Topics like these are in my book: 'Understanding The Information Age. The Sovereign Individual.' 👇🏻 View quoted note →

Study history to understand the future: The kleroterion. The kleroterion was the first governance algorithm — but analog. A marble machine from 2,500 years ago in Athens that decided who ruled by chance. The hardware was stone, and open source. Don't trust, verify. The code was law. The Greeks didn’t trust power. So instead of elections that could be manipulated, they built a system where luck — not influence — decided who would serve the people. Randomness as an antidote to control. The kleroterion was a slab with slots. Citizens inserted their ID tokens (pinakia). Then, black and white balls were drawn to determine the chosen ones. A kind of marble blockchain — no mining, no fees. The real innovation wasn’t the mechanism, but the logic: decentralize authority. Athenian democracy used randomness to prevent corruption. Today, we use algorithms to “optimize” power. The difference is who programs the outcome. If the kleroterion was the first algorithm, it was also the last one that needed no programmers. Its “source code” was public, visible, and verifiable, it was open source. No hidden line of code behind private interests. Compare that with modern governance: randomness has been replaced by prediction. Today’s algorithms don’t draw lots — they select. And they do so based on data, bias, and economic incentives. Athens used stone to protect justice. We will use silicon to reshape it. The shift from chance to calculation changed democracy itself: from citizen lottery to algorithmic scoring. Maybe the kleroterion wasn’t a relic, but a warning. A reminder that without transparency, every algorithm — analog or digital — stops being democratic. And chance, ironically, was once the fairest system we had.

The old analog representative democracy is already a relic, in its way to obsolescence, and we’re witnessing its transformation into a democracy ruled by algorithms — paving an irreversible path toward a technocracy that will redefine everything.

Many in the crypto world are familiar with the expressions "Code is law" or "Don't trust, verify." These expressions will be used by large AI development corporations as a marketing strategy to introduce AI into representative democracy, as an evolution free from corruption and political manipulation. Spoiler: corruption and manipulation will be algorithmic.

The technological evolution of the 21st century is benefiting humanity, but it also has a major downside, because it gives politicians, who are corrupt and megalomaniacal by nature, enormous power to control and surveil people, in a form of technocratic government. They are like drunken monkeys with AK-47s.

Do you think there will be no exponential changes in less than five years? Follow the money trail. OpenAI has now: 1. Signed $500 billion Stargate deal 2. Signed $100 billion Nvidia deal 3. Signed $100 billion AMD deal 4. Signed $38 billion Amazon deal 5. Signed $25 billion Intel deal 6. Signed $20 billion TSMC deal 7. Signed $13 billion Microsoft deal 8. Signed $10 Billion Oracle deal 9. Signed "Multi-Billion Dollar" Broadcom deal 10. Launched a browser to compete with Chrome 11. Become the world's most valuable private company 12. Considered $1 trillion IPO by 2027

I think we could better define Technocracy as Techno-crazy

Hey Monerist, hey sovereign individual, how will you defend your #privacy and personal autonomy when governments implement online KYC for internet connections, forcing internet service providers to use a personal digital identifier? How will you run your #Monero node? You don't need a fishing rod to catch fish when you control the river's flow. Are you thinking about this? Because it will happen in just a few years.

More signs, now in the USA: Digital identity is just around the corner U.S. Lawmakers proposed the GUARD Act, which aims to regulate AI chatbots by requiring companies to verify the age of users before granting access, ensuring children are protected from inappropriate technology. The act introduces a universal ID system for online speech. Read this? THE ACT INTRODUCES A UNIVERSAL ID SYSTEM FOR ONLINE SPEECH.

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No DId, No Technocracy. Signals of #Technocracy

The United States is seeking to strengthen the dollar. And I believe this will be implemented with stablecoins issued by major American banks. The initial test will be with developing countries. The e-dollar will be the next step. 'US pushes for wider global dollar adoption'

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Human history can be read as a sequence of supports for transmitting information: clay, papyrus, paper, and silicon. Each one altered the way ideas travel, are preserved, and controlled — and with that, how civilizations organize themselves. The medium through which it is transmitted is not neutral: they shape the collective mind, determine what is remembered and what is forgotten, and configure the power structures that govern words and thought. After publishing the Preface and Introduction of my book, Chapter 1 is now published: 'Understanding The Information Age. The Sovereign Individual.' https://medium.com/@liberlion/understanding-the-information-age-the-sovereign-individual-index-eea277fe6bef

