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🔧 Designed @Dropbox P2P 🚗 Founder @TeleportXYZ : Decentralized Rideshare. Let's free the rideshare market so that drivers earn more and riders pay less.

New York, USA
Joined February 2007
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Looks like Puerto Rico's main power plant just blew up a week after it got privatized. Half of the island is without power.
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was invited to group dinner yesterday and one guy ordered a $640 bottle of wine then split the bill ama
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Don't buy gasoline, it doesn't work anyway and in fact might cause your vehicle to be damaged without proper training, save the gas for the front line professionals who need it most
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Imagine what we could build using a superconductor like LK-99.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Real talk
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Here's why we build @teleportxyz on Solana: * Highest active TPS in the industry. * Cheapest transactions. * Largest USDC liquidity among fast/cheap chains. * Simple architecture with high data availability and composability. * Decentralized. * Fantastic Community. 1/n
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Solana Mobile 2 now has more preorders than the Apple Vision Pro.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Netflix seriously changed the economics of non-Hollywood movies going global. Lots of German, Spanish, etc. movies and shows making the Top #10 .
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Hearbreaking. Bob Lee @crazybob , CPO @mobilecoin & former CTO @Square , was tragically stabbed and killed in SF in SOMA last night around 2am. He had just moved to Miami and was only visiting for a day.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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The term "Luddite" is derived from their alleged leader, "Ned Ludd" who was said to have broken stocking frames. The term “Yuddite” derived from their alleged leader “El Yud”, who called for air strikes on datacenters to prevent chatbots from writing Harry Potter fan fiction.
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"We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature."
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@ashleevance SF being both the crime and AI capital is how Robocop starts.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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The people not running the world are clearly smarter than the people running the world.
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Notes from Will and Ariel Durant’s Story of Civilization In 11 Volumes, part 1: Our Oriental Heritage.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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I wish twitter recommended “People who blocked similar people”
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@zebulgar does the rock float?
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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The equilibrium is every startup having 50 bank accounts.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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"And here is what really surprised us: These patients did not report any sensation of breathing problems, even though their chest X-rays showed diffuse pneumonia and their oxygen was below normal. How could this be?"
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
3 years
EXCLUSIVE: FaceBook is rebranding as TheFaceBook
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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My son 🙋🏽‍♂️was SO cute today, he asked me "Dad are L2s secure?" 😍 I told him they were secured by multi-sig. Then he asked "Dad, who are the keyholders?" and then I remembered I don't have a son and he asked again his eyes now obsidian black "where are the keyholders father"
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Balaji was spot on here. In the next couple of years we'll likely see entire companies be replaced by smart contracts and blockchains.
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Balaji
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Over the long term, every sufficiently large non-crypto tech company will be quasi-nationalized via licensing & regulation. Thus we need decentralized finance, social networks, exchanges, identity, messaging — everything. But these workloads vary, so we need multiple chains.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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A year ago I decided to build on Solana. People literally(!) quit friendships with me because of this decision. I feel like this thing is a little bit more consensus now, but here's why @teleportxyz is built on Solana.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Here's why we build @teleportxyz on Solana: * Highest active TPS in the industry. * Cheapest transactions. * Largest USDC liquidity among fast/cheap chains. * Simple architecture with high data availability and composability. * Decentralized. * Fantastic Community. 1/n
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The monolithic blockchain ( @solana ) vs multi-hub blockchain ( @Polkadot , @avalancheavax , @cosmos , Eth-L2, ...) discussion are reminiscent of the old Linux vs Minix discussions. Here's Andrew Tanenbaum (Creator of Minix) declaring Linux dead in 1992:
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@mckaywrigley It’s called a logistic function. The growth looks momentarily exponential, but the system is running out of additional data to train on.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@JoshuaSteinman Hi, I’m your refrigerator. Talk to me.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@feross Put co-Creator of the Nintendo Switch on your business card
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I don't think reporters realize the geopolitical significance of @elonmusk being able to attract top tier talent like Ligma & Johnson.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Incredible what you can buy on Amazon these days
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@ylecun @EduardoSlonski @DrJimFan @RichardSSutton The genome is just a bootloader. The data comes from physics level interactions. The amount of interactions needed to construct a cytoskeleton for one cell, never mind cell-cell-signal interactions to build a nervous system is adtronomical.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@gaganbiyani @drgurner I learned fluent Spanish from Duolingo while living in Colombia. People underestimate how effective it is.
