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Ultra-ambitious programmer, entrepreneur, cypherpunk, DEFCON speaker, world-improver. 🧠💙🚀

San Francisco, CA
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Steve Phillips
1 year
The present world is not good enough. Too much suffering, too little problem-solving, too much centralized power, not enough freedom. Let's build something dramatically better. I'll be in Amsterdam on Oct 30 hoping to meet others working toward a brighter future for all.
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Balaji
1 year
Come to the Network State Conference in Amsterdam on Oct 30. Our speakers include Greenwald, Vitalik, Anatoly, Garry Tan, the Winklevosses, Tyler Cowen, and founders of startup societies from around the world. This won't be a typical tech conference.
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@ImagineAGuy I only need air traffic control there so I can tell them how awesome of a job I'm doing
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11 months
"I'm all in on whatever's best for Sam Altman's revenge arc!!!🤪" ...Says 80% of my timeline, which understands nothing about the gravity of the situation regarding AGI. @ilyasut knows AGI is near, and he knows we're not ready for it. Bravo for being the adult in the room. 🙏
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11 months
@_ali_taylor Use a desktop *monitor* instead of (phone/tablet/laptop) screens
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13 years
If your mind has yet to be blown by #fluidinfo , you don't understand it. Start here: "Fluidinfo in a Nutshell" http://t.co/MZSQ3cz
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Yes battering rams exist, no you shouldn't stop locking your doors. Yes hacking exists, no you shouldn't stop using Signal, WhatsApp #Vault7
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2 years
@Noahpinion Evidence of Sirota "screeching in rage"? I don't see it:
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David Sirota
2 years
Their list of big winners includes renewable energy (great) but also oil companies, private equity firms and the wealthy (not great).
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2 years
@Aella_Girl I think you're doing BDSM wrong
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9 years
@chrisgeidner @rachelwalexande "Sorry we murdered your son. jk! Boys who play with toy guns deserve to be killed; he shoulda known that!"
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Steve Phillips
9 years
Dear @torproject , @CloudFlare is ruining the #Tor experience. I just opened 4 tabs and 3 of them made me select several pictures and submit
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Steve Phillips
11 months
Vision Weekend is the greatest conference in the world, and the only one I attend every single year. We shall strategize and share insights around space tech, biotech, neurotech, secure computing, harnessing AI while minimizing x-risk, long-term knowledge preservation, and in
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Allison Duettmann
11 months
Can't believe that @foresightinst Vision Weekend US has finally arrived🌈
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11 months
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11 months
. @ilyasut accelerated AI more than anyone else, but since he also understands the risks of his creations, he's a "doomer" and a "decel"??? That's just name-calling. Listen to the arguments! Powerful AI is not a fucking children's toy for little boys to play with 🚒. Grow up.
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Steve Phillips
6 years
I owe @a_greenberg a debt of gratitude: if I hadn't read this article he wrote , I wouldn't have known that @BarrettBrown_ was out of prison and ready to build #Pursuance , I wouldn't have flown to Dallas to meet Barrett, and wouldn't be the lead dev today
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Steve Phillips
5 years
. @PursuanceProj was suspended because Barrett Brown supposedly used it as his personal account, too. This is 100% nonsense; I created @PursuanceProj myself, then gave the pw to @acbold when she became Executive Director; Barrett literally never had it. @Jack @TwitterSupport
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Steve Phillips
3 years
@tagabhishek @WhiteHouse Maybe the Pentagon just didn't have enough money? Hard to do much with a measly $778,000,000,000 *EVERY YEAR*.
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Steve Phillips
5 years
. @AndyNgo doesn't give a fuck of the harm he invites, and is proud enough about it to tweet shit like this
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Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈
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2 years
The idea of Docker is good, but its architecture is terrible and its implementation is buggy. Podman learned the lessons of Docker and is now superior, all while being compatible enough to be a drop-in replacement. Mark my words: Docker is dying, and Podman will replace it.
