Carson Zylicz

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[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Milton Friedman on inflation…
Cc: @KamalaHarris

Every single excuse he said they'd use, is exactly what's being said again now.

“Corporate Price Gouging”
“Putin’s Price Hike”
“Evil Wall Street”

Anything but the Federal Government.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

"In 2003, Hugo Chavez capped the price of food. Supermarkets couldn't charge people more than a certain amount. Started with basic foods, sugar, milk. Goal was to make food cheaper for Venezuelans. But there is a reason price controls are bad economics." https://t.co/dMi2hnARcf

[@amuse @amuse]

Kamala Harris's first policy proposal mirrors one her father implemented in 1970s Jamaica—price controls on food. As a Marxist economist advising the government, her father’s policies led to widespread starvation and suffering.

[Naval @naval]

Economic illiteracy.

[Jeremy Nixon - Automating AI Research @JvNixon]

Freedom of thought has always been central to my worldview - it's the backbone behind our every decision & value.

Freedom of speech needs to be extended to cover a new category of thoughts - the way that are thoughts are being augmented and improved through our tools.

Mathematics.
Code.
And machine learning algorithms.

This article, linked below, challenges the constitutionality of the regulation of code on the basis of Bernstein v. United States (1996), among others, which marks code as speech.

Written at @AGIHouseSF!

[parker @parkerhendo]

Bro Palantir has the military using kanban boards to execute strikes. There's no way💀

[Carson Zylicz @CarsonZylicz]

@HausiaSiale @glideapps @flutterflow Came across my timeline, good choice. Let me know if you run into any issues

[Cerebral Valley @cerebral_valley]

Last weekend, we hosted @MistralAI's first-ever hackathon at @SHACK15sf

24 hours, 400+ hackers, $10K+ in prizes

Relive the weekend in our Mistral SF Aftermovie 👇

(Cred: @byjmitch)

[Fateen Anam Rafid @Fateen_Anam]

We brought Ted to life

He ended up roasting all of our friends’ startups

If you are interested in building AI toys with us, DM me

[Carson Zylicz @CarsonZylicz]

@flutterflow @MistralAI @cerebral_valley We needed speed and quality. FF was the obvious choice! 🚀

[FlutterFlow @flutterflow]

An open source alternative to current AI wearables — built in part with @FlutterFlow!

Check out this hackathon project launched at the @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon, featuring FlutterFlow Expert @CarsonZylicz 👏

[Carson Zylicz @CarsonZylicz]

🚀

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

We just shipped.

Promised. Delivered. 7 hours.

GitHub url in first comment

[Carson Zylicz @CarsonZylicz]

It was great to fly out to SF and contribute!

Thanks to the team
@adam_patni @ax_pey @anshchopra_ @yumatanaka @kodjima33

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost

At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:
- Works 24+ hours on a single charge
- Costs ~$20
- Remembers what you say, gives you feedback
- Understands you via voice or chat
- Has 2 apps (one for device and one standalone)

Give us 24 hours to finish the hackathon and publish the GitHub repo

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

I'm sorry @RewindAI @AviSchiffmann but this is how closed source feels like

Credits to @shmall for the idea

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost

At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:
- Works 24+ hours on a single charge
- Costs ~$20
- Remembers what you say, gives you feedback
- Understands you via voice or chat
- Has 2 apps (one for device and one standalone)

Give us 24 hours to finish the hackathon and publish the GitHub repo

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

If we just taxed Elon’s wealth, the government would have invented the brain mouse long ago.

[greg @greg16676935420]

@MrBeast If I win I’ll give 10 random people that like this and follow me $2.50 for fun

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours