AI

Trump Says AI Doesn’t Need Guardrails, Calls Growing Concerns ‘A Hoax’

President Trump is essentially channeling Peter Thiel, who is stumping around the around the county talking about the Antichrist. Thiel says that the Antichrist are those who want to limit accelerationism and slow down AI development. This is flat out backassward. Both Thiel and Trump (and all the other arch-Technocrats in Washington) are gaslighting the nation and slamming those who are resisting. As for Biblical scholarship, the whole lot of them can be summed up by one screen actor: Archie Bunker.

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Stripe Is Building the Toll Road for the Machine Economy

Stripe has assembled, under one private roof, a wallet bound to identity, a reputation score that precedes the purchase, a meter on machine intelligence, a stablecoin, and a blockchain to settle it. Each piece has a reasonable business justification. Together they amount to the ledger, the meter, and the gate for machine commerce. Technocracy was defined in 1938 as the science of social engineering, with the measurement and accounting of all production and consumption at its core. The original Technocrats had no instrument that could do it. Stripe's stack, built for ordinary commercial reasons, can.

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