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Who Is Beff Jezos? Beff on Being Doxxed, the e/acc Movement, and Crypto & AI Crossoverost

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December 04, 2023

Who Is Beff Jezos? Beff on Being Doxxed, the e/acc Movement, and Crypto & AI Crossover

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SUMMARY

The eak movement is advocating for freedom of information, speech, thought, and compute, and is concerned about the potential negative impacts of AI and the centralization of power in the hands of a few companies.

  • 00:00 🔍 Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI, while Binance CEO CZ steps back and the company faces a $4 billion fine, highlighting Coinbase as the only legitimate exchange.

    • Beth Jezos, co-founder of the eak movement, discusses being doxxed, anonymity, media, and the role of journalism in society, along with the involvement of X Tropic, a stealth AI hardware startup.

    • Binance CEO CZ has stepped back and the company has to pay a $4 billion fine for violating sanctions, leading to uncertainty about the future of the company and highlighting Coinbase as the only legitimate exchange.

    • Binance has been a major player in the industry, with a clean track record in terms of customer funds, despite some issues with international sanctions.

    • Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI.

    • Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI, and how her professional and personal life have merged, with her voice being identified through online lectures and government-grade technology.

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  • 15:38 🗣 Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI, expressing concern about power asymmetry and the suppression of freedom of information and speech.

    • The speaker discusses being doxxed and the impact on their deep tech startup, as well as the need to rush announcements due to the correlation of their identity with their company.

    • Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI.

    • Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the crossover of crypto and AI, expressing concern about power asymmetry and the suppression of freedom of information and speech.

    • Beff Jezos discusses his frustration with credentialism in the tech industry and his desire to create a more inclusive and accessible environment for aspiring entrepreneurs.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the process of creating a new persona on Twitter, finding a community, and engaging in meaningful conversations through Twitter spaces.

    • The speaker discusses the creation of a viral blog post and their active presence on Twitter.

  • 35:25 🤖 Beff Jezos discusses the e/acc movement, decentralization in crypto and AI, and the potential for startups in the field.

    • Beff Jezos discusses his strong opinions on Quantum Computing, his use of Twitter as a dopamine hit, and the sense of community and spirituality within the e/acc movement.

    • Beff Jezos discusses being doxxed, the e/acc movement, and the potential for creating a research institution and funding open-source hackers to defend their ideas.

    • Decentralization in the crypto world contrasts with the centralizing nature of AI, with examples of anonymity and the centralization of open AI through its deal with Microsoft.

    • Self-organizing systems tend to form hierarchical structures, and the balance between centralization and decentralization is crucial for engineering fault tolerance to corruption.

    • AI is currently centralized but there is a push towards decentralization, with a future focus on personal assistant AI, decentralized data acquisition, and crediting people for their data contributions to AI systems.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the potential for startups in crypto and AI, the dangers of over centralization of AI, and the need to fight against fearmongering and regulatory capture by incumbents.

  • 50:40 🤖 Beff Jezos discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, the rebellious nature of the e/acc movement, and the importance of open source collaboration for survival and competitiveness against centralized players.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the potential overlap of crypto and AI, the idea of paying data owners for their trading sets, and the concept of pricing the value of data based on the information gain for a share of a model's future profits.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, the potential for emergent altruism, and the resistance against centralized control systems.

    • The speaker discusses the rebellious nature of the e/acc movement, the crossover of crypto and AI, and the cyberpunk vibes, emphasizing the importance of building something that challenges the status quo.

    • Organizational bureaucracy and monopolization hinder innovation, and there is a political landscape shaping around AI safety and freedom to advance technology.

    • Big Tech is bad because of a lack of ambition and capacity, but with new technologies like AI, there is real work to be done, and companies like Facebook are dedicating resources to it.

    • Open source collaboration and the use of crypto and AI are critical for the survival and competitiveness of open source models against centralized players.

  • 01:09:37 🤖 The merging of crypto and AI will lead to the anti-centralization movement combining forces with crypto, creating a need for more players in the space and bridges to be built between AI and crypto.

    • The merging of crypto and AI will lead to the anti-centralization movement combining forces with crypto, creating a need for more players in the space and bridges to be built between AI and crypto.

    • Decentralizing the AI supply chain by changing the substrate on which general AI runs, with potential for crypto and AI crossover in the near term.

