Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

Purpose gives direction. Passion generates knowledge. Practice tests it. I share the thinking, experiments, and learnings here. disruptionjoe.com/thinking Chicago, IL Joined May 2017

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

3 days ago

@nikitabier If anyone is working on the sustainable solutions I’d love to see it.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

4 days ago

@timourxyz They started a cult.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

4 days ago

@UrbanCourtyard Where does the garbage go?

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

@allmodelsRwrong @TBSocialist Are you no longer socialist or is it a matter of focus?

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@mathemetica Doing some hobby physics with agents has shown me that we still have a lot of “no-go” theorems that are class relative. They tend to not acknowledge the potential for broader topological and metric structures beyond their framing.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

These concepts are key for AI alignment as well. It’s about governance, not government.

The Interfold @theInterfold

a week ago

Confidential markets are about more than hiding transactions. Sealed-bid auctions point to a broader question: how can private positions produce a shared, verifiable result without putting one party in control?

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

Decentralized systems can be regulated, but only in decentralized ways. Build governance(s) that is opt-in and works because it offers a payout for participation, not just the aggregate betterment of the system or world. Monetize the increasing returns and return them.

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

2 weeks ago

It's possible that a killer app of adversarial governance mechanism design theory will end up being AI safety. Compare: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/0… aiprospects.substack.com/p/preventing-a… There's a deep duality between the two environments. Both are about a less-sophisticated principal trying to

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

@VitalikButerin It’s about time to start this conversation. The lawful evolution of protocols or policy is key for DAOs to thrive and for AI safety. I believe it is also needed for governance that is truly democratic to work anywhere in a sustainable way.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

@MichaelRippe Did you have a shot of Malort yet?

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

a week ago

@TOEwithCurt Prisoners dilemma. Moloch.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

@BenDiFrancesco Underrated tweet

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Ben DiFrancesco @BenDiFrancesco

2 weeks ago

I agree with Daniel. We should deregulate kitchen faucets.

Daniel "pɐq umop" Goldman @DZack23

2 weeks ago

AI research is currently less regulated than kitchen water faucets are and lots of people on the TL seem to think it would be absurd if that changed.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

@davidryan59 @auryn_macmillan It works well for background progress

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

@DCinvestor @jemenger Then when you’re done read this

Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen

2 weeks ago

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Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen

2 weeks ago

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

@ns123abc I wonder how many of them have stopped using it. Quite the moloch race here

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

@ImperiumPaper The signal being sent seems worse than the temporary cure

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Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer

2 weeks ago

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

2 weeks ago

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

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Disruption Joe @DisruptionJoe

2 weeks ago

The universe is discreet. Discuss.

Shaun Fosmark @Shaun_Fosmark

2 weeks ago

I want to talk about this Navier Stokes result for a minute because I see alot of people sharing it and not nearly enough people explaining it. A share for this one would be appreciated. The Navier-Stokes equations are just Newton's second law of motion, F=ma, adapted for