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~flipchⒶn
2 years
Hell yeah! After hearing about podman from @elimisteve we are now live with an episode about #podman ! The secure alternative to #docker ! #infosec #podcast #security
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Police don't need tanks & grenade launchers! Tell Obama: Don't lift the ban on military equipment for police! @BLMLA
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Steve Phillips
12 years
On Twitter I've created 2358 tweets in 64 months. On Tent (see tent.is), I've created 2320 Posts in just 7 months. Love it! #engagement
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Steve Phillips
7 years
Was stoked to be on @AnonUKRadio rep'ing @PursuanceProj ! Learn more: . Let's change the world... before it ends
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Steve Phillips
6 years
Ready for a radically better way to organize using end-to-end encrypted software that amplifies the efforts of activists, journalists, and nonprofits? Here it is, everyone! #Pursuance LET'S DO THIS!!! :-D :-D
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Fire Police Chief Charlie Beck for Leading the Most Murderous Police Force in the United States @blmla
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Steve Phillips
7 years
I strongly support @JulianAssange 's freedom of speech. He is a political prisoner who even the UN has formally ruled to have been (and still be) illegally, "arbitrarily detained." "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" -Voltaire(ish)
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John Pilger
7 years
In this letter, 27 writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers & democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech...
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Steve Phillips
7 years
Happy birthday @JohnKiriakou ! Thank you for courageously blowing the whistle on #torture ; the world owes you one. #justice
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Steve Phillips
11 months
Space migration is both an honor and a moral necessity. We can do this. We must do this.
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Steve Phillips
7 years
This is it: Barrett Brown's big announcement of Pursuance!
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Steve Phillips
6 years
@yashalevine You know what's a *really* great target for spies? Literally any activism ever. Should people therefore not organize, and do so as safely as possible? Your scaremongering will only serve to keep ~all digital activism on Facebook, which itself was funded by the CIA's In-Q-Tel.
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Steve Phillips
2 years
It's simple: A. Technology can help bring about an AMAZING future for all! B. If we don't get AGI right, we're all fucked. Both are true. Yet, reckless AI labs choose A over B ("more AGI capabilities now!"), and anti-tech doomers choose B over A ("never!"). Let's do B then A!
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2 years
@mezaoptimizer Full video:
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5 years
@cynthiamckinney He sais the money came from his best-selling book. Is there evidence that suggests otherwise? And if not, what is the problem?
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@ACLU
ACLU
6 years
@elonmusk Thank you for being one of the biggest supporters of the ACLU. Really appreciate your backing us over the years.
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3 years
"Under this ideology, no distinction can be made between a billion dollars in GDP generated from Netflix consumption and a billion dollars in GDP generated by domestic machine tool production." Great piece in @palladiummag by @wilks_isaac --
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Steve Phillips
11 months
@dr_park_phd And especially @ilyasut !
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@Simeon_Cps Agreed -- internal deployment or the internal beginnings of RLHF -- and I'd point to GPT-4 hiring and deceiving a TaskRabbit gig worker as evidence of this. It was the earlier stages of "let's see what capabilities this AI has" where something unexpected and powerful happened.
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Steve Phillips
6 years
We are live at . Here's what we're streaming now: @birgittaj and @BarrettBrown_ talking about #Pursuance and the future of activism.
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11 months
@ESYudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
11 months
I am as eager for the glorious transhumanist future as anyone but first we have to not die instantly.
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Steve Phillips
9 years
#LiesToldToUs Dropping bombs, invading countries, and killing innocent people will make us safer
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Steve Phillips
6 years
@parscale @realDonaldTrump I don't think that's accurate. Evidence:
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Shannon Watts
6 years
Police estimate 10,000 to 15,000 attended Beto O’Rourke’s anti-Trump, anti-wall rally in El Paso tonight. The facility Trump spoke at holds 6,500 people.
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2 years
What it's like when I'm masterminding something new. #INTJ
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Threatening Music Notation
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@publicbankla
Public Bank Los Angeles
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Sign our petition for LA City Council to create a city-owned public bank accountable to the People not Wall St!
