provide “demonstrations” where open source models are used to attack simulated hospital websites and demand bitcoin as ransom.

These are cheap scare tactics funded by groups seeking to control open systems. In reality, cyber defenders rely on open models daily to find critical vulnerabilities before attackers get there first.

If these groups are successful, we will all be poorer, less free, and more vulnerable to adversaries with increasingly capable systems.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

90% of what passes as “public discourse” in AI today is highly orchestrated shadow play by people and organizations whose sole priority is to keep you living in a constant state of fear.

BIG scoop by @dodgeblake of Pirate Wires here.

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

Exclusive in @PirateWires: Jacob has been working with DEY., the PR firm that represents Eliezer Yudkowsky and other famous AI doomers.

We also heard that DEY. was preemptively looking to book Nate Soares (MIRI founder) for interviews timed with Jacob's debut.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

This is what American reindustrialization looks like in real time.

Construction jobs just surpassed 8.3 million, a record high. And plumbers and electricians are getting paid +$200k/year.

Data centers are driving massive blue-collar job growth while doubling town tax revenues.

[@Margeaux Plaisted @mdplaisted]

This is what happens when communities say yes. Jobs, economic opportunity, and local partnership from the ground up.
Proud to be building in GA. $clsk

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

This is an important distinction, Andrew--and it matters.

Let me dig deeper here.

Thinking ... 20 minutes and 37 seconds

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

Claude writing has descended below prison-cafeteria levels of slop.

"The machine god" has become uniquely inhuman in its expression, with bizarre, mechanical phrases and overuse of try-hard words like "convergence," "load-bearing," and the like.

Suddenly, ChatGPT output feels like a breath of fresh air.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

@IndependentEco I've started to use Astra much more.

Claude feels like a personality that needs to be managed whereas Astra feels like a tool that will simply do what I ask it. Superior product in many ways.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

America has been the home of Freedom Tech since its founding. And it has been the home of global innovation ever since.

We intend to keep it that way. Don’t miss the best tech policy summit of the year Sept. 22-23 👇

[Bitcoin Policy Institute @bitcoinpolicy]

Freedom Tech DC kicks off THIS WEEK.

A summit on the future of money, speech, and intelligence — and the fight to keep them free.

We're gathering the builders and the regulators with one purpose — to encourage Washington to embrace open source technology.

Stream both days live on X from @bitcoinpolicy, plus YouTube and Rumble.

Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00 AM ET. Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00 AM ET.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Alaska pays its residents to live there. Rural counties could be next.

@SamLyman33 explains why AI infrastructure is the new oil fund.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

The anti-data center crowd claims to stand up for the working class. The unions disagree.

@SamLyman33 explains why 40+ labor groups are fighting against data center regulations.

[Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney]

Decomputing is the new debanking. Get ready.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

@sccontechforum Exactly. "The machine god" is the golden calf of the EA doom cult.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

The god-shaped hole in the EA heart is more like a black hole that swallows our humanity and everything connecting us to the divine.

The moral logic of this movement is so profoundly twisted that they push for infanticide, zoophilia, and abortion as a eugenic practice.

These are the people who are positioning themselves as the moral arbiters of our society. Don't let them.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

“When a severely disabled infant is born … I think the parents should have the option of ending a child’s life humanely with a lethal injection.”

Meet Peter Singer, the intellectual godfather of Effective Altruism.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the EAs are the guys wearing hard hats and reflective vests. This is what happens when you try to reduce morality down to a math function.

Don’t be fooled by the billionaire backers, glitzy PR, and feel-good rhetoric—effective altruism is nothing more than repackaged utilitarianism. It’s a philosophy divorced from metaphysics that turns human beings into numbers on a screen.

And therein lies the danger: a whole host of horrors can be justified in the name of “the greater good.”

If you’re wondering how the rampant fraud and abuse that led to FTX happened, this is how. When your moral matrix is maximizing one person’s definition of “happiness,” stealing billions of dollars in customer funds is a necessary evil on the way to greater prosperity for all.

EAs like SBF nearly destroyed crypto with their sociopathic do-goodery—now they have their sights set on AI.

The same people who flirt with zoophilia, champion mass surveillance, and defend euthanasia for disabled infants now want to shape the ethics for the most important human innovation since the internet.

Don’t let them.

As Peter Singer shows us, the fish stinks from the head down. Reject the central planning pseudo-religion. Embrace decentralization.

[Bitcoin Policy Institute @bitcoinpolicy]

WATCH: BPI Head of Research @SamLyman33's opening testimony before Congress on foreign influence campaigns targeting American data centers.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

Today I testified before Congress on the Singham Network's all-out information war against the US technology industry.

Even far-left critics have likened the work of Singham nonprofits to "a Chinese PR agency."

Nowhere is the network's slavish devotion to the CCP more evident than in its campaign against American AI data centers.

[Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney]

The @bitcoinpolicy's own @SamLyman33 will be testifying before Congress at 14:00 Eastern on Chinese influence in American data center debates. It should air live here:

https://t.co/UyMEqdhN8R

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

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[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

I'm testifying before Congress next week on the foreign influence campaign against American AI.

Chinese media outlets and the CCP-aligned Singham network spent months incubating anti-data-center propaganda, and eventually their messaging spilled over into the mainstream.

Opposition to data centers is a largely organic movement. But there is an inorganic element as well, and it must be exposed.

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

🔥 FIRST ON FOX. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia has scheduled a well-titled public hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 2 PM: "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America."

Led by @HouseForeignGOP, the hearing marks an important expansion of congressional scrutiny of foreign influence beyond the tax and financial questions already being pursued by the House Ways and Means Committee, which has subpoenaed three nonprofits in a network funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born communist tech tycoon now based in Shanghai.

@FoxNews Digital will be there with me, @M_Dorgan and @MizellPreston providing live coverage. Stay tuned.

Why does this hearing matter? Because the original Trojan horse was used to win a war. It’s critical for any nation to know the covert, non-kinetic “smokeless wars” being waged against it.

Witnesses:
🎯 @Heritage Mike Gonzalez
@Gundisalvus — Expert on Cuba’s foreign influence campaign against the U.S.
🎯 @SamLyman33 @bitcoinpolicy — Expert on Neville Roy Singham network’s influence on campaigns against AI data center
🎯 Matthew Johnson @JamestownTweets @ChinaBriefJT — Expert on China’s “United Front” propaganda and influence operations

Plus one more witness that @HouseForeign Dems will name.

Stay tuned for more.
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