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[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@deepPSA @JTLonsdale @basnyat2trot It’s funny because you clearly don’t know what Palantir actually does lmao. The front line work is extremely boring programming and categorizing

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

@basnyat2trot A: govt spends billions doing something poorly

B: help govt only spend millions & do it competently, w/ audit trails for liberty, while building a co that makes most of its money outside govt.

C: ppl w/ funny names and “PhD” tell you that you’re unethical and wasting govt money

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@drgurner @Andercot Dialectics is the solution

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@GenericSnarky @Fat_Electrician It’s called the bystander effect

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@MarsUniversityX Mimetic theory

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@MarsUniversityX Mimetic theory

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@elonmusk @JonErlichman Creative destruction

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@Robotbeat Synthetic long chain hydrocarbons. Grok it

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@pronounced_kyle One of my favorite lines from Francisco, “ there is no such thing as contradictions. If you find such, re-examine your premises because one them are wrong” (paraphrasing-ish).

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@whatifalthist How do we fix this? Ideally my thought is education, but that seems impossible.

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@rickymason03 @flowidealism Sounds like you don’t read often

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@Andercot Upload these to YouTube porfavor

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Morning Riffs #3:
Bernie Sanders, Sclerotic Bureaucracy, Energy, Helium Dilution Refrigerators, Entropy, Fusion, Fission, Thermodynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Interest Rates and Temperature

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@jmsbonney @Andercot Funny, but X put your comment under the possible scam category. I guess they heavily moderate gambling

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@Andercot You should write a science fiction book. If you haven’t already done so.

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@QuantumTumbler Hide number 3. If living forever was optimal we would’ve evolved to have longer lifespans. Look at life forms with long life spans and see how successful they are

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@Andercot Telling a story about stories

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@Xaraphim Do this with any item like vacuums or toys - etc. Then you can start up a universal 3D printing repair/maintenance service for any item

[Frank Look @FrankLook16]

@TypeSafeMuppet @MiltonFriedmanW Projecting your own insecurities

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

On strict near-term unit economics, this might still be a mediocre use of capital. A tilt-wall datacenter in Oregon with cheap power, cheap cooling, and technicians on call is hard to beat. Crusoe can park compute on stranded natural gas and turn it into flops with a supply chain that already exists. But the knock-on effects are why this keeps pulling at people. If you can industrialize power and operations in orbit at meaningful scale, you’re not just running GPUs. You’re building a new kind of infrastructure that makes it easier for humans to keep spreading out. Compute is just one of the first excuses to pay for the scaffolding. Even if this is a mediocre trade on strict near-term unit economics, the second-order effects could be enormous. I’ll go one step further and say the quiet part out loud: we should be actively goading more billionaires into spending on irrational, high-variance projects that might actually advance civilization. I feel genuine secondhand embarrassment watching people spend their fortunes on yachts and status cosplay. No one cares about your Loro Piana. If you’ve built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future. Pay for the iteration loops. Build the cathedrals. This is how we advance civilization.