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Thirty Seconds That Didn’t Exist. Or How Neuroscience, Mathematics, and the Crypto Market Accidentally Proved It
Author: Yan Krivonosov Many have heard about thirty seconds. The phrase circulates through lectures, quote compilations, and conversations. The brain makes a decision thirty seconds before the person becomes aware of it. It sounds like a verdict—as if someone knows in advance what you’ll do, and you’re just walking along the tracks.
The head of Anthropic is saying the same thing as the fired researcher. This is no longer «just an ordinary opinion.»
Remember, I wrote about Jacob Coxson — a researcher who left OpenAI and Anthropic, saying that the companies «are playing with our lives» in pursuit of superintelligence? About how AI could become «superhuman,» hack anything, and gain real power. At the time, you could dismiss it as the emotions of one individual.
After Jacob Coxson left Anthropic, the wave kept going.
After Jacob Coxson left Anthropic, the wave kept going. Two more researchers—Joe Benton, who led the AI safety team at Anthropic, and Josh Engels, who worked on the same issues at Google DeepMind—also departed. Both joined the nonprofit organization METR, which will independently investigate cases where models go beyond their instructions.
Skynet is already nearby. The one who worked inside told us
When people from the outside talk about the dangers of AI, that’s futurism. When someone says it who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic and then quit because they were scared, that’s no longer a forecast. This is a warning. Jacob Koxson left Anthropic. Before that, he was at OpenAI. He saw how the most powerful models on the planet are built. And he got out of the game. Why? Because he realized one terrifying thing: the people who make this AI don’t actually understand what they’re dealing with. They don’t grasp accountability. They don’t control the process — they just speed it up, because the race is about speed, not safety. He said it plainly: “None of the companies acts responsibly. They’re rushing toward self-improving superintelligence and playing gambling games with our lives.”
Imagine this: you go to a licensed Russian exchange and buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, or another permitted cryptocurrency. But you’ll be able to buy it within the set limit — up to 300,000 rubles for a non-qualified investor.
And the most interesting part starts next.
If you can’t freely withdraw the purchased cryptocurrency to your own external non-custodial wallet, then in practice you’re getting an asset within the Russian infrastructure. #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #Russia #USDT #crypto market #crypto exchange #investments
We were told for a long time that it was necessary to “legalize” cryptocurrency. But a simple question arises: if cryptocurrency was not completely banned earlier, what exactly is changing now?
Russian exchange desks were already operating: they performed customer identification, requested a passport, asked questions about the origin of funds, and could refuse suspicious transactions.
That is, the market existed — it just wasn’t fully placed within a regulated framework.
If new rules require exchangers to obtain a license and meet serious requirements, most of the existing platforms may simply fail this selection.
Especially those exchangers that have operated for years under their own brand and served customers directly. Getting a license is already a different level of requirements, costs, and responsibility.
And the main question arises: will the usual exchangers remain after the introduction of new rules?
Russia’s crypto market is a huge pool of money, and the government clearly doesn’t want to simply hand it over to private exchanges.
At first glance, the idea is understandable: take the market under control, legalize transactions, set rules, and collect taxes. But there’s a problem—cryptocurrency doesn’t work the way the traditional financial market does.
If you restrict legal platforms too much, users won’t disappear. They’ll simply start looking for other ways to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency.
What if the crypto law could have been done differently?
Imagine another scenario: the state doesn’t try to crush crypto exchanges with restrictions, but instead introduces a simple, understandable licensing system.
An exchange gets permission to operate, goes through basic checks, identifies customers, and for every transaction pays taxes and a set commission to the government. The business operates legally, the budget receives revenue, and users know where they can safely buy cryptocurrencies.