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Aspartame in Diet Coke raised anxiety-like behavior in mice in a dose-dependent manner, and anxiety persisted epigenetically for two generations.
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@taykcrane @levelsio I've redesigned the oval office Before: After:
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TV Quiz shows keep getting harder
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@FischerKing64 Paradoxically subsidies make having kids less desirable. To increase the birth rate you need to turn it back into something that’s high status. Only when people complain that only the rich can afford 12 kids (like @elonmusk ) will fertility go back up.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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maybe @Neilyoung should come on @joerogan 's show and just discuss the stuff they disagree about
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Most predictions of the future underestimate the impact cheap fusion energy would have on the world. Want to desalinate large amounts of water? You got it. Want to capture gigatons of carbon? Game. Being afraid of a future based on today's technology is foolhardy.
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The weather’s nice in #Miami #bitcoin
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@andrewmccalip @alexkaplan0 This is exactly what an addict would do. Superconductor addict.
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@TexasLindsay_ @elonmusk You thought you're interviewing me, but I'm interviewing you.
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@paulg It’s a logistic not an exponential function. The growth looks momentarily exponential, but the system is running out of additional data to train on.
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@octal Our Plundered Planet, Road to Survival, Population Roads to Peace or War, The Population Bomb, and Limits to Growth are probably among the most destructive writings of the last century.
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@gaganbiyani @drgurner Nope, I attribute most of it to Duolingo. There are expats living abroad for years and don’t learn the language.
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Money isn't the future of money, Barter is This is one of my most heretical ideas in crypto. Imagine this scenario: * All you have are tokenized tomato futures $TOMATO. * You want to buy an ebook from Fred. * Fred only accepts payment in $APPLE apple stock. As long as there…
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@DavidBegnaud
David Begnaud
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JUST IN: @FBISanJuan says it is “evaluating the situation concerning the massive black out in Puerto Rico.” Fbi is asking “anyone with information to call 787-987-6500 or leave a tip online at ”
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Regeneron and Remdesivir make sense for anyone in the early stages of COVID-19. The president getting it is sensible. What’s not sensible is the FDA preventing everyone else from getting the same level of care.
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@GaryMarcus @elonmusk @tegmark @Grady_Booch @AndrewYang @tristanharris The people who are afraid of the future have already successfully banned: * Building more housing. * Clean Nuclear Power * Development of new cures * A financial system that does not force you to gamble with your money. * Airplanes that fly faster today than in the 70s. This is…
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Teleport on the ground in Texas
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Why would anyone take money from VCs that want to decelerate you?
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Hemant Taneja
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Today, 35+ VC firms, with another 15+ companies, representing hundreds of billions in capital have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments from @ResponsibleLabs (RIL), the non-profit I co-founded. As Chairman of RIL, I’m proud to unveil this today with tech leaders and…
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The Mayor of SF opening the Miami conference for people banned from social media. 🔥🔥🔥 #hereticon @micsolana
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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In town for Miami Tech Week? Friday night we’re taking a party bus from a secret member’s only bar to the SpaceX rocket launch at Kennedy space center. DM to join. RT to amplify!
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I haven't been this bullish on crypto in years. And it doesn't have anything to do with price. There's some really cool stuff you can buidl right now that you couldn't even a year ago!
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Singapore invites its residents to help contact tracing using a Bluetooth app:
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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We made it boys.
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Urban Dictionary
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Yuddite -
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Lyft just admitted that they take 47% of fares, leaving drivers with only 53%.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@BasedBeffJezos Which is the alt and which is the real you?
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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All of religious writing is an open book to LLM AI, and they have a deeper understanding of the relations between all live and extinct languages than any scholar. This opens up a new field: Computational Theology.
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Could not be more excited for what's happening at @teleportxyz . We're ridiculously close on several incredible announcements. Theory is turning into reality.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Humans made Cabbage, Brussel sprouts, Kohlrabi, Kale, Broccoli, and Cauliflower all from a single plant (Brassica oleracea). Humans made all the citrus fruits from 5 base citrus fruits (Pomelo, Citron, Mandarin, Citrus, Kumquat). Humans are awesome.