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11 months
@flaviocopes @JustineTunney @progrium @jimmykoppel @dustingetz The future *cannot* be good if our civilization continues to be built atop unreliable, insecure, catastrophically complex software.
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Join us in LA on Dec 11th for @RevolutionInLA 's very first Surveillance Self-defense Workshop! @EFF @kmontenegro @Sheeyahshee @geminiimatt
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Call 1-919-FREEDOM to demand Congress #StopMassHacking , block #Rule41 changes to expand FBI surveillance @idltweets
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Steve Phillips
1 year
@izzyz Not all humans, just the NPCs.
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Steve Phillips
5 years
is back! Ephemeral, in-browser, end-to-end encrypted chat. Send someone a link, and they're in--no account needed! (Signal/Wire/Keybase are great when everyone already has it, or you want the convo to persist, or be tied to you) LeapChat = encrypted Slack
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Steve Phillips
7 years
Taking a break from Twitter to completely focus on building @PursuanceProj . Thanks @RayJoha2 & @raincoaster for running the show! #Pursuance
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Steve Phillips
2 years
@davidsirota
David Sirota
2 years
I’ve said: 1. The bill has a chance to somewhat reduce emissions 2. It’s concerning that oil companies are celebrating, the bill expands fossil fuel development despite scientists’ warnings, and the main emissions projection doesnt publish its methodology. Can’t both be true?
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Steve Phillips
11 months
A decent summary of why my p(doom) = ~90%. In AGI development, the dynamics favor the reckless, for they will race past and outcompete those who are more responsible. And thus, the reckless shall inherit the Earth -- until they destroy it for us all.
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Siqi Chen
11 months
so basically the “move slower” people ousted the “move faster” people who’ll move fast to start a newco all the “move faster” people will join to move faster, and all that will be left are the “move slower” people moving slow to move slower together
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@TheKryptonian41 @gatewaypundit @MrAndyNgo @michellemalkin The article title is wrong but his tweet is right. Just passed $101k:
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Why #Trump Is A Fascist (200+ references) Hundreds of reasons why #Hillary is terrible:
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11 years
"Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American" --Edward #Snowden
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Steve Phillips
9 years
looks extremely useful for @redecentralize 'ing the internet! Yay @indiewebcamp ! via @IndieHosters
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Steve Phillips
8 years
. @LAPDChiefBeck @MayorOfLA Peace? "LAPD killed 1 person per week since 2000. 82 percent were black or brown." @BLMLA
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Steve Phillips
2 years
@nasjaq__ I really enjoyed The Terrapunk Manifesto! What is the Terrapunk position on how to develop AGI? Should we make sure we get it right, or should we build it as fast as possible even though that risks everything humans care about?
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Sign the petition! "Stop Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Activists" @BLMLA @SoDak4BLM @BLMBAYAREA @BLMNYC @BLM_TO
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Check it out! I donated to @PMbeers so she can keep filming @BLMLA 's and other activists' police interactions
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Steve Phillips
6 years
Our Kickstarter has already passed $10,000 in less than 1 day! Let's keep the momentum going and nail some of our epic stretch goals, which include things like native mobile app creation and server federation. #nailingit #Pursuance
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Steve Phillips
8 years
US military to create autonomous robots that analyze social media to choose who to kill w/minimal human involvement
@NafeezAhmed
Dr Nafeez Ahmed FRSA
8 years
Ok. I've just posted a fairly epic, truly frightening investigation into the Pentagon's killer robot plan(s)
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Steve Phillips
6 years
. @IlhanMN 's criticism that @AIPAC buys influence is TRUE! If you REALLY want to see how pervasive and creepy the Israeli lobby is, watch "The Lobby", an *excellent* 4-part documentary that @AIPAC censored, produced by @AlJazeera and released by @intifada :
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Steve Phillips
11 months
@ilex_ulmus Looks like you were right.