Hey #Monero devs, I've said it before, and I'll say it again...please, TOTAL ANONYMITY!! Egos aside, for your own good and the good of the entire ecosystem!!! I don't want to sow panic or sensationalism, but you will be persecuted, but see the signals!! In The Rage article, we read that: "[...] According to the prosecution's sentencing memorandum, the developers laundered "at least $237 million in proceeds from drug trafficking, darknet marketplaces, cyber-intrusions, frauds, murder-for-hire schemes, and a child pornography [...] "The defendants’ crimes are not predicated on a regulatory lapse, but on the defendants’ unambiguous desire, intent, and actions taken to help criminals engage in money laundering and sanctions evasion through Samourai," the indictment further reads." PS: The Rage is a media outlet that focuses on what matters... What excellent in-depth analysis articles!! View quoted note →

Selling #privacy and charging via PayPal or credit card is like promising anonymity while demanding ID at the door. It might be a great product, but what you're doing borders on cybersecurity stand-up comedy. That's why #Monero

Are you interested in #privacy and your sovereignty as a person? I suggest you broaden your analysis to understand what's coming. Look at the context; take a step back to see the bigger picture. We are heading towards #technocracy, and this will be the biggest problem we will face as individuals. I recommend an interesting site: technocracy.news

Uncle Sam's empire in the 21st century ...there is another Uncle Sam associated with Uncle Sam. Sam Altman is building a global infrastructure connecting AI, biometrics, blockchain, energy, and digital payments — with UBI as a hypothesis for massive redistribution — using Worldcoin (formerly Worldcoin) for identity and payments, and OpenAI for wealth generation and automation. Altman heads OpenAI (AI research & commercialization) and co-founded Tools for Humanity, behind Worldcoin/“World” (digital identity + token). The backdrop: automation + AI → job displacement → need for a new value model. World builds “World ID”: iris-scan biometric verification + blockchain to certify that someone is a “real human”. Already millions scanned in multiple countries. Meanwhile, OpenAI is raising massive infrastructure: multi-gigawatt data centres, huge energy and hardware demands. This is the foundation of scale for the whole system. Here’s the hypothesis: Altman isn’t just running these projects separately. He’s articulating a system composed of: • Global biometric identity (World) • Token/digital payments • AI + energy infrastructure (OpenAI) • A state or quasi-state application to redistribute value (UBI) In effect: an “empire of surveillance + service” rather than just a technology startup. How does the state figure in? • World has digital identity agreements or ambitions with governments/regions. • OpenAI’s infrastructure projects need regulatory, energy, and state support: a public-private nexus. This opens the door for governments to license or embed this private infrastructure into core public functions. The risk: a technocracy. When a private actor controls the technical layer of identity + payments + AI and then offers it to the state, power shifts toward infrastructure. Governance becomes less about the elected process, more about “who controls the tech”. Real brakes: • Biometric data regulation in Europe is tightening. • The energy bottleneck for AI infrastructure is real: powering multi-gigawatt systems isn’t trivial.

As part of my social media protocol: “If you don’t believe it or don’t understand — I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.” — Satoshi Nakamoto. I consider this quote very useful, so as not to waste time with those who do not deserve the effort, and I add that I intend to awaken critical thinking in those who are prepared for it. Always DYOR.

My hypothesis on what the first version of on-chain KYC in Bitcoin will be and how it will be implemented. Can you see the signals and connect them to form patterns? —The United States is gradually promoting and legislating Bitcoin as a state or institutional store of value (“treasury”). —Institutional investment in Bitcoin requires stronger controls/regulations. —Governments/bankers cannot afford to allow an asset over which they have no control. —To have that control, they need to identify users and transactions, not more pseudo-anonymity. —Around the world, to varying degrees, regulators are promoting different methods for Digital Identity. It is very likely that, to avoid generating too much backlash, the first version of on-chain KYC in Bitcoin will be zero-knowledge proofs, which allow the creation of reusable verified identities with high levels of privacy through cryptographic proofs, preventing companies from storing sensitive data but allowing for auditing and regulatory compliance when necessary. These solutions are already being designed to adapt to international regulations and facilitate the monitoring of transactions without compromising individual privacy "too much". This type of KYC won't necessarily mean that all BTC transactions will require identification, but it will enable an ecosystem where, for certain layers (such as ETFs, institutional DeFi services, banks, and public institutions), identity verification will be a condition of access or use. That's where the normies disguised as rebels without a cause will have some leeway to defend this surveillance system.

So what would be the ultimate proof that a platform, system, or network is nothing but a surveillance tool—no more room for soft-landing excuses about ‘grey zones’? Easy: it’s when KYC (know your customer) plus digital identity becomes mandatory. Bitcoin, Zcash, X, and all those networks that claim, ‘We’re the rebels.’ At that moment, they can’t say they’re fighting for freedom—they’re just signing up for someone watching their every move, asking for permission. But of course, there will always be the ‘normies’ masquerading as rebels without a cause, proudly defending regulatory compliance like it’s their new cause du jour… while hunting for clever rationalisations to pretend that mass surveillance is just another ‘tool-with-benefits’.

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