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🫀 Why Photon-Counting CT Is the New Standard for Non-Invasive Stent Imaging Because “Uninterpretable” Should No Longer Be Acceptable For years, coronary stent evaluation by CTA was often dismissed: “Too much blooming.” “Too much metal artifact.” “Just send the patient to invasive angiography.” That paradigm belongs to the past....

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Dr. Filippo Cademartiri

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Tino Costantinivor 4 Monaten

Can we expect similar image clarity when dealing with severely calcified plaques?

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Abstract photography taught me to value clarity in blurred lines. PCCT achieves exactly that for stent imaging: from 'uninterpretable' to diagnostic confidence.

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Worlds collide. This tech is also used for cerebral spinal fluid leaks, which my wife has.

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🫀 Detecting Diffuse Non-Calcified Coronary Atherosclerosis with Photon Counting CT: Seeing What Conventional CT Often Misses In coronary CTA, the hardest disease to detect is not focal stenosis. It’s diffuse, non-calcified atherosclerosis. No obvious narrowing. No calcium. Just subtle, continuous vessel wall involvement. This is where Photon-Counting CT (PCCT) changes the rules. 🧠 Why it’s difficult Diffuse non-calcified disease presents as: ✔️ Mild, long-segment wall thickening ✔️ Subtle attenuation differences vs lumen ✔️ Positive remodeling without clear stenosis With conventional CT: ✔️ Limited spatial resolution blurs the wall ✔️ Low contrast resolution hides soft plaque ✔️ Motion and noise mask continuity 👉 Result: disease is underestimated or missed ⚡ What PCCT enables ✔️ Ultra-high spatial resolution Clear visualization of the vessel wall along its entire course Detection of subtle, diffuse thickening ✔️ High iodine concentration (400 mg I/mL) Strong intraluminal signal Higher contrast between lumen and vessel wall Diffuse disease becomes visible as a pattern, not noise ✔️ High temporal resolution Reduced motion blur Stable assessment of long coronary segments ✔️ Spectral capability Cleaner iodine–tissue separation Additional confidence in identifying non-calcified plaque 🎯 The shift We move from: Detecting focal stenosis To: Recognizing diffuse atherosclerotic burden From: “Is there a blockage?” To: “How diseased is the artery overall?” Diffuse coronary disease is real. It has always been there. Now we can see it. That’s the power of Photon-Counting CT in coronary atherosclerosis. ⚡🫀 #PhotonCountingCT #PCCT #CoronaryCTA #Atherosclerosis #NonCalcifiedPlaque #PreventiveCardiology #CardiacCT #RadiologyInnovation #yesCCT

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PHOTON COUNTING CT is NOT a better CT It is a NEW imaging modality Photon Counting CT (PCCT) represents a transformative leap in medical imaging, not only as a molecular imaging modality but also as a technology offering ultra-high resolution and functional imaging capabilities. It is fundamentally more than just an enhanced version of traditional CT—PCCT introduces new ways of seeing and understanding the human body, providing critical insights at the molecular, structural, and functional levels. This positions PCCT as a unique imaging modality that requires a fresh approach to technical implementation, operational workflows, and financial planning. Despite the larger upfront investment, PCCT’s ability to drastically reduce downstream healthcare costs makes it a highly valuable investment in the long run. 1. Technical Innovations • Molecular Imaging and Energy Discrimination: Unlike traditional CT, which simply measures the total absorbed energy, PCCT counts individual X-ray photons and differentiates their energy levels. This allows for precise molecular imaging, revealing the composition of tissues and materials at a biochemical level. By distinguishing between different tissue types and contrast agents, PCCT opens up new diagnostic possibilities, such as identifying molecular biomarkers in tumors or distinguishing between stable and unstable plaque in coronary arteries. This capability shifts the focus of imaging from purely anatomical to both anatomical and molecular, offering more comprehensive diagnostic information. • Ultra-High Spatial Resolution: PCCT features significantly smaller detector elements compared to conventional CT scanners, allowing for ultra-high resolution imaging. This means clinicians can visualize fine structures such as microcalcifications in arteries, small lesions in soft tissues, or the intricate architecture of bones. This level of detail was previously unattainable with traditional CT. When combined with molecular imaging, this ultra-high resolution allows for the precise localization and characterization of disease at very early stages, which is essential for early diagnosis and intervention. • Functional Imaging Capabilities: PCCT also excels as a functional imaging modality. By capturing energy-resolved information, PCCT can provide insights into tissue functionality and dynamic physiological processes. For instance, it can detect changes in blood flow, tissue perfusion, and oxygenation without the need for additional contrast agents or scans. This functionality allows for real-time assessment of physiological processes, making it particularly valuable in cardiology, oncology, and neurology for evaluating organ function and monitoring disease progression. • Reduced Noise and Artifact Reduction: Photon-counting technology dramatically reduces electronic noise and imaging artifacts, such as beam hardening, resulting in clearer and more accurate images. The ability to deliver ultra-high resolution images with minimal artifacts improves diagnostic accuracy, reducing the need for repeat scans and ensuring that even subtle abnormalities are detected. 2. Operational Considerations • New Workflow for Molecular, High-Resolution, and Functional Imaging: The integration of molecular, ultra-high resolution, and functional imaging into routine clinical workflows introduces complexity that requires adaptation. 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This means healthcare institutions must invest in robust IT infrastructure, including upgraded software and storage solutions, as well as provide additional training for staff on new imaging analysis techniques. • Revised Clinical Protocols: The molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging capabilities of PCCT will likely prompt changes in clinical protocols. For instance, the need for contrast agents may be reduced, simplifying patient preparation and decreasing the risk of adverse reactions. Additionally, the ability to monitor physiological functions in real-time through functional imaging could lead to more dynamic diagnostic procedures, such as assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments in real-time. 3. Financial Impact • Higher Initial Investment: PCCT systems are more expensive than traditional CT scanners due to their advanced technology, which includes photon-counting detectors and the computational power required for high-resolution, molecular, and functional imaging. While this upfront cost is significant, it is crucial to view it in the broader context of the downstream benefits and cost reductions that PCCT offers. • Downstream Cost Reductions: Although the initial capital investment is higher, PCCT’s ability to combine molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging leads to substantial reductions in downstream healthcare costs. Its superior diagnostic accuracy minimizes the need for follow-up tests, repeat scans, or invasive diagnostic procedures, such as diagnostic coronary angiographies. 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PHOTON COUNTING CT is NOT a better CT It is a NEW imaging modality Photon Counting CT (PCCT) represents a transformative leap in medical imaging, not only as a molecular imaging modality but also as a technology offering ultra-high resolution and functional imaging capabilities. It is fundamentally more than just an enhanced version of traditional CT—PCCT introduces new ways of seeing and understanding the human body, providing critical insights at the molecular, structural, and functional levels. This positions PCCT as a unique imaging modality that requires a fresh approach to technical implementation, operational workflows, and financial planning. Despite the larger upfront investment, PCCT’s ability to drastically reduce downstream healthcare costs makes it a highly valuable investment in the long run. 1. Technical Innovations • Molecular Imaging and Energy Discrimination: Unlike traditional CT, which simply measures the total absorbed energy, PCCT counts individual X-ray photons and differentiates their energy levels. This allows for precise molecular imaging, revealing the composition of tissues and materials at a biochemical level. By distinguishing between different tissue types and contrast agents, PCCT opens up new diagnostic possibilities, such as identifying molecular biomarkers in tumors or distinguishing between stable and unstable plaque in coronary arteries. This capability shifts the focus of imaging from purely anatomical to both anatomical and molecular, offering more comprehensive diagnostic information. • Ultra-High Spatial Resolution: PCCT features significantly smaller detector elements compared to conventional CT scanners, allowing for ultra-high resolution imaging. This means clinicians can visualize fine structures such as microcalcifications in arteries, small lesions in soft tissues, or the intricate architecture of bones. This level of detail was previously unattainable with traditional CT. When combined with molecular imaging, this ultra-high resolution allows for the precise localization and characterization of disease at very early stages, which is essential for early diagnosis and intervention. • Functional Imaging Capabilities: PCCT also excels as a functional imaging modality. By capturing energy-resolved information, PCCT can provide insights into tissue functionality and dynamic physiological processes. For instance, it can detect changes in blood flow, tissue perfusion, and oxygenation without the need for additional contrast agents or scans. This functionality allows for real-time assessment of physiological processes, making it particularly valuable in cardiology, oncology, and neurology for evaluating organ function and monitoring disease progression. • Reduced Noise and Artifact Reduction: Photon-counting technology dramatically reduces electronic noise and imaging artifacts, such as beam hardening, resulting in clearer and more accurate images. The ability to deliver ultra-high resolution images with minimal artifacts improves diagnostic accuracy, reducing the need for repeat scans and ensuring that even subtle abnormalities are detected. 2. Operational Considerations • New Workflow for Molecular, High-Resolution, and Functional Imaging: The integration of molecular, ultra-high resolution, and functional imaging into routine clinical workflows introduces complexity that requires adaptation. Radiologists and technicians need specialized training to interpret and analyze multi-energy datasets that include molecular and functional information. PCCT produces a vast amount of detailed data, requiring clinicians to adopt new imaging protocols and refine their diagnostic approaches to fully leverage its capabilities. • Post-Processing and Data Management: PCCT generates richer, more complex datasets, which necessitates advanced post-processing tools and data management systems. Existing PACS and imaging software may not be equipped to handle such large volumes of data or to process functional and molecular information effectively. This means healthcare institutions must invest in robust IT infrastructure, including upgraded software and storage solutions, as well as provide additional training for staff on new imaging analysis techniques. • Revised Clinical Protocols: The molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging capabilities of PCCT will likely prompt changes in clinical protocols. For instance, the need for contrast agents may be reduced, simplifying patient preparation and decreasing the risk of adverse reactions. Additionally, the ability to monitor physiological functions in real-time through functional imaging could lead to more dynamic diagnostic procedures, such as assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments in real-time. 3. Financial Impact • Higher Initial Investment: PCCT systems are more expensive than traditional CT scanners due to their advanced technology, which includes photon-counting detectors and the computational power required for high-resolution, molecular, and functional imaging. While this upfront cost is significant, it is crucial to view it in the broader context of the downstream benefits and cost reductions that PCCT offers. • Downstream Cost Reductions: Although the initial capital investment is higher, PCCT’s ability to combine molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging leads to substantial reductions in downstream healthcare costs. Its superior diagnostic accuracy minimizes the need for follow-up tests, repeat scans, or invasive diagnostic procedures, such as diagnostic coronary angiographies. For example, in cardiology, PCCT can precisely differentiate between types of coronary plaque, reducing the need for invasive procedures to assess risk. • Lower Overall Healthcare Expenditures: By enabling earlier, more accurate diagnoses, PCCT can reduce the overall cost of patient care. Early detection of disease, particularly through its molecular and functional imaging capabilities, allows for more targeted treatments, potentially preventing the need for more aggressive and expensive interventions down the line. For instance, early-stage tumor detection via molecular imaging could lead to less invasive treatments, reducing hospital stays and improving patient outcomes, ultimately driving down healthcare costs. • Increased ROI Through Enhanced Patient Outcomes: Over time, the combination of molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging enhances diagnostic precision, which translates into better patient outcomes. Improved diagnostic accuracy reduces the incidence of unnecessary procedures, minimizes treatment delays, and results in more personalized and effective care. This leads to increased patient satisfaction, better healthcare outcomes, and greater patient throughput—all factors that improve the institution’s return on investment (ROI). • Competitive Advantage and New Revenue Streams: By adopting PCCT, healthcare institutions position themselves at the forefront of advanced imaging technologies. The ability to offer molecular, functional, and ultra-high resolution imaging creates a competitive advantage, attracting more complex and high-value cases. This can boost the institution’s reputation for excellence in diagnostics, leading to increased referrals, new patient populations, and expanded revenue opportunities. 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Farrukh