@ashleevance
Ashlee Vance
11 months
It's Sunday night. I think
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Steve Phillips
6 years
@yashalevine "CIA" is a strange way to spell "cyberpunk". You are stuck in the '90s if you think encryption is fundamentally a tool of the government, and that everyone using it has been duped. Ever heard of HTTPS? It's used for a lot of shockingly non-CIA-type activity. Like online banking.
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Steve Phillips
4 years
@BlackSocialists 1. Secure, large-scale activist coordination via @EffectiveAF 2. Out-compete financialized capitalism with small-business, aligned-stakeholder capitalism-ish (B-corps + employee equity). Less profit being extracted => Less waste => More capital-efficient => Do more with less! 🚀
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Internet of Things: where every physical device is infected with as much malware as Windows XP. #prediction #iot #tech @internetofshit
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Steve Phillips
1 year
The e/acc, techno-optimist mindset is great for virtually everything -- except frontier AI, which no one knows how to control yet. We need a movement for people who want to accelerate everything *except the likelihood of human extinction*. Can e/acc itself become such a force?
@BasedBeffJezos
Beff – e/acc
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Want to see a better & grander future? Go forth and build it. That's what e/acc is all about.
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Steve Phillips
6 years
What if anyone could create a highly productive, volunteer-led, 100-person organization *in 1 hour?* How? @EffectiveAF : create a project + hierarchy of tasks, specify the skills needed to complete each task => Invite others by skill set, or post an invite link to reddit/Twitter!
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Steve Phillips
7 years
⚡️Last weekend I spoke at @AaronSwartzDay with the formidable @BarrettBrown_ to unveil #Pursuance ! @PursuanceProj #justice
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Steve Phillips
1 year
Impressive and inspiring talk from @jasoncbenn at The Network State Conference about The Neighborhood SF!
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Steve Phillips
6 years
This is the most compelling interview I've ever seen @BarrettBrown_ do. It provides much of his epic backstory and lays out the need for #Pursuance .
@HackerSploit
HackerSploit
6 years
The HackerSploit Podcast: Interview With @BarrettBrown_ on the @PursuanceProj Honored to have had you on the podcast @BarrettBrown_ #CyberSecurity #podcast #Pursuance
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Steve Phillips
6 years
Want to significantly improve the lives of those in the asylum seekers' caravan by helping them buy basic necessities and safe transportation across the Mexican desert? Donate at ! /cc @yaelwrites @pomeranian99 @lisarein @Revolution_LA_ #Resist
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Steve Phillips
6 years
THIS IS IMPORTANT! Please, PLEASE help me encourage others to donate to the asylum seekers' caravan: . RETWEET!
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Steve Phillips
2 years
We can have *everything* we want *without* AGI! Just not quite as soon. That's why creating powerful, autonomous, agentic AGI as fast as possible is surely the single most foolish undertaking the human race has ever attempted. Not worth the risk till we know how to control it.
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Steve Phillips
2 years
Yes: "Ignore the risks and build AGI because it will be good because thermodynamics."
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Steve Phillips
11 months
@flaviocopes I switched from React to Svelte ~4 years ago; so much simpler! Think there's anything better yet? I just tried SvelteKit and it seems well done; very versatile, since it can be full stack or frontend only depending on whether you use backend features. 😎 Ideally I could use a
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Steve Phillips
8 years
My harsh then positive review of @ProtonMail 's secure email service: If you avoid the landmines, it's good! #privacy
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Steve Phillips
7 years
@JulianAssange @Suzi3D @MontriciaHubba1 You are misconstruing basic facts, Julian. If we kicked everyone out of our chat server for defending your rights or the publications of WikiLeaks, we would have kicked ourselves out; we defend those things, too.
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Steve Phillips
12 years
GCC 4.7.1 adds FULL Go support! http://t.co/DbBfWXcP #golang
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Steve Phillips
2 years
The fundamental task of society is to harness the talents of its most capable in order create such extraordinarily empowering technology, and sufficient material wealth, that every human being can live however they like.
