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Currency of Distrust
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Christian | Husband | Father Professional hacker Lover of freedom tech

This was an incredible read.

I have become fed up with consumerism as of late. Tired of crap that breaks and can’t be fixed. Tired of AI slop passing as content. Tired of terrible entertainment.

My wife and I have had extensive conversations recently about becoming more creative, again. I feel like consuming so much content has sapped my creativity and ability to find ways to make things better or even just more fun. I never thought about taking a craftsman experience to marriage, but this totally opened my eyes!

https://open.substack.com/pub/benchristenson/p/marriage-as-a-masterpiece

Somewhere, Sam A is weeping

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Ok so AGI comes. Then what? I don’t understand this obsession with it.

My coffee tastes extra delicious today knowing Silicon Valley VCs, OpenAI, and Microsoft execs are having shit days 😁

China has a very strong incentive to undermine the US by lying about its claims on DeepSeek. It’s definitely possible they’re telling the truth, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Either way, I’m happy to watch the chaos and to see OpenAI take a huge L.

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For every app that you run on Start9, it creates an additional interface for accessing the app over Tor. So you can use the tor browser to access the application using the tor protocol natively. So all you’d need to do is download the browser and in start9, there is a section called “interfaces” for each app to get the tor URL

Well, I personally don’t think AGI will happen. I think it’s a sci-fi fantasy that’s been weaponized into a marketing campaign. But, I’ve also struggled to deal with the hype, so this was an attempt to find other possibilities beyond the doom and gloom.

TLDR on what’s happening in #ai for anyone out of the loop:

>sam altman shows up

>hello we are openai (is closed source btw) and we will be building ai

>sam: we need BILLIONS in funding!

>everyone: ok here you go sam

>sam: wait really?

>everyone: yea..? didn’t you say you need billions of dollars in funding?

>sam: billions? sorry I misspoke. I meant TRILLIONS!

>everyone: that’s a lot but ok

>sam: ai is the new industrial revolution! COMPUTE is the new OIL!

>nvidia becomes the most valuable company on earth. every single employee is a MILLIONAIRE now, including the interns

>openai keeps jacking up their prices and says “we are actually LOSING money because compute costs so much! we are bumping up the pricing for our gpt-abc123 model to $10,000 per prompt”

>some random chinese quants: we ain’t paying that much let’s just build our own model

>chinese quants literally build AGI (DeepSeek) as their side project with $70 in funding and a bag of chips, coworking out of a sweatshop

>american ai companies: these chinese guys are capping this is a ploy by the CCP to destroy the american economy!

>deepseek releases papers and benchmarks proving their model is better than openai’s

>american ai companies in total meltdown

The bubble has popped.

If you’re in ai, it’s OVER. Leave while you can! All the speculative institutional capital is going to rotate back to the only speculative technology that has stood the test of time: crypto.

Literally AGI? That’s a bit overselling isn’t it?