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TOPIC # 46 DEVELOP REAL ECOSYSTEM DURING 2ND STAGE Dear Global Pioneers, Happy Saturday! Today, I recorded a ten-minute video for you. However, I understand that many of the pioneers may not understand English. So, I am writing this article to help you understand my message. ✅Summary of the 1st Currency stage work from the pioneers' community: According to the white paper, Pi will be a global currency, designed not as an asset or a traditional investment, but as a currency. Therefore, we, as the pioneers' community, need to help Pi complete its mission. The core team can only take care of the infrastructure work; the rest depends on us. This is why it's important for pioneers to understand that we have our task. Our task is not just to complete KYC and migration; it's to develop Pi as a currency. The characteristics of currency include durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability. Currency has five major functions: scale of value, means of circulation, means of storage, means of payment, a world settlement currency. Over the past two and a half years, our focus has been on establishing the first currency function as " scale of value" and generating at least one million GCV $314,159 data. We have received support from pioneers representing at least 120 countries. We believe there is no alternative to GCV in terms of pricing. CT’s announcement on Pi2Day indicates that we are on right track and at the forefront of OM. As a result, GCV $314,159 is aligned with Pi Network's mission and vision. I’ve noticed that many pioneers are questioning CT about the delay in KYC and migration procedures over the past two and a half years. My response is that they were awaiting GCV from pioneers. Without this support, our goal of establishing a currency would not be achievable. However, despite the recent Global GCV movement, we have not seen significant involvement from merchants in the exchange of GCV. Most of the data has been generated by pioneers. This is crucial during the initial stages for "value scale." from our pioneers. We have submitted petitions to CT three times for OM on Pi2Day. This is because most community leaders and pioneers are facing resource shortages, and the first function of "value scale" has been successful. If CT can announce the GCV price and OM on Pi2Day , the entire ecosystem will operates on the same pricing system for development. We believe this strategy can also work well. However, CT has announced that OM will be at the earliest by the end of this year. From my perspective, the goal is to reach 15 million KYC and 10 migration Pi wallets, and more importantly, to ensure that the ecosystem has developed to meet the maturity level outlined in the 2019 white paper, or at least has a prototype of the ecosystem. This approach may eliminate the need to announce the Pi price once the entire ecosystem has been accepted. This conservative approach aims to prevent pioneers from converting Pi to FIAT after OM. Instead, the ecosystem will offer utilities for pioneers to use. This will result in a more stable and secure Pi currency. ✅Since CT has decided to OM until the year end or later, there will be at least five months for ecosystem development. Hence, the question now is what pioneers can do during Currency 2nd Stage? Pioneers always have the task of completing their KYC and migration on time, and they are encouraged to become validators if they wish. In addition to the above, pioneers have another important task, which CT cannot directly ask us to do, but it's something we need to do for ourselves. This task is to join the ecosystem with GCV price. As we have discussed, since we want Pi as a currency, it must circulate in our community. Therefore, we need merchants and service providers to offer products or services. However, we cannot force them to do so. If we enforce full Pi payments, they will avoid participating. Currently, we are seeing some full Pi payments in our online ecosystem at different prices, but almost all are very low, less than $1 or less than $0.1. We believe this price is not suitable for Pi's long-term vision and mission. That's why we choose to only support GCV. ✅So the next question is: How can we motivate merchants and service providers to join our ecosystem so that we can OM with GCV $314,159? My suggestion is to allow partial Pi and partial FIAT. They can use 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, or even 90% FIAT. As long as the FIAT value is lower than the market price, it will benefit pioneers. When more merchants join, they will compete with each other to lower the FIAT ratio. This concept aims to create a real business environment, not a charity environment. We should not depend on leaders, pioneers, or merchants to donate. Instead, we need to create a mechanism to let them compete, which will benefit them and motivate more merchants to join. What about pioneers? If given two options, which one would you choose? a. Only small items worth $1 available for full Pi payment, with no higher value products available and still needing to spend FIAT from the outside market. b. Buy products inside our community at a 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% FIAT ratio, lower than the outside market price, and including larger items like cell phones, TVs, appliances, jewelry, furniture, clothing, shoes, etc. without limitation. You will save at least 20%-30% on your daily or luxury purchases. I believe you would want option b, as you would save a significant amount of money during the five months. Most importantly, you would be very happy because you understand that what you do will make GCV $314,159 a reality without any doubt. Do you want to live with uncertainty or certainty? Joining this kind of barter system will bring you happiness with certainty. This is what I call the creation of Pi circulation, which is our second stage. After OM, we will enter the third, fourth, and fifth stages, which are the storage, payment, and international settlement currency stages. Since GCV $314,159 on the right track to OM, we need to make GCV more widely accepted and widely used to create circulation. In this way, we will make GCV OM foundation very strong and this will help the ecosystem after OM to reduce any risk that pioneers all go to exchange market to dump. Pi represents not only the future of our pioneers but also the future of the world. Let us come together as a strong, unified family and community. However, beyond this unity, it is imperative to establish a robust business ecosystem and a supportive development environment to encourage and incentivize the participation of more ecosystem members towards our long-term objectives. This will have a positive impact on our local economy and facilitate garnering support from various national governments for the Pi Network. It is crucial for the ecosystem to adhere to FIAT tax obligations to respective country governments, even during the mainnet enclosure. Therefore, partial FIAT payments are essential to enable compliance. Without such a practice, merchants would struggle to sustain themselves and would not have the necessary FIAT currency for tax payments. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Disclaimer: The above is only my personal analysis and does not represent CT or any business, and is only for community education. Any merchants or pioneers should use their own evaluation to see if it is suitable for them.
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TOPIC # 46 DEVELOP REAL ECOSYSTEM DURING 2ND STAGE Dear Global Pioneers, Happy Saturday! Today, I recorded a ten-minute video for you. However, I understand that many of the pioneers may not understand English. So, I am writing this article to help you understand my message. ✅Summary of the 1st Currency stage work from the pioneers' community: According to the white paper, Pi will be a global currency, designed not as an asset or a traditional investment, but as a currency. Therefore, we, as the pioneers' community, need to help Pi complete its mission. The core team can only take care of the infrastructure work; the rest depends on us. This is why it's important for pioneers to understand that we have our task. Our task is not just to complete KYC and migration; it's to develop Pi as a currency. The characteristics of currency include durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability. Currency has five major functions: scale of value, means of circulation, means of storage, means of payment, a world settlement currency. Over the past two and a half years, our focus has been on establishing the first currency function as " scale of value" and generating at least one million GCV $314,159 data. We have received support from pioneers representing at least 120 countries. We believe there is no alternative to GCV in terms of pricing. CT’s announcement on Pi2Day indicates that we are on right track and at the forefront of OM. As a result, GCV $314,159 is aligned with Pi Network's mission and vision. I’ve noticed that many pioneers are questioning CT about the delay in KYC and migration procedures over the past two and a half years. My response is that they were awaiting GCV from pioneers. Without this support, our goal of establishing a currency would not be achievable. However, despite the recent Global GCV movement, we have not seen significant involvement from merchants in the exchange of GCV. Most of the data has been generated by pioneers. This is crucial during the initial stages for "value scale." from our pioneers. We have submitted petitions to CT three times for OM on Pi2Day. This is because most community leaders and pioneers are facing resource shortages, and the first function of "value scale" has been successful. If CT can announce the GCV price and OM on Pi2Day , the entire ecosystem will operates on the same pricing system for development. We believe this strategy can also work well. However, CT has announced that OM will be at the earliest by the end of this year. From my perspective, the goal is to reach 15 million KYC and 10 migration Pi wallets, and more importantly, to ensure that the ecosystem has developed to meet the maturity level outlined in the 2019 white paper, or at least has a prototype of the ecosystem. This approach may eliminate the need to announce the Pi price once the entire ecosystem has been accepted. This conservative approach aims to prevent pioneers from converting Pi to FIAT after OM. Instead, the ecosystem will offer utilities for pioneers to use. This will result in a more stable and secure Pi currency. ✅Since CT has decided to OM until the year end or later, there will be at least five months for ecosystem development. Hence, the question now is what pioneers can do during Currency 2nd Stage? Pioneers always have the task of completing their KYC and migration on time, and they are encouraged to become validators if they wish. In addition to the above, pioneers have another important task, which CT cannot directly ask us to do, but it's something we need to do for ourselves. This task is to join the ecosystem with GCV price. As we have discussed, since we want Pi as a currency, it must circulate in our community. Therefore, we need merchants and service providers to offer products or services. However, we cannot force them to do so. If we enforce full Pi payments, they will avoid participating. Currently, we are seeing some full Pi payments in our online ecosystem at different prices, but almost all are very low, less than $1 or less than $0.1. We believe this price is not suitable for Pi's long-term vision and mission. That's why we choose to only support GCV. ✅So the next question is: How can we motivate merchants and service providers to join our ecosystem so that we can OM with GCV $314,159? My suggestion is to allow partial Pi and partial FIAT. They can use 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, or even 90% FIAT. As long as the FIAT value is lower than the market price, it will benefit pioneers. When more merchants join, they will compete with each other to lower the FIAT ratio. This concept aims to create a real business environment, not a charity environment. We should not depend on leaders, pioneers, or merchants to donate. Instead, we need to create a mechanism to let them compete, which will benefit them and motivate more merchants to join. What about pioneers? If given two options, which one would you choose? a. Only small items worth $1 available for full Pi payment, with no higher value products available and still needing to spend FIAT from the outside market. b. Buy products inside our community at a 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% FIAT ratio, lower than the outside market price, and including larger items like cell phones, TVs, appliances, jewelry, furniture, clothing, shoes, etc. without limitation. You will save at least 20%-30% on your daily or luxury purchases. I believe you would want option b, as you would save a significant amount of money during the five months. Most importantly, you would be very happy because you understand that what you do will make GCV $314,159 a reality without any doubt. Do you want to live with uncertainty or certainty? Joining this kind of barter system will bring you happiness with certainty. This is what I call the creation of Pi circulation, which is our second stage. After OM, we will enter the third, fourth, and fifth stages, which are the storage, payment, and international settlement currency stages. Since GCV $314,159 on the right track to OM, we need to make GCV more widely accepted and widely used to create circulation. In this way, we will make GCV OM foundation very strong and this will help the ecosystem after OM to reduce any risk that pioneers all go to exchange market to dump. Pi represents not only the future of our pioneers but also the future of the world. Let us come together as a strong, unified family and community. However, beyond this unity, it is imperative to establish a robust business ecosystem and a supportive development environment to encourage and incentivize the participation of more ecosystem members towards our long-term objectives. This will have a positive impact on our local economy and facilitate garnering support from various national governments for the Pi Network. It is crucial for the ecosystem to adhere to FIAT tax obligations to respective country governments, even during the mainnet enclosure. Therefore, partial FIAT payments are essential to enable compliance. Without such a practice, merchants would struggle to sustain themselves and would not have the necessary FIAT currency for tax payments. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Disclaimer: The above is only my personal analysis and does not represent CT or any business, and is only for community education. Any merchants or pioneers should use their own evaluation to see if it is suitable for them.

Doris Yin 东方紫莲🪷

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TOPIC #19: CORRECTION OF MISCONCEPTIONS IN SOME PIONEERS Happy Sunday, Global Pioneers.🌹🌹🌹 I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to address some misconceptions that I've noticed among our community of Pi Network pioneers. ✅Firstly, Pi is a cryptocurrency that is intended to become a real currency, but it won't replace FIAT currency. Traditional cryptocurrencies have failed as currencies but have instead become assets. Therefore, Pi Network needs a consensus price to OM instead of relying on the exchange market. Please don't use traditional cryptocurrency concepts to limit Pi Network, as regulations will be different from current cryptocurrencies. The regulation for Pi Network as a currency has not yet been released because Pi has not yet been introduced to the world. All activities are currently happening within the community. ✅Secondly, many pioneers have requested the Core Team (CT) to give a price so that we can OM, but this is not possible. CT cannot give a price or guide or indicate a price because it would pose a risk to the project. CT can only work on infrastructure and technology. The government will not be involved in Pi Network, especially during the enclosed mainnet period. This period is for CT, ecosystem developers, and pioneers to work together for the ecosystem. They provide applications and utilities, and pioneers provide the consensus price to help the ecosystem prosper and become robust and mature so that the price won't be affected by the exchange market when OM. Therefore, the current emergency for pioneers is to achieve a safe and high enough consensus price. If we can reach this price and prove it on the blockchain record, the sooner pioneers can pass KYC and migrate to reach OM. ✅Thirdly, some pioneers think of themselves as customers and imagine that they don't have to do anything but require CT or big companies to stand in front and do everything so that they can get wealth. This is impossible. Pioneers have a responsibility to reach a consensus price that aligns with Pi Network's long-term goal, which is to become a world currency. 👉The sooner we can achieve this, the faster KYC and migration will be. Please don't complain to CT because they've completed their task. It's up to pioneers to do our work. 👉Fighting over the price has delayed the process. How can we help? Study the white paper yourself, educate your community, and generate good data. This will help your region's KYC and migration speed. 👉Please remember that Pi Network is contributing a lot and is eager to OM more than us because they spend a lot of money every day. If they didn't insist on their mission, they could have gone to the exchange market two years ago and made a profit. But they have a mission and can withstand high pressure to achieve their goal. 👉They called pioneers one year before to complete our task, which is to reach a price consensus. It's not just about completing your checklist. The checklist can be done in a few minutes. It's not because there aren't enough validators, but rather that many validators have no applications to validate because CT hasn't released them. 👉Why? Because too many pioneers are involved in the black market, and too many low prices are recorded. If they do, Pi's mission cannot be realized. 👉The point is not just to pass KYC and migration. The critical point is united price to GCV! And total leave blackmarket! 👉If CT lets everyone pass when the price is too low, Pi will fail as a currency, and there will be no chance to change it. I was involved in a German cryptocurrency that was in the same situation five years ago. Yes, it was OM on time, and everyone passed KYC. But what happened? Since the holders received the coin at a very low price, around 0.2 Euro by ICO, and some got it for 0.05 Euro, many holders sold it when OM, causing the price to drop to 0.004 USD in 2 months for four years, and now it's still 0.002 USD. Even though the boss invested a huge amount of money to create a need and develop many ecosystems, it still cannot change the reality. ✅So our goal is not just KYC, which cannot make you earn money or at least cannot make you financially free. Our goal is for Pi to successfully OM, satisfying its long-term mission and goal! When Pi Network successfully launches Mainnet, you will definitely achieve financial freedom. This is not just a matter of earning a few hundred or thousand dollars ( Actully I heard a lot pioneers have been scammed which means they lost Pi but no FIAT transfer to them) as you may have experienced before. Those funds will eventually be spent and you may find yourself in the same financial situation as before. In fact your wallet Pi will be confiscated before OM which means you are totally lose change your life opportunity. Do you think it's worth the risk? If you really need hundreds dollars, I suggest to find a labor work such as a waiter who can earn at leas $3000 -$4000 monthly. 👉Therefore, I strongly suggest that pioneers spread education on GCV and study the white paper in your community. Our behavior should align with Pi Network's long-term vision. Only in this way can we push OM quickly, and maybe you will be lucky, and your region can get more KYC slots and migrate more because of your hard work. DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE opinions or statements shared are only my personal and not affiliated with Pi Network. For your reference only! Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷
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TOPIC #19: CORRECTION OF MISCONCEPTIONS IN SOME PIONEERS Happy Sunday, Global Pioneers.🌹🌹🌹 I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to address some misconceptions that I've noticed among our community of Pi Network pioneers. ✅Firstly, Pi is a cryptocurrency that is intended to become a real currency, but it won't replace FIAT currency. Traditional cryptocurrencies have failed as currencies but have instead become assets. Therefore, Pi Network needs a consensus price to OM instead of relying on the exchange market. Please don't use traditional cryptocurrency concepts to limit Pi Network, as regulations will be different from current cryptocurrencies. The regulation for Pi Network as a currency has not yet been released because Pi has not yet been introduced to the world. All activities are currently happening within the community. ✅Secondly, many pioneers have requested the Core Team (CT) to give a price so that we can OM, but this is not possible. CT cannot give a price or guide or indicate a price because it would pose a risk to the project. CT can only work on infrastructure and technology. The government will not be involved in Pi Network, especially during the enclosed mainnet period. This period is for CT, ecosystem developers, and pioneers to work together for the ecosystem. They provide applications and utilities, and pioneers provide the consensus price to help the ecosystem prosper and become robust and mature so that the price won't be affected by the exchange market when OM. Therefore, the current emergency for pioneers is to achieve a safe and high enough consensus price. If we can reach this price and prove it on the blockchain record, the sooner pioneers can pass KYC and migrate to reach OM. ✅Thirdly, some pioneers think of themselves as customers and imagine that they don't have to do anything but require CT or big companies to stand in front and do everything so that they can get wealth. This is impossible. Pioneers have a responsibility to reach a consensus price that aligns with Pi Network's long-term goal, which is to become a world currency. 👉The sooner we can achieve this, the faster KYC and migration will be. Please don't complain to CT because they've completed their task. It's up to pioneers to do our work. 👉Fighting over the price has delayed the process. How can we help? Study the white paper yourself, educate your community, and generate good data. This will help your region's KYC and migration speed. 👉Please remember that Pi Network is contributing a lot and is eager to OM more than us because they spend a lot of money every day. If they didn't insist on their mission, they could have gone to the exchange market two years ago and made a profit. But they have a mission and can withstand high pressure to achieve their goal. 👉They called pioneers one year before to complete our task, which is to reach a price consensus. It's not just about completing your checklist. The checklist can be done in a few minutes. It's not because there aren't enough validators, but rather that many validators have no applications to validate because CT hasn't released them. 👉Why? Because too many pioneers are involved in the black market, and too many low prices are recorded. If they do, Pi's mission cannot be realized. 👉The point is not just to pass KYC and migration. The critical point is united price to GCV! And total leave blackmarket! 👉If CT lets everyone pass when the price is too low, Pi will fail as a currency, and there will be no chance to change it. I was involved in a German cryptocurrency that was in the same situation five years ago. Yes, it was OM on time, and everyone passed KYC. But what happened? Since the holders received the coin at a very low price, around 0.2 Euro by ICO, and some got it for 0.05 Euro, many holders sold it when OM, causing the price to drop to 0.004 USD in 2 months for four years, and now it's still 0.002 USD. Even though the boss invested a huge amount of money to create a need and develop many ecosystems, it still cannot change the reality. ✅So our goal is not just KYC, which cannot make you earn money or at least cannot make you financially free. Our goal is for Pi to successfully OM, satisfying its long-term mission and goal! When Pi Network successfully launches Mainnet, you will definitely achieve financial freedom. This is not just a matter of earning a few hundred or thousand dollars ( Actully I heard a lot pioneers have been scammed which means they lost Pi but no FIAT transfer to them) as you may have experienced before. Those funds will eventually be spent and you may find yourself in the same financial situation as before. In fact your wallet Pi will be confiscated before OM which means you are totally lose change your life opportunity. Do you think it's worth the risk? If you really need hundreds dollars, I suggest to find a labor work such as a waiter who can earn at leas $3000 -$4000 monthly. 👉Therefore, I strongly suggest that pioneers spread education on GCV and study the white paper in your community. Our behavior should align with Pi Network's long-term vision. Only in this way can we push OM quickly, and maybe you will be lucky, and your region can get more KYC slots and migrate more because of your hard work. DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE opinions or statements shared are only my personal and not affiliated with Pi Network. For your reference only! Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷

