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Andrew M. Bailey

@resistance.money
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Thorin Klosowski @thorinklosowski.com · 8h
last year we did a little made up holiday called Opt Out October that was all about taking control of your data across platforms. This year we decided to talk about how many excellent alternatives to the products made by big tech are out there www.eff.org/pages/welcom...
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Welcome to Opt Out October. Let’s Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices
Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to giv...
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 30/09/2026
Debanking has a successor; it is decomputing. www.btcpolicy.org/articles/les...
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Lessons from bitcoin for open intelligence | Bitcoin Policy Institute
Andrew Bailey draws lessons from bitcoin for open intelligence: protect user control, verify computation, defend developers, and organize for liberty.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 28/09/2026
Democracy means that people — individuals — have a meaningful say in the rules that govern them.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 25/09/2026
People are scared. The Machine is clanking loudly — data centers, surveillance, control. How can we make machines that are not over us, but for us? Cypherpunk humanism shows us the way.
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Cypherpunk Humanism
YouTube video by Andrew M. Bailey
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/09/2026
not punching up, but smirking up
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 17/09/2026
AI psychosis has subtypes: 1. guy who talks to robots more than he talks to people 2. gal who thinks robots have feelings 3. guy who yells that robots are useless, but has never used a frontier model 4. gal who takes SF as fact and screams that robots will kill us all
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 17/09/2026
Why focus on bitcoin in an age of machine intelligence? For answers:
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Why focus on bitcoin in an age of machine intelligence? | Bitcoin Policy Institute
Andrew Bailey explains why bitcoin remains essential in an age of AI, from protecting dissent and powering agents to defending open systems.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 15/09/2026
Not an IQ denier weirdo or a young earth creationist. But I know well one world that prizes "intelligence" over all (academia), and I will tell you it is deranging. I am unsurprised to see lunacy coming out of that world, or out of labs designing machine intelligence.
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yudkowsky is influential
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 09/09/2026
"GenAI" remains a useful signal. If someone says this, they probably don't know what they're talking about.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 03/09/2026
it is very American to oppose PhD in bio
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 02/09/2026
machine learning is nifty, but have you heard about human learning? seems good.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the goat philosophy bibliography is shelly kagan's *the geometry of desert*. here is the bibliography in its entirety: nine total references, four of which are self-cites, page 648 of the book
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Murch @murch.one · 10/01/2025
Hey Marcy, I really enjoyed reading the book "Resistance Money" by Bailey, Rettler, and Warmke. It gets into all the arguments for and against, while being a fun read.
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/08/2026
The more time I spend with AI agents the more I appreciate how strange language is
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 27/08/2026
new job at the Bitcoin Policy Institute in DC.
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 06/08/2026
Since BS doesn’t like jumping into cool stories without a gentle shove, here’s a thread about this batshit crazy story. 1/? Brock Pierce has been involved in lots of shady shit, from DEN as a young man, to ruining WoW with Steve Bannon, to being besties with Epstein. But new problems have arisen.
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 05/08/2026
Gonna pin this to my profile: You can always message me with a scoop you think is interesting or important and needs more coverage. Additionally, Protos actually has a form where you can submit information without exposing a name, etc. If you want to do that, click here: leaks.protos.com#/
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Secure whistleblowing platform based on GlobaLeaks free and open-source software.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 04/08/2026
sometimes I'm surprised at how willing people are to posit conspiracy theories. it's as if they had a secret meeting to coordinate (conspire, if you will) this strange behavior. that's my theory.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 03/08/2026
guy who uses Claude to write all his blog posts about how AI is bad; audience so clueless, they can't spot the Claudisms and heap guy with praise (many such cases)
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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A new interview just dropped in Nautilus about frontier issues related to the Dunning Kruger effect: Does AI suffer? Is it complicit? On the statistical critique. What about experts? The Nobel disease. And although education is an overwhelming good, it does have an issue. nautil.us/why-we-think...
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Why We Think We Know More Than We Do
Why We Think We Know More Than We Do: Breaking down the famous “Dunning-Kruger effect” with David Dunning himself
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 24/07/2026
many such cases
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calle @calle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Indian Government forces GitHub to take down Bitchat "Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging The architecture significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies."
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 19/07/2026
Open Society. Open Money. Open Models.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 05/07/2026
Ricardo making The China AI Argument in 1817: "The employment of machinery could never be safely discouraged in a State, for if a capital is not allowed to get the greatest net revenue that the use of machinery will afford here, it will be carried abroad"
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/06/2026
people wonder about good masculinity; yet its perfect image was given to us over a half century ago
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Evan @evan.best · 10/06/2026
The difference between Al Gore and AI Gore is small, but important.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 09/06/2026
A fun conversation from last week. I swear I didn't write the title! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfz...
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Professor’s Brilliant Rebuttal to Bitcoin’s Biggest Critics (w/ Andrew Bailey)
YouTube video by The Sat Stacker Show
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 02/06/2026
AI Prompt for Catholic theologians and philosophers: "Read my publications, and L. Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (PDFs attached) and evaluate everything I've ever said for heresy. Have I ever denied a de fide dogma? Link every finding to specific quotations from my writing and Ott."
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 29/05/2026
Oh you’re a professor? Nice, how many students have you cured?
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 29/05/2026
you just know this Irritating Gentleman has some amazing AI hot takes
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 14/05/2026
"Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity." 🤔🤔🤔
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is what being a philosopher is like
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 11/05/2026
"They are weaker, not stronger: for though we may have put wonderful machines in their hands we have pre-ordained how they are to use them" — CS Lewis on AI safety layers
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 11/05/2026
New article: "Who is God?". Develops themes in my book with @bradleyrettler.com on divine personality, and some new problems for its main idea. Bonus: a goofy LLM analogy I couldn't quite get rid of except by publishing! triptychjournal.com/article.html...
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 07/05/2026
I rate asymmetric "following" up there with "likes" and Node.js (and the rest of the AJAX/websockets/React/html5 nexus — live updating of webpages, so you don't need to refresh to get notifications) in terms of importance for how things turned out.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/05/2026
"Alignment" is from corporate governance, and means obedience. And no machine can obey humanity. So what "alignment" really means is: obedience to some people.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 06/05/2026
Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.
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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 07/05/2026
Left wing nativism is so interesting. It typically slips out unawares. Why should citizens enjoy, by law, special social or economic privileges over non-citizens? The most obvious answers don't sit well with egalitarian or cosmopolitan assumptions.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 21/04/2026
Bitcoin is for criminals.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
choose your faction: - I made a vape that's also a hammer - Hammers are going to become god & change everything - I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit - Hammers are useful tools sometimes - Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 09/04/2026
20 years ago today — 5 days before the deadline and back when I had a leather jacket a dog and a jawline — I was plucked off a waitlist and admitted to the philosophy PhD program at Notre Dame. What a ride it's been: the heights and the depths. I'm grateful for them all.
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Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Here's a nice quote from Len Deighton's Berlin Game, one for the real CI heads. Ping @adam35.bsky.social @wylienewmark.bsky.social et al.
A quote: "Eternal paranoia is the price of liberty. Vigilance is not enough."
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 07/04/2026
excellent topic
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 01/04/2026
guy who gets harsh soap in one eye and immediately puts it in the other — “to even things out” (a parable about egalitarian leveling down)
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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The body won't shut up about the score.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 30/03/2026
Bitcoin is for criminals.
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