Guy’s Take_089 – Trump Speaks at Bitcoin2024
Is Trump’s speech at Bitcoin 2024 a sign of genuine support or just typical political pandering? Today we explore the implications of politicians courting the Bitcoin community, questions the motives behind their promises, and explores the potential for Bitcoin to reshape the geopolitical landscape. Will the next election cycle mark a turning point for Bitcoin’s role in politics, or is this just the newest form of political grifting?
Links to check out
The Chain of Custody: The “Mafia” Holding The Elite’s Bitcoin by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2hkzykrv)
The Bitcoin-Dollar: An Economic Monomyth by Mark Goodwin (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4rr8a6c5)
Donald Trump Bitcoin 2024 Keynote Speech – Bitcoin Magazine YouTube (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3xz4cpbn)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bitcoin 2024 Keynote Speech – Bitcoin Magazine YouTube (Link: https://tinyurl.com/39nd3zap)
Strap In For The Bitcoin Dollar by L0la L33tz on The Rage (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3k6amk5r)Host Links
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform, or pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
Guy’s Take_088 – The Hard Truth
It’s time to accept some hard truths. Today we are going to challenge some common assumptions about Bitcoin’s scalability, privacy, and transaction fees. Is Bitcoin really even global peer-to-peer cash for everyone? Is privacy even still in the cards for Bitcoin? Is there anything left in crypto at all? And what will be the future nature of fees when Bitcoin is a global dominant store of value, and is there an analogous market can we explore today for insight into what this market may look like in the coming decades? It’s time for a Guy’s take episode…Links to check out- Bitcoin 2024 conference (Link: https://b.tc/conference/2024)- Situational Awareness series on AI Unchained (Link: https://tinyurl.com/33rpewj2)- Ark Labs (Link: https://arklabs.to/)- Fedimint (Link: https://fedimint.org/)Host Links
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi
Ai Take_029 – New Tools and Major Moves in AI
Open AI signals that they are the surveillance leviathon we suspected they always were. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 may be even better than ChatGPT. I explore and detail out some new tools and build new tiny apps to recreate some of the incredible features of the Apple AI announcements, but in a local, open source way. A cybersecurity disaster in Microsoft’s announcement of their new OS “feature” Recall and why it may be the worst thing for security and privacy in a very long time. And much more in today’s episode, on New Tools and Major Moves in AI.
Links to check out
‘Calculated Betrayal’: Snowden Slams OpenAI Over NSA Ties (Link: https://tinyurl.com/n2kw9pr9)
Microsoft Recall thread by Kevin Beaumont (Link: https://tinyurl.com/59j3nph8)
Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’ (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yb4jvbt7)
NVIDIA at Computex 2024 (Link: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/computex/)
Ellipsis.dev | AI code reviews (Link:https://www.ellipsis.dev/)
Pinokio (Link: https://pinokio.computer/)
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Ai Take_028 – How Much Do You Trust Apple?
Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the “Apple Intelligence” announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into the company’s operating systems. He raises thought-provoking questions about the implications of such a system, particularly regarding privacy and trust in a tech giant like Apple. The episode promises to explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of this groundbreaking AI implementation.
Links to check out:
Ai_023 – The Promise of personal Ai (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/zyaRbKCfCIPtUgzzmr6d)
Does Apple Have a Recording of You Having Sex (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydhbcbar)
WWDC 2024 (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXeOiIDNNek)
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Guy’s Take_087 – Credit, Burning Cash, and Real Growth
Is deflation always a bad thing, or have we misunderstood its true impact on the economy? Join me as I unravel the misconceptions about deflation, explore the different types, and explain why modern economics gets it wrong. Discover how Bitcoin fits into this picture and what it means for real economic growth.
Links to check out
2 Sats Video on Deflation (Link: https://youtu.be/vknNY3oTABc)
Guy’s Take – Fiat Waste (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/1gcvdjEf8b3FB1D48jjX)
Guy’s Take – Fiat Finance (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/0mPe87a9FOWQoHIPFytU)
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“It doesn’t matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think.” — Thomas Sowell
Ai Take_027 – Is AI Breaking the Web?
A trend I’ve noticed with Ai, is that it has shifted itself into the middleman position between everyone and the normal surfing of the web. While it may save the user time, could this be disrupting the very traffic that monetizes content on the internet? With this fundamental change in the monetization paradigm, a huge shift is coming to the web. What will it look like, and how should we prepare? Tune in to find out.
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Descript (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdhr75jr)
Pinokio (Link: https://pinokio.computer/)
ComfyUI and Automatic 1111 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3c6rc6f8)
Ollama (Link: https://www.ollama.com/)
Open Web UI (Link: https://docs.openwebui.com/)
Logseq and Obsidian (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yypmkrd2)
LLaVA Model (Link: https://llava-vl.github.io/)
Hookmark (Link: https://hookproductivity.com/)
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Ai Take_026 – The Scam of Open AI
A very unique dynamic occurs with generative AI. LLM companies are scraping the internet for millions of works belonging to other people, photos, videos and film, forum posts, tutorials, all of this human created content meant to provide value to others in hopes of monetizing the attention, or gaining reputation from that research or creation.But without attribution or sharing of the proceeds, we can recreate, mimic, or even pull that exact content back out of the generative models. What does that mean for AI models? What does this mean for copyright? And is the only solution in the violent hand of the state, or is there a technological or cultural solution to this technological problem?