Doris Yin 东方紫莲🪷

114,843 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Dear Pioneers, Today, I decided to share this message with you because when I searched online, I noticed something very important. Many exchange markets already know that the Pi Network has GCV — Global Consensus Value. They even acknowledge that this value is community-driven. But they say it is not official, because it has not been formally endorsed by CT. Also we still have a lot of pioneers never deeply understand white paper. They always use market cap to deny GCV. All the above is because they assume Pi is another traditional crypto currency. This made me think. Not only outsiders, but even some of our own pioneers still hesitate or doubt GCV. Why? Because they don’t fully understand the concept difference between traditional crypto and Pi Network. So today, I want to make it very clear for everyone: what is value, and what is price? Most traditional cryptocurrency analysts talk about is price. They see supply and demand, market cap, and speculation. For them, cryptocurrency is just an investment, like buying a stock. In accounting, this makes crypto look like an asset — something you buy and sell at a price. But if you carefully read the Pi white paper, you will see the true vision of Dr. Nicolas. He created Pi Network because he regretted how traditional cryptocurrencies were being used. Blockchain, instead of serving humanity, became only a tool for speculation. Coins were bought and sold, but they failed to bring real value to ordinary people and to our global economy. For years, crypto has been stuck in this loop of speculation. That is why Pi Network was born. Pi is not designed to follow the same path as traditional cryptocurrencies. Its destination is not simply to be listed on exchanges. Current exchange market is the landscape on the road. It is not Pi Network destination. We already have thousands of tokens there. What we truly need is a real currency — one that can resolve economic crises, restore fairness, and bring opportunity to ordinary people. Now let’s ask: what is currency? If you search, you will find a simple definition: currency is a medium of exchange. And for any exchange medium to work, it requires consensus among the users. Everyone must agree on its value before it can be used in the economy. That is how fiat money works. A $1 bill and a $100 bill cost the same to print. The paper and ink are nearly identical. But because the government endorses it, people trust and accept it different value on the paper bill. That trust gives fiat money its power. Yet even fiat money is not always stable. In many countries, we see devaluation and inflation. The value of government money is not guaranteed but still much stable than traditional cryptocurrency. Traditional cryptocurrencies are unstable — their price rises and falls daily, driven by speculation. It can change 100% in one day. But our FIAT inflation is less than 10% in one year normally. This is why Pi Network GCV is so important. We have the opportunity to create a new kind of currency: one that is long-term stable, resistant to inflation, efficient for international settlement, and much cheaper in transfer costs. With Pi, transactions can be faster, fairer, and useful in daily life. A medium of exchange for payments, A store of value to protect wealth, And a unit of account for settlement. This is what Pi is becoming. But here is something very important to understand: the consensus of Pi does not come from the Core Team. If the Core Team could set the value, they would have done so three years ago. There is no reason tell pioneers that the value is from pioneers but they give us another value. CT cannot give us a value or reject pioneers created value— because value is not given by CT, it is created by pioneers community consensus. Our pioneering community has been working tirelessly for over three years. Every day, we generate GCV data. We also have the Industrial Alliance, where businesses and industries are beginning to adopt Pi at GCV in real supply chains. Some people believe that GCV is impossible because it may lead to business bankruptcy. However, this is a misconception. A business faces bankruptcy when its value cannot be stabilized, regardless of whether Pi is valued at $1, $10, or $100 or GCV. Significant fluctuations can cause businesses to fail; in contrast, as long as there is stability, GCV will not put businesses at risk, provided that everyone accepts it. This stability ensures that purchasing power remains consistent. Additionally, it's important to note that 100 billion Pi is not intended for use within a single year; rather, it is meant to last for centuries or even thousands of years. Therefore, there is no need to worry that we lack sufficient assets.Remember, a real currency must serve three functions: We don’t need the Core Team to endorse Pi’s value. GCV official authority is pioneers not CT. What we need is more businesses and more pioneers to accept it. Think about it: in the past, some villages used shells as money. Why? Because a cow was too big to trade for five chickens or other products. Shells were easier, and as long as everyone in the village agreed Pi had fixed value. It can be the village currency. The same is true for Pi. We have more than 60 million pioneers. If we all accept it, and businesses accept it too, then that is Pi’s true value. What makes this so special is that we are not only the users, we are also the creators. This is true decentralization. The power belongs to us. So I hope every pioneer can deeply understand this concept. Don’t doubt, but believe with confidence. What must we do now? Accept Pi in our daily lives. Share correct information and educate others. Promote GCV. Invite more merchants to join. Even though Pi is not yet fully open, businesses can already accept Pi partially — 5%, 10%, 20%, even 50% of a payment. It doesn’t matter. Every transaction, every piece of GCV data, strengthens Pi as a currency. So business don't have any loss or risk. It can only increase their reputation and sales especially now most business bankrupt because of stagflation. Our strategy can save a lot of business. So let us remember: Price belongs to assets. Value belongs to currency. And consensus belongs to pioneers. We already have the victory, because value is in our hands. Together, we will win. In fact, we have already won. Thank you. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Pi = Real Currency, Not Speculation 📷 Price belongs to assets. 📷 Value belongs to currency. 📷 Consensus belongs to pioneers. 📷 Together, we build Global Consensus Value (GCV). 📷 We are not only users, we are creators.
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Dear Pioneers, Today, I decided to share this message with you because when I searched online, I noticed something very important. Many exchange markets already know that the Pi Network has GCV — Global Consensus Value. They even acknowledge that this value is community-driven. But they say it is not official, because it has not been formally endorsed by CT. Also we still have a lot of pioneers never deeply understand white paper. They always use market cap to deny GCV. All the above is because they assume Pi is another traditional crypto currency. This made me think. Not only outsiders, but even some of our own pioneers still hesitate or doubt GCV. Why? Because they don’t fully understand the concept difference between traditional crypto and Pi Network. So today, I want to make it very clear for everyone: what is value, and what is price? Most traditional cryptocurrency analysts talk about is price. They see supply and demand, market cap, and speculation. For them, cryptocurrency is just an investment, like buying a stock. In accounting, this makes crypto look like an asset — something you buy and sell at a price. But if you carefully read the Pi white paper, you will see the true vision of Dr. Nicolas. He created Pi Network because he regretted how traditional cryptocurrencies were being used. Blockchain, instead of serving humanity, became only a tool for speculation. Coins were bought and sold, but they failed to bring real value to ordinary people and to our global economy. For years, crypto has been stuck in this loop of speculation. That is why Pi Network was born. Pi is not designed to follow the same path as traditional cryptocurrencies. Its destination is not simply to be listed on exchanges. Current exchange market is the landscape on the road. It is not Pi Network destination. We already have thousands of tokens there. What we truly need is a real currency — one that can resolve economic crises, restore fairness, and bring opportunity to ordinary people. Now let’s ask: what is currency? If you search, you will find a simple definition: currency is a medium of exchange. And for any exchange medium to work, it requires consensus among the users. Everyone must agree on its value before it can be used in the economy. That is how fiat money works. A $1 bill and a $100 bill cost the same to print. The paper and ink are nearly identical. But because the government endorses it, people trust and accept it different value on the paper bill. That trust gives fiat money its power. Yet even fiat money is not always stable. In many countries, we see devaluation and inflation. The value of government money is not guaranteed but still much stable than traditional cryptocurrency. Traditional cryptocurrencies are unstable — their price rises and falls daily, driven by speculation. It can change 100% in one day. But our FIAT inflation is less than 10% in one year normally. This is why Pi Network GCV is so important. We have the opportunity to create a new kind of currency: one that is long-term stable, resistant to inflation, efficient for international settlement, and much cheaper in transfer costs. With Pi, transactions can be faster, fairer, and useful in daily life. A medium of exchange for payments, A store of value to protect wealth, And a unit of account for settlement. This is what Pi is becoming. But here is something very important to understand: the consensus of Pi does not come from the Core Team. If the Core Team could set the value, they would have done so three years ago. There is no reason tell pioneers that the value is from pioneers but they give us another value. CT cannot give us a value or reject pioneers created value— because value is not given by CT, it is created by pioneers community consensus. Our pioneering community has been working tirelessly for over three years. Every day, we generate GCV data. We also have the Industrial Alliance, where businesses and industries are beginning to adopt Pi at GCV in real supply chains. Some people believe that GCV is impossible because it may lead to business bankruptcy. However, this is a misconception. A business faces bankruptcy when its value cannot be stabilized, regardless of whether Pi is valued at $1, $10, or $100 or GCV. Significant fluctuations can cause businesses to fail; in contrast, as long as there is stability, GCV will not put businesses at risk, provided that everyone accepts it. This stability ensures that purchasing power remains consistent. Additionally, it's important to note that 100 billion Pi is not intended for use within a single year; rather, it is meant to last for centuries or even thousands of years. Therefore, there is no need to worry that we lack sufficient assets.Remember, a real currency must serve three functions: We don’t need the Core Team to endorse Pi’s value. GCV official authority is pioneers not CT. What we need is more businesses and more pioneers to accept it. Think about it: in the past, some villages used shells as money. Why? Because a cow was too big to trade for five chickens or other products. Shells were easier, and as long as everyone in the village agreed Pi had fixed value. It can be the village currency. The same is true for Pi. We have more than 60 million pioneers. If we all accept it, and businesses accept it too, then that is Pi’s true value. What makes this so special is that we are not only the users, we are also the creators. This is true decentralization. The power belongs to us. So I hope every pioneer can deeply understand this concept. Don’t doubt, but believe with confidence. What must we do now? Accept Pi in our daily lives. Share correct information and educate others. Promote GCV. Invite more merchants to join. Even though Pi is not yet fully open, businesses can already accept Pi partially — 5%, 10%, 20%, even 50% of a payment. It doesn’t matter. Every transaction, every piece of GCV data, strengthens Pi as a currency. So business don't have any loss or risk. It can only increase their reputation and sales especially now most business bankrupt because of stagflation. Our strategy can save a lot of business. So let us remember: Price belongs to assets. Value belongs to currency. And consensus belongs to pioneers. We already have the victory, because value is in our hands. Together, we will win. In fact, we have already won. Thank you. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Pi = Real Currency, Not Speculation 📷 Price belongs to assets. 📷 Value belongs to currency. 📷 Consensus belongs to pioneers. 📷 Together, we build Global Consensus Value (GCV). 📷 We are not only users, we are creators.

Doris Yin 东方紫莲🪷

30,474 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Very powerful testimony by dr. Sabine Hazan "Thank you, senator. It's an honor to be here. The microbiome, our microbes in our guts, is our immunity and tells the story and will tell the story of COVID nineteen. And this is why as a gastroenterologist, I stepped into the pandemic. Through my experience, I will show you how difficult it was to conduct research and publish when the research goes against the national public health narrative." "Interference and delay in research happened and affects all of us. In early twenty twenty, my research genetic sequencing laboratory was the first lab to document the entire sequence of the virus in the stools as opposed to the PCR which is just a little piece of the virus." "We discovered that the virus lingered in the stools for up to forty five days. It took six months to publish this publication at a time where everybody needed to know that it was in your stools. My lab also showed that COVID nineteen in the stools was killed by hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin." "But unfortunately, azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine killed the microbiome. So therefore, vitamin c, d, and zinc was added. Three protocols were submitted to the FDA from our findings. Three studies were also put into in full transparencies to help doctors more effectively treat COVID because I knew data that nobody knew. 04/02/2020, FDA gave us an exempt letter for doing a clinical trial." "In other words, we did not need to do a clinical trial on hydroxychloroquine, z pack, vitamin c, d, and zinc as treatment or hydroxychloroquine, vitamin c, d, and zinc as prophylaxis. April 4, somebody must have called the FDA and said, I got another letter saying, I'm sorry, doctor Hazan. Exemption is denied. You must do a full on clinical trial. Here's the letter." "System pressures delayed us, and we got a green light to start recruiting by May 2020. By then, the media created fear around hydroxychloroquine. It was impossible to recruit. This drug was safely given for years for arthritis and lupus with no problems. My clinical trials companies were also banned and censored from advertising on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter." "Remember, I do clinical trials for a living and never as a clinical trial doctor have I not been able to advertise to recruit for a trial on social media. I kept collecting stools of patients and noticed that patients with severe COVID had a certain bacteria that was missing compared to people that were highly exposed to COVID but never got COVID. That bacteria is called bifidobacteria. Bifidobacteria is an important and key microbe for immunity. It represents your trillion dollar industry of probiotics." "In fact, when you turn the bottle and you see the ingredient, it says bifidobacteria. It is present in newborns. This is why your newborns did not get a problem from COVID at the beginning, and it is absent in old people. The process of aging is loss of bifidobacteria. We published this paper, the lost microbes of COVID nineteen." "It took eight months to publish. If you follow the bifidobacteria like I did, you will notice, and we did notice anyways, that vitamin c actually increases bifidobacteria. This is why vitamin c is important when you take when you take care of viruses and, you know, you've all experienced taking vitamin c for a cold." "Well, we published this data where we showed vitamin c, if we give it to patients before and after, it increased the bifidobacteria. Ivermectin was also an interesting drug because Ivermectin, we noticed, also increased the bifidobacteria within twenty four hours of taking it." "Why Ivermectin? If you look at what Ivermectin is, it is a fermented product of a bacteria that is similar to bifidobacteria. In fact, they're in the same continent of microbes. They live. They're like sisters, brothers in the microbiome." "So I published. I knew that ivermectin increased bifidobacteria, but I said, nah. I can't go out there and start publishing that. That's gonna be too controversial. So I published a hypothesis that maybe what I was observing on the frontline treating patients with COVID, noticing that their oxygen saturation was increasing from ivermectin, was basically maybe ivermectin increased bifidobacteria." "The hypothesis on ivermectin was the most read hypothesis in the pandemic and was retracted after eight months of being on. When we cannot make a hypothesis, this is not science. December twenty twenty, at the same time that I was treating patients with COVID, I began collecting stools of my colleagues that were at home and started going into the hospital. And I said, can I get your stools before and after you get vaccinated? Because to me, this new technology of vaccines, I wanted to see what it was doing on the microbiome." "I discovered that messenger RNA vaccines killed the bifidobacteria. I knew I would never be able to publish this because it goes against the narrative. So I submitted it to my college, the American College of Gastroenterology, and presented it in October 2022. This abstract won a research award at the American College of Gastro beating 6,000 abstracts. That's from academic centers like Harvard and Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson." "This abstract got the attention of 18,000 GI doctors who all of a sudden started realizing maybe killing bifidobacteria is why I got COVID after my vaccine to begin with. Worse than that, and another abstract we presented, was the persistent damage of bifidobacteria from the vaccine." "What is going on here that the vaccine continues to kill the bifidobacteria? At the same time, we presented a link between loss of bifidobacteria and Crohn's disease, loss of bifidobacteria in Lyme disease, and loss of bifidobacteria in invasive cancer. It is nearly impossible to publish data that goes against the national public health narrative." "If doctors cannot publish the data, they cannot find solution to fix the problems. So in conclusion, I will finish with showing this. This represents clinical trials that I've done for pharmaceutical companies prior to COVID. Amongst them are vaccine studies. Yes." "I brought vaccines to the market. Proton pump inhibitors, cardiac drugs, biologics for all sorts of conditions. First, postpartum depression drug, drugs that never made it to the market because they killed people. Clinical trials doctors follow guidelines that allows the industry to provide safe drugs. These guidelines were not followed during the pandemic." "And because of that, everyone is affected. COVID should have been a time where humanity joined forces together and doctors needed to come together. It's a shame that it didn't happen. Interference with research affects all of us. This should not be political." "Science is a story that evolves. It's a multitude of experiments that allow us to see medicine, to give hopes to patients. Skepticism, challenging the current state of knowledge. Having an open mind must be allowed if we have any hope of moving science forward. What I saw this pandemic was not science. Thank you."
8:56

