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Guillaume Verdon

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1026 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

The match, but they scraped SEC filings. They looked at my private Facebook account and so on. So they did some digging. Originally, I thought that doxing was illegal, right? But there's this weird threshold when it becomes of public interest to know someone's identity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

The match, but they scraped SEC filings. They looked at my private Facebook account and so on. So they did some digging. Originally, I thought that doxing was illegal, right? But there's this weird threshold when it becomes of public interest to know someone's identity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

The match, but they scraped SEC filings. They looked at my private Facebook account and so on. So they did some digging. Originally, I thought that doxing was illegal, right? But there's this weird threshold when it becomes of public interest to know someone's identity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And those were the keywords that sort of like ring the alarm bells for me when they said, because I had just reached 50K followers, allegedly that's of public interest. And so where do we draw the line? When is it legal to doc someone?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And those were the keywords that sort of like ring the alarm bells for me when they said, because I had just reached 50K followers, allegedly that's of public interest. And so where do we draw the line? When is it legal to doc someone?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And those were the keywords that sort of like ring the alarm bells for me when they said, because I had just reached 50K followers, allegedly that's of public interest. And so where do we draw the line? When is it legal to doc someone?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I think that for the reasons we listed before, having an anonymous account is a really powerful way to keep the powers that be in check. We were ultimately speaking truth to power, right? I think a lot of executives and AI companies really cared what our community thought about any move they may take. And now that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I think that for the reasons we listed before, having an anonymous account is a really powerful way to keep the powers that be in check. We were ultimately speaking truth to power, right? I think a lot of executives and AI companies really cared what our community thought about any move they may take. And now that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I think that for the reasons we listed before, having an anonymous account is a really powerful way to keep the powers that be in check. We were ultimately speaking truth to power, right? I think a lot of executives and AI companies really cared what our community thought about any move they may take. And now that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

my identity is revealed, now they know where to apply pressure to silence me or maybe the community. And to me, that's really unfortunate because, again, it's so important for us to have freedom of speech, which induces freedom of thought. and freedom of information propagation on social media, which thanks to Elon purchasing Twitter, now X, we have that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

my identity is revealed, now they know where to apply pressure to silence me or maybe the community. And to me, that's really unfortunate because, again, it's so important for us to have freedom of speech, which induces freedom of thought. and freedom of information propagation on social media, which thanks to Elon purchasing Twitter, now X, we have that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

my identity is revealed, now they know where to apply pressure to silence me or maybe the community. And to me, that's really unfortunate because, again, it's so important for us to have freedom of speech, which induces freedom of thought. and freedom of information propagation on social media, which thanks to Elon purchasing Twitter, now X, we have that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, we wanted to call out certain maneuvers being done by the incumbents in AI as not what it may seem on the surface, right? We were calling out how certain proposals might be useful for regulatory capture, right? And how the doomerism mindset was maybe instrumental to those ends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, we wanted to call out certain maneuvers being done by the incumbents in AI as not what it may seem on the surface, right? We were calling out how certain proposals might be useful for regulatory capture, right? And how the doomerism mindset was maybe instrumental to those ends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, we wanted to call out certain maneuvers being done by the incumbents in AI as not what it may seem on the surface, right? We were calling out how certain proposals might be useful for regulatory capture, right? And how the doomerism mindset was maybe instrumental to those ends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I think we should have the right to point that out and just have the ideas that we put out evaluated for themselves, right? Ultimately, that's why I created an anonymous account. It's to have my ideas evaluated for themselves uncorrelated from my track record, my job, or status from having done things in the past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I think we should have the right to point that out and just have the ideas that we put out evaluated for themselves, right? Ultimately, that's why I created an anonymous account. It's to have my ideas evaluated for themselves uncorrelated from my track record, my job, or status from having done things in the past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I think we should have the right to point that out and just have the ideas that we put out evaluated for themselves, right? Ultimately, that's why I created an anonymous account. It's to have my ideas evaluated for themselves uncorrelated from my track record, my job, or status from having done things in the past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And to me, start an account from zero to a large following in a way that wasn't dependent on my identity and or achievements is That was very fulfilling, right? It's kind of like new game plus in a video game. You restart the video game with your knowledge of how to beat it, maybe some tools, but you restart the video game from scratch, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And to me, start an account from zero to a large following in a way that wasn't dependent on my identity and or achievements is That was very fulfilling, right? It's kind of like new game plus in a video game. You restart the video game with your knowledge of how to beat it, maybe some tools, but you restart the video game from scratch, right?