This tweet will cost me followers, make people think I’m a religious nut job, and likely blacklist me from being funded by some VCs but it’s important
> Sam Altman is probably the anti christ
1. He’s setting up a totalitarian system, and knows how to play the charisma card.
Worldcoin: An Iris scan for some useless token. UBI via the world app, and we’re not even allowed to talk about the technology the Orb is built off to make sure it isn’t nefariously storing data
> He did a bait and switch with OpenAI. Nobodies asking for gpt4 weights. But he used OSS research (transformers) to get this far, and won’t even contribute back with knowledge.
He says it’s for “SaFEty” but where have we heard that before? Oh yeah — financial regulation after 9/11, forced vaccinations during Covid. Etc.
> He has “no ownership of openai and does it cause he loves it”
This is self explanatory. If this doesn’t scream grift to you or set off alarm bells, I have a bridge to sell you
let’s assume for a second that he’s a good guy. He wants to build superintelligence to usher in utopia, and Worldcoin is good
What do I need to do if I’m a bad actor and want to enslave humanity?
Be the government, nationalize openai and Worldcoin and then enslave humanity
If you’re at openai and are a first principles thinker, none of this will seem outlandish.
If you understand the power of silicon intelligence, you owe it to your children to build a brighter future for them
This will drive you longer and harder than OpenAIs comp you settle for
If all this is hubris and drivel, consider this last question
When In history has a dictator with power given it up?
How many have promised utopia to get you to follow?
Lastly instead of N companies controlling all the data and compute, Altman has made it N+1
OpenAIs initial mission has already failed.
Their more nefarious pivot is what’s playing out now
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Finally, excited to launch Truffle-1 — a $1299 inference engine designed to run OSS models using just 60 watts preorder.itsalltruffles.com
Truffle is not peak $/flop on the market nor is it designed to be. Instead, we built a compiler stack from the ground up for an Nvidia Orin device, a custom carrier board, and a nice shell.
It'll run Mixtral at 22+ tokens/s without speculative decoding, which is 2x faster than GGML on the Nvidia Orin architecture because of our software stack.
Our compiler is not open source. It is optimized for our boards, and thus wouldn't be valuable to OSS anyway
The crypto bill should pass with the strictest regulations possible.
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Whitepapers have been published on every single protocol, explaining how their protocols are censorship resistant, decentralized, etc etc. All the buzzwords you'd expect from a crypto project,
None have been battle-tested.
If you've been in crypto for a long time, you knew that the day would come when governments would stop laughing at it, but start fighting it. The day is now here.
What use is crypto if it's unable to withstand even the strictest regulation?