Very powerful testimony by dr. Sabine Hazan "Thank you, senator. It's an honor to be here. The microbiome, our microbes in our guts, is our immunity and tells the story and will tell the story of COVID nineteen. And this is why as a gastroenterologist, I stepped into the pandemic. Through my experience, I will show you how difficult it was to conduct research and publish when the research goes against the national public health narrative." "Interference and delay in research happened and affects all of us. In early twenty twenty, my research genetic sequencing laboratory was the first lab to document the entire sequence of the virus in the stools as opposed to the PCR which is just a little piece of the virus." "We discovered that the virus lingered in the stools for up to forty five days. It took six months to publish this publication at a time where everybody needed to know that it was in your stools. My lab also showed that COVID nineteen in the stools was killed by hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin." "But unfortunately, azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine killed the microbiome. So therefore, vitamin c, d, and zinc was added. Three protocols were submitted to the FDA from our findings. Three studies were also put into in full transparencies to help doctors more effectively treat COVID because I knew data that nobody knew. 04/02/2020, FDA gave us an exempt letter for doing a clinical trial." "In other words, we did not need to do a clinical trial on hydroxychloroquine, z pack, vitamin c, d, and zinc as treatment or hydroxychloroquine, vitamin c, d, and zinc as prophylaxis. April 4, somebody must have called the FDA and said, I got another letter saying, I'm sorry, doctor Hazan. Exemption is denied. You must do a full on clinical trial. Here's the letter." "System pressures delayed us, and we got a green light to start recruiting by May 2020. By then, the media created fear around hydroxychloroquine. It was impossible to recruit. This drug was safely given for years for arthritis and lupus with no problems. My clinical trials companies were also banned and censored from advertising on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter." "Remember, I do clinical trials for a living and never as a clinical trial doctor have I not been able to advertise to recruit for a trial on social media. I kept collecting stools of patients and noticed that patients with severe COVID had a certain bacteria that was missing compared to people that were highly exposed to COVID but never got COVID. That bacteria is called bifidobacteria. Bifidobacteria is an important and key microbe for immunity. It represents your trillion dollar industry of probiotics." "In fact, when you turn the bottle and you see the ingredient, it says bifidobacteria. It is present in newborns. This is why your newborns did not get a problem from COVID at the beginning, and it is absent in old people. The process of aging is loss of bifidobacteria. We published this paper, the lost microbes of COVID nineteen." "It took eight months to publish. If you follow the bifidobacteria like I did, you will notice, and we did notice anyways, that vitamin c actually increases bifidobacteria. This is why vitamin c is important when you take when you take care of viruses and, you know, you've all experienced taking vitamin c for a cold." "Well, we published this data where we showed vitamin c, if we give it to patients before and after, it increased the bifidobacteria. Ivermectin was also an interesting drug because Ivermectin, we noticed, also increased the bifidobacteria within twenty four hours of taking it." "Why Ivermectin? If you look at what Ivermectin is, it is a fermented product of a bacteria that is similar to bifidobacteria. In fact, they're in the same continent of microbes. They live. They're like sisters, brothers in the microbiome." "So I published. I knew that ivermectin increased bifidobacteria, but I said, nah. I can't go out there and start publishing that. That's gonna be too controversial. So I published a hypothesis that maybe what I was observing on the frontline treating patients with COVID, noticing that their oxygen saturation was increasing from ivermectin, was basically maybe ivermectin increased bifidobacteria." "The hypothesis on ivermectin was the most read hypothesis in the pandemic and was retracted after eight months of being on. When we cannot make a hypothesis, this is not science. December twenty twenty, at the same time that I was treating patients with COVID, I began collecting stools of my colleagues that were at home and started going into the hospital. And I said, can I get your stools before and after you get vaccinated? Because to me, this new technology of vaccines, I wanted to see what it was doing on the microbiome." "I discovered that messenger RNA vaccines killed the bifidobacteria. I knew I would never be able to publish this because it goes against the narrative. So I submitted it to my college, the American College of Gastroenterology, and presented it in October 2022. This abstract won a research award at the American College of Gastro beating 6,000 abstracts. That's from academic centers like Harvard and Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson." "This abstract got the attention of 18,000 GI doctors who all of a sudden started realizing maybe killing bifidobacteria is why I got COVID after my vaccine to begin with. Worse than that, and another abstract we presented, was the persistent damage of bifidobacteria from the vaccine." "What is going on here that the vaccine continues to kill the bifidobacteria? At the same time, we presented a link between loss of bifidobacteria and Crohn's disease, loss of bifidobacteria in Lyme disease, and loss of bifidobacteria in invasive cancer. It is nearly impossible to publish data that goes against the national public health narrative." "If doctors cannot publish the data, they cannot find solution to fix the problems. So in conclusion, I will finish with showing this. This represents clinical trials that I've done for pharmaceutical companies prior to COVID. Amongst them are vaccine studies. Yes." "I brought vaccines to the market. Proton pump inhibitors, cardiac drugs, biologics for all sorts of conditions. First, postpartum depression drug, drugs that never made it to the market because they killed people. Clinical trials doctors follow guidelines that allows the industry to provide safe drugs. These guidelines were not followed during the pandemic." "And because of that, everyone is affected. COVID should have been a time where humanity joined forces together and doctors needed to come together. It's a shame that it didn't happen. Interference with research affects all of us. This should not be political." "Science is a story that evolves. It's a multitude of experiments that allow us to see medicine, to give hopes to patients. Skepticism, challenging the current state of knowledge. Having an open mind must be allowed if we have any hope of moving science forward. What I saw this pandemic was not science. Thank you."

Camus

127,765 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

United in the Light - Pi Network GCV Dear Global Pioneers, As we celebrate the significant success of GCV, let’s take a moment to reflect on the amazing contributions highlighted in a video created by the Global GCV CT Video Team Director Miss Diana Qian from Canada. The lyrics were crafted by the head of the Korea GCV Ambassador, Mr. Jin Taek Jun, and the composition was directed by Great PJ. Let’s also revisit the presentations of Dr. Nicolas Kokkalis and Dr. Chengdiao Fan at two conferences: Consensus 2025 in Toronto and Token2049 in Singapore. Dr. Nicolas discussed the implications of AI, while Dr. Fan focused on the future of cryptocurrency, particularly the transition from liquidity to utility. Key aspects of her presentation included: 1. Achieving Real Value: The necessity for cryptocurrencies to surpass mere transactions and liquidity to achieve a real increase in net value through practical applications. 2. Pathways to Innovation: Exploring two main approaches — migrating existing production onto the blockchain and creating new, on-chain productions, particularly in conjunction with advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). 3. Pi Network’s Approach: Discussing Pi Network's unique six-year development strategy leading up to the launch of its open network and its initiatives to build decentralized infrastructure that fosters open innovation and equitable participation in the future of blockchain and AI. 4. AI and Blockchain Integration: Highlighting proof-of-concept projects, such as Pi Node operators running AI models for third-party organizations like OpenMind, to establish a "shared intelligence layer." Recently, I’ve watched many videos discussing the significant layoffs of high-level employees as a result of AI replacing their jobs. Presently, programmers who are working hard are creating AI robots to replace themselves, leaving new university graduates who studied coding struggling to find jobs. So, what about Pi Network? Dr. Nicolas recognizes this trend and aims to collaborate with OpenMind to enhance AI technology. The demand for AI is high, and only Pi Network’s decentralized blockchain can truly support it. Can you see Pi Network's value? It has the potential to be a global currency with limitless possibilities. And it will lead the AI industry by our advanced Web 3.0 decentralized blockchain. Now, let’s discuss liquidity. Dr. Fan provided some clarity as above. Pi will indeed function as a currency for utility usage instead of traditional cryptocurrency for liquidity. Why we need to use traditional currency to buy out all Pi 100 billion and then claim that GCV is too high? This misconception arises from a lack of understanding of Pi Network. Many have not read the white paper. They assume that Pi is just another traditional cryptocurrency that only being listed on exchanges for selling and buying, but that is not the case. Pi on exchange market is for massive adoption so that it can be realized for utility as a currency. Only traditional crypto need to calculate liquidity. As I mentioned before, Pi is designed for centuries, or perhaps even thousands of years. Do you know that every year different countries print paper money? If you think back to a century ago, you could hardly imagine that a car would cost between $20,000 to $100,000, while in the past 100 years before, cars only cost hundreds of dollars. When governments lack enough FIAT, they resort to printing more money. That is why you can feel your money cannot buy same amount of goods every year. However, Pi is different—it has a supply designed for centuries. It won't be devaluated. This doesn’t mean all of its supply will flood the market in one day or one year or 10 years, the release can take longer time based on the Pi economy development. Moreover, if you send Pi from the US to China, it takes just one second and incurs minimal fees. Have you ever used SWIFT to transfer money from one country to another? It takes 5 to 7 days and often incurs around 10% in fees. Additionally, fiat currency depreciates quickly, while Pi is unlikely to devalue. There's no reason for everyone to sell all their Pi for fiat currency. It’s understandable for pioneers to sell 1 or 5 Pi initially, but as the ecosystem develops, this need diminishes. Pi is not just an asset to be listed for people to buy; it needs to circulate. Therefore, its value must remain stable. So we have GCV and some anti-GCV individuals should not use liquidity to deny GCV. Because GCV is for utility purpose.. Can you imagine how much wealth we will create in the future with AI and robots integrated into our daily lives? That’s why we must sustain GCV. Otherwise, it cannot support hundreds or thousands years demanding from all more than 200 countries. Pioneers, you are fortunate. While the world grapples with job losses, we see cuts affecting high-income engineers, programmers, bank employees, and accountants — and soon, this will reach labor jobs too. I’ve seen robots already in existence that can cook and do household chores. In China, many services are now performed by robots. So, value your Pi; it could be your safeguard in a time when AI is replacing many jobs. In closing, I want to congratulate everyone — GCV has triumphed! This is not merely my opinion; please take a look at the video. We have community support from over 100 countries and more than 20 million GCV data points created. Please do not doubt our progress. It also has been ins CT code. We do not need CT to give us a GCV or approve GCV. If they can, they would have done so over three years ago. They prefer GCV to be independent from CT. This is the established rule: the crypto creators should not define the value of cryptocurrency; that value can only come from the pioneers — the holders. --- 📷 United in the Light – GCV Confirmed, Pi’s Future Secured! Together, we prepare for the real Pi GCV economy. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷
2:09

United in the Light - Pi Network GCV Dear Global Pioneers, As we celebrate the significant success of GCV, let’s take a moment to reflect on the amazing contributions highlighted in a video created by the Global GCV CT Video Team Director Miss Diana Qian from Canada. The lyrics were crafted by the head of the Korea GCV Ambassador, Mr. Jin Taek Jun, and the composition was directed by Great PJ. Let’s also revisit the presentations of Dr. Nicolas Kokkalis and Dr. Chengdiao Fan at two conferences: Consensus 2025 in Toronto and Token2049 in Singapore. Dr. Nicolas discussed the implications of AI, while Dr. Fan focused on the future of cryptocurrency, particularly the transition from liquidity to utility. Key aspects of her presentation included: 1. Achieving Real Value: The necessity for cryptocurrencies to surpass mere transactions and liquidity to achieve a real increase in net value through practical applications. 2. Pathways to Innovation: Exploring two main approaches — migrating existing production onto the blockchain and creating new, on-chain productions, particularly in conjunction with advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). 3. Pi Network’s Approach: Discussing Pi Network's unique six-year development strategy leading up to the launch of its open network and its initiatives to build decentralized infrastructure that fosters open innovation and equitable participation in the future of blockchain and AI. 4. AI and Blockchain Integration: Highlighting proof-of-concept projects, such as Pi Node operators running AI models for third-party organizations like OpenMind, to establish a "shared intelligence layer." Recently, I’ve watched many videos discussing the significant layoffs of high-level employees as a result of AI replacing their jobs. Presently, programmers who are working hard are creating AI robots to replace themselves, leaving new university graduates who studied coding struggling to find jobs. So, what about Pi Network? Dr. Nicolas recognizes this trend and aims to collaborate with OpenMind to enhance AI technology. The demand for AI is high, and only Pi Network’s decentralized blockchain can truly support it. Can you see Pi Network's value? It has the potential to be a global currency with limitless possibilities. And it will lead the AI industry by our advanced Web 3.0 decentralized blockchain. Now, let’s discuss liquidity. Dr. Fan provided some clarity as above. Pi will indeed function as a currency for utility usage instead of traditional cryptocurrency for liquidity. Why we need to use traditional currency to buy out all Pi 100 billion and then claim that GCV is too high? This misconception arises from a lack of understanding of Pi Network. Many have not read the white paper. They assume that Pi is just another traditional cryptocurrency that only being listed on exchanges for selling and buying, but that is not the case. Pi on exchange market is for massive adoption so that it can be realized for utility as a currency. Only traditional crypto need to calculate liquidity. As I mentioned before, Pi is designed for centuries, or perhaps even thousands of years. Do you know that every year different countries print paper money? If you think back to a century ago, you could hardly imagine that a car would cost between $20,000 to $100,000, while in the past 100 years before, cars only cost hundreds of dollars. When governments lack enough FIAT, they resort to printing more money. That is why you can feel your money cannot buy same amount of goods every year. However, Pi is different—it has a supply designed for centuries. It won't be devaluated. This doesn’t mean all of its supply will flood the market in one day or one year or 10 years, the release can take longer time based on the Pi economy development. Moreover, if you send Pi from the US to China, it takes just one second and incurs minimal fees. Have you ever used SWIFT to transfer money from one country to another? It takes 5 to 7 days and often incurs around 10% in fees. Additionally, fiat currency depreciates quickly, while Pi is unlikely to devalue. There's no reason for everyone to sell all their Pi for fiat currency. It’s understandable for pioneers to sell 1 or 5 Pi initially, but as the ecosystem develops, this need diminishes. Pi is not just an asset to be listed for people to buy; it needs to circulate. Therefore, its value must remain stable. So we have GCV and some anti-GCV individuals should not use liquidity to deny GCV. Because GCV is for utility purpose.. Can you imagine how much wealth we will create in the future with AI and robots integrated into our daily lives? That’s why we must sustain GCV. Otherwise, it cannot support hundreds or thousands years demanding from all more than 200 countries. Pioneers, you are fortunate. While the world grapples with job losses, we see cuts affecting high-income engineers, programmers, bank employees, and accountants — and soon, this will reach labor jobs too. I’ve seen robots already in existence that can cook and do household chores. In China, many services are now performed by robots. So, value your Pi; it could be your safeguard in a time when AI is replacing many jobs. In closing, I want to congratulate everyone — GCV has triumphed! This is not merely my opinion; please take a look at the video. We have community support from over 100 countries and more than 20 million GCV data points created. Please do not doubt our progress. It also has been ins CT code. We do not need CT to give us a GCV or approve GCV. If they can, they would have done so over three years ago. They prefer GCV to be independent from CT. This is the established rule: the crypto creators should not define the value of cryptocurrency; that value can only come from the pioneers — the holders. --- 📷 United in the Light – GCV Confirmed, Pi’s Future Secured! Together, we prepare for the real Pi GCV economy. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷

