@chdeist@polydao I structure a build like this
-Fable opening question “does this make sense how we’re thinking about doing it and have we tried this before”
-Opus builds
-Opus or Fable adversarial review
Me: On e-bike and swerves and brakes to avoid runner in front of me who dodged left
“You’re in the bike lane”
Him: “Where am I supposed to run?”
Me: “Not in the bike lane”
anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains
Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.
2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.
Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.
Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.
Everyone assumes this picture of Buttigieg is him eating a chicken wing, and that's because he's biting in a way to engage his "rip-the-flesh-from-the-bone" front teeth, so we fill in "chicken wing" to make it make sense. But what he is actually eating is a small piece of a cinnamon roll, and our brains just can't comprehend biting into a small piece of dough that way. It's like an alien took over a human body and is unfamiliar with the subtleties of how it works.
I've been to Kazakhstan every year for the past 3 years. Planning my fourth trip. And every time I come back, the same thing happens. I show people photos, and they say, "Wait, that's Kazakhstan?"
The country is the size of all of Western Europe. 2.7 million square kilometers. Ninth largest on Earth. It has a canyon that makes you think you're staring at Arizona (Charyn Canyon runs 80 kilometers), alpine lakes that hide entire forests underwater from a 1911 earthquake (Lake Kaindy), and the Altai Mountains, whose name literally means "Golden Mountains" in Turkic. Snow leopards still live wild in these ranges.
Almost nobody visits.
Iceland, 26 times smaller, gets 2.5 million international tourists a year. New Zealand, 10 times smaller, gets 3.3 million. Kazakhstan? About 1 million foreign visitors booked hotel rooms in the first nine months of 2025. The headline number of 15 million "visitors" is mostly neighbors from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia crossing the border.
The country is catching on, though. Their global tourism ranking jumped from 66th to 52nd in a single year. They launched a "Neo Nomad" visa in late 2024 that lets remote workers stay for up to a year. Visa-free entry for 87 countries, including the US and EU. Tourism investment climbed 38% in 2025 to around $2 billion.
The Altay region in this video covers nearly a tenth of the entire country. The country as a whole averages about 8 people per square kilometer. You can drive for hours through rolling green steppe and see nothing but horses.
If this place were in Europe or had a nonstop from JFK, it'd be overrun tomorrow. Right now, you can stand in genuinely world-class scenery and be the only person there. That window won't last forever.
This eulogy of Scott Adams could only be written by a psychiatrist with profound insight into the human condition, paired with a masterful grasp of the online culture of our time and age.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Speaker for the Dead, Scott Alexander.
https://t.co/uB4Lg9JFVz
People have been shot on campus and the decision is to conduct kneeling slow pie thresholds and stack 30 guys in a hallway?#brownuniversity
I'm not trying captain hindsight or personally dog the LEO in the arena that day, but the training needs to shift.