It can be argued that Open AI has become the ultimate middleman, that never even sends its users to the content that makes its product valuable to begin with? In that sense, is OpenAi a breakthrough…or just a different kind of scam? Don’t miss today’s show.
Links to check out
Eight US newspapers sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement Dawkins (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2jywhzts)
The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning(Link: https://tinyurl.com/ycpx2f5m)
60% of OpenAI model’s responses contain plagiarism (Link: https://tinyurl.com/avch8dfs)
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mukdju7h)
Voice Stolen by AI? Scarlett Johansson Sues OpenAI in Groundbreaking Case (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3ckpnwxf)
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Guy’s Take_086 – Fiat Waste
People look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the future rather than hoping for it.
I’m going to make the case today that in order to realign this, money must be the most valuable good in society. And necessarily, it must be the hardest thing to produce and that we actually can know this because of where the value of money comes from and what the money is in relation to the society that uses it. I want you to come away from the end of this episode realizing that not only is it aligned to have a sound money that grows in value, but it is necessary for us to value the future of our society in the first place. So we’re going to take this show to go back to our Fiat World Series with Fiat Waste. It’s time for a Guy’s Take episode.
Links to check out
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Link:https://tinyurl.com/bdzy7bfz)
The Deflation Boogie Man (Link:https://tinyurl.com/4t2d5kj5)
Guy’s Take_082 – Fiat Replacement Theory (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/YXHrvdYuGct6zmpfGZkF)
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“By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.”- Alan Watts
Ai Take_025 – Bullsh.t and Breakthroughs
Today we explore the deluge of announcements from both OpenAi and Google. With a plethora of Ai features dropping at Google I/O And Chat GPT-4o landing with an ai that can be spoken to like a human, how do we determine the difference between groundbreaking AI tools and mere gimmicks. How do we discern practical applications from overhyped features? Join Guy as he navigates the latest AI developments, asking the critical question: What truly enhances our digital lives and what falls short?
Links to check out:
Rabbit R1 (Link: https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-r1)
Google I/O Announcements: Coverage of the latest features and tools introduced by Google, including the Gemini Pro and video gen models. (Link: https://io.google/2024/)
OpenAI’s GPT-40 Announcement: Insights into the latest generative pre-trained transformer model which emphasizes voice interaction (Link: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/)
Satlantis Project (Link: https://satlantis.com/)
Welcome to the World of Audio Computers – Jason Rugolo TED talk (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4zc62nhc)
Nova Project: Focus on a business-oriented AI platform that prioritizes open-source solutions and privacy for handling sensitive data. (Link: Pending)
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Ai Take_024 – CASCDR
“We’re basically at a fork in the road. I think that there’s a good chance we go the wrong way and you end up with a situation like China.
We need to build these tools that serve Liberty and not tyranny. And we need to design these systems correctly. And then on top of that, I think, as I pointed out earlier, you know, we have an opportunity to build a better product than the tyrannical systems, you know, now before, before you’re in too deep. So we need to do that so that people aren’t, aren’t lured by that.”
Are we steering towards a future where technology amplifies human potential, or are we drifting into a realm where control overshadows creativity? We are joined by the creator of CASCDR today to delve into a discussion that explores the role of Ai in our future and how we can utilize it to decentralize markets, service provision, and change the structure of productivity in a way that can bring it far closer to us and our needs. What does that future look like, and how do we build to get there?
Links to check out:
Range by David Epstein (Link: https://davidepstein.com/range/)
CASCDR App (Link: https://cascdr.vercel.app/)
Where Goo Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson (Link: https://tinyurl.com/49ec9zaa)
PlebLab (Link: https://www.pleblab.dev/)
Jupiter Notebook (Link: https://jupyter.org/)
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Ai Take_023 – The Promise of Personal AI
How close are we to realizing the dream of personal AI? Dive into the potential of small, efficient AI models that enhance our self-awareness and improve our lives without compromising our privacy. Could these advancements lead us to a future where we not only manage but truly own our data, understanding ourselves better than any corporation could? Join us as we explore the fascinating possibilities of personal AI.
Links to check out
Atomic Habits (Link: https://tinyurl.com/hjcajxc)
Facebook’s LLM transparency tool Hugging Face Demo (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4c9cmzhw)
Clone yourself with Delphi A (Link: https://www.delphi.ai/)
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdzetyax)
The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mt6ca37k)
The Pile (Link: https://pile.eleuther.ai/)
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Guy’s Take_085 – They Are Coming
“The Samurai wallet developers have been arrested. The government has responded with their opposition to the motion of dismissal in the tornado cash case. Phoenix wallet has withdrawn from the United States. Does one need to have control over the funds to be a money transmitter? Is the lightning network, is Bitcoin, is even self-custody and your home node illegal?
The past week or so in Bitcoin has seen a flood of new developments, unfortunate events and clarifications and demands from government regulatory agencies. And it has quite clearly spooked a lot of people in the Bitcoin industry. What does it all mean and how should we respond? It’s time for a guys take episode.”
I took on a whirlwind of pressing issues facing the Bitcoin ecosystem amid a slew of government actions that appear to target privacy and financial sovereignty. What does the arrest of the Samurai wallet developers, the exodus of Phoenix wallet from the U.S., and the broader implications for Bitcoin’s legal landscape mean for the future of digital privacy and self-custody? I dissected these developments with a critical eye, questioning the balance between regulatory oversight and the fundamental right to privacy. Tune in for a deep dive into the legal, technical, and societal impacts of these unfolding events.
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“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just missed my friend.”
~ Red, Shawshank Redemption
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