Hasara Samson

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
https://t.co/W97pq3FLYg

[Paul Graham @paulg]

LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Enlightenment values are a sounder vision for the West than tribe and faith, argues Francis Fukuyama (not surprisingly , I agree) https://t.co/q61GqQhmmn

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."

— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work

https://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Superb valedictory essay by @shashj on modern warfare. Highly recommend: https://t.co/U32zHDqxVA

[Matheus Lima @matheusml]

AI should make you think better. It should not become a comfortable place to hide from the work.

https://t.co/5FaP9rM3oh

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists:

Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story.

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century.

That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory.

A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser.

https://t.co/PHVlqFB3Zg

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne @yudhanjaya]

Jonathan Haidt gives good advice here. Reposted via @nxthompson.

[Chelsea Olivia Follett @chellivia]

"The Malthusian mind does not see the human capacity to cooperate, trade, discover, invent, and adapt."

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

Nice find. John von Neumann goes full prophet mode but (and I guess we might have expected this) does not descend like almost all others who engage in prognostication about an unknowable future - into a despairing pessimism.

Not full-throated optimism. But: problems are soluble!

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Europe has one of the most essential and irreplaceable companies in the global AI supply chain: ASML, which produces the machines that TSMC uses to make its chips.

These machines are roughly the size of double-decker buses. To ship one requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks. They are the world’s most complex objects. Each contains over one hundred thousand components, all of which have to be perfectly calibrated for the machine to produce light consistently at the right wavelength.

ASML was once seen as an also-ran compared to its arch-rivals Nikon and Canon. It succeeded thanks to involvement in a US program to develop extreme ultraviolet lithography, which only happened because the Americans were so worried about losing to Japan. ASML also outsourced much of its R&D instead of trying to do it all in house, which allowed it to spread its bets across many different companies.

Today, the entire global AI industry depends on ASML. Understanding its success is crucial to understanding Europe's position in AI today, and how it can leverage that to avoid being left behind tomorrow.

https://t.co/zURr1xlgMx

[Astropics @astropics]

This is one of the most beautiful images in the history of space exploration.

This iconic photo shows the space shuttle Endeavour in black silhouette over the Earth's colorful atmosphere.

It was taken on February 9, 2010, from the International Space Station during mission STS-130 as the shuttle approached for docking.

[David Rozado @DavidRozado]

DEI Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have Declined
New HxA Report: The share of U.S. full-time faculty job ads requiring applicants to address DEI fell from 25% in 2024 to 11% in 2025, a 56% relative decline.
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[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!: https://t.co/P6OXoPOlwR

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

@ASchulz888 Here it is as a fraction of GDP

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

Really great news I would say:

"Social media is populist and polarising. AI may be the opposite."

– @jburnmurdoch in the FT

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

As a service to those who have no idea what Fascism is but yearn to use the term, here is how its inventor characterised it https://t.co/6LaFBpEwVJ