Leonardo Pinero-Perez

John 8:32: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free // UTA Aerospace // Love God, science, travel, art & exercise

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@PabloAntonio You know, after reading the Tim Urban style post, I just dismissed this idea as unfalsifiable "people want things and I'm going to call things 'the CeNteR'". But then I remembered this tweet, and what caused me to click and read with interest, and I realized you had set a scene.

[Archie McKenzie @archiemckenzie_]

“we sandboxed the agent”

meanwhile the agent:

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@danedisonsiegel Cool, I lived off grid for a little over a year in CO and am currently in SF. The transition is insane. Would love to share stories, I'm in Hayes Valley atm

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@timpjohansson Thanks for responding to ppl. I'm having trouble attributing your success to 300g sugar vs sunmax.

The obvious concern about the Sun component is that it is ionizing radiation and damages skin. Is it the VitD? Because diet can supplement that.

I may be missing a bigger picture!

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

i've said this many times, but to me it seems like a very strange fantasy to imagine we reach and stabilize at precisely a level of AGI that allows anything like human "class divides" to exist. why would "cognitive agency" or "focus" matter in the slightest in the face of RSI?

[Mohit Hajarnis @HajarnisMohit]

One of the often slept-upon benefits of attending the University of Chicago is that they make you read Marx as part of the core curriculum, which is why this article gave me flashbacks of taking SOSC 114 as a freshman.

Marx, writing during the Industrial Revolution, predicted capitalism would periodically devour itself: firms replace labor with machinery to boost profits, but competition diffuses the technology, drives prices to marginal cost, and the gains get competed away. Meanwhile, displaced workers lose purchasing power, hollowing out the demand the whole system depends on. Production rises but no one can afford to buy what's produced - the contradiction between production and realization.

Citrini's piece describes this exact dynamic, then declares there's "no natural brake." It's the most Marxist piece of financial analysis written in years, and makes the same errors Marx did.

Schumpeter offered the obvious rebuttal 80 years ago: creative destruction doesn't just destroy, it creates industries we can't yet conceive of. Everyone in the replies is already making this point, and I think they're right.

But the sharper rebuttal is Hayek's: prices are the brake Citrini says doesn't exist. Who funds $200bn / qtr in AI capex when equities are down 38%, private credit marks are in the 50s, and consumer demand has collapsed? Cost of capital rises. Incremental build-out becomes uneconomical. Capital gets destroyed and reallocated.

Citrini also unknowingly describes Marx's proletarianization of the petite bourgeoisie: the $180k PM driving Uber is textbook. But the article claims this collapses consumer demand, and that's where it breaks.

The top decile drives 50%+ of spending and their wealth is in equities, not W-2 income; they're long the hyperscalers posting records in Citrini's own model. Blue collar is insulated because AI replaces cognitive labor, not physical.

The professional middle class gets crushed, but aggregate demand doesn't.

The spending class IS the capital-owning class. The K-shaped recovery they fear actually stabilizes the demand base they say is collapsing. In the stable aggregate demand, the petit bourgeoisie finds ways to reinvent itself.

I think the Citrini piece is excellent and worth reading. But history has repeatedly shown that periods of transformative productivity gains ultimately accrue to the consumer through lower prices, more leisure, and higher quality of life. Marx's error wasn't diagnosing the disruption, it was underestimating the system's ability to adapt.

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@ItIsHoeMath On the off chance you are in Summit or Grand County in CO, I run a wireless internet service over there. We typically get a lot of houses within the trees. 2GHz and 900MHz work well through foliage if the relay is near enough.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incredibly proud of the SpaceX team for achieving this milestone in space! Next goal is reflight within 24 hours.

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@kearabisso that's my two cents on the matter; it's worked rather well for me. Take it for what it's worth!

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@kearabisso oh & the #1 thing is to be real with them. They go through a lot of essays, & they appreciate those who open up & talk candidly.

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@kearabisso I wouldn't structure it; everyone does that. Just categorize your thoughts into paragraphs & create smooth transitions between.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@PizzaPartyBen @BenBarnett42

[Tom @tdawks]

After some reflection, I have decided that this is my favourite photo caption on Wikipedia.

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

A man suffered a pulmonary embolism at the wheel—and his Tesla drove him to the hospital. https://t.co/0BrDBQizlk

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@MattSeanR Compare the two and tell me what you think. I know there's a lot missing and that I'm biased, just want your input.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Landing

[Leonardo Pinero-Perez @Pinero42Pinero]

@kearabisso Wow glad I saw this tweet, I checked my parking account and found that I got my first citation today. I've always parked there??