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What stops Europeans from building beautiful walkable cities like this?
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Accel CEO: Decel Board:
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@typesfast Panama Canal fees are almost as bad as Ethereum fees now.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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. @teleportxyz is on the ground in Texas.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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A lot of people (outside SF) I talk to seem to have no direct acquaintances other than me who are concerned about the novel coronavirus. Never been quite so apparent that most people think with emotions not data.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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German clubhouse moderators constantly remind their audience of the room’s tight schedule and always close the room punctually on the hour. Americans just chat whenever.
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Microblockchains might be a cool idea in theory, but in practice a blazingly fast ( @jump_firedancer ) monolith is super convenient to develop for. Simple is good in software.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@bindureddy VC funded? It’s AI. University grant? Machine Learning. Solving a real problem? Linear Regression.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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So I've heard Kanye and Elon want to have a conversation without a journalist moderating
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@soren_iverson Post the JFK assassination documents to Twitter.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@lukesophinos Can't get a banking license for that:
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This bit from @thefiatstandard is relevant here. If the Fed simply licensed basic safe 100% reserve banking, it would destroy the fractional reserve banking model of the fiat cartel.
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Clubhouse is a real threat to Twitter. New Users on Twitter have absolutely no chance of building an audience. On Clubhouse you can join a room and instantly start building an audience by saying smart things. This will lead to much faster adoption and lower churn.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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For job interviews I have candidates explain the timelines of Primer and Tenet to me.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@ThierryBreton Europe is an entire continent of people trying to slow and reverse progress. Europe’s biggest contributions to the world in the last 100 years were multiple wars and cookie warnings.
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Challenge trials could have given us a working vaccine in February
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One of the most insane details of our current ordeal is that the Moderna vaccine was actually designed in two days. In January.
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Dan it’s been a spectacular ride, but you’ll be missed so much.
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So proud of my friends @rivatez and @micsolana launching their own #tez and #solana tokens!!
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@elonmusk @WillManidis We should strive to make school and work exciting enough to be bearable without drugs
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Few people realize yet just how incredible Solana's state compression tech is. You can create 1 billion NFTs for as little as ◎3 SOL ($600). The uncompressed equivalent would cost ◎25 million SOL ($4.6 Billion USD).
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Narrative is the most powerful force in human activity. Humans have a narrative bias. They believe in the best stories. This can be used or abused, but not ignored.
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The first thing founders should do when they think they're ready to fundraise is lock down the narrative of their startup.
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@jcaradoc Concerning
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“By turning ride-sharing into a protocol, Teleport is building what we couldn’t build at Uber in 2010, and what Uber should be building today,” said @ryonlife , Uber's first engineer who also participated in @teleportxyz 's seed funding.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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So glad that we are managing to protect poor vulnerable hedge funds from unsophisticated retail investors.
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@ESYudkowsky Reasoning about biology by analogy does not work.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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I once added a bunch of people to a private twitter list called “boring”. Only it wasn’t private.
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@drehmer @ESYudkowsky This has to be parody but the problem is all his other doom scenarios are just as unrealistic
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@joekelly100 @ESYudkowsky Ground-glass opacity lung lesions are not common unless you have lung cancer or something similar. 60+% of a cruise ship should not have ground-glass opacities.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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Everyone is talking about AI. But most people don't understand how human neural networks work. I've spent 1,000s of hours studying human intelligence, and I've distilled it down into a few tweets:
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Life right now
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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@river_kenna Asceticism can lead to a "will to nothingness" and a denial of life. If meditation is to be helpful, it needs to serve self-mastery instead of subduing man's intrinsic drive to assert and express oneself, to grow, to achieve mastery, and to shape the external world.
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Paul Bohm — e/acc ⏩
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If you’re working on AI alignment, consider pivoting to decentralization.
@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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Thinking a lot about centralization and decentralization these few days.
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Mass Demand for Monoclonal Antibodies could be one of the best things to come out of this crisis. If there's enough demand, production techniques will improve and cost go down. The ability to quickly produce and deploy antibodies for all diseases would change medicine forever.
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@jgmartn The wildest rollercoasters.
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