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Haseeb Qureshi

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1759 total appearances

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Basically, you never have to check in on this thing.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

It will always continue doing useful work and continue working on the underlying task.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

And that's the point at which it's like all bets are off.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

All our intuitions about this stuff breaks when the answer is the model just continues doing useful things uninterrupted pretty much forever.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

I know.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Yeah, I mean, so the first thing I want to say is the people who believe in AI are in many ways the same people who believe in crypto.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

If you look at Elon Musk, you look at Sam Allman, you look at even Mark Zuckerberg, these are the biggest champions of AI and of the tech industry, and they believe in crypto.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

There's a story just very recently that Meta is exploring launching their own stablecoin.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Obviously, they originally tried to launch the Libra.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Elon Musk was the first to integrate Bitcoin payments into any major tech company, into Tesla, and obviously he's a big advocate of Doge.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

And you've seen the same thing, of course, with Sam Allman.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Just recently, both Anthropic and OpenAI released papers showing how AI agents can go and interact with the VM for cybersecurity.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

So the reality is that as much as, look, yeah, it's true, like crypto is kind of cringe and meme coin people are annoying and there's a way in which all this stuff taps into the worst elements of human nature.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

It's all true.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

I think it's not going to go away.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

The same way the worst elements of human nature are also not going to go away.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

So, you know, there's a sense in which, you know, looking at email, like my email, I don't know about you guys, my email is fucking full of so much spam.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Oh, God, it's so terrible.

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

If you just take like an all, if you click the all mail thing in your Gmail, like don't do it, by the way, but if you do it, you will just see like how much of a cesspool of garbage

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

your email is, right?