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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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.