COINBASE CEO: SLOWING DOWN AI "GUARANTEES MORE PREVENTABLE DEATHS" brian armstrong posted it today his math: 165K+ people die every day. cancer, heart disease, car crashes. AI is helping solve them. so every brake on AI gets counted in bodies the number is real. around 170K people die every day worldwide and AI is already helping. protein structures that took a PhD years now take minutes but i have heard this exact argument before in 2017 it went like this: 1.7B people have no bank account. every rule keeps them out. regulation is not safety, it is delay that number was real too then came 2022. FTX went to zero in a week. Binance later paid $4.3B. SBF got 25 years crypto didnt get a real federal law until 2025. before that, the rulebook was written in courtrooms the scariest part is not that armstrong is wrong. its that he is half right, and half right is exactly what lets everything through "slow" and "safe" are not the same thing. nobody serious wants to pause cancer research. they want to know who checks the thing before it ships personally, this is the part that worries me. i made my money in crypto. i watched "every rule costs lives" win the room for years, and i watched who paid when it broke. it was the people who believed the pitch if AI wants to skip the crypto decade, it writes its own rules now or a prosecutor writes them later