CosmosY

ENOUGH.

[CosmosY @CosmosY5]

@ConceptualJames Now everyone lives in the delusion that if you get your own building and charge everyone annual tuition you will somehow not end up staffing the place by the eager disciples of the same Marxist madrassas that crank out 95% of all teachers and administrators right now.

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@KennyBurgosNY @michelletandler What is it assessed at?

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@pegobry_en @michaeljknowles https://t.co/nE4lnwGmYJ

[CosmosY @CosmosY5]

In case anyone is wondering what the current state of libertarian discourse is on social media looks like:

We got an even split between:

A) Mush-brain boomers throwing “both sides” adult tantrums and …

B) Next-gen Le Redditor who’s attachment to the movement revolves solely around “show me where it says in the Constitution a consenting 11-year old can’t take a bunch of drugs and have sex with me”.

[CosmosY @CosmosY5]

It possible to both embrace the promise of AI and be very concerned about the current environment we find ourselves in.

The easiest way to think of the current state of things is this:
Imagine two growing cities with interdepended industries that currently lack adequate transportation links. The solution is obvious: let's build a modern, robust highway that will dramatically cut the transportation time and massively boost the volume of people and good that can be seamlessly transported, unlocking economic potential of both locals. For the purpose of this analogy, the new highway is AI.

Now, imagine that the highway link is an entirely private enterprise and as such, the builder has to do all the construction at their own expense but is entitled to collect the toll from cars and trucks passing through. There are multiple private toll roads in the world, and while no one is particularly thrilled with paying one, the concept of the investor being compensated for risk and expense is easy to grasp.

Here is where things begin to unravel. Imagine that, attracted by the prospects of lucrative future tolls, 5-7 different companies set about building their own highways between the cities. Despite it being entirely clear that there is not going to be a need for at most two 4-lane highways, if that, there are now 7 roads under construction. Because each builder hopes to obtain the dominant share and become the preferred choice, they are all building 8,10,12 lanes. As they jokey for dominant positing, the tolls are currently artificially low, and, concerningly, while everyone understands they will skyrocket in the future, no one knows what it may be.

So 7 massive highways are being constructed side-by-side, from one city to another, while everyone knows that fast majority of this buildout will end up being a waste and no one knows what the toll will be once the competition settles. In the meantime, forests, fields and small towns are being torn up and paved over. The is an acute shortage of building materials, equipment and labor across the nation concrete, stone, asphalt, rebar bulldozers, cranes, excavators and construction workers are all being marshaled by the competing companies. As the result, multiple important projects have slowed down, became prohibitively expensive or stopped entirely - hospitals, schools, airports and other roads are all impacted.

This is how one both see the promise that AI brings yet feel that our current approach to getting their is unsuitable and societally destructive. There are no easy solutions to this issue. In the highway analogy, the government would have sited the roadways and then put out tendered to build and operate them, while still allowing for private enterprise without harmful resource overallocation. Perhaps and public-private partnership, where the industry and the government come together, estimate the total needed compute throughput to achieve current goals/maintain national competitiveness and then license the datacenter buildout to achieve them in a tender process. For example: plan on 500 zettaflops deployed by 2035, have builders/operators bid on the buildout, then have AI companies bid on compute.

[CosmosY @CosmosY5]

@BillAckman What you are missing are explicit statements from Mamdai’s orbiters that they intend to confiscate the property of the landlords they are driving into insolvency for the crime of being insolvent.

[CosmosY @CosmosY5]

Each religion models its central figure, ultimate prophet, whatever you want to call it. Buddhists are supposed to model Buddha. Christians are supposed to model Christ. Muslims are supposed to model Muhammad. Etc, etc.

For Christians, even the most devout one, modeling Christ is aspirational because of how lofty the standard is.

On the other hand, if the model of behavior (peak self-actualization) your aspire to is illiterate genocidal PDF warlord, you will never rise above 7th century.

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@JTLonsdale Europe has never been able to get rid of aristocracy.

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Hi, not a lawyer. The scheme that DSA geniuses were kind enough to publicly lay out, namely forcing property owners into insolvency with explicit purpose of facilitating property confiscation will result in rent control laws being struck down as unconstitutional taking and I am here for it.

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@officerpetty310 @asheredwards_ @HarlemJ11 @CJoeBlack “They are building…” is measured in housing starts, not in words on paper that are immediately undermined by rent control.

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@WarMonitor3 Rapid de-industrialization in the name of climate change eliminating high-skill, high-productivity manufacturing jobs while at the same time mass migration firehoses in population with very limited societally-valuable output.

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@DirkSigle @WhiteGirl1776

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@WhiteGirl1776 That's why they have disarmed everyone in the cities - it effectively puts the population at the mercy of violent tugs.

It's amusing how the very demographic most in need of force multiplier like firearms (young women) are the ones that have been most-propagandized against it.

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@PhoenixMercury

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@J0hnADouglas @YellowFlashGuy @WNBA I wonder why this angle has not been shown very much.

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@mtaibbi

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@brivael Soros commands an army of government officials he helped install and NGO operators and has successfully diverted hundreds of billions of dollars of public money into destruction of Western Civilization. Elon posts on X.

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@realMaalouf I guess turning K-to-Grad School education system over to Marxists has downsides.

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@ZaidJilani Yes, actually.

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@doctorslernon @zerohedge Then communists will confiscate them and turn them into government-run slums.

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@Jason Jason RN:

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