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machine yearning

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the biggest threat to the future of humanity is apathy

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hey @Teknium was @AskVenice dropped from the hermes provider list? it's not in any of the docs 🤷‍♂️

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[koeppelmann @koeppelmann]

Hackathons in the age of AI are incredibly fun. I just submitted my own project to the Circles Garage, alongside many others. If you’ve got an idea, build a mini-app for Circles or the Gnosis App and give it a shot!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I feel like I'm eating crazy pills when I read the countless bad takes around how the Vatican would have virtually anointed Anthropic.

When if you read the Pope's encyclical it's actually a COMPLETE repudiation of everything Anthropic - and U.S. AI generally - stands for.

Read this part of the encyclical for instance (paragraph 110: https://t.co/LR5R22vQWj):

"Finally, I would like to employ the expression 'to disarm,' which is close to my heart. Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of 'armed' competition, which today is not limited simply to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon. This entails a race for ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance. To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life."

In a nutshell what the Pope is saying is:

1) The "AI race" mentality itself is the disease: there is no "winning it responsibly", we need to stop seeing AI as a way "to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance"

2) Technical dominance and being the most powerful does not give you the right to set the rules

3) AI must be "freed from monopolistic control", opened to scrutiny, and "restored to the plurality of human cultures"

Now compared and contrast it with what Anthropic is officially saying - namely Dario Amodei in his famous essay "Machines of Loving Grace" (https://t.co/R02pmoOU3M):

1) Where the Pope says stop the AI race. Dario says win it: "A coalition of democracies [should seek] to gain a clear advantage on powerful AI by securing its supply chain, scaling quickly, and blocking or delaying adversaries' access to key resources like chips and semiconductor equipment."

2) Where the Pope says technical power doesn't confer the right to govern. Dario says it does: "This coalition would on one hand use AI to achieve robust military superiority (the stick) while at the same time offering to distribute the benefits of powerful AI (the carrot) to a wider and wider group of countries in exchange for supporting the coalition's strategy."

3) Where the Pope says free AI from monopolistic control and restore it to the plurality of human cultures. Dario says concentrate it and use it to impose one model: "If we can do all this, we will have a world in which democracies lead on the world stage and have the economic and military strength to avoid being undermined, conquered, or sabotaged by autocracies, and may be able to parlay their AI superiority into a durable advantage. This could optimistically lead to an 'eternal 1991.'"

These aren't cherry-picked gotchas. This is the central thesis of Dario's essay.

And Anthropic keeps repeating this over and over. On May 14, just days ago, Anthropic published a 5,000-word policy essay titled "2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership" (https://t.co/gsah6SzrVq) urging the US to "lock in a 12-24 month lead" over China by blocking chips, cutting off model access, and ensuring that "democracies, not authoritarian regimes" control AI. They warn that "a lead in frontier AI will enable a widening lead across the full national security technology stack" and urge America not to "squander our advantage."

This is, almost word for word, everything the Pope is condemning in his encyclical.

I'll grant Anthropic one thing: they have an excellent PR team. Turning what's an obvious repudiation into a perceived endorsement is pretty masterful.

But it doesn't mean you have to fall for it...

[Venice @AskVenice]

Privacy is a human right.

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hey @cline isn't it time we lost the "Cline uses complex prompts and iterative task execution that may be challenging for less capable models..." message that shows even when I use a very capable model, but isn't Sonnet 4.5?

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👏👏

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

you have been afforded the incredibly brief window in human history where you can directly inject your reality into the training data

never stop posting

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

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@Lillyin_London @TRobinsonNewEra @GBNEWS @PatrickChristys and which part of that is incorrect?

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💯

[Gnosis @gnosis_]

Lesson from this story isn't that the design was clever (it was). It's that within a year, someone else's authority was over it and shut it down.

The hard design problem isn't making local money work. It's making sure no one can switch it off.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The degree of projection in this paper is genuinely insane.

Your regular reminder that Anthropic was the first AI frontier lab to actively work with the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies to help them with their global surveillance program.

Back in 2024 already, they partnered with Palantir "to make Anthropic's Claude models available to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies" (https://t.co/iMzTiTWhbu)

And remember the whole story earlier this year on how they refused that their AI be used for “mass domestic surveillance”? Notice something there?

By definition it means that they agree with *NON-domestic* mass surveillance, meaning Anthropic has absolutely no problem with the U.S. military-industrial complex using their AI to surveil all 8 billion inhabitants on Earth, provided it excludes the 340 million Americans. And even the latter can be surveilled, just not in a “mass” way (whatever that means).

Which, incidentally, is actually merely a restatement of U.S. law. Mass domestic surveillance of Americans is prohibited anyhow by the Fourth Amendment, and mass foreign surveillance is authorized under FISA Section 702 and Executive Order 12333 - the legal architecture Edward Snowden exposed in 2013.

So Anthropic’s so-called “principled” stance is them actually supporting very same legal architecture that, back when the Snowden revelations broke in 2013, was rightly condemned as the most sweeping surveillance regime in the world (which it factually is).

Which means that them warning that China's AI may be used for surveillance, and as such is dangerous, is literally them taking everyone for complete idiots.

All the more due to the fact that, because China's AI is largely open source, you can use it in a way where you keep complete control of your data - unlike Anthropic 🤷‍♂️

[Circles @aboutcircles]

In 1932, a small Austrian town called Wörgl had 30% unemployment and a mayor who decided to print his own currency. Each note lost a little value every month if you held onto it, which sounds like an absurd thing to design until you notice what happened: people stopped holding it. They spent it. Within a year unemployment had fallen by a quarter and the bridges were getting built again.

The Austrian central bank shut the experiment down. It's a story worth keeping, partly because the experiment worked, and partly because of who decided that it shouldn't.

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@ArtificialAnlys the new performance comparison by harness is great but you're missing 2 essential ones - @cline and @OpenHandsDev !

[lukasschor.eth @SchorLukas]

AI completely changed the game for cybersecurity.

Everything that can be hacked, will be hacked.

Every gap in your OpSec will be found and exploited.

Don't panic, but expect some chaos over the next months and prepare accordingly.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Intelligence, like money, should be permissionless.

[koeppelmann @koeppelmann]

If you want to learn more about and go deep on EEZ @etheconomiczone - @dappcon in ~6 weeks will be the place to be!

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@Teknium @patience_cave trying this asap (but with deepseek pro 🤑)

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@EthPrague 😍

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@Teknium @kilocode yeah they should next do Cline vs Kilo 😂

[Gnosis @gnosis_]

Ready for @EthPrague? Yes, we are ✅.

@_paulboes_ speaks how to 'Turn any community into an economy with Circles'. @Ondrej_Pilny is moderating Crypto Regulation & Banks. @jbaylina on latency as the key bottleneck for zero-knowledge technology.

@aboutcircles and @etheconomiczone in the BEAM hall all weekend. Walk over and GNO more.

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