The age of agents is going to be amazing for most programmers, but it'll be hard times for the cantankerous ones.
Specialized knowledge and rare skills will no longer offer immunity for those who are a pain to work with.
Best learn some basic people skills.
Been screaming it from the rooftops.
Every CEO needs to send their 10x engineers into HR for like 1 week to gut the fuck out of it.
It's the lowest hanging fruit across thousands of the largest corporations.
"Two of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them."
Why are you lying?
I am not Anduril, I am advising in a personal capacity. Even if this was an Anduril project, it is nuts to call 67th place one of the Department's biggest contractors. You know this isn't true, but presumably you start your story with this false claim for a reason.
@aaronburnett It is increasingly probable that Starlink will carry a majority of Earth’s IP traffic long-term.
At that point, Starlink would de facto become the Internet and everything else would connect to Starlink.
1. We will keep accelerating. Our AI efforts are only 3 years old, vs 6 and 10 years old for Anthropic and OpenAI. If our second derivative remains strong, SpaceX will reach pole position in about 6 months.
2. Once you far exceed the caliber of intelligence needed for a class of tasks, additional intelligence is pointless. You don’t need (and it would be cruel to put) Newton-level intelligence in your toaster!
3. Hardware is hard. Bringing massive compute online rapidly is incredibly difficult. SpaceX has demonstrated exceptional ability in this regard and will only get better.
In 2020, the US printed $6 trillion.
The average American salary is $60,000 (that’s 100 million years of human labor stolen in a single year through currency debasement).
If each person works roughly 50 productive years across their lifetime, that single instance of money printing (aka currency counterfeiting) equals 2 million human lifetimes’ worth of labor energy.
You should figure it out, before it’s too late:
oregano oil killed every single bacterial strain it was tested against in a Georgetown University study including strains that were resistant to pharmaceutical antibiotics. every strain. zero survivors
that sentence should have made international headlines. a plant extract outperforming prescription antibiotics against resistant bacteria is the kind of finding that changes medicine. it didn't make headlines because a $12 bottle of oregano oil can't fund a pharmaceutical marketing campaign
the mechanism is carvacrol and thymol. two compounds that destroy bacterial cell membranes on contact. the bacteria cannot develop resistance to this mechanism because the compounds attack the physical structure of the cell rather than a specific metabolic pathway. antibiotics target pathways. bacteria evolve around pathways. oregano oil targets the wall itself. you can't evolve around having your wall destroyed
• killed staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, and pseudomonas aeruginosa in laboratory conditions at concentrations achievable through oral supplementation
• eliminated H. pylori (the bacteria behind most stomach ulcers) in clinical use when pharmaceutical triple therapy failed. a backup treatment that outperformed the first line
• antifungal activity against candida albicans comparable to nystatin (a prescription antifungal) in direct comparison studies
• antiviral properties demonstrated against norovirus and herpes simplex virus in laboratory settings. one compound active against bacteria, fungi, AND viruses simultaneously
• reduces SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) symptoms as effectively as rifaximin ($1,500 per course) in a Johns Hopkins affiliated study. a $12 oil matching a $1,500 antibiotic
• the antibacterial mechanism does not destroy beneficial gut bacteria at normal supplemental doses because the beneficial strains have naturally thicker cell walls. the selective toxicity is built into the chemistry
the pharmaceutical industry generates $46 billion annually from antibiotics. a $12 bottle of oregano oil matching or exceeding multiple prescription antibiotics in laboratory and clinical settings is an existential threat to that revenue. the research exists. the FDA classification prevents health claims. the gap between what the science shows and what the label is allowed to say is where the profit is protected
2 to 4 drops of emulsified oregano oil in water 2 to 3 times daily for acute infections (limit to 2 weeks max). for maintenance: 1 drop daily or every other day. must be emulsified or enteric coated to prevent esophageal irritation. north american herb and spice (Oreganol P73) is the most researched brand. $18 for 2 months
a plant that has been used as medicine for 4,000 years killed every antibiotic resistant strain thrown at it in a Georgetown University laboratory. the pharmaceutical industry responded by making sure you never heard about the study.
The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making.
Here's the story.
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is the grant-providing vehicle of Dustin Moskowitz.
CG is the overwhelmingly foremost funder of AI alarmism, with more than $1B in grants and $1B committed for 2026.
Moskowitz, who founded and runs Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, led Anthropic's Series A in 2021.
Holden Karnofsky co-founded Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving and took a board seat at OpenAI when Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving gave it $30M in 2017.
Karnofsky is married to Anthropic's president Daniela Amodei.
He then joined Anthropic in January 2025.
Coxon, who started the viral thread, received a scholarship from Good Ventures, which is the foundation that funds Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.
He coordinated his message ahead of time with the Wall Street Journal, which published its exclusive on him before he posted on X.
Coxon spent three years pretraining at OpenAI, the company that took $30M from Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.
The funder of the AI alarmist ecosystem Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, in other words, is also an owner of Anthropic, and his organization is deeply entangled with both OpenAI and Anthropic. Anthropic's researchers in turn amplified Coxon.
The same people who own the organizations that advocate for regulation, in other words, are those who own the companies that would dominate the market under that regulatory regime, which would prevent competitors from entering the market.
And this work all started ten years ago, right when these companies were founded, paving the way.
It's diabolically brilliant.
Win at the competition, then deploy activists to help you regulate the market and ensure your monopoly.
You have to respect the planning, manipulation, and foresight this took.
@xenocosmography And that is, of course, how it will be done.
Sentient satellites, launched into Earth-Sun Lagrange points by mass drivers on the Moon, can solve global warming for ~1B years.
Forget population numbers
The people with 130+ IQ are what truly matters
They are the ones who keep society functioning - infrastructure, technology, medicine - It’s a thin layer of high-IQ, male, whites/north asians.
Without them, systems fail in predictable ways (see South Africa) and we revert back to a primitive civilization.
And it’s already been declining massively
This might be the best case to ban all ALPR Cameras after flock cameras just ruined an innocent Florida woman’s life.
Cops used one ALPR hit to pin a triple-fatal hit-and-run on 23-year-old Lindsey Isaacs. Seized her undamaged black Durango, claimed “damage,” then arrested her 6 months later after she sued to get it back.
She sat in jail 13 days facing life in prison.
They ignored the maroon paint transfer, the partial plate that didn’t match, the airbag that never deployed, and witnesses. Just took the first Durango Flock flagged.
7 months of hell. Charges finally dropped when they got the actual driver.