Oddbean

I joined What Bitcoin Did to discuss the importance of independent journalism, the challenges of media manipulation and the rise of tyranny. They also talked about the risks of AI, the influence of powerful figures like Elon Musk and the need for public scrutiny, and the potential co-opting of Bitcoin by powerful institutions. https://youtu.be/rYyTyXpdQRI?si=g1xGT5UzLUCmddAi

@Whitney Webb I appreciate your work although listening to this I felt you might lack a bit of understanding as to how AI ( basically Large Lamguage Models ) work. There's no mystery to their workings and one can simply see them more like files that are a compressed version of a lot of information fed in that can be accessed using natural language. Yes a threat exists as it provides a lot of information leverage and can be used a highly effective manipulation and censorship tool but the direct threats from AI seem unfounded. It's a tool of information compression and generation. A highly effective tool like a gun that can be used both for good and bad. An AI model trained on your work could be used for good in relaying your work to majority of populace in their language, audio or video formats. I share your concerns around AI being centralized, however open source models are equally competent today day and google/open AI actually have no moat. 'They' are afraid of open source AI being a liberating tool for humanity and an end of big tech empires and are thus painting a picture of it being too powerful and thus calling for it's regulation. Regualtion is the only way they can slow down truth from coming out at even more fatster, stronger and efficient forms. But the genie is out of the bottle now and we will win, not without a fight though. Yes they are going to use AI against us but the only way to fight at this game is to train our own models that channel the truth we want out at a much faster better stronger rate then they push propaganda. There is no way we win this war without having our AI guns on our belts. @Jeff Booth@nostrverified.com

Was a great show. Unfortunately the massive hostaging of medical data didn't pass by. Was pretty involved into that since the first robbery attempt back in 2015, all insurance companies and governement simply neglecting the highest courts and getting away with it all, until we could show their actions to the public. That stopped it for a little while. With that data they decided who was going to get a loan for houses, what insurance bills were to be pair etc. Illegal according to all judges but highly profitable to the companies. Also they gave non medic (with no healthcare secrecy obligation towards patients) personal free access to highly sensitive healthcare data.We won the first attempt and kept patients data safe back then but now the floot of theft is massive. Insurance companies, our professional representative organisations, the governement itself, to grasp all this patients data for free now. They play the quality improvement-card. Our small club of independent healthcare professionals who fought for real privacy for our patients (we have a secrecy as medicine peoples), we only back then had money for one lawyer. Each insurance company came with 10+ expensive lawyers (just ask them how much of your money really is spent on healthcare. We found out about 15 % -30 % of each dollar). Now many of us are ruined by massive accusations of frauding their freely changed rules, protection is gone and in paying to survive for their patients, more than one of the professionals i know and worked 9n the protection of patientsdata are broken. So not enough money for our laster anymore.

Kindly recommend to hear what she has to say.. nostr:nevent1qqsp69ml8nvnuv76pu9q59rj9advnswrnkpmkdzy5nm6736d5r22cucppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqslg0awy93d38svnhu0x72t5pj4pg08qzg52uj75kp39fq69sr92qvzqqqqqqysttmwp

What can be done to prevent the crackdown on anonymity, privacy, freedom of speech, with the planned false-flag on the banks and e-ID:s required on ISP level etc? To say these things to a "normie" now would result in them wondering what we've been smoking, or if we need to be checked in to the nuthouse, even if they know us since childhood. Then, when it's done, they agree it's necessary, and we're idiots for not realizing that, or worse, that we're people who just want to do cybercrime... If this comes to pass, both Bitcoin and Nostr is dead, and there is 0% chance of any freedom ever returning - for millennia - bar a Carrington event killing everything electric, and billions of people as a result. I think we would need hugely trusted people talking about these plans, people who the "normies" see as truth personified. Most of those work for the enemy. How could we spread these news to the few who doesn't, and convince them to talk about it?