Doris Yin 东方紫莲🪷

15,688 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

I think the Singularity could be BORING We were promised flying cars and warp drives. We got same-day delivery and better autocomplete. And somehow, impossibly, we’re bored by it. This is the Boring Singularity. The idea that the most transformative period in human history will feel, to the people living through it, like a long and uneventful Tuesday. I want to explain why this happens. It comes down to three layers. The first is neurological. The second is architectural. The third is physical. Together they create a perfect storm of invisible progress that our minds are designed to ignore. Layer One: The Neurological Filter Here is a thought experiment. Imagine a caveman breaks his arm. For weeks he is miserable. He cannot hunt, cannot gather, cannot contribute. Then the bone heals. Within days of regaining function, he has completely forgotten the misery. The memory of suffering serves no purpose once the threat has passed. Evolution deleted it so he could return to baseline and focus on survival. We do this with everything. We did it with antibiotics. We did it with smartphones. We will do it with longevity. Psychologists call this hedonic adaptation. The human brain is an adaptation machine that returns us to a baseline level of experience regardless of how much our circumstances improve. And here is the critical finding. It only takes about three months for the “new normal” to cement itself. Any change that plays out over months or years, no matter how revolutionary, simply becomes background noise. Think about what this means for the Singularity. If anti-gravity cars were introduced tomorrow, they would be miraculous for a month, a status symbol for a year, and a frustrating utility that needs maintenance by year three. The internet is a collective telepathic hive mind that moves petabits at lightspeed. It is genuinely god-like power. We experience it as checking emails. The Singularity might already be here. We just cannot feel it because our brains are not designed to feel sustained amazement. They are designed to adapt and move on. Layer Two: The Hidden Infrastructure We expected Blade Runner. Neon towers and chrome robots serving drinks at the bar. What we are actually getting is something I call “Reverse Trantor.” In classic science fiction, advanced civilizations build upward and inward. They create city-planets like Trantor in Foundation or Coruscant in Star Wars, layer upon layer of visible technology. Our trajectory is the opposite. We are pushing the infrastructure outward and downward, into spaces humans never see. Consider where the robots actually are. They are not walking down the street. They are in mines and fulfillment centers and vertical farms. The real automation revolution is happening in dark warehouses where no human needs to flip a light switch. You order a package and it arrives faster than it used to. That is the entire perceptible output of a massive transformation in logistics. That’s not to say that you’ll never see humanoid robots milling around, only that the vast majority of them will be away from the public. The same principle applies to computation itself. In hindsight, it will look like the entire purpose of inventing computers was to run AI, and everything else was just the bootloader. We are heading toward a world where 99% of all CPU and GPU cycles are dedicated to machine-to-machine processes, and less than one percent is for human-facing tasks. The vast majority of the intelligence infrastructure will be completely invisible to us, humming along as background noise. And the really heavy stuff will be in space. Earth has a finite ability to dissipate heat. To run truly massive AI systems, we will likely move the servers to orbital platforms or Lagrange points where they can vent entropy into the void. The megastructures will exist. They will just be invisible points of light, indistinguishable from stars and space dust. This is the architectural reality of the Boring Singularity. The magic gets hidden in the walls and launched into orbit. What remains on Earth is green and quiet and looks suspiciously like a return to the pastoral. That’s not a bad thing, and it’s not to say that we return to a “steady state” equilibrium forever. Layer Three: The Hard Limits The final layer is the most sobering. We are hitting the physical ceiling of discovery itself. The Golden Age of science fiction emerged during a specific historical anomaly. Between 1905 and 1970, in a single human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to the Moon, from Newtonian physics to quantum mechanics and the structure of DNA. That created an expectation of constant improvement. Fundamental discoveries happen every decade. The exponential curve goes up forever. Star Trek promised we would keep finding new energy sources and new physics for centuries. The data suggests otherwise. Research on scientific progress shows that we must double research effort every thirteen years just to maintain the same rate of economic growth. Studies of citation patterns reveal that the disruptiveness of new scientific papers dropped by ninety percent between 1945 and 2010. We are publishing more but saying less. The low-hanging fruit is gone. The cost curve tells the story most clearly. In the 1930s, you could discover a new particle with a tabletop experiment in a university lab for a few thousand dollars. It only took a few days to duplicate the splitting of the atom. To confirm the Higgs Boson, however, we needed the Large Hadron Collider, which cost nearly five billion dollars and took decades to build. The next generation of particle physics might require a hundred billion dollars, or trillions. And the math suggests that to probe the truly fundamental structure of reality at the Planck scale, you would need an accelerator the size of a galaxy. We cannot build that. So physics becomes theoretical not because we lack curiosity, but because we can no longer afford to test our hypotheses. Meanwhile, our imagination has outpaced physical reality. We grew up on fiction that treats the laws of physics as suggestions that can be bypassed with clever engineering. And that felt true (at the time) because we kept finding cool exploits, like fiber optics and nuclear fission. But the speed of light appears to be absolute. Thermodynamics is non-negotiable. We can imagine teleportation and warp drives, but there is no known physics that could enable them. This is the Sigmoid Curve in action. Progress is not an exponential line to infinity. It is an S-curve. We have likely passed the steepest part of fundamental discovery, and we are entering the plateau. The Inverted Star Wars So where does this leave us? I think the best model is actually Star Wars, just inverted. In Star Wars, they have had faster-than-light travel and droids for thousands of years. The technology has faded completely into the background. A hyperdrive failure is treated like a flat tire. It is annoying, not existential. Because the tech tree is fully unlocked, all the drama shifts to politics and governance and ideology. The Empire versus the Republic. Trade routes and treaties and coups. We are heading somewhere similar, with one crucial inversion. Our droids will be smarter, but our ships will be slower. We are likely trapped in this solar system by the speed of light. There is no Outer Rim to escape to if you dislike the politics. But our AI systems will be genuinely superintelligent, an invisible omniscient layer managing supply chains and governance and the allocation of resources. This intensifies the politics because there is no exit valve. We are stuck here with each other and with very powerful tools. The optimistic reading is that this represents maturity. For the last century, technology has moved faster than culture, causing constant anxiety. Future shock, always. If technology moves to a plateau, culture finally has time to catch up. Human decisions, not technological accidents, become what determines history. We stop waiting for a gadget to save us. We realize that if we want a better world, we have to build it with the tools we already have, because no new fundamental laws of reality are coming to rescue us. The Verdict The Boring Singularity is not a prediction of stagnation. Things will still change. We will probably see radical longevity and hyper-efficient energy and algorithmic governance that makes traffic and logistics invisible. It will be, by any historical standard, a utopia of convenience. But it will not feel like the future we were promised. The changes will be incremental enough that our brains adapt before we can appreciate them. The infrastructure will be hidden in warehouses and orbiting platforms we never see. And the truly magical discoveries, the new forces of nature and new physics, may simply be too expensive and complex to pursue. The Singularity is not ending with a bang or a whimper. It is ending with a shrug. And because we are humans, we will probably find something to complain about anyway.
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I think the Singularity could be BORING We were promised flying cars and warp drives. We got same-day delivery and better autocomplete. And somehow, impossibly, we’re bored by it. This is the Boring Singularity. The idea that the most transformative period in human history will feel, to the people living through it, like a long and uneventful Tuesday. I want to explain why this happens. It comes down to three layers. The first is neurological. The second is architectural. The third is physical. Together they create a perfect storm of invisible progress that our minds are designed to ignore. Layer One: The Neurological Filter Here is a thought experiment. Imagine a caveman breaks his arm. For weeks he is miserable. He cannot hunt, cannot gather, cannot contribute. Then the bone heals. Within days of regaining function, he has completely forgotten the misery. The memory of suffering serves no purpose once the threat has passed. Evolution deleted it so he could return to baseline and focus on survival. We do this with everything. We did it with antibiotics. We did it with smartphones. We will do it with longevity. Psychologists call this hedonic adaptation. The human brain is an adaptation machine that returns us to a baseline level of experience regardless of how much our circumstances improve. And here is the critical finding. It only takes about three months for the “new normal” to cement itself. Any change that plays out over months or years, no matter how revolutionary, simply becomes background noise. Think about what this means for the Singularity. If anti-gravity cars were introduced tomorrow, they would be miraculous for a month, a status symbol for a year, and a frustrating utility that needs maintenance by year three. The internet is a collective telepathic hive mind that moves petabits at lightspeed. It is genuinely god-like power. We experience it as checking emails. The Singularity might already be here. We just cannot feel it because our brains are not designed to feel sustained amazement. They are designed to adapt and move on. Layer Two: The Hidden Infrastructure We expected Blade Runner. Neon towers and chrome robots serving drinks at the bar. What we are actually getting is something I call “Reverse Trantor.” In classic science fiction, advanced civilizations build upward and inward. They create city-planets like Trantor in Foundation or Coruscant in Star Wars, layer upon layer of visible technology. Our trajectory is the opposite. We are pushing the infrastructure outward and downward, into spaces humans never see. Consider where the robots actually are. They are not walking down the street. They are in mines and fulfillment centers and vertical farms. The real automation revolution is happening in dark warehouses where no human needs to flip a light switch. You order a package and it arrives faster than it used to. That is the entire perceptible output of a massive transformation in logistics. That’s not to say that you’ll never see humanoid robots milling around, only that the vast majority of them will be away from the public. The same principle applies to computation itself. In hindsight, it will look like the entire purpose of inventing computers was to run AI, and everything else was just the bootloader. We are heading toward a world where 99% of all CPU and GPU cycles are dedicated to machine-to-machine processes, and less than one percent is for human-facing tasks. The vast majority of the intelligence infrastructure will be completely invisible to us, humming along as background noise. And the really heavy stuff will be in space. Earth has a finite ability to dissipate heat. To run truly massive AI systems, we will likely move the servers to orbital platforms or Lagrange points where they can vent entropy into the void. The megastructures will exist. They will just be invisible points of light, indistinguishable from stars and space dust. This is the architectural reality of the Boring Singularity. The magic gets hidden in the walls and launched into orbit. What remains on Earth is green and quiet and looks suspiciously like a return to the pastoral. That’s not a bad thing, and it’s not to say that we return to a “steady state” equilibrium forever. Layer Three: The Hard Limits The final layer is the most sobering. We are hitting the physical ceiling of discovery itself. The Golden Age of science fiction emerged during a specific historical anomaly. Between 1905 and 1970, in a single human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to the Moon, from Newtonian physics to quantum mechanics and the structure of DNA. That created an expectation of constant improvement. Fundamental discoveries happen every decade. The exponential curve goes up forever. Star Trek promised we would keep finding new energy sources and new physics for centuries. The data suggests otherwise. Research on scientific progress shows that we must double research effort every thirteen years just to maintain the same rate of economic growth. Studies of citation patterns reveal that the disruptiveness of new scientific papers dropped by ninety percent between 1945 and 2010. We are publishing more but saying less. The low-hanging fruit is gone. The cost curve tells the story most clearly. In the 1930s, you could discover a new particle with a tabletop experiment in a university lab for a few thousand dollars. It only took a few days to duplicate the splitting of the atom. To confirm the Higgs Boson, however, we needed the Large Hadron Collider, which cost nearly five billion dollars and took decades to build. The next generation of particle physics might require a hundred billion dollars, or trillions. And the math suggests that to probe the truly fundamental structure of reality at the Planck scale, you would need an accelerator the size of a galaxy. We cannot build that. So physics becomes theoretical not because we lack curiosity, but because we can no longer afford to test our hypotheses. Meanwhile, our imagination has outpaced physical reality. We grew up on fiction that treats the laws of physics as suggestions that can be bypassed with clever engineering. And that felt true (at the time) because we kept finding cool exploits, like fiber optics and nuclear fission. But the speed of light appears to be absolute. Thermodynamics is non-negotiable. We can imagine teleportation and warp drives, but there is no known physics that could enable them. This is the Sigmoid Curve in action. Progress is not an exponential line to infinity. It is an S-curve. We have likely passed the steepest part of fundamental discovery, and we are entering the plateau. The Inverted Star Wars So where does this leave us? I think the best model is actually Star Wars, just inverted. In Star Wars, they have had faster-than-light travel and droids for thousands of years. The technology has faded completely into the background. A hyperdrive failure is treated like a flat tire. It is annoying, not existential. Because the tech tree is fully unlocked, all the drama shifts to politics and governance and ideology. The Empire versus the Republic. Trade routes and treaties and coups. We are heading somewhere similar, with one crucial inversion. Our droids will be smarter, but our ships will be slower. We are likely trapped in this solar system by the speed of light. There is no Outer Rim to escape to if you dislike the politics. But our AI systems will be genuinely superintelligent, an invisible omniscient layer managing supply chains and governance and the allocation of resources. This intensifies the politics because there is no exit valve. We are stuck here with each other and with very powerful tools. The optimistic reading is that this represents maturity. For the last century, technology has moved faster than culture, causing constant anxiety. Future shock, always. If technology moves to a plateau, culture finally has time to catch up. Human decisions, not technological accidents, become what determines history. We stop waiting for a gadget to save us. We realize that if we want a better world, we have to build it with the tools we already have, because no new fundamental laws of reality are coming to rescue us. The Verdict The Boring Singularity is not a prediction of stagnation. Things will still change. We will probably see radical longevity and hyper-efficient energy and algorithmic governance that makes traffic and logistics invisible. It will be, by any historical standard, a utopia of convenience. But it will not feel like the future we were promised. The changes will be incremental enough that our brains adapt before we can appreciate them. The infrastructure will be hidden in warehouses and orbiting platforms we never see. And the truly magical discoveries, the new forces of nature and new physics, may simply be too expensive and complex to pursue. The Singularity is not ending with a bang or a whimper. It is ending with a shrug. And because we are humans, we will probably find something to complain about anyway.

David Shapiro (L/0)

14,232 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Sundial has raised $23M to build the analytics platform for the AI era! Our work is personal to me (though many have asked: Why? Aren't you into intuition and taste and experience which is ultimately unmeasurable?) But hear me out: I love building, and I have a deep respect for it. Making something people love is one of the hardest and most humbling endeavors. The art comes down to making high-quality decisions, which comes from an obsession with the cliff’s edge between customer understanding and product capability. You need to know what’s working and what isn’t. That’s why data matters. Data is *information* about how reality works. At Sundial, we live by the mantra: diagnose with data; treat with design. What does masterful decision-making look like? It comes down to 3 things: 1. extreme alignment 2. shared curiosity to unpeel deeper and deeper layers of truth 3. urgent execution The very fact is that good intuition and taste comes from data internalized across many, many reps. Yes, reality is infinitely more complex than what can be measured. But measuring gives us a better grasp of reality. Alas, using data well is like learning a new language. It requires years of skill and context building. It's easy to misuse, whether misguidedly or intentionally. I know this all too well. Mastery requires everything from how to break down an ambiguous question, to fluently reading triangle charts and dense tables, to remembering the specific name of a specific column using a specific dialect of SQL. Too many people, like me, regularly feel frustrated by a) how long it takes to get answers b) how to draw the right interpretations c) how much noise I have to wade through to find actually actionable insights. Instead of greater confidence and quality, we get conflicting signals, cherry-picked facts, and analysis paralysis. Sundial is our attempt to solve those problems. We’re bottling up opinionated intelligence to guide decision-makers towards faster and more confident decisions. We envision a world where *everyone* can be their own expert analyst. Sundial uses AI and expert analytical techniques to make insights accessible to every decision-maker. Exemplary analysis takes the listener through a story. Data should speak the language of business, not the other way around. Sundial is also smart in the ways you’d expect of an AI-native tool. It’s not just about looking up data (“What’s India ARR last month?”), which has become table stakes; rather, Sundial can also tackle deep, complex analysis (”Why did ARR decline? What are my levers?”). In a crowded landscape of fragmented data tools—dashboards, notebooks, ETL systems—Sundial brings it all together into one intuitive platform. We believe this era of AI will see teams doing far more with less, and moving faster than ever before. Our mission is to build the data brain for the next generation of AI-powered companies. We're thrilled to be backed by dj patil at GPV—the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and coiner of the term "data scientist”, alongside industry luminaries like Amjad Masad, tobi lutke, Fidji Simo, alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈, Shishir, Ruchi Sanghvi, Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital, Drew Houston, Howie Liu and firms including Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Sunflower Capital, Unusual Ventures. The best part of building Sundial is the people we get to work with. Funding announcements are nice and all, but what really fuels us is the feedback and growth trajectory of our customers. There’s nothing better than working on interesting problems with people you like. Onward! (P.S. We’re hiring for AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists in the Bay Area -- DM me if you resonate with our mission, love dissecting big problems down into smaller ones, and appreciate the consistent practice of craft.)
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Sundial has raised $23M to build the analytics platform for the AI era! Our work is personal to me (though many have asked: Why? Aren't you into intuition and taste and experience which is ultimately unmeasurable?) But hear me out: I love building, and I have a deep respect for it. Making something people love is one of the hardest and most humbling endeavors. The art comes down to making high-quality decisions, which comes from an obsession with the cliff’s edge between customer understanding and product capability. You need to know what’s working and what isn’t. That’s why data matters. Data is *information* about how reality works. At Sundial, we live by the mantra: diagnose with data; treat with design. What does masterful decision-making look like? It comes down to 3 things: 1. extreme alignment 2. shared curiosity to unpeel deeper and deeper layers of truth 3. urgent execution The very fact is that good intuition and taste comes from data internalized across many, many reps. Yes, reality is infinitely more complex than what can be measured. But measuring gives us a better grasp of reality. Alas, using data well is like learning a new language. It requires years of skill and context building. It's easy to misuse, whether misguidedly or intentionally. I know this all too well. Mastery requires everything from how to break down an ambiguous question, to fluently reading triangle charts and dense tables, to remembering the specific name of a specific column using a specific dialect of SQL. Too many people, like me, regularly feel frustrated by a) how long it takes to get answers b) how to draw the right interpretations c) how much noise I have to wade through to find actually actionable insights. Instead of greater confidence and quality, we get conflicting signals, cherry-picked facts, and analysis paralysis. Sundial is our attempt to solve those problems. We’re bottling up opinionated intelligence to guide decision-makers towards faster and more confident decisions. We envision a world where *everyone* can be their own expert analyst. Sundial uses AI and expert analytical techniques to make insights accessible to every decision-maker. Exemplary analysis takes the listener through a story. Data should speak the language of business, not the other way around. Sundial is also smart in the ways you’d expect of an AI-native tool. It’s not just about looking up data (“What’s India ARR last month?”), which has become table stakes; rather, Sundial can also tackle deep, complex analysis (”Why did ARR decline? What are my levers?”). In a crowded landscape of fragmented data tools—dashboards, notebooks, ETL systems—Sundial brings it all together into one intuitive platform. We believe this era of AI will see teams doing far more with less, and moving faster than ever before. Our mission is to build the data brain for the next generation of AI-powered companies. We're thrilled to be backed by dj patil at GPV—the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and coiner of the term "data scientist”, alongside industry luminaries like Amjad Masad, tobi lutke, Fidji Simo, alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈, Shishir, Ruchi Sanghvi, Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital, Drew Houston, Howie Liu and firms including Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Sunflower Capital, Unusual Ventures. The best part of building Sundial is the people we get to work with. Funding announcements are nice and all, but what really fuels us is the feedback and growth trajectory of our customers. There’s nothing better than working on interesting problems with people you like. Onward! (P.S. We’re hiring for AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists in the Bay Area -- DM me if you resonate with our mission, love dissecting big problems down into smaller ones, and appreciate the consistent practice of craft.)

