For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall good lord, really? Man needs to go sail around the world again.
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall Oh yeah, MobileCoin. Can you guess when it got merged into Signal, perhaps?
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@david_chisnall Oh yeah, MobileCoin. Can you guess when it got merged into Signal, perhaps?
@pettter @david_chisnall holy shit world's first actually stable cryptocurrency
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall Is he pushing for chatgpt in Signal?
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@david_chisnall Is he pushing for chatgpt in Signal?
@jackemled No, his own confidential AI thing, he's not connected to Signal anymore.
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@pettter @david_chisnall holy shit world's first actually stable cryptocurrency
@jackemled @pettter @david_chisnall
"Flatlining" is an existing word, indeed.
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@jackemled No, his own confidential AI thing, he's not connected to Signal anymore.
@david_chisnall Oh good
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@jackemled @pettter @david_chisnall
"Flatlining" is an existing word, indeed.
@knud @pettter @david_chisnall Always being worth zero is technically stable lmao
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall AI announcements will continue until morale improves?
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall is AI inherently bad?

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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall MobileCoin still the most profoundly trust-damaging thing Signal has done. I hope they remove it from the app someday.
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@knud @pettter @david_chisnall Always being worth zero is technically stable lmao
@jackemled @pettter @david_chisnall
Exactly!
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For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.
@david_chisnall
I love how he has considered only one of the externalities of LLM (the privacy part, which should be granted, not optional) and didn't touch any of the other ones like the ecological footprint of its LLM's training and the ethical one (dataset used for the training) -
@david_chisnall is AI inherently bad?

@ErikJonker LLMs - yes.
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@ErikJonker LLMs - yes.
@gytisrepecka @david_chisnall ...then you kill all normal discussion about a widely used technology (and that will not go away) , also many uses are not "plain" LLMs but with additional scaffolding etc
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@pettter @david_chisnall holy shit world's first actually stable cryptocurrency
@jackemled @pettter @david_chisnall Not that stable on a log graph! (Surprisingly stable for most of 2025, I'm not sure why, and note that the grid lines are a factor of 100 apart.)
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@gytisrepecka @david_chisnall ...then you kill all normal discussion about a widely used technology (and that will not go away) , also many uses are not "plain" LLMs but with additional scaffolding etc
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that any technology that calls itself AI has hidden externalities that make it a net negative for society.
Anything that's a net benefit doesn't use such a tainted term in its marketing.
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@gytisrepecka @david_chisnall ...then you kill all normal discussion about a widely used technology (and that will not go away) , also many uses are not "plain" LLMs but with additional scaffolding etc
@ErikJonker @gytisrepecka @david_chisnall did you write that or did you have your CSAM machine crank it out for you
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@gytisrepecka @david_chisnall ...then you kill all normal discussion about a widely used technology (and that will not go away) , also many uses are not "plain" LLMs but with additional scaffolding etc
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@jackemled @pettter @david_chisnall Not that stable on a log graph! (Surprisingly stable for most of 2025, I'm not sure why, and note that the grid lines are a factor of 100 apart.)
@snowfox @jackemled @david_chisnall No trades