Sublime

vTaiwan was its collaboration with OpenAI’s Democratic Input to AI project in 2023.

OpenAI, the other leading provider of GFMs today, also worked closely with CIP to run a grant program on "democratic inputs to AI" that dramatically accelerated research in this area and on the basis of which they are now forming a "Collective Alignment Team" to incorporate these inputs into the steering of OpenAI's models.

But that to me is how you use technology, rather than letting it use you.

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

When the accumulation drive hits short-term credit, real estate, and passive equity, that is when the party will really start.

if there’s one thing I hope you take away from reading this book, it is that you will commit to keeping your critical antennae tuned in to the nightmarish fantasies of post-human proselytizers, among them many Silicon Valley elite and superintelligentsia, who believe the best thing they can do for humanity is “get filthy rich, for charity’s sake.”