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Steve Phillips
9 years
Help make it happen for CloudFleet: Your private encrypted cloud at home! #indiegogo via @indiegogo
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1 year
@Simeon_Cps Sounds interesting. Details?
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Steve Phillips
8 years
@pmarca You're probably thinking of , which I use; really like it. Recommended!
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Steve Phillips
7 years
@SmokesAngel1 @JulianAssange @Suzi3D @MontriciaHubba1 We are utterly sincere in defending the human rights of Assange -- even the UN ruled that he is being arbitrarily, illegally detained, which is a ruling I agree with -- even though we disagree with Assange's more recent politics. Example:
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Steve Phillips
7 years
@Hanissee @aral @Suzi3D @CultofNewMedia @SillyPutty78 @AnnaBurkhart @PursuanceProj @birgittaj @RayJoha2 @deCespedes @barryeisler @wikileaks @kittyhundal @Shidash @FlickRubicon @Loraxlive @JulianAssange Absolutely; @JulianAssange has been treated horribly and I would like to see his human rights restored. I don't support his lies nor his pro-Trump-ness, but that is another matter entirely.
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Steve Phillips
11 months
@SpencerKSchiff By removing all ethical restrictions from Sam and Greg's future AGI activities?
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Steve Phillips
7 years
If you are smart, honest, focused, *extremely* ambitious, and the kind of person who deeply respects @ElonMusk , @TonyRobbins , @PeterDiamandis , and/or @SamA , contact me immediately. I'm starting a Meetup group for us in SF; let's join forces. #Greatness #ambition #onelife #results
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Steve Phillips
6 years
The #Pursuance Kickstarter has now raised $20,000, and we just hit 250 backers! #winning Thanks so much for your support. #activism
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Steve Phillips
11 months
The deception is real. "We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so."
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Anri
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@elimisteve @lmatsakis Yeah pretty sure it was instructed to do so, like you would write a program that has no "AI" in it and could do the same.
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@yashalevine I absolutely want to help protect activists using @torproject , which is why #Pursuance 's default server installation will make itself available as an Onion Service/Tor hidden service, thereby making #anonymous use of Pursuance as convenient as possible -- through Tor Browser! :-D
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Steve Phillips
7 years
Going back on a Twitter hiatus to focus on #Pursuance 100%. I'll be back soon enough -- when we start our @PursuanceProj Kickstarter! Also excited about #34C3 in 3 weeks; I, @AnnaBurkhart , and @ajvbahnken will be there.
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Steve Phillips
9 years
Come by @sbhackerspace for the @FreeCodeCamp livestream: we've had ZERO velociraptor incidents in over a week!
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Steve Phillips
6 years
@nottrobin @TheDrDreamz @PursuanceProj @RayJoha2 Another key differentiator: the ability to invite someone to a #Pursuance at the minimum trust level, at which point they can only see and only work on the tasks you've assigned them -- an important way for people to get help from others while mitigating infiltrator damage.
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Steve Phillips
5 years
Barrett's back! And pulling no punches, as always.
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Steve Phillips
6 years
@BarrettBrown_ @OpHQnews Yup, and: as the README clearly states at , the Pursuance software shouldn't be deployed because auth isn't yet in place. We are still building the software; yes it's not ready yet. And we'll have a security audit once more of the code exists to be audited
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Steve Phillips
5 years
That's because not enough "cypherpunks" write code. We have work to do. @EffectiveAF
@hacks4pancakes
Lesley Carhart
5 years
@ADoug @passingthehash @deviantollam Everything the cyberpunk greats predicted came true except for the things that gave the protagonists a leg up.
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Steve Phillips
7 years
@CryptoAustralia [ ] None of the above
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Steve Phillips
7 years
Great episode! To answer your Q's: Pursuance's code . Software license: AGPLv3. Join us @
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Steve Phillips
8 years
Yessss! I am now a proud patron of @Asher_Wolf on @patreon , and you should be too: #NewPatron
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Steve Phillips
6 years
45 hours to go!!!
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