Some time in the future, we will understand that risk free yield on a digital asset is a bug, not a feature (yes this includes USD)

This is a good time to remind everyone that mathematics is a language that happens to be good at describing nature, among other things. Mathematical theorems are equivalences: They say that certain ways of saying things in the language of mathematics look different but they are

Pacing the frontier is the best thing we can do right now IMO. It's a hard coordination problem but still solvable, maybe about 20-30 entities need to commit. Models are now definitely at the threshold of becoming dangerous. Allowing the defense to catch up will lead to a less

The only defense against paperclip ASI is pretending to be a paperclip.

We aren't in the age of paperclip AI yet, where we have to be scared of AI taking over the world (and maybe killing us in the process). We have however entered the age where AI can be a powerful (and dangerous!) tool in the hands of humans.