Surprise AMA 12/26/2024

Broadcasting from Gillette Wyoming the day after Christmas, he marvels at his clinic growing in three years from a hypothesis to 11,000 patients, with a 60,000-square-foot expansion and biotech building finishing by July 4th.

The multi-specialty practice covers internal medicine, cardiology, nephrology, soon neurology, and dermatology, and that he acquired over 20 acres for future growth.

Governance has arrived and is messy as people learn to serve as DReps and the industry notices Cardano again, and that on-chain governance finally lets everyone be honest, including disgruntled ex-IOG staff at the Foundation and himself.

Shares an ant swarm-intelligence video as a metaphor for the community solving complex problems collectively, and reflects that Cardano was fragile ten years ago while now people call to get rid of him.

His deepest distaste is for dishonesty and duplicity, for people who lie to his face or use half-truths to manipulate, which enrages him when aimed at the ecosystem he has centered his life on.

The bull cycle in 2025 will be crazy, and that his brother's game company Hosky Brew can build CRPGs, adventure games, or FPS titles for sponsors, directing interested people to JJ.

Recounts probing a lifelike attack bot on Twitter to test its limits, only to have the clip edited to make him look incompetent and hit the crypto Reddit front page with a million impressions while the constitution signing did not.

He is genuinely curious about bots because Lars Brunjes has worked two years on the lifebox idea he invited Rudy Rucker and Stephen Wolfram to discuss at his 2019 Miami summit, and IO explored digital twins.

He is considering a Twitter bot version of himself to run his feed in 2025 since managing it is diminishing returns, and that everyone keeps him in check daily, even for things he did not do.

Rejects the framing of wolf mode, saying a fight over 600 million dollars of community money and who is accountable is worth having, and that being agreeable to people harming the ecosystem is not virtue.

On Chainlink, says a 2021 integration was agreed and he assumed completed, but it was not, likely because an accountable party left rather than any commercial issue, and he will circle back with the friendly Sergey Nazarov.

Cardano cares about oracles, naming Charli3 and Flare as options being explored for integration alongside Chainlink.

A Sydney delegate his biggest takeaway from the Constitutional Convention is the courage and commitment of the delegates who continue serving, with the constitution likely to pass on-chain as just the beginning.

Agrees it would be fun to do a 2025 AMA with David Schwartz, Hugo Philion, and Gavin Wood.

Crypto can be quantum-proofed with post-quantum cryptography, citing approaches like learning with errors, isogenies, and hash-based signatures.

Mark Meckler attended the Constitutional Convention as an observer and he would enjoy a podcast with him, maybe with Tucker.

On whether the US erred leaving Afghanistan, delivers a war-strategy lecture on needing clear mission, victory, and exit conditions, contrasting nation-building like post-war South Korea and Japan with the original Bin Laden and Taliban goal.

Afghanistan was really a three-sided war including Pakistan and Iran harboring elements, that it never won hearts and minds, and became an endless quagmire someone eventually had to end like Nixon with Vietnam, so never start what you cannot finish.

On Plutus, credits Aiken with making smart contracts usable, now 63 to 70 percent of new contracts, notes Plutus V3 launched with zero-knowledge capabilities, and V4 is coming with community-driven ideas.

Everything compiles to UPLC so the surface language, Plutus, Aiken, or TypeScript, is a choose-your-own-adventure for developers from functional, object-oriented, or web backgrounds, with beginner tools no longer requiring Haskell expertise.

Rebuts critics claiming nothing is built on Cardano by pointing to TapTools and DexHunter showing real projects, MinSwap and SundaeSwap upgrades, and a bright young community that rarely gets credit.

Critics keep repeating that Cardano does not exist even when shown the dApps and infrastructure, and he wishes he could isolate the purveyors of misinformation and confront them on their shows.

On Ripple, says talks are early to include Ripple in the Midnight ecosystem, with technical conversations led by the helpful David Schwartz, and that Cardano tech like Marlowe could be useful there.

The real-USD team just got past launch and will add other chains in 2025, and he recommended a self-serve model like Coinbase's Rosetta to filter serious integrators.

The proof-of-work crowd cannot accept alternative consensus algorithms, and after seven years of Cardano running non-stop with all the science and code presented, their refusal is a religion, not a scientific argument.

He needs a stable home after living in temporary ones, and that he loves Gillette's people though the town is tough, with brutal cold reaching 40 below and 100-mile-an-hour winds that freeze birds in the trees.

Midnight's dual-token model with a Cardano anchor CNT and a consumption capacity token on the side chain, which benefits Cardano but requires building custodian and wallet CNT support costing over 20 million dollars.

Cardano is not doomed by the Foundation issue because it is built in granite, with drama only slowing things, kept alive by the passion of thousands of adults who need the truth to make decisions.