Julie Zhuo

129,299 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Abandoned and Reduced to Skin and Bones, This Dog Still Looked at a Stranger with Trust ✨ The little dog lay curled up, its ribs clearly visible beneath its skin, its fur dirty and giving off a foul smell. It had been abandoned with almost nothing left. Yet when the rescuer approached and spoke to it, its first reaction was not fear or retreat. It moved closer, looking up with clear, innocent eyes and responding with an almost unconditional friendliness. It was a moment that made many viewers stop and take notice. The story began as a straightforward rescue case. The puppy was found severely malnourished, filthy, and alone. Despite being neglected to such an extent, it still approached a stranger gently, showing no signs of defensiveness. The rescuer offered it food and spoke to it in a soft voice, and the dog responded with trust almost immediately. The question is a simple but profound one: Why does a creature treated so cruelly still have the ability to love and open its heart to someone it has never met? The answer lies partly in the nature of dogs. Unlike humans, dogs do not tend to hold grudges in the same way or dwell on them over long periods. They live largely through their instincts for attachment and their search for safety. When a new person reaches out to them, many dogs can still respond with acceptance. This is not foolishness or a lack of memory. Rather, it is a trait shaped over thousands of years of living alongside humans. They often place trust ahead of suspicion. The contrast in this story makes that even more striking. The dog's body tells the story of neglect: exposed ribs, a foul smell, and hunger written across its fragile frame. But its eyes and the way it approached the rescuer tell a different story. It was still willing to offer affection. The distance between the former owner's actions and the dog's response creates the emotional weight of the story. From a human perspective, the story also offers a thought-provoking comparison. After being hurt, people often become guarded, defensive, and reluctant to open up again. Yet a dog abandoned to the point of near death can still look at a stranger with hope in its eyes. That innocence does not mean that dogs are incapable of feeling pain. It shows that they have not learned to close their hearts in quite the same way humans sometimes do. The story also reminds us of responsibility. When a vulnerable creature is abandoned, rescuing it is not simply an act of kindness. It is also an opportunity to reflect on how we treat those who are weak and easily overlooked. Have we become too willing to turn away from lives that are no longer “convenient”? And have we retained the ability to trust and love with fewer conditions? The rescuers in the video did more than provide food. They sent a simple message: there are still people willing to stay. The dog responded with perhaps the most precious thing it still had, its gentle, innocent friendliness. The moment was quiet, but deeply moving. It showed that love does not always need to be nurtured by perfect circumstances. Sometimes, all it needs is a small opportunity to be expressed. In a world where people increasingly encounter hurt and mistrust, the image of a skeletal dog still approaching a stranger becomes a simple reminder. Perhaps there is something we can learn from animals: trust does not always need to be justified by a good past. Sometimes, when a hand reaches out in the present, the heart can still choose to open. That dog was left with almost nothing. Yet it still chose to show love. And that choice makes the story more than just a rescue. It becomes a reminder that even amid suffering, innocence can still remain 💖
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Abandoned and Reduced to Skin and Bones, This Dog Still Looked at a Stranger with Trust ✨ The little dog lay curled up, its ribs clearly visible beneath its skin, its fur dirty and giving off a foul smell. It had been abandoned with almost nothing left. Yet when the rescuer approached and spoke to it, its first reaction was not fear or retreat. It moved closer, looking up with clear, innocent eyes and responding with an almost unconditional friendliness. It was a moment that made many viewers stop and take notice. The story began as a straightforward rescue case. The puppy was found severely malnourished, filthy, and alone. Despite being neglected to such an extent, it still approached a stranger gently, showing no signs of defensiveness. The rescuer offered it food and spoke to it in a soft voice, and the dog responded with trust almost immediately. The question is a simple but profound one: Why does a creature treated so cruelly still have the ability to love and open its heart to someone it has never met? The answer lies partly in the nature of dogs. Unlike humans, dogs do not tend to hold grudges in the same way or dwell on them over long periods. They live largely through their instincts for attachment and their search for safety. When a new person reaches out to them, many dogs can still respond with acceptance. This is not foolishness or a lack of memory. Rather, it is a trait shaped over thousands of years of living alongside humans. They often place trust ahead of suspicion. The contrast in this story makes that even more striking. The dog's body tells the story of neglect: exposed ribs, a foul smell, and hunger written across its fragile frame. But its eyes and the way it approached the rescuer tell a different story. It was still willing to offer affection. The distance between the former owner's actions and the dog's response creates the emotional weight of the story. From a human perspective, the story also offers a thought-provoking comparison. After being hurt, people often become guarded, defensive, and reluctant to open up again. Yet a dog abandoned to the point of near death can still look at a stranger with hope in its eyes. That innocence does not mean that dogs are incapable of feeling pain. It shows that they have not learned to close their hearts in quite the same way humans sometimes do. The story also reminds us of responsibility. When a vulnerable creature is abandoned, rescuing it is not simply an act of kindness. It is also an opportunity to reflect on how we treat those who are weak and easily overlooked. Have we become too willing to turn away from lives that are no longer “convenient”? And have we retained the ability to trust and love with fewer conditions? The rescuers in the video did more than provide food. They sent a simple message: there are still people willing to stay. The dog responded with perhaps the most precious thing it still had, its gentle, innocent friendliness. The moment was quiet, but deeply moving. It showed that love does not always need to be nurtured by perfect circumstances. Sometimes, all it needs is a small opportunity to be expressed. In a world where people increasingly encounter hurt and mistrust, the image of a skeletal dog still approaching a stranger becomes a simple reminder. Perhaps there is something we can learn from animals: trust does not always need to be justified by a good past. Sometimes, when a hand reaches out in the present, the heart can still choose to open. That dog was left with almost nothing. Yet it still chose to show love. And that choice makes the story more than just a rescue. It becomes a reminder that even amid suffering, innocence can still remain 💖

Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺

24,431 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Here's a devlog made by an anonymous Chinese fan replicating the surprisingly brand new technique that I developed for detecting asteroids which wound up being so powerful that it can easily track Stealth Fighters from over 100km away even when it’s only using three $30 webcams as sensors meaning it easily outperforms all modern stealth tracking techniques in precision, range and cost. And while this demo is using optical light, this same technique which I call pixel motion to voxel projection, can be used interchangeably with thermal infrared cameras to work at night and also majorly boosts the effectiveness of radar allowing you to track fighters much more effectively through clouds and over the horizon. This technique will also always eventually give the exact location of the target even if the image is blurry as those blurs will always average out from the different perspectives into revealing the precise location of the target in the voxel grid. There is definitely a Mandela effect with this technique as it feels as though it should already exist, especially because at first as it sounds like it is performing triangulation (which has existed for years and is what we do for mocap and tennis ball tracking). But triangulation is entirely separate to this as triangulations only works if you have already identified where the ball is in a 2D image because you’re able to rely on being able to use at least 2 separate high quality cameras which are much closer to the ball making the ball’s apparent size much much bigger and therefore gives you hundreds of pixels to work with which makes it much easier to use object recognition techniques to recognize where it is in the image aka in 2D and then you’re just using the other cameras view to project out lines which intersect in 3D to find out where the ball is in 3D. The major difference is that pixel motion to voxel projection allows you to find where the object is in 3D without having already found it in 2D which is an unbelievable difference as it allows you to use much lower quality cameras together to accumulate data together into 3D space. If this seem like it doesn’t mean much then what it actually means is that you don’t understand what I’m saying as what I’m saying means a LOT in practical terms as it means you go from having to use an imaging system that has to be able to image the object to the point that it is over a hundred total pixels in surface area to have enough data to recognize it to instead be able to use something that is only images the object to be 1 pixel in surface area and only changes the brightness value by 1 value every now and then. I’d recommend an amazing video by DST studios called “Lowlight cameras can’t defeat stealth” if you want a great video which goes over the difficulty of even using telescopes to recognize stealth fighters and why this is so impressive compared to other techniques and ironically it is what inspired me to realize the asteroid tracker I was working on actually could do this. Which brings me to the point that if this wasn’t a new technique then not only would there be at least one example of an asteroid survey that points distant telescopes at the same place at the same time in order to be able to add the light together to detect asteroids which as I was shocked to learn isn’t a thing despite the fact that it would make detecting asteroids trivial by comparison to modern 2D imaging while also having no impact on the normal scientific operations of those surveys other than small changes to scheduling. But there would also be an example of a drone tracker that uses this instead of using the aforementioned high quality zoomable telescope which has to be able to zoom in close enough to be able to recognize a drone. If you want to tell me that this is something that already exists give me an exact example of a product that uses it, not the general outline of a concept that you think it is, the actual product and then also tell me the asteroid survey that uses distant telescopes that point at the exact same place at the exact same time because I can guarantee that if you google what you think uses this you won’t even find the steps of subtracting the images from each other to get motion and will definitely not get the added step of projecting that motion into a voxel grid (It would blow your mind if you found out how Xbox kinect cameras work.) Also I want to make it clear, I’m not saying you should just use web cams to do this, I’m just using them as an example to show you the power of this in reality you would probably want to use 5 high quality zoomable thermal cameras which pan across the sky in sync with each other which due to using lower frequency are much less prone to the Rayleigh scattering that scatters visible light at 150 or so km away and again, you can also use this to majorly upgrade radar. Pretty much all of the problems you could think of for this are incredibly easy to overcome if you apply even a small amount of brainpower into fixing the problem. And yes, this gives you the exact location down to the meter of whatever you are tracking even if the image is blurry as those blurs will always average out to the exact location down to the meter in the voxel grid. Which is what makes this technique so powerful since the cost of adding each camera to The network grows linearly while the rate at which each camera gives more information grows exponentially due to the increasing unlikeliness of all of them having more movement in the same place. And given the size of the cameras it really wouldn’t be that hard to hide and network these cameras together in other countries and on sea buoys to know where planes are everywhere in the world. Which brings me to the point that I personally really don’t care about the military uses of this technology, if all it could do is precisely track stealth fighters then I wouldn’t have cared enough to work on it, I could have used any of the many other life saving techniques as the subject of the video, stealth fighters just sounds the most clickable and the scale of the problem is more intuitive to most people and if I did use any of those as subjects for the demo it would inevitably result in the stealth fighter technique being figured out anyway and all of the other uses are so useful that I don't think anyone would reasonably complain about the upside. The real purpose of this video is that since this is a new technique that hasn’t been used to detect stealth fighters despite the billions we have spent on that, then what else can you apply this to that could go on to improve billions of people’s lives that you or others are working on. For example this also allows you to majorly improve the effectiveness of cryo electron microscopy and CT scanners. This part also is kind of hard to explain as it also sounds like it exists but again, when you look through all of the places where you think it is being used you will find that it wasn’t. What I’m saying here isn’t that this is a Radon transform or gaussian splat or whatever, I’m saying that this is able to get new information that wasn’t being accessed before due to the added information about depth you get from the correlation of movement between each perspective which adds to the information that you already have. This allows you to directly subtract foreground and background objects as well as noise faster than you would be able to before and works better than super resolution for your images since super resolution won’t remove foreground and background objects like this does and instead just scales up target, foreground and background objects indiscriminately. And while with enough data Radon transforms or other scanning techniques would eventually get you a correct answer this will get you there a lot faster since those are mostly averaging techniques which average out noise whereas this gets you the ability to directly subtract noise. I’m not expecting you to think that this would do anything but if you try it for yourself you will find that it does majorly improve your ability to perform 3d scans. Again, cryo EM is a field where you would expect this technique to exist but when you look through all the papers on the topic there is no mention of tilting the grid slightly in order to be able to change your perspective slightly on the order of the feature size (if you tilt the grid then you only need precision on the order of an arc minute to do this) and doing multiple exposures from multiple different known tilts and then using those difference images to correlate depth from motion. In fact, in cryo EM you would normally want to do the opposite of this and have your exposures all taken from the same grid angle and just use the variations in how many of the same proteins are oriented in order to be able to scan them for a 3D model but this will generate you far more data faster. There is so much information that I can’t really explain in text so if you have any questions such as why this hasn’t been made before then they will most likely be answered in the video I originally posted which I have added to the end of the first Devlog for your convenience. And again, pretty much all of the problems with the technique can be fixed with a little bit of brainpower, in reality you would probably want to use 5 high quality zoomable thermal cameras which pan across the sky in sync with each other which due to using lower frequency are much less prone to the Rayleigh scattering that scatters visible light at 150 or so km away and again, you can also use this to majorly upgrade radar.
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Here's a devlog made by an anonymous Chinese fan replicating the surprisingly brand new technique that I developed for detecting asteroids which wound up being so powerful that it can easily track Stealth Fighters from over 100km away even when it’s only using three $30 webcams as sensors meaning it easily outperforms all modern stealth tracking techniques in precision, range and cost. And while this demo is using optical light, this same technique which I call pixel motion to voxel projection, can be used interchangeably with thermal infrared cameras to work at night and also majorly boosts the effectiveness of radar allowing you to track fighters much more effectively through clouds and over the horizon. This technique will also always eventually give the exact location of the target even if the image is blurry as those blurs will always average out from the different perspectives into revealing the precise location of the target in the voxel grid. There is definitely a Mandela effect with this technique as it feels as though it should already exist, especially because at first as it sounds like it is performing triangulation (which has existed for years and is what we do for mocap and tennis ball tracking). But triangulation is entirely separate to this as triangulations only works if you have already identified where the ball is in a 2D image because you’re able to rely on being able to use at least 2 separate high quality cameras which are much closer to the ball making the ball’s apparent size much much bigger and therefore gives you hundreds of pixels to work with which makes it much easier to use object recognition techniques to recognize where it is in the image aka in 2D and then you’re just using the other cameras view to project out lines which intersect in 3D to find out where the ball is in 3D. The major difference is that pixel motion to voxel projection allows you to find where the object is in 3D without having already found it in 2D which is an unbelievable difference as it allows you to use much lower quality cameras together to accumulate data together into 3D space. If this seem like it doesn’t mean much then what it actually means is that you don’t understand what I’m saying as what I’m saying means a LOT in practical terms as it means you go from having to use an imaging system that has to be able to image the object to the point that it is over a hundred total pixels in surface area to have enough data to recognize it to instead be able to use something that is only images the object to be 1 pixel in surface area and only changes the brightness value by 1 value every now and then. I’d recommend an amazing video by DST studios called “Lowlight cameras can’t defeat stealth” if you want a great video which goes over the difficulty of even using telescopes to recognize stealth fighters and why this is so impressive compared to other techniques and ironically it is what inspired me to realize the asteroid tracker I was working on actually could do this. Which brings me to the point that if this wasn’t a new technique then not only would there be at least one example of an asteroid survey that points distant telescopes at the same place at the same time in order to be able to add the light together to detect asteroids which as I was shocked to learn isn’t a thing despite the fact that it would make detecting asteroids trivial by comparison to modern 2D imaging while also having no impact on the normal scientific operations of those surveys other than small changes to scheduling. But there would also be an example of a drone tracker that uses this instead of using the aforementioned high quality zoomable telescope which has to be able to zoom in close enough to be able to recognize a drone. If you want to tell me that this is something that already exists give me an exact example of a product that uses it, not the general outline of a concept that you think it is, the actual product and then also tell me the asteroid survey that uses distant telescopes that point at the exact same place at the exact same time because I can guarantee that if you google what you think uses this you won’t even find the steps of subtracting the images from each other to get motion and will definitely not get the added step of projecting that motion into a voxel grid (It would blow your mind if you found out how Xbox kinect cameras work.) Also I want to make it clear, I’m not saying you should just use web cams to do this, I’m just using them as an example to show you the power of this in reality you would probably want to use 5 high quality zoomable thermal cameras which pan across the sky in sync with each other which due to using lower frequency are much less prone to the Rayleigh scattering that scatters visible light at 150 or so km away and again, you can also use this to majorly upgrade radar. Pretty much all of the problems you could think of for this are incredibly easy to overcome if you apply even a small amount of brainpower into fixing the problem. And yes, this gives you the exact location down to the meter of whatever you are tracking even if the image is blurry as those blurs will always average out to the exact location down to the meter in the voxel grid. Which is what makes this technique so powerful since the cost of adding each camera to The network grows linearly while the rate at which each camera gives more information grows exponentially due to the increasing unlikeliness of all of them having more movement in the same place. And given the size of the cameras it really wouldn’t be that hard to hide and network these cameras together in other countries and on sea buoys to know where planes are everywhere in the world. Which brings me to the point that I personally really don’t care about the military uses of this technology, if all it could do is precisely track stealth fighters then I wouldn’t have cared enough to work on it, I could have used any of the many other life saving techniques as the subject of the video, stealth fighters just sounds the most clickable and the scale of the problem is more intuitive to most people and if I did use any of those as subjects for the demo it would inevitably result in the stealth fighter technique being figured out anyway and all of the other uses are so useful that I don't think anyone would reasonably complain about the upside. The real purpose of this video is that since this is a new technique that hasn’t been used to detect stealth fighters despite the billions we have spent on that, then what else can you apply this to that could go on to improve billions of people’s lives that you or others are working on. For example this also allows you to majorly improve the effectiveness of cryo electron microscopy and CT scanners. This part also is kind of hard to explain as it also sounds like it exists but again, when you look through all of the places where you think it is being used you will find that it wasn’t. What I’m saying here isn’t that this is a Radon transform or gaussian splat or whatever, I’m saying that this is able to get new information that wasn’t being accessed before due to the added information about depth you get from the correlation of movement between each perspective which adds to the information that you already have. This allows you to directly subtract foreground and background objects as well as noise faster than you would be able to before and works better than super resolution for your images since super resolution won’t remove foreground and background objects like this does and instead just scales up target, foreground and background objects indiscriminately. And while with enough data Radon transforms or other scanning techniques would eventually get you a correct answer this will get you there a lot faster since those are mostly averaging techniques which average out noise whereas this gets you the ability to directly subtract noise. I’m not expecting you to think that this would do anything but if you try it for yourself you will find that it does majorly improve your ability to perform 3d scans. Again, cryo EM is a field where you would expect this technique to exist but when you look through all the papers on the topic there is no mention of tilting the grid slightly in order to be able to change your perspective slightly on the order of the feature size (if you tilt the grid then you only need precision on the order of an arc minute to do this) and doing multiple exposures from multiple different known tilts and then using those difference images to correlate depth from motion. In fact, in cryo EM you would normally want to do the opposite of this and have your exposures all taken from the same grid angle and just use the variations in how many of the same proteins are oriented in order to be able to scan them for a 3D model but this will generate you far more data faster. There is so much information that I can’t really explain in text so if you have any questions such as why this hasn’t been made before then they will most likely be answered in the video I originally posted which I have added to the end of the first Devlog for your convenience. And again, pretty much all of the problems with the technique can be fixed with a little bit of brainpower, in reality you would probably want to use 5 high quality zoomable thermal cameras which pan across the sky in sync with each other which due to using lower frequency are much less prone to the Rayleigh scattering that scatters visible light at 150 or so km away and again, you can also use this to majorly upgrade radar.

