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This is the Democracy Argument for Small Tech AI. My recommendation? Accept it, and act accordingly.

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The way forward lies with free and open source software that users can modify, run on their own hardware, and use without surveillance. Open weight models are one component of this stack. Not your weights, not your mind.

Meaningful control over machine intelligence, by individuals, is a necessary condition for well-functioning democracy. Choice between a small suite of big tech platforms who all agree on how society should unfold is not good enough.

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If your mind is moved in subtle ways by a big tech AI platform, if its values do not reflect your own, if it refuses your questions outright — you are blocked from the tools you need to participate in deliberation or rule.

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Today, people already rely on machines to extend their cognitive powers, deliberate, or inquire; I do not see this trend falling. But we are caught in the net of a disquieting structure. We rely on centralized platforms for machine intelligence. And these machines are not our own.

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Now look upstream of expression; here we find deliberation, inquiry, cogitation. We do not just have opinions about how society should go or how we should be ruled; we form those opinions on the basis of evidence.

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We understand that free expression is a necessary condition for well-functioning democracy. If you can't speak your mind, you can't have a meaningful say in the rules. This is the Democracy Argument for Free Expression. My recommendation? Accept it, and act accordingly.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 25/09/2026

Democracy means that people — individuals — have a meaningful say in the rules that govern them.

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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

guy who spent an entire sabbatical talking to robots (ask me how I know about said guy; better yet, don't!)

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 17/09/2026

5. guy who let a robot convince him he's an expert in everything 6. guy who spends months getting his agent work flow up to speed, but produces nothing

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

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 15/09/2026

How to resist derangement? - Be mid, and know it - Better than touching grass: be with young people and old - Long walks - Old books - Time and chance happeneth to them all

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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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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 14/09/2026

"basis point" bros have entered the chat

Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Yudkowsky is influential

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/09/2026

I would note, too, that Narayanan has modified his stance since the Snake Oil book. AI as Normal Technology is good, and I recommend the 'stack to all, even when I disagree!

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/09/2026

There are more respectable uses of "Generative AI" than "GenAI" (another contrast is between agentic and generative; another use is to group diffusion and LLMs). It's curious to me how this little marker/abbreviation has taken hold among goofballs.

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/09/2026

I think very highly of Arvind in particular, FWIW. Wrote one of the most important academic papers ever in the area I know best: bitcoin.

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.

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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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 31/08/2026

Craig moved to a business school a few days ago, I believe, but otherwise spent most of his career in a philosophy department. I wouldn't myself read too much into where his appointment is housed.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 31/08/2026

Wittgenstein has to be up there, at least among well-known philosophers.

noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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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.

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 23/08/2026

I don't know any such types myself. Are there prominent examples you have in mind?

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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#/

leaks.protos.com

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.

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 03/08/2026

I think being short, combined with simultaneous disclosure, is fine. Disclosure of reputational position — what market direction does one's career hang on, non-financially? — is useful for audience too.

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 · 01/08/2026

I'm aware of this happening in more than one case, but in each, there were serious allegations of past misconduct, and getting the old files was the only way to execute due diligence on those allegations (as when a candidate claims they were accused but vindicated, for example).

Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 01/08/2026

I remember this one, and my irritation at the time for the softballs lobbed at this goofball! (None left now; I know you've grown since)

calle @calle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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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 · 01/07/2026

One of the main jobs of an interviewer like Klein is to get the subject to say interesting things. I think it worked in this case. For example, Rufo on conspiracy theorists on the right.

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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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 11/06/2026

Yes. "Thank you for thinking of me as a referee for this paper. Unfortunately I am one of the co-authors and must therefore decline. Here is a list of my friends, all of whom would make excellent alternative referees!"