Ross Ulbricht wasn’t focused on financials in his address to the Bitcoin 2025 conference this past week.
Tag: technology
GENE EDITING SUMMIT CALLS FOR WIDER INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION-MAKING ABOUT A ‘HUMAN’ FUTURE
Well, at least some of them are saying they want a broad consensus of input, before genetically redesigning human beings.
ENERGY REALISM BUMPS UP CONSUMER SENTIMENT
Last week saw the lowest gas prices in the U.S. in years. Elites and “green” energy ideologues may not care, but average Americans certainly appear to.
META EXEC ADMITS AI DESTROYING REVENUE MODEL OF THE INTERNET
The book title says it all: How To Save The Internet. Meta / Facebook executive Nick Clegg (or that’s the byline, no AI credit given) is giving advice on how humans should accept that AI-focused tech companies stole and are profiting off of all their content, IP and privileged data. Yes, Clegg admitted at a......
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: MORE ENERGY REALISM, AND THE CRYPTO BULL WASN’T OVER
President Donald Trump continued to reshape American energy policy this past week, with what we have long forecast in these pages adds up to energy realism.
GEMINI COMMENTS ON CLAUDE SNITCHING, AND CLAIMS IT’S BETTER
Are other AI models capable of “ratting mode,” as Anthropic’s latest Claude 4 Opus model has exhibited, when provided enough access to user computer systems and data?
‘SAFETY FIRST’ ANTHROPIC FAILS THE TEST
Anthropic has long taken pains to distinguish its generative and agentic AI from competitors by claiming it prioritizes “AI safety.”
AI MUSICAL CHAIRS: PROFITING FROM HUMAN REPLACISM
Tech-savvy Humans are currently scrambling to profit either by devising new ways to leverage AI / physical AI to replace humans, or to identify opportunities where “humanness” can be exploited for unique attributes that synthetic alternatives can’t (yet) emulate.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ROBOT BOOM, HUMAN BUST
Elon Musk told a Saudi official that humanoid robots are set to be more numerous than cars—or humans—in the not-too-distant future.
AI PROFIT, SAFETY AND POLITICS: A PRIMER FOR DECIPHERING LEGACY MEDIA COVERAGE
Partisan legacy media has an expansive definition of “AI safety” that is often used in articles to advocate for “woke” and “politically correct AI” under the guise of safety, in the same breath that it warns that AI might be doing things like secretly replicating itself, and lying to researchers about its activities.