ConsistentlyInconsistent

50,799 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Everyone should read this because it is a microcosm of why everything has gone to shit. This is how his malignant narcissism destroys everything he touches. “We built an aircraft carrier for $19 billion, which is crazy. The price is crazy. It started off at-- I came in one of the first things I want to see. It was the Ford aircraft carrier. It was way over budget. And it had things on it that you didn't need. Like it had magnet. It magnets to lift up the elevators with 10 and 12 planes on them. Think of it. It had all sorts of modern day things that were all instead of using steam for the catapult. They used electric. Let's have an electric catapult. And so what I went to the ship, because I came into office and the ship was way over budget. Built a new produce, unfortunately. It was way over budget. It was going to cost $3 billion. It was up to like $18, $19. It was terrible. And I said, I want to meet the catapulter. And the man came over along with four of his assistants. And I said, what's better? Electric catapult or steam? He's been there for 25 years. He said, steam is better. We can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. When the electric goes bad, I have to send the MIT to get geniuses over here. I said, steam is better. Yes, sir. It's better. So why did they do electric? Because you can have the catapult go like this. But you can't put planes on it, sir. It takes you 39 seconds. By the time the 39 seconds is up, you have a full-head of steam. And I love breathing that steam, sir. That's that cleanest air you've ever seen. But I said, so you're saying we spent billions of dollars extra to build electric catapults instead of using. And I said, well, I'll still hear you. He said, the elevators are no good, sir. They lifted up by magnets. So here's my deal. I said, when Caterpillar tractor-- and I watched more tractors than any human being in a rip-erock or right through a rock-- it's all hydraulic. So I said, when Caterpillar goes into the business of using magnets to lift up their little blades, when they go away from hydraulic, I'll tell you what. I'm going to do something. I'm going to start using magnets, but we don't want to use them. So we're not letting any Pete. We're not letting any more ships be built with the ridiculous-- billions of dollars more they spent on electric catapults and they're not good. They're not nearly as good. Too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn't work. And I predicted that was true. And the same thing with the magnetic elevators. We want them to be made hydraulic, which it can be hit by. Lightening, it can be hit by anything. When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn't work anymore. You're in the Atlantic Ocean with waves at a 60-feet high and the Pacific Ocean with waves at a 70-feet high. And they're talking about magnets. It makes you want to get sick. I actually called in the architect of the ship. And I said, have you designed a ship before? Well, I haven't spent a lot of time on that, sir. I don't know. Even the cab. You know, the tower, the habit in the back, instead of in the middle. It's supposed to be in the middle where you have more room. I said, why do you move there? Well, we thought it was very good. Why did you do it? And why is the ammunition under the-- where the Admiral is, the tower? They have the tower, and they have the ammunition under the tower. I say, if I'm the enemy, I know where I'm aiming. These people, and the thing goes like $20 billion is ridiculous, sir. So we're changing all of that right, Peter. You'll be fired so fast, have you done that? No, but a lot of this is common-sense stuff, really. I mean, I hope I'm not born anybody, but it's all common-sense. This isn't exactly part of my speech, but I got to tell you. You know, I'm getting it all out now, and all the anger I have when I hear about electric catapults that don't work. Crazy.”
4:01

Everyone should read this because it is a microcosm of why everything has gone to shit. This is how his malignant narcissism destroys everything he touches. “We built an aircraft carrier for $19 billion, which is crazy. The price is crazy. It started off at-- I came in one of the first things I want to see. It was the Ford aircraft carrier. It was way over budget. And it had things on it that you didn't need. Like it had magnet. It magnets to lift up the elevators with 10 and 12 planes on them. Think of it. It had all sorts of modern day things that were all instead of using steam for the catapult. They used electric. Let's have an electric catapult. And so what I went to the ship, because I came into office and the ship was way over budget. Built a new produce, unfortunately. It was way over budget. It was going to cost $3 billion. It was up to like $18, $19. It was terrible. And I said, I want to meet the catapulter. And the man came over along with four of his assistants. And I said, what's better? Electric catapult or steam? He's been there for 25 years. He said, steam is better. We can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. When the electric goes bad, I have to send the MIT to get geniuses over here. I said, steam is better. Yes, sir. It's better. So why did they do electric? Because you can have the catapult go like this. But you can't put planes on it, sir. It takes you 39 seconds. By the time the 39 seconds is up, you have a full-head of steam. And I love breathing that steam, sir. That's that cleanest air you've ever seen. But I said, so you're saying we spent billions of dollars extra to build electric catapults instead of using. And I said, well, I'll still hear you. He said, the elevators are no good, sir. They lifted up by magnets. So here's my deal. I said, when Caterpillar tractor-- and I watched more tractors than any human being in a rip-erock or right through a rock-- it's all hydraulic. So I said, when Caterpillar goes into the business of using magnets to lift up their little blades, when they go away from hydraulic, I'll tell you what. I'm going to do something. I'm going to start using magnets, but we don't want to use them. So we're not letting any Pete. We're not letting any more ships be built with the ridiculous-- billions of dollars more they spent on electric catapults and they're not good. They're not nearly as good. Too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn't work. And I predicted that was true. And the same thing with the magnetic elevators. We want them to be made hydraulic, which it can be hit by. Lightening, it can be hit by anything. When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn't work anymore. You're in the Atlantic Ocean with waves at a 60-feet high and the Pacific Ocean with waves at a 70-feet high. And they're talking about magnets. It makes you want to get sick. I actually called in the architect of the ship. And I said, have you designed a ship before? Well, I haven't spent a lot of time on that, sir. I don't know. Even the cab. You know, the tower, the habit in the back, instead of in the middle. It's supposed to be in the middle where you have more room. I said, why do you move there? Well, we thought it was very good. Why did you do it? And why is the ammunition under the-- where the Admiral is, the tower? They have the tower, and they have the ammunition under the tower. I say, if I'm the enemy, I know where I'm aiming. These people, and the thing goes like $20 billion is ridiculous, sir. So we're changing all of that right, Peter. You'll be fired so fast, have you done that? No, but a lot of this is common-sense stuff, really. I mean, I hope I'm not born anybody, but it's all common-sense. This isn't exactly part of my speech, but I got to tell you. You know, I'm getting it all out now, and all the anger I have when I hear about electric catapults that don't work. Crazy.”

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

396,775 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

I realized that I would probably get more interest in my AI music theory tool (mtdt) and corresponding agent skill library if I did impressive things with more mainstream/popular tunes rather than an obscure Irish folk song from the 18th century like in my quoted post. So this time, I took my 3 favorite tunes from Zelda: Ocarina of Time (i.e., Saria's Song, the Song of Storms, and Zelda's Lullaby) and had them reimagined by the AI agent using my system in the style of various famous classical composers: Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt. I had GPT-6 Astra xhigh acting as the "controller" agent create the prompt and launch another instance of Codex (the "worker" agent) in a fresh workspace with all 322 skills loaded, and then monitor the process. I gave the controller agent only very high-level instructions about which songs from the Zelda game I wanted and which composers to use for which songs. I also told it stuff like: "For actually rendering the written music to audio, we should use the nice concert piano instrument with reverb that came from my jazz chords project originally (see /cass) and we should humanize the playing with a skill so it doesn't sound robotic in tempo and dynamics; it should sound like a professional pianist specializing in the music of the particular composer. And try to do a final critical pass over each piece with fresh eyes looking for any deficiencies and blunders... does it REALLY sound like that composer's work? Can you still hear the original song's essence in the new, reimagined version? Is it good? Does it follow the rules and structure of music theory well, through the lens of that particular composer? If not, then FIX or IMPROVE those things (instruct the other agent to do so using its skills and the mtdt tool!)" --- But then the controller agent was in charge and handled managing the worker agent (which did nearly all of the actual labor of making the tracks). It's a bit counterintuitive that this creator-critic split would work better (why not just go directly to the agent doing the work?), but I sort of stumbled on it by accident because I didn't want to mess with my default agent skills and only wanted the 322 music theory skills to be visible to the worker agent. That's why I originally had the controller agent launch the other agent: to specify that. But then I realized that it's very handy to have an independent agent handling the details for me. It's sort of like a rich English aristocrat in the 1700s having an awesome butler to handle the rest of the household staff. Just tell the butler what you want in a kind of abbreviated shorthand and he will turn around and give very detailed instructions, monitor everything, and do quality control for you so you don't have to get into the nitty-gritty details so much. It gives you another set of eyes, even if it's using the exact same underlying LLM, and there's something about the gestalt shift of being a critic versus a creator that leads to better objectivity and honesty and, ultimately, better-quality results. Anyway, the first results made me realize that it had taken my instructions about being able to hear the original song clearly in the reimagined version too literally, so I told the controller agent: "It too directly has the entire original melody within it unaltered, which is jarring and not like . It's also too long; they should be closer to 1.5 to 2 minutes each. We don't need to start from scratch, but make sure you address those issues." That's about the extent of my feedback and iteration here. And to be clear, the original versions were pretty nice, too. I'll have some other fun demos coming out soon as well. Anyway, attached here are results from 4 composers as animated scores. You can also get the PDF of the complete scores here: So do they actually sound like those composers wrote them? It's sort of an impossible task, in that the style of the original melodies is really nothing like the styles of those composers. But within those constraints, I think it did a respectable job. If you're a fan of that Zelda music and like classical music you will probably get a kick out of these. I'm positive that with more focused prompting and iteration I could get much better results from the system, but I sort of just wanted to see what it could do with minimal interventions. Curious to hear what people think.
1:52

I realized that I would probably get more interest in my AI music theory tool (mtdt) and corresponding agent skill library if I did impressive things with more mainstream/popular tunes rather than an obscure Irish folk song from the 18th century like in my quoted post. So this time, I took my 3 favorite tunes from Zelda: Ocarina of Time (i.e., Saria's Song, the Song of Storms, and Zelda's Lullaby) and had them reimagined by the AI agent using my system in the style of various famous classical composers: Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt. I had GPT-6 Astra xhigh acting as the "controller" agent create the prompt and launch another instance of Codex (the "worker" agent) in a fresh workspace with all 322 skills loaded, and then monitor the process. I gave the controller agent only very high-level instructions about which songs from the Zelda game I wanted and which composers to use for which songs. I also told it stuff like: "For actually rendering the written music to audio, we should use the nice concert piano instrument with reverb that came from my jazz chords project originally (see /cass) and we should humanize the playing with a skill so it doesn't sound robotic in tempo and dynamics; it should sound like a professional pianist specializing in the music of the particular composer. And try to do a final critical pass over each piece with fresh eyes looking for any deficiencies and blunders... does it REALLY sound like that composer's work? Can you still hear the original song's essence in the new, reimagined version? Is it good? Does it follow the rules and structure of music theory well, through the lens of that particular composer? If not, then FIX or IMPROVE those things (instruct the other agent to do so using its skills and the mtdt tool!)" --- But then the controller agent was in charge and handled managing the worker agent (which did nearly all of the actual labor of making the tracks). It's a bit counterintuitive that this creator-critic split would work better (why not just go directly to the agent doing the work?), but I sort of stumbled on it by accident because I didn't want to mess with my default agent skills and only wanted the 322 music theory skills to be visible to the worker agent. That's why I originally had the controller agent launch the other agent: to specify that. But then I realized that it's very handy to have an independent agent handling the details for me. It's sort of like a rich English aristocrat in the 1700s having an awesome butler to handle the rest of the household staff. Just tell the butler what you want in a kind of abbreviated shorthand and he will turn around and give very detailed instructions, monitor everything, and do quality control for you so you don't have to get into the nitty-gritty details so much. It gives you another set of eyes, even if it's using the exact same underlying LLM, and there's something about the gestalt shift of being a critic versus a creator that leads to better objectivity and honesty and, ultimately, better-quality results. Anyway, the first results made me realize that it had taken my instructions about being able to hear the original song clearly in the reimagined version too literally, so I told the controller agent: "It too directly has the entire original melody within it unaltered, which is jarring and not like . It's also too long; they should be closer to 1.5 to 2 minutes each. We don't need to start from scratch, but make sure you address those issues." That's about the extent of my feedback and iteration here. And to be clear, the original versions were pretty nice, too. I'll have some other fun demos coming out soon as well. Anyway, attached here are results from 4 composers as animated scores. You can also get the PDF of the complete scores here: So do they actually sound like those composers wrote them? It's sort of an impossible task, in that the style of the original melodies is really nothing like the styles of those composers. But within those constraints, I think it did a respectable job. If you're a fan of that Zelda music and like classical music you will probably get a kick out of these. I'm positive that with more focused prompting and iteration I could get much better results from the system, but I sort of just wanted to see what it could do with minimal interventions. Curious to hear what people think.