    • Decentralized companies are needed for privacy and data constraints, but the main problem is network latency and the difficulty of model parallelism in distributed training.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the development of decentralized AI hardware and the need to solve for the density of compute for AI efficiency.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the limitations of quantum computing, the development of a new type of physics-based computing focused on AI, and the integration of physical systems into deep learning programs.

    • The goal of the company is to enable AI to perceive, predict, and control the world at all scales, including the nanoscale, in order to tackle the real problems that are hindering civilization's ability to scale to a type one civilization.

  • 01:22:20 🚀 Belief in agency and optimism, tackling hard problems with courage, and the e/acc movement aiming to accelerate a global mindset shift towards a better future.

    • We are working on something secretive and impactful, tackling the hardest problems with courage and fanaticism.

    • Contributing to something greater than yourself gives infinite motivation to work hard and overcome challenges, and the eak community has found utility in moving away from a nihilistic mindset.

    • The speaker discusses the parallels between SF politics and the influence of big tech, emphasizing the need for a cultural turning point and technological solutions.

    • Belief in people's agency and optimism is key to creating a better future, and the e/acc movement aims to accelerate this mindset globally.

    • The speaker discusses the transformation of religion and the importance of metaphysics in navigating the world and doing empiricism well.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the cult-like nature of tech startups and the concept of eak as a cultural framework for maximizing civilization's growth.

  • 01:29:26 🎙 Beff Jezos discusses metacultural framework, e/acc movement, crypto & AI crossover, and AI disruption to the economy, emphasizing the importance of maintaining freedom and exploring different cultural frameworks.

    • The speaker discusses the concept of a metacultural framework, comparing it to a thin framework from which subcultures can be formed and modified, similar to code on GitHub.

    • Maintaining freedom and entropy in the system is crucial, and exploring different cultural frameworks for how to live your life is important.

    • Encouraging the formation of subcultures and building technologies with a positive impact is important, and San Francisco is a place for exploring various societal experiments.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the e/acc movement, crypto & AI crossover, and being doxxed, while also inviting Nathan to comment and asking about time for questions.

    • Beff Jezos discusses the concept of AI, human-like intelligence, and the uncertainty of near-term expectations in the field of artificial intelligence.

    • The speaker discusses the potential disruption to the economy by AI and the need for people to adapt and integrate AI into their business processes and personal workflow in order to own a piece of the future.

  • 01:43:07 🤖 Beff Jezos discusses his background in powerlifting and engineering, and his interest in the crossover between crypto and AI.

    • Beff Jezos discusses his impressive bench press, college football experience, and the crossover between mathematics, powerlifting, and engineering.

    • Transhumanism business is agnostic and embraces the physical, and the speaker wants to discuss crypto and AI with G in the future.

INSIGHTS

Decentralization and Future of AI

  • 🔴 The eak movement is about Freedom of Information, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of compute, and it's concerning that it was deemed dangerous enough to be suppressed with AI.

  • 🔓 Open source software for AI is seen as a hedge against the potential negative impacts of AI and the interests of leading players in closing down AI and outlawing open source models.

  • 🤖 Beff Jezos questions the centralizing nature of AI, contrasting it with the decentralized nature of the crypto world.

  • 🛡️ "I think that if we have a future where there's only a few companies that have the government mandated Monopoly or oligopoly to serve AI models, then you have a sort of like single point where a few people get to control the cultural priors of these llms what they're allowed to say."

  • 🤖 The merging of crypto and AI could lead to a new era of decentralized technology and innovation.

  • 🧠 "We're going after the hardest problem in AI right now, which is how do you embed AI into the physical processes of the world."

  • 🌐 The goal with the technologies being built is to enable AI to perceive, predict, and control our world at all scales, including the nanoscale, in order to tackle real problems and scale civilization.

  • 💼 Beff Jezos predicts a future where humans will be augmented and in control of fleets of AI, potentially becoming more like capital allocators or executives of companies that are mostly AI for the execution layer.

Privacy and Surveillance Concerns

  • 🔍 Beff Jezos, co-founder of the e/acc movement, was doxxed by Forbes reporters, sparking controversy and raising questions about privacy and anonymity online.

  • 🔍 Beff Jezos discusses the invasion of privacy and the use of government-grade technology to identify her voice, raising concerns about surveillance and control.

  • 🔒 Beff Jezos chose to remain anonymous to have their ideas evaluated without being correlated to their credentials.