Cardano developers should attend Token2049 and Consensus in a coordinated effort, something the ecosystem underinvests in and can correct in 2025.

On the New Jersey drones, argues US airspace is well guarded and foreign drones would be shot down like the Chinese balloon, so drones flying fearlessly must be government assets.

Reasons the government would normally file an FAA flight plan and test experimental craft over low-density areas like Utah or Nevada, so flying low at night over dense populations means a real operation, not a test.

Suggests the triangular flight patterns and nighttime low flying indicate radiation sensors hunting a radioactive source like a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb, which the government would keep quiet to avoid mass panic.

Ties it to the 1994 Ukraine-Russia nuclear return where 40 to 50 of 1,600 weapons may have been kept, potentially hidden in Chernobyl where background radiation masks payloads, noting Russia oddly dug in the exclusion zone in 2022.

The deeper problem is systemic paranoia, with the president-elect and incumbent not coordinating on the drones, inviting speculation about aliens and conspiracies amplified by easy generative-AI forgeries and a lack of trusted anchors.

On teaching crypto in high school, says teach real economics first, like Austrian economics and game theory, plus how credit, banking, and the internet work, or students will see crypto only as speculation and meme culture.

Analyzes the DOGE team, calling Elon a philosophy and delegation guy stretched across many companies, and says he would have paired Elon with Jeff Bezos, a ruthless Amazon-style optimizer who could counterbalance him.

Pairing left-leaning Bezos with right-leaning Musk would make DOGE bipartisan, while Vivek Ramaswamy is an amplifier like a charismatic Ron Paul who delivers a message Musk does not need since he is oversaturated.

Predicts DOGE will still be effective by spotlighting pork-filled unread bills, crowdsourcing legislation reading with AI, cutting 16 intelligence agencies down, and exposing billions in unaccountable waste.

Exo-wombs are being developed on the animal side now and will reach humans in the early 2030s, letting older women have children and editing out birth defects, though FDA approval is unlikely this administration.

Argues humans are allowed to upgrade with wisdom, since technology and social progress have overturned unfairnesses once accepted like fatal disease and women being denied the vote, while cautioning against overdoing it as communism did.

In a morality debate with a heckler, questions whether morality is subjective or objective, raising supply-chain culpability for child labor, slavery, or silver-mining pollution, and calls objective morality very hard to defend.

Phil Wadler has not retired but wrote a book, joined the Royal Society, and is coming to the Hoskinson Center to learn Lean, and that a Mayo-style oncology collaboration via the Buck Institute would be fun.

IOHK working with David Sacks is inevitable, and on Aptos notes each cycle has a pairing, Sui versus Aptos with Sui winning, just as Cardano led Algorand and Tezos, with the field resetting every cycle.

On Alzheimer's, describes looking at an infusion to clear amyloid plaques plus photobiomodulation, stem cells, and hyperbarics, explaining the cascade of vascular inflammation, plaque buildup, and cell death.

A photobiomodulation trial with the Vielight has shown good results, but stem-cell interventions face uncertainty over how well they cross the blood-brain barrier, requiring tagged cells to observe.

Bitcoin OS is Edan Yago's product for Bitcoin DeFi, which he wishes well, while IO takes Bitcoin DeFi seriously with a team and Fairgate, aiming for something significant at Bitcoin 2025 in May.

On Russophobia, says the Russian government's chip on its shoulder ignores that the Soviet Union killed some 200 million through gulags, ethnic cleansing, and Chernobyl, and that empires must stay strong to evade criticism.

Russia invading Ukraine killed over a million and cost him his Kharkiv office, and while he does not blame the Russian people, citing friends and Ergo's Alexander Chepurnoy, nothing stops Putin invading again like Georgia.

Compares Russophobia to the US-phobia after invading Iraq, saying empires get the upside of power and trade but must own the blowback when they hurt people, a yin with a yang.

Answering Patrick Tobler, says IO builds general-purpose Bitcoin infrastructure for anybody but dislikes partners who say one thing and do another, warning Bitcoin OS will integrate with dozens of ecosystems and shift its marketing away.

Bitcoiners love Bitcoin first, so a strategy forcing a token under the hood will be rejected as not Bitcoin, whereas hiding Babel fees and wrapping so the wallet shows only Bitcoin would win real adoption.

The Bitcoin OS whitepaper leaves much cryptographically undone and untested without security proofs, whereas IO brings the scientists to belt-and-suspenders a bridge, since asset movement between chains is an attack point that has lost billions.

Notes his only crypto hack loss was the Nomad Bridge, calls the Bitcoin bridge the most important of 2025 needing rigorous cryptography and easy wallet integration, and mentions his stakes in Maestro and Blockfrost and Lace integration.