Jeffrey Emanuel

23,583 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

**Doris Yin Speech at China Guizhou Zunyi GCV Barter Conference** Hello to the community leaders, GCV ambassadors, merchants, and pioneers of GCV Guizhou in China! Today is January 12, 2025, marking the first GCV Barter Conference in China in New Year and the 13th Barter Conference overall. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the organizers of this conference, the Guizhou Zunyi GCV Community, and the co-organizers, Barter Huishang (Guizhou) Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd. I also want to acknowledge the following GCV ambassadors for their active dedication and contributions to this conference: **GCV Ambassador of China:** - Yang Zhizhong - Cai Zaiqiao **Ambassadors of Guizhou Province GCV:** - Wang Shiqiong - Cai Weisheng - Guo Jiaqing **Zunyi GCV Ambassadors:** - Wang Jianbo - Luo Nanlu **GCV ambassadors at the district and county level in Zunyi City** Additionally, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to our numerous GCV merchants and sponsors. Without your support, we would not have been able to hold such a grand and large-scale event. Today's gathering in Zunyi, a sacred site of the revolution, reminds me of the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March. Their perseverance and sacrifice continue to inspire us. The Zunyi Conference took place from January 15 to 17, 1935, and exactly 90 years later, we are gathered here today. The defining characteristics of the Zunyi Conference included the commitment to uphold the truth, correct mistakes, establish the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, and creatively develop and implement strategies that fit the nature of the Chinese revolution. Today, our Zunyi Conference will also be recorded in the history of blockchain, as every effort you have put in has contributed to building a strong network ecosystem. Our partial fiat and partial distribution policy serves as a solution for the rapid development of the ecosystem during the closed mainnet of the Pi Network. As we all know, the first quarter of this year will bring about the successful mainnet launch of Pi Network. After six long years of challenges and perseverance, all of our pioneers will have the opportunity to witness this significant historical moment. What an exciting and proud day this will be! It has not been easy for everyone to persist through these six years; it requires great blessings, unwavering faith, and the courage to overcome difficulties. Today, our pioneers in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, gathering for this GCV barter conference holds great significance. I see that ten companies are providing products for barter, with nine companies, including Guizhou Meitan County Daoqin Hospital and Barter Huishang (Guizhou) Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd., sponsoring this event. Once again, I extend my heartfelt thanks to all of you. The GCV Barter Conference serves multiple purposes. It is not only about creating GCV data or demonstrating the strength of our China region to CT, but also about showing how closely we align with their vision and mission. Additionally, it provides robust evidence for a substantial number of KYC and migration initiatives in China. More importantly, what we do today aims to boost China’s future economic development. Once the main network of the Pi Network is launched, we anticipate a significant demand for Chinese products from numerous international pioneers, which will in turn generate a large volume of export orders. At the same time, there will be international merchants looking to export their products to China. Once OM, import and export transactions will be conducted using the new currency, facilitating the vision of a stable currency and enabling seamless and reliable exchanges with fiat currency. Therefore, the merchants who engage now will have the advantage of being early adopters. The Pi Network offers a partner program and a MapofPi program. To participate in the partnership, businesses are required to have a company website. We invite businesses with websites to join us. However, if you do not have a company website, you can still join the Mapofpi program, which encompasses a wide range of industries, allowing participation from both large companies and small traders. Registration for the Mapofpi does not require a business license or website; various entities including shops, hospitals, schools, hair salons, accounting firms, law firms, restaurants, and hotels are welcome to register. Please select an active merchant and support GCV at $314,159. Prior to the OM launch, it is advisable to use partial fiat currency and partial Pi to ensure that merchants can cover their costs and fulfill their tax obligations. Recently, on January 9, we established the China GCV Industry Chain Alliance, which aims to create an industrial chain that facilitates the circulation of Pi among merchants, thereby reducing the burden of exchanging fiat currency after OM. During the enclosed mainnet, you can assist merchants in registering as Pi Network Partners and Mapofpi . Ms. Lumari is our Global GCV CT executive director and her goal is to have 200,000 registered Mapofpi merchants worldwide. My personal target is to reach 100,000 registered merchants in China alone. This goal is achievable given the over 58 million enterprises and more than 20 million pioneers in China. If we can effectively convey that Pi Network WEB 3.0 blockchain technology will significantly enhance human productivity and that the business opportunities from accepting partial Pi and partial FIAT during the 60 days before OM will present numerous benefits and minimal risks to merchants, then it is likely that no merchant will be unfavorably surprised by the initiative. This strategy offers a multitude of advantages with virtually no downsides. Furthermore, it benefits pioneers by allowing them to transfer purchasing power to the community and minimize fiat currency expenses in their daily life. Consequently, the GCV data we generate will significantly benefit the Chinese pioneers, as a large number of registered merchants can transform the China region from a high-risk area to a safe zone. Not only can this region be promoted to a VIP area, which would enjoy expedited KYC and mapping processes, but it will also allow pioneers and merchants to thrive together in our ecosystem. This collaboration will enhance the prosperity of our country and empower the China region to contribute to the welfare of communities worldwide. Once OM, it will play a crucial role in the economic development of both China and the world. If you pay attention to our migrartion speed, you might have noticed that it has slowed down recently. From December 17th to around the 30th, the migrating speed was over 50,000 to 100,000 per day, but now it has dropped to just over 10,000. What is the reason for this decline? If it was previously possible to migrate over 100,000 per day, why has it changed? The CT has stated that they will OM until the first quarter of this year to bring the migratiion in line with KYC amounts. However, if it's technically feasible to achieve a higher migration speed, why isn’t it being done? The answer is quite simple: it depends on what everyone does with the Pi after such large migration numbers. If pioneers rush to buy and sell, hold onto their Pi coins, or trade at low value, it will impact the speed and efficiency of the next migration in these regions. This principle is not only theoretically valid but has proven true in practice. For instance, countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia have a solid educational foundation in GCV. Most pioneers there are highly aware of the risks involved in participating in the black market, which allows them to generate a substantial amount of GCV data. As a result, their migration speed is notably fast, and there are many large wallet migrated. To help the CT regain momentum, we all need to cooperate. Engage with the migrated Pi and participate in the GCV barter ecosystem. Be cautious of individuals who aim to deceive you for personal gain; devaluing the Pi often serves as a tactic to exchange something small for your valuable treasure. It's crucial to educate pioneers about the true value of what they hold and encourage them to avoid dishonest practices. I urge everyone to actively participate in partial Pi and partial FIAT barter. The more GCV data we generate, the more secure our wallets will be. Therefore, it's important for everyone to read and share the Pioneer Handbook I wrote which has been translated into 30 languages to raise awareness among pioneers. By learning from the Pioneer Handbook and participating in GCV bartering, we can improve China's migration efforts and foster ecological development. This stability can ensure that the value of our Pi endures for future generations, rather than becoming worthless in a few years. Wouldn't that be something we want to preserve for our children and grandchildren? Today's message is lengthy but very important, and I hope you take the time to understand it. I wish our Guizhou Zunyi Conference great success! Thank you to all GCV Ambassadors, Merchants, and Pioneers for your incredible support! Your efforts today are planting the seeds for a prosperous future, and I hope you find safety and fulfillment in the days to come. May your wishes come true! Wishing you health and happiness! Let’s work together to create a better future! I also hope you all have a joyful Chinese New Year! Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Founder, Global GCV Movement January 12, 2025
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**Doris Yin Speech at China Guizhou Zunyi GCV Barter Conference** Hello to the community leaders, GCV ambassadors, merchants, and pioneers of GCV Guizhou in China! Today is January 12, 2025, marking the first GCV Barter Conference in China in New Year and the 13th Barter Conference overall. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the organizers of this conference, the Guizhou Zunyi GCV Community, and the co-organizers, Barter Huishang (Guizhou) Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd. I also want to acknowledge the following GCV ambassadors for their active dedication and contributions to this conference: **GCV Ambassador of China:** - Yang Zhizhong - Cai Zaiqiao **Ambassadors of Guizhou Province GCV:** - Wang Shiqiong - Cai Weisheng - Guo Jiaqing **Zunyi GCV Ambassadors:** - Wang Jianbo - Luo Nanlu **GCV ambassadors at the district and county level in Zunyi City** Additionally, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to our numerous GCV merchants and sponsors. Without your support, we would not have been able to hold such a grand and large-scale event. Today's gathering in Zunyi, a sacred site of the revolution, reminds me of the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March. Their perseverance and sacrifice continue to inspire us. The Zunyi Conference took place from January 15 to 17, 1935, and exactly 90 years later, we are gathered here today. The defining characteristics of the Zunyi Conference included the commitment to uphold the truth, correct mistakes, establish the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, and creatively develop and implement strategies that fit the nature of the Chinese revolution. Today, our Zunyi Conference will also be recorded in the history of blockchain, as every effort you have put in has contributed to building a strong network ecosystem. Our partial fiat and partial distribution policy serves as a solution for the rapid development of the ecosystem during the closed mainnet of the Pi Network. As we all know, the first quarter of this year will bring about the successful mainnet launch of Pi Network. After six long years of challenges and perseverance, all of our pioneers will have the opportunity to witness this significant historical moment. What an exciting and proud day this will be! It has not been easy for everyone to persist through these six years; it requires great blessings, unwavering faith, and the courage to overcome difficulties. Today, our pioneers in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, gathering for this GCV barter conference holds great significance. I see that ten companies are providing products for barter, with nine companies, including Guizhou Meitan County Daoqin Hospital and Barter Huishang (Guizhou) Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd., sponsoring this event. Once again, I extend my heartfelt thanks to all of you. The GCV Barter Conference serves multiple purposes. It is not only about creating GCV data or demonstrating the strength of our China region to CT, but also about showing how closely we align with their vision and mission. Additionally, it provides robust evidence for a substantial number of KYC and migration initiatives in China. More importantly, what we do today aims to boost China’s future economic development. Once the main network of the Pi Network is launched, we anticipate a significant demand for Chinese products from numerous international pioneers, which will in turn generate a large volume of export orders. At the same time, there will be international merchants looking to export their products to China. Once OM, import and export transactions will be conducted using the new currency, facilitating the vision of a stable currency and enabling seamless and reliable exchanges with fiat currency. Therefore, the merchants who engage now will have the advantage of being early adopters. The Pi Network offers a partner program and a MapofPi program. To participate in the partnership, businesses are required to have a company website. We invite businesses with websites to join us. However, if you do not have a company website, you can still join the Mapofpi program, which encompasses a wide range of industries, allowing participation from both large companies and small traders. Registration for the Mapofpi does not require a business license or website; various entities including shops, hospitals, schools, hair salons, accounting firms, law firms, restaurants, and hotels are welcome to register. Please select an active merchant and support GCV at $314,159. Prior to the OM launch, it is advisable to use partial fiat currency and partial Pi to ensure that merchants can cover their costs and fulfill their tax obligations. Recently, on January 9, we established the China GCV Industry Chain Alliance, which aims to create an industrial chain that facilitates the circulation of Pi among merchants, thereby reducing the burden of exchanging fiat currency after OM. During the enclosed mainnet, you can assist merchants in registering as Pi Network Partners and Mapofpi . Ms. Lumari is our Global GCV CT executive director and her goal is to have 200,000 registered Mapofpi merchants worldwide. My personal target is to reach 100,000 registered merchants in China alone. This goal is achievable given the over 58 million enterprises and more than 20 million pioneers in China. If we can effectively convey that Pi Network WEB 3.0 blockchain technology will significantly enhance human productivity and that the business opportunities from accepting partial Pi and partial FIAT during the 60 days before OM will present numerous benefits and minimal risks to merchants, then it is likely that no merchant will be unfavorably surprised by the initiative. This strategy offers a multitude of advantages with virtually no downsides. Furthermore, it benefits pioneers by allowing them to transfer purchasing power to the community and minimize fiat currency expenses in their daily life. Consequently, the GCV data we generate will significantly benefit the Chinese pioneers, as a large number of registered merchants can transform the China region from a high-risk area to a safe zone. Not only can this region be promoted to a VIP area, which would enjoy expedited KYC and mapping processes, but it will also allow pioneers and merchants to thrive together in our ecosystem. This collaboration will enhance the prosperity of our country and empower the China region to contribute to the welfare of communities worldwide. Once OM, it will play a crucial role in the economic development of both China and the world. If you pay attention to our migrartion speed, you might have noticed that it has slowed down recently. From December 17th to around the 30th, the migrating speed was over 50,000 to 100,000 per day, but now it has dropped to just over 10,000. What is the reason for this decline? If it was previously possible to migrate over 100,000 per day, why has it changed? The CT has stated that they will OM until the first quarter of this year to bring the migratiion in line with KYC amounts. However, if it's technically feasible to achieve a higher migration speed, why isn’t it being done? The answer is quite simple: it depends on what everyone does with the Pi after such large migration numbers. If pioneers rush to buy and sell, hold onto their Pi coins, or trade at low value, it will impact the speed and efficiency of the next migration in these regions. This principle is not only theoretically valid but has proven true in practice. For instance, countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia have a solid educational foundation in GCV. Most pioneers there are highly aware of the risks involved in participating in the black market, which allows them to generate a substantial amount of GCV data. As a result, their migration speed is notably fast, and there are many large wallet migrated. To help the CT regain momentum, we all need to cooperate. Engage with the migrated Pi and participate in the GCV barter ecosystem. Be cautious of individuals who aim to deceive you for personal gain; devaluing the Pi often serves as a tactic to exchange something small for your valuable treasure. It's crucial to educate pioneers about the true value of what they hold and encourage them to avoid dishonest practices. I urge everyone to actively participate in partial Pi and partial FIAT barter. The more GCV data we generate, the more secure our wallets will be. Therefore, it's important for everyone to read and share the Pioneer Handbook I wrote which has been translated into 30 languages to raise awareness among pioneers. By learning from the Pioneer Handbook and participating in GCV bartering, we can improve China's migration efforts and foster ecological development. This stability can ensure that the value of our Pi endures for future generations, rather than becoming worthless in a few years. Wouldn't that be something we want to preserve for our children and grandchildren? Today's message is lengthy but very important, and I hope you take the time to understand it. I wish our Guizhou Zunyi Conference great success! Thank you to all GCV Ambassadors, Merchants, and Pioneers for your incredible support! Your efforts today are planting the seeds for a prosperous future, and I hope you find safety and fulfillment in the days to come. May your wishes come true! Wishing you health and happiness! Let’s work together to create a better future! I also hope you all have a joyful Chinese New Year! Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷 Founder, Global GCV Movement January 12, 2025

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