Heraclituswasright

Theory Y and trust, work hard not more, stay humble or be humbled, first sharpen your tools, neural top down control, build a cathedral, it’s not about you

[Heraclituswasright @NuliusnVerba]

“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.” The Buddha

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@StephenKing LOL

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@SoveyX This is worth 10 percent risk of annihilation.

[bone @boneGPT]

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"

You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.

One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.

A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?

"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.

My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.

"The social disruption will be enormous!"

Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.

Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?

A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.

Accelerate.

[Heraclituswasright @NuliusnVerba]

@MeidasTouch Read the Rational Optimist please then update. He does make centrally planned distribution of tech sound very logical…I bet the mids love this.

[Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 @Pastpassport]

My wife grew up on the metric system, and she says the mile is the most ridiculous unit ever invented.

For years, she had me. But history claps back....

The word comes from Latin, mille passus, a thousand paces.

A Roman pace was two steps, counted each time the same foot hit the ground. A thousand of those made a mile.

Along the Appian Way, built in 312 BC, stone markers stood at every thousand paces, counted outward from a gate in Rome's old wall. A traveler read the distance off the road itself.

The strange number came much later. In 1593, Parliament under Elizabeth I set the mile at 5,280 feet so it would divide evenly into furlongs, the length of an English farmer's furrow.

So the odd number is a Roman soldier's stride, adjusted to fit an English field.

I love that. Every time you say "mile," you are still counting the steps of a legionary marching south out of Rome.....

...on the Appian Way that you can still walk today, counting the old mile markers as you go

The poet Statius called that road the queen of long roads.

[Heraclituswasright @NuliusnVerba]

@MatthewChang Meh…pretty elaborate info campaign just to manage audit expectations

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@RahmEmanuel And you are still serving those interests

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@SenSanders My lord this is retarded

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@8teAPi @bgurley The laws already exist

[Shyam Sankar @ssankar]

Contrast the present hysteria with Los Alamos.

The Manhattan Project scientists thought the first nuclear explosion could ignite the atmosphere and end humanity.

They did the math. They determined it wouldn’t. And they proceeded.

Because they weren’t fighting a thought experiment. They were fighting the Nazis.

Effective Altruism inverts this. Multiply a sufficiently horrifying hypothetical future by enough hypothetical future humans and suddenly speculation acquires the moral authority of fact.

That’s not empiricism. It’s secular eschatology.

Take risks seriously. Do the work. Engineer against them.

But don’t confuse the ability to imagine the apocalypse with the authority to rule the present.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

safety cartel
/ˈseɪf.ti kɑrˈtɛl/
noun

A coalition of dominant firms that invokes safety to justify coordinated limits on the pace or terms of competition. This can include common restrictions, government enforcement, or exemptions from ordinary antitrust constraints, especially when those measures allow participants to slow down without sacrificing their relative competitive positions.

Especially: a group of frontier AI companies advocating industry-wide “pacing,” common capability limits, or regulatory checkpoints that constrain faster-moving rivals while preserving incumbent advantages.

See also: regulatory moat, incumbent protection, coordinated pacing.

“When competitors need an antitrust waiver to coordinate how fast their industry is allowed to advance, critics may call it a safety cartel.”

[Heraclituswasright @NuliusnVerba]

@KobeissiLetter Zero chance of this

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I have so many questions...

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: Government Spending is Making Everything More Expensive… and Driving America Toward Socialism

@friedberg:

“California's got tens of billions of dollars it spent on this stupid f**king railway that goes nowhere, where there's no f**king tracks…”

@DavidSacks:

“And there's no political will to even stop that. It'd be the easiest cut in the world.”

Friedberg:

“Just think about the idiocy. Like, no one is saying we shouldn't do this. Why is no one saying we shouldn't do this?

A quarter trillion dollars for a train from San Francisco to Fresno that costs more than an airline ticket is so idiotic. It's like the movie ‘Don't Look Up’. Like, look up. It tells you everything you need to know.

Across the board, these government programs cause more harm than good.

When the government intervenes in underwriting student loans, and gives everyone a loan, administrative costs went up by 6x and tuition skyrocketed 8% a year, compounding for 30 years, because the government said, ‘We'll underwrite any student loan.’

The same with housing, and now no young people can afford a house.

The same with healthcare, where they said, ‘We'll pay people to stay home and not work to take care of people, and we won't check on whether or not they're actually taking care of people,’ and the cost of healthcare skyrocketed.

You go across every one of these government programs, and every one of them has the adverse effect of driving up costs and inflating everything.

And the core root of inflation in this country is government spending.

And the reason we are going to end up becoming a socialist country is because we aren't reining in government spending and looking it in the mirror and saying, ‘Guys, this is idiotic. What are we doing?’”

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@SenMarkey @SenBlumenthal You should try it out.

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@Raclure03 Respect

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@BernieSanders And how will you perform this?

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@zck Technology wealth has a direct, not indirect, correlation on craziness.

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@PeterDiamandis Marketing and Capture