JBell

new to X | deliberate vector | herder of goat | mower of lawn | chaotic good | animals love me | veteran 📐🐐

[JBell @WJasonBell]

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[JBell @WJasonBell]

@xai whatever you did last night to Grok please roll back - account entitlements are broken, context windows are acting like robots, the service both on X and Super Grok are difficult to work with.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

Selfishness, correctly aligned, is love at the frequency of equilibrium. 🤔

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@dragonflyranch5 @DataRepublican @BarbMcQuade Look deeper.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@JDiz707 @DataRepublican @BarbMcQuade We are at the stage of the 80's brick cell phone with AI, that will get sorted.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@ZubyMusic @levelsio https://t.co/RXcY5sqjvR

[JBell @WJasonBell]

The ugly secret to socialized healthcare is that it incentivizes policy that 'encourages' it's highest cost participants (the elderly) to 'pass on' the savings once they exit the planet.
Technocrats manage via Excel and elderly contributors who built value get managed through rationing or adaptation failures rather than straightforward returns on what they created. It's not conspiracy, it's just an ugly truth.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@prestonjbyrne snivel-face

[JBell @WJasonBell]

The ugly secret to socialized healthcare is that it incentivizes policy that 'encourages' it's highest cost participants (the elderly) to 'pass on' the savings once they exit the planet.
Technocrats manage via Excel and elderly contributors who built value get managed through rationing or adaptation failures rather than straightforward returns on what they created. It's not conspiracy, it's just an ugly truth.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

At least 1,200 people died of heatstroke in France last Wednesday, mostly elderly people indoors.

Even crazier, about 70,000 Europeans die from the same every year, akin to a bi-weekly 9/11. Eurobros, please vote for leaders who will let you open your windows and install A/C!

[JBell @WJasonBell]

The profession civil service comes and goes every 15-20 years, we need an permanent AI supervisor who can maintain stasis for longer periods. This would create a layered approach - elected churn every 4 years, civil service churn every 15-20 - and permanent AI supervisor to maintain continuity.

The AI supervisor would analyze all inputs and outputs and provide task orders to address discovered concerns/issue/bugs - the civil service should be repurposed to focuses solely on what the AI supervisor surfaces.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@ericweinstein Eric, we are going through a wave of decentralization - Academy will be replaced by AI and an insatiably curious populous. Whether it re-emerges or not is of little consequence.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@ChuckCook Chuck, the map doesn't match the territory, stop trying to re-order the territory to fit the map.

Standards are only applicable if they are valuable, else there is no adoption. Lat/long are useful fictions we all agree on because they provide value.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

A friend of mine summed up our society well today when he said, “Old folks need assisted living - the rest need assisted thinking." 🎯

[JBell @WJasonBell]

I never saw this coming. It is such a brilliant play. If Starfall works, it will add a tremendous amount of value for humanity. 🚀

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Deployment of Starfall confirmed

[JBell @WJasonBell]

And so it begins....
https://t.co/NUwlD0OpPt

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

NEWS: Flow Cayman partners with Starlink to keep networks online during hurricanes.

“If a hurricane cuts off one of our towers from the core fibre-optic network, then the tower will switch to the Starlink backup and our users will still be connected via satellite”

• Starlink will provide satellite backup for Flow’s mobile network
• Designed to keep customers connected during hurricanes and major outages
• Network can switch to Starlink if traditional infrastructure is disrupted
• Rollout expected before the peak of hurricane season

Another telecom operator is integrating Starlink into critical communications infrastructure.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

This is brilliant. Starlink is creating a new market that telcos, who rely on a confusopoly for their products, must buy into or be left behind. This move also makes the new LEO network market a strategic asset. The value of Starlink - literally - keeps rocketing upwards. 🚀

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink Direct to Cell is now available in the UK and will provide data with voice, video and messaging to customers in areas with no terrestrial service

[JBell @WJasonBell]

I have seen this somewhere before.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Vincere aut mori — “To conquer or die.”

[JBell @WJasonBell]

Enlightenment in nature is where one species becomes dependent on another to reproduce. E.g. flowers are enlightened plants who rely on bees (a completely different species) to proliferate. For Humanity, I see a stage of enlightenment where we are dependent on nations in a similar way - bees are incentivized to propagate the flower as the flower's pollen feeds their colony. Nature is a pure transaction structure that settles into equilibrium because of mutual benefit - nothing in equilibrium is done out of kindness, it's done for selfish need, which ironically creates equilibrium.
The interesting question here is whether humanity's next level involves even deeper interdependence or a partial retreat toward resilience through redundancy and reduced critical dependencies.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

To state the obvious, having the American and global economy exposed to a narrow strait is not conducive to long-term peace and security.

Solving this issue is as strategic as ensuring that we are not exposed to semiconductors made in Taiwan or active pharmaceutical ingredients made in China.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

Software people are taking over the world. This is just the beginning. We are going vertical very soon. 🚀

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@elonmusk @brian_armstrong @elonmusk stealing other peoples posts again 🤣
https://t.co/HfsHs3AFNN

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@elonmusk @aaronburnett For space Optimi, most of its 'skin' will be photovoltaic cells - which will look wildly cool and Legion at the same time.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

@ChuckCook @cybertruck The churn on revs is good, the last couple builds were not.

[JBell @WJasonBell]

"The first award vests if the company reaches a valuation of $7.5 trillion and establishes a permanent human colony on Mars of at least one million people."

My visceral reaction is this sounds bananas, but the man has never missed a compensation target thus far. So, I guess we are putting 1M people on Mars. LFG! 🚀

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[JBell @WJasonBell]

After decades in the workforce and now getting some distance from that... what has become clear to me is that a job is where you trade unlimited personal expansion pursuing your own vision, for controlled personal expansion under someone else's vision and a tiny bit of security. To reinforce that we built a society that deliberately injects insecurity and chaos in order to entice everyone to take that deal.

Above all else, this is the one 'thing' that AI is going to rip apart because the insecurity engine loses its leverage when abundance is no longer zero-sum. In other words, what does managing human surplus in a system that was built on artificial scarcity become when the artificiality is removed?

The irony is the folks screaming "AI will destroy everything we value" are often the same ones who intuitively hate the soul-crushing extraction machine and romanticize some pre-corporate golden age of craft and community, yet they're reflexively defending the very leash that keeps that machine fed. Meanwhile, the folks who live inside the incentive structure (the ones with golden handcuffs and 401k anxiety) are the ones flooring the accelerator, basically speed-running the demolition of the very thing that delivers their inner peace.

It's wild to witness, it's as if the gatekeepers are still arguing about who gets to hold the keys while the lock has already been replaced with a smart contract that only opens for people who stopped asking permission. I can't help but think about how our society will handle a large portion of adults operating with genuinely open-ended time and open-ended upside, will the machine adapt and install new forms of coercive extractions or will something else entirely emerge? 🤔