Sam Lyman

Bitcoin Policy Institute

@SamLyman33

Head of Research @bitcoinpolicy | Fmr Senior Advisor & Chief Speechwriter to @SecScottBessent | @Forbes Contributor | @PrincetonSPIA alum

Washington, DC forbes.com/sites/samlyman/ Joined June 2022

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Sam Lyman @SamLyman33 Jun 30

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.

Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

Sam Lyman @SamLyman33 1d

Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.

PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.

Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.

In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?

More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.

Polymarket Verified account @Polymarket 2d

JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.

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Sam Lyman @SamLyman33 5d

Add Physical Superintelligence to the list of frontier AI companies solving math.

Huge breakthrough here with a model that found a proof of the Aaronson‑Ambainis conjecture, which could have powerful implications for quantum computing.

Physical Superintelligence @psipbc 5d

Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.

psi.inc/research/aaron…

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Sam Lyman @SamLyman33 Nov 2

Christianity offers its followers immunity from secular mind viruses like effective altruism.

Why? Because it tells a far more powerful story.

"We as humans are His image-bearers, not units of welfare whose value must be calculated."

A must-read from @NathanLeamerDC in @TGC

Nathan Leamer Verified account @NathanLeamerDC Nov 2

For years I have read @TGC, so it was an honor to write this essay on the shortcomings of the secular philosophy of Effective Altruism.

At first glance, its call to do the most good possible sounds like something Jesus might say.

Yet Christianity places those truths inside a much larger story, one where goodness is defined not by our calculations but by God himself.

thegospelcoalition.org/article/effect…
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Sam Lyman @SamLyman33 Oct 28

AI agents have the potential to unlock trillions of dollars in economic activity. But only if we get the regulation right.

Alex draws up a great roadmap here 👇

Alexander Grieve Verified account @AlexanderGrieve Oct 28

Personal agents are everywhere (Muse! Instinct! Hermes! GrokBot! Dots! Duet!).

And, increasingly, they're running into walls – similar walls to the ones banks threw up during the Open Banking fights of the past decade, as fintech users struggled to connect their apps to their bank-held financial data.

It's time for Open Agentic Commerce.

In Dodd-Frank Section 1033, the backbone of Open Banking, the definition of “consumer” reads: “an individual or an agent, trustee, or representative acting on behalf of an individual.” Congress obviously wasn’t contemplating AI agents when it wrote Dodd-Frank — but technology changing doesn’t obviate the underlying principle: consumers should be able to choose who, or what, transacts on their behalf.

Banks and companies like Amazon have real, legitimate concerns about agents becoming vectors for fraud or unauthorized transactions. But those are arguments for building portals for secure access, not for prohibiting agents altogether. Open Banking offers a useful lesson here, in that secure, standardized interfaces are preferable to forcing third parties into credential sharing or screen scraping.

We propose some basic guidance that relevant regulators (FTC, OCC, CFPB) could consider to help the market to coalesce around open norms before incumbents obtain sufficient lock-in, freezing the current landscape to their advantage.

With standards like these established, agents can make decisions that better serve the consumer, and will index on things like quality or price, rather than being funneled into a constrained set of options.

The push for Open Banking resulted in better experiences and lower prices for consumers. As agents become principal commercial actors, it is imperative that we lay the groundwork now so that an agent acting on your behalf is equally capable – if not more so – of delivering value and cost savings to you as you would be acting on your own.

Read our proposal below:

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