Core developers should learn Bitcoin Script and BitVMX and write an Aiken-to-RISC-V compiler for write-once-run-everywhere across Bitcoin Script and UPLC, like JavaScript on Node, alongside cross-chain communication design.

He cannot put his seal on the bridge until the cryptography and security model are proven, because a future billion-dollar hack would end Cardano's chance to be Bitcoin's DeFi layer, so it will debut at Bitcoin 2025.

Addresses Whitney Webb, an alt-right journalist he has considered suing for claiming, without evidence, that IO's Ethiopia work with SingularityNET is a New World Order plot to harvest children for Epstein.

The real Ethiopia deal was a K-12 self-sovereign identity program with the Ministry of Education, hampered by war, and the Epstein link is only that Ben Goertzel's Hanson Robotics once got money from an Epstein foundation.

Such slander is dangerous because people act on it and try to kill him, notes he is actually anti-WEF having left Davos disgusted, and vows to eventually sue Whitney Webb and win, comparing it to Alex Jones and Sandy Hook.

Rejects any Epstein connection, noting he was a nobody in his early 20s in Colorado when Epstein was caught, and warns that libel and slander have consequences, citing Trump winning a million-dollar suit against a network.

A claim on X can be ignored but once amplified to a show with two to three million viewers it crosses a threshold requiring a public comment and retraction demand.

Urges those seeing gaslighting to use AI like Claude, OpenAI, or Perplexity to fact-check controversial claims and add nuance, using an 86-percent vaccine-cancer statistic to show critical scrutiny.

Teaches the what-would-have-to-be-true method with a standing-water-in-the-Sahara example, then adds the follow-up question of who benefits from a belief, calling this a critical-thinking skill every high schooler needs.

Admits his own bias, that disliking Joe Biden makes him accept negative Biden stories at face value, and that liberals do the same with Trump, so AI helps return to an objective slate.

He took the Pfizer vaccine as someone from a family of doctors since the 1950s, assuming FDA-approved drugs are not catastrophically harmful because otherwise his father and grandfather would be harming patients.

He found mRNA exciting from college for cancer vaccines, which is why Moderna and BioNTech were founded by oncologists, and had most hoped for Novavax's protein-subunit vaccine like the 1980s hepatitis B shot.

The mRNA phase-three trial vaccinated the placebo control group for the first time ever, that anti-mRNA data was suppressed as vaccine hesitancy, and that claims the spike protein stays localized proved false.

He has daily injection-site pain and knows family members with adverse reactions, and has shifted to thinking this class of medicine may have issues warranting a five-to-ten-year data review, which RFK at HHS will pursue.

Objects that manufacturers have no liability while mandates removed consent, comparing coercing shots to keep a job to sexual harassment, and says blacklisting downsides destroys any informed consent.

His skepticism of medical orthodoxy after COVID helped drive him to build his clinic, having seen how poorly American healthcare treats chronic illness and cancer, and calls COVID a dark era that damaged public trust.

Rebuts that he agreed with every COVID policy, saying he opposed masks, mask mandates, and lockdowns, protested in Wyoming, and supported the Great Barrington Declaration, and that lumping people into buckets ignores nuance.

Recounts a densely packed Boulder sushi restaurant demanding he mask to walk eight feet to a table, making videos that got taken down, and fearing deplatforming would cut him off from advocating for Cardano.

Frames the Matrix red-pill choice as a real philosophical question of leaving your reality, noting the young are loosely attached and take leaps into the military or abroad while the older face losing family they may see only six or seven more times.

The Salvia story of an Alaska man who time-dilated eight years living as a Texan with a family before waking up, a Cognito hazard that permanently unsettles which reality is real.

Poses a Rick-Sanchez multiverse dilemma of swapping into a reality where your wife did not die in a crash, asking whether taking her place and stranding another you is moral, and how much courage the pills really demand.

Demonstrates AI's power by having ChatGPT rewrite Frosty the Snowman as a horror where a leaked government psychedelic turns children into cannibals, which Claude refused as too woke.

Escalating the story with gender-studies and Islamic-scholar viewpoints and a Trump-inspired General Trumble fighting Frosty with AI-generated artwork, calling AI a scary-good creative thinking tool.

With 37,000 watching live, previews his upcoming five-day dark-room retreat, an ancient Buddhist tradition of total darkness meant to force confrontation with your own thoughts and mild hallucination.

His dark-room goal is to work through the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead's three post-death stages, calling the retreat the closest thing to death, with the brain reputedly making DMT around day four.

The dark room is the first of four quarterly crazy things in 2025 plus a big surprise announcement, and closes the last AMA of the year telling the family not to let the turkeys get them down.