Have you noticed how new laws eroding privacy always follow a tired script? Politicians invoke the "four horsemen of the infocalypse" to scare us into accepting surveillance "for the children" or "for security".
The reality is, neither our kids nor the public get any safer, just less free.
Full piece! ↘️
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Is AI everywhere?
We have:
- AI in phones
- AI in cell towers
- AI in data centers
- AI in space...
In Sweden, we even have AI terrorists!
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Tema AI:
- Uberchaufförer ska träna AI - tecken eller järtecken?
- Nvidia investerar i Nokia - vad är "AI-RAN"?
- Datacenter i rymden och "batteripass" i EU.
Vad är det egentligen som pågår? #ai #nvidia #nokia #sverige
OpenAI lost ~$13 billion in the last quarter, but plans to spend $1400 billion more on "compute". When Sam Altman is asked about this by one of his investors, he becomes defensive and starts attacking short sellers (who aren't even present, and can't be).
Is it because things are going so well that OpenAI are seeking guarantees from the US government to more easily finance its enormous projects? And Nvidia seems onboard with this kind of begging (presumably for geopolitical reasons), given the recent statement by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
According to Michael Cembalest at JPMorgan, AI has been responsible for 90% of the growth in S&P 500 capex since ChatGPT was launched. What happens to the US economy if the AI wave starts to falter? The Mag-7 companies comprise almost 40% of the S&P500. The credit risk in Oracle (5y CDS) is already at its highest in a couple of years.
Also: isn't it strange that Meta is making AI investments off its balance sheet? I remember how banks and financial institutions thought they were oh-so-clever with SPVs and other off balance sheet shenanigans before the great recession in 2008. However, accounting tricks can only be taken so far. The risk is still there.
Apparently Palantir trades with a forward PE ratio of ~240.
As always, fun times in the fiat world!
https://blossom.primal.net/56c21825e85289b9575bb6997c72946915d79e2a4540c08f38fd23eae8899eb6.mp4
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- Anställda hos Clas Ohlson får sänkta löner, medan VD:n badar i bonusar
- Tokeniseringen av "allting" har börjat, enligt munter BlackRock-VD
- Vad är tokenisering? Och varför är Larry Fink så glad?
https://fountain.fm/episode/eygb645T8HoDPyoPM0T3
#liberalism #blackrock #tokenisering #nft #sverige #tokenization
Att kostråd över tiden har förändrats så dramatiskt utgör en signal om att man inte ska ta dem på särskilt stor allvar. Men få verkar förstå detta.
Har du något bra (gärna kort) lästips om just kolesterol-vinkeln?
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Återbesök av Sveriges kanske främste Argentinakännare:
- Vad händer i Argentina?
- Var är guldet?
- Vaknar några lejon?
- Och hänger det senaste räddningspaketet ihop med skifferoljan i Vaca Muerta?
Lyssna där du brukar! #sverige #podcasts #argentina
Serious IT problems have once again affected large parts of the internet (Snapchat, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.). Last year it was due to CrowdStrike, this week it was due to Amazon outages.
"Wherever something is wrong, something is too big", Leopold Kohr wrote in 1978 - an idea worth revisiting.
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It shouldn't. This is a good read on the topic.
https://unsigned.io/articles/2022_04_02_From_Here_to_There.html
Kalmar Bitcoin After Work #16.
Let´s celebrate and connect with fellow enthusiasts, experts, and curious minds in discussing the latest advancements in Bitcoin and other freedom-tech!
When?
Today
Where?
At Loccos Kalmar - Beer, Tapas and Cocktails!
https://www.meetup.com/swedish-bitcoin-meetups/events/311293965/
Does this work?
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New short piece out - about the risks of miscategorizing the brain.
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, said recently that the human brain is nothing but a biological computer. He was completely certain of this.
But is that really the case?
Keramik, you say? https://www.resmokrukmakeri.se/
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- Att finansiera försvaret utanför budgeten - är inte det oerhört märkligt?
- Pensionskostnader i Frankrike galopperar - är allt boomer-generationens fel?
- Lyssnarfrågor, bland annat kring vår finansiering
#sverige #podcasts #frankrike #klimatkris #köttberget
“Hi, we heard that you signed a petition against digital ID.”
Sweden's Former Prime Minister Carl Bildt argued in 2013 that surveillance technology does not restrict our rights because it operates so discreetly that citizens remain unaware.
I.e. you never complained when we monitored you while you slept, so it's not a problem...
However, Chat Control 2 and technologies such as CBDCs & stablecoins are changing this. #eu #freedom #humanrights
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I need one of these.
#disintermediatenow
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- Avanza Zero ryker när Fondtorgsnämnden hårdsatsar på hållbarhet
- Swedbank påstår att "extremvädret" kommer kosta oss i Europa
- USA:s finansminister anklagar Fed för att inte begripa vad den gör
#sverige #podcasts #ppm #fed #kommunism
The current peak in the number of assassinations has exceeded that of the 1960s (from Peter Turchin)
Anyway, GM!
Even flags are now fake in fiat world.
If the government is able to spend money it does not actually have, why do you need to pay taxes?
#australia #money
GM.
Here's an illustrated guide to the US gun control debate.
Why does the ECB refer its CBDC as "digital cash", when it has so different properties?
> [T]he hypothesis that the Digital Euro is an electronic equivalent of physical Euro cash is rejected.
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If we chunk up we realise porn is one example of Niko Tinbergen's superstimuli to which humanity is quite ill-adapted - especially so with God "dead".
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