Arkadiy Belousov

I do not represent my employer or anyone else. All opinions are my own or borrowed for a small fee.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@SkylarSkye3 @heynowhank22 UK used to be the center of the world, for about 2 centuries. It's sad that you don't know.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@simonateba Interesting choice of "4000". About the same as the number of the newly-minted millionaires among SpaceX employees.

But somehow you don't care for THOSE common men.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@Panegyrick "Филе ис нот фоюнд"

Could be interpreted as "Filet of notfoyund", where "notfoyund" is some exotic animal or fish.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@SketchesbyBoze Why invest in spaceships, cars, Internet, AI or freedom of speech? These are things YOU are interested in!

You should spend your money on the things I am interested in!

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

Imagine a bunch of Chinese girls working in a factory, making iPhones. I provided a picture so it's easier for you.

Now take away the chairs, the conveyor belt, the chips, the PCBs, the screens... The building.

They are standing in a field, moving their hands in empty air.

Somehow no iPhones come out.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

This is coming perilously close to a horseshoe.

Commies agree with you: the control of the economy, of the life as a whole, should be given to the best minds of the nomenclatura. In your own interest, of course. Because they understand how the economy works. Gosplan is staffed with the best and brightest, right?

Even before communism, it was ever so. Who "voted" in medieval society? Those who could learn to swing a sword. I am sure you can tie that to IQ somehow. Sword fighting is complicated.

No. The point is not in restricting who can vote. The point is in abolishing the vote. Every person must control his own life and have no power over others.

Did von Mises not prove that NO ONE is smart enough to understand the economy?

If you're too dumb to know what's best for you, you fail. But you fail locally. You don't bring down the whole civilization.

Even Elon, if he fails, will only bring down a chunk of civilization. Not the whole place. A trillion dollars is a noticeable chunk, but not huge.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@jackprandelli @TrentTelenko What is the loss as the percentage of the volume?

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@_Wrevolution_ How safe are you feeling about these guys?

Note they don't bother to cover their faces.

https://t.co/pVFFC9Kgbc

[Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 @pippaisright]

🇬🇧 Hundreds of INVADERS , Muslims armed with weapons on the streets in the UK screaming “Allah Akbar” hunting British patriots!

No 24/7 courts and “full force of the law” statements by Kier Starmer for this lot

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@cliftonaduncan Their ultimate audience are NGOs with budget money.

If not now then in the near future.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

When I had to leave a place I called home for a quarter century because I was afraid police would force me to inject poison into my child, did you say anything?

When Jews were (and are) chased down and beaten in the middle of New York City, did you say anything?

The "right people" you need to call are the politicians who purposefully made it impossible to tell apart your neighbor and a violent thug.

If they did what the public had been demanding for decades, everyone would be safer.

But their reputation among their friends and the power of the entire set depended on making that distinction impossible. So now we see what we see.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@sentdefender "От Советского Информбюро..."

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@engineers_feed = "You're fired for obfuscation"

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@Devon_Eriksen_ So then, what's your take on the summer of 2020?

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@sapphyreblayze Well, when Jews in London or New York are afraid to go out due to pro-Pal protests...

I guess it's ok. The right people are intimidated.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

The thing Anthropic's repugnant and overbearing “safety controls” on their new model demonstrates, conclusively I think, is that if we allow one or two companies to control all AI research and development, we will also be giving those companies veto power over what thoughts we are allowed to think, what information we are allowed to know, what conversations we are allowed to have. The only solution to this is an open, fiercely competitive market where customers can freely choose to leave when a company behaves like this.

Anthropic has repeatedly sought various forms of regulatory capture during its history, attempting to use the law itself as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering the marketplace to allow it to seize sole control over AI R&D. We cannot afford to give such companies opportunities for regulatory capture. The only sure way to keep our society and our minds free is to prevent firms like this from getting their way with legislators. We must keep the marketplace for AI open, and not allowing regulations to be abused to gatekeep who may and may not compete.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@TrentTelenko A different solution: use the raw materials that had been left in orbit to build orbital infrastructure. Don't deorbit, reuse!

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@thinkingwest I am fairly sure there used to be a lad from some green valley, first time in the city, who would think this impressive but not beautiful.

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@fwmarqix "The cucumber remained SMUG throughout."

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@MorlockP https://t.co/5F2rX2zu6h

[Arkadiy Belousov @arkadiybe]

@engineers_feed "У нас секса нет"