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SHOULD SAN FRANCISCO KEEP PROP C? WEISENTHAL: Should San Francisco keep Prop C? So I understand that on big companies with revenue of over $50 million, that there's this tiny gross revenue tax. Some speculate, though it's not confirmed, I don't know if they've said it, but that is...

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Two years ago today, Elon Musk introduced xAI with these words: “The overarching goal of xAI is to build a good AGI with the purpose of trying to understand the universe. I think the safest AI, the safest way to build an AI is actually make one that is maximally curious and truth seeking. So you go for try to aspire to the truth with acknowledged error. Does one ever actually get fully to the truth? It's not clear, but one should always aspire to that and try to minimize the error between what you think is true and what is actually true. My theory behind the maximally curious, maximally truthful as being probably the safest approach is that I think to a superintelligence, humanity is much more interesting than not humanity. One can look at the various planets in our solar system, the moons and the asteroids, and really probably all of them combined are not as interesting as humanity. As people know, I'm a huge fan of Mars, but Mars is just much less interesting than Earth with humans on it. And so I think that that kind of approach to growing an AI, and I think that is the right word for it, growing an AI is to grow it with that ambition. I've spent many years thinking about AI safety and worrying about AI safety. And I've been one of the strongest voices calling for AI regulation or oversight just to have some kind of oversight, some kind of referee, so that it's not just up to companies to decide what they want to do. I think there's also a lot to be done with AI safety, with industry cooperation. I kind of like Motion Pictures association, so I think there's value to that as well. But I do think there's got to be some like in any kind of situation that is, even if it's a game, they have referees. So I think it is important for there to be regulation. Like I said, my view on safety is like try to make it maximally curious, maximally truth seeking. And I think this is, this is important that you to avoid the inverse morality problem. Like if you try to program a certain morality, you can have the, you, you can basically invert it and get the opposite, what is sometimes called the Waluigi problem. If you make Luigi, you risk creating Waluigi at the same time. So I think that's a metaphor that a lot of people can appreciate.”

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AOC on the biggest foreign policy change in America: " Well, I think zooming out beyond just this presidential administration, I think that what we are seeing is between President trump's first administration pulling out of longstanding international agreements, then you have President Biden who is opting in back into some of them, such E.G., with the Paris Climate Accords, um. And then you have President Trump that's elected again. I think what we are seeing now is this idea that US foreign policy is and some of our more basic and foundational values, based commitments seem to be enacted based on the partisanship of whoever is elected. That we play hokey pokey with USAID, with the Paris Climate Agreement, with ah, with many of our commitments, and I don't think that that is good for the country. Ah, I think that what is best is for when we sign an agreement and when we're a part of it, we stay in it, um, so that they know that our commitments are reflective of our nation's values in a way that transcends, ah, partisanship. And so I think that instability is one, but then the other. I think it it, it is hand in hand with the volatility. On one hand, it goes far beyond just agreements, and it goes into real aberrations. I think are in in interventionism, I think, a turning back on our commitment on human rights, um, as well as super charging an economic regime that fuels the 1 % um. And I think that that that piece is the most concerning for everyday people."

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.Erik Voorhees: It’s actually good, from the Trojan horse perspective, that Bitcoin was traceable enough for traditional institutions to tolerate it. “When Bitcoin came out, everyone called it private, thought of it as private. It was referred to as anonymous in every news story. And in some ways, it is very private and very anonymous. But the truth is that it’s also extremely trackable and traceable. It is not private in reality. And the question is, should it have been from the start? And at first I thought, yes, it should have been more private. And that was a mistake in its design. However, I think if Bitcoin had been anonymous truly from the start, like a Zcash or a Monero, it would have had such antagonism from the state. I don’t know that the state could have snuffed it out, but they would have tried much harder. And I think it’s actually good, from the Trojan horse metaphor perspective, that it was traceable enough that the traditional institutions could tolerate it. They’ve never liked it, but they could at least tolerate it because there is some traceability. And that has allowed Bitcoin to grow. And I think in its shadow, that other crypto assets are actually anonymous is very healthy. The strength of cryptocurrency as a concept in society, I think, is served best when Bitcoin itself is not perfectly private, but other assets are. That is a very difficult thing, I think, for the state to combat. And that decentralization of attributes is really, really crucial. So, yeah, I’m very glad that there are other coins that are private. I want there to be more of them, and I want them to be more popular. And I think it’s okay that Bitcoin itself is not.”

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