J-Dog

Software developer.
Enjoyer of memes.
Provider of exit liquidity.

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

Every word of this Sam Harris essay on Israel is obviously true and it’s crazy that we live in an intellectual environment where this is called contrarianism.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Russia has colonized Ireland through widespread bribery of Irish government officials.
Head of the Irish colony is Oleg Deripaska.
The Russian mafia boss extracts 67,000 tons of alumina per month and sends it back to Russia.
That's 83% of total alumina production of Ireland.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.

And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.

I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI.

After Automation: https://t.co/Lb7SUCduAg

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

LLMs, like any tool, can be wielded effectively or poorly.

Companies won't automatically get a productivity boost just by throwing AI tooling at employees. They can easily end up worse off after burning tons of money.

You should use AI like a scalpel, not a bazooka. Be precise.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

The man with the shopping bags.
I always found something deep in this.

Shopping bags vs tanks.

Liberty vs collectivism.

Life vs death.

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

One month until America’s 250th.

Here’s my closing script for our American Revolution unit, for 5- to 12-year-olds at Montessorium.

This is as morally didactic as I will ever be in a classroom.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

Pause for a moment to think how much TRAINING
is needed to reach such level of moral degeneracy.

It's not normal, nor the default to see October 7 footage and say 'this is defensible'.
Go show the footage to primitive tribes in some jungle, and they'll find it off-putting.

It takes years of effort in the education system to create
such little monsters who view this and say 'defensible'.

[Krown @KrownCryptoCave]

bitcoin:native long term investors always remember, when BTC hits the weekly 200sma its best to panic & sell. its over.

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

Such a crucial point.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

When do I get to wake up from this fever dream?

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

peak euphoria: “Today will likely be the largest SPX call volume sessions of all time. Calls have made up 70% of every option traded” - Goldman

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

Jeff Bezos Admirably Defends Wealth Creation

Jeff Bezos delivers an admirable and insightful defense of wealth, demonstrating how one earns a billion dollars and how profitable enterprise drives civilization. Onkar Ghate and @BakulaRobertas analyze his best pro-freedom arguments while exploring the philosophical pitfalls that remain.

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

Good deal = Iranian regime removed
Bad deal = anything else

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Europeans will pretend that Russia accidentally attacked NATO because Europe actually can't do anything against Russia. The only European country capable of fighting Russia is Ukraine.
Such attacks will increase in frequency and severity and Europeans will continue to "condemn."

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic in 2014 with the audacious goal of making supersonic flight commercially feasible. He spoke at OCON 2017 with a talk—“Who Killed Speed?”—describing the decades-long stagnation in aviation and the prospects for a renaissance. This year, we’re excited to welcome Blake back to the OCON stage to tell us about the significant milestones that Boom has recently achieved—and about the political and philosophical lessons he’s learned building a jet and changing the laws around supersonic flight.

[Ayn Rand Institute @AynRandInst]

Marc Andreessen Fails to Recognize the Importance of Introspection

In a recent podcast, billionaire investor and entrepreneur Marc Andreesen proudly claimed he does not introspect . But self-awareness is necessary for the control and innovation that drive business success.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I’m reading this and I’m feeling pain for my most beloved foreign country.

Like, really.

https://t.co/rWSF72wqL9

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

I am 95% done with a deal to buy a new house. The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on the price and whether the owners are actually willing to sell

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR.

But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

I would like to known were in the world there has been a "unregulated, private, health insurance market" in the last hundred years? None that I can think of. Real free market has never been tried.