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[Atemi @atemiOK]

Just finished reading @edwardfishman book Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War. Such an interesting read

[Atemi @atemiOK]

Male conversation is public, domineering, competitive, status-obsessed, attention-seeking, factual, and designed to reveal knowledge and skill; Female conversation tends to be private, cooperative, rapport-establishing, reassuring, empathetic, egalitarian, and meandering

[Atemi @atemiOK]

Inject all pregnant women with the right dose of hormones, and the result would be men and women with normal bodies but identical feminine brains: War, rape, boxing, car racing, porn, and hamburgers and beer would soon be distant memories: A feminist paradise, from the red Queen

[Atemi @atemiOK]

And just as she is descended from females who made a careful choice, so he is descended from males who made a hard sell. - the red queen

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@ProLearner77 @MwangoCapital The screenshot doesn't change anything. NMB and CRDB are Tier 1. The chart is about Tier 2. You're arguing about two different things.

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@ProLearner77 @MwangoCapital Tier 2 is the word Learner!

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@AokoOtieno_ Why would you choose @CavendishUg ? What��s it with Ugandan universities for people running for office?

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@JulianGoldieSEO Yes, please share bro

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@JulianGoldieSEO Yes

[Atemi @atemiOK]

Every idiot can be father or mother to a genius—and vice versa.

[Atemi @atemiOK]

Devil take the hindmost ?

[Atemi @atemiOK]

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need - Karl max

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

The o3 price drop is now reflected in Cursor!

o3 is a fantastic model, and we're excited that it can now be used as a daily driver.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Cursor 1.0 is out now!

Cursor can now review your code, remember its mistakes, and work on dozens of tasks in the background.

[Atemi @atemiOK]

“The further our cause advances the more new situations and problems will arise, the more risks and challenges we will face and the more unforeseen events we will encounter.” Xi

[Atemi @atemiOK]

@omondi_waButere @DJEvolve @Lagaless DM

[Kenyan Business @BusinessIntelKE]

IMF:
‘Unrest could reemerge in connection with protests against higher cost of living and need to raise more taxes.’

‘Policy response: Remain committed to IMF program’

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

What's happening across Kenya shows that current forms of political engagement are unfamiliar to many politicians, who believe votes alone confer legitimacy. With a massive young population, their sentiments will define developments, which can quickly turn into widespread contestation. #Kenya #YouthEngagement

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Smart people disagree ON societal design. Wise people disagree WITH societal design.

Below, Crow defends Shear's idea by saying that he is a "smart, thoughtful dude".

If you defend an idea by saying its author is smart and thoughtful, you reveal your underlying assumption of bad ideas come from stupid or thoughtless people.

That's not so. Stupid or thoughtless people don't have bad ideas for what Crow calls "societal design"; they have NO ideas.

The really bad ideas come from smart people.

There's hidden traps in certain IQ levels, and the largest and most dangerous one is "I can design a better society". People fall so in love with their own intelligence that they get seduced by this one great-sounding idea they have for fixing everything or making everything better.

It is that category of idea that ends up getting millions of people killed and collapsing entire civilizations.

Everything works on paper because you assumed that people are rational actors, or that everyone has perfect market knowledge, or that prices don't carry information, or that the chicken is a sphere (to make the math easier).

But in practice, kaboom.

People with ideas like this are doubly dangerous precisely because they are so intelligent. They are good at making just-so stories that sounds workable, and they are good at convincing others that their ideas will work.

And decades later, people are wondering why insulin costs as much as a mortgage payment.

See, society doesn't advance through policy. It doesn't advance with big central plan from a really smart guy, executed by hordes of minions all marching in the same direction. It advances when some dude decides to try something on his own, and 99 times out of 100, he blows himself up or goes bankrupt, but that other 1 time, it works and everyone imitates him.

All of this is why you get a lot of socialists between IQs of 115 and, say, 135. It's not because socialism appeals to the intellect. It's because socialism appeals to the intellectual. It presents him with the prospect of a ready source of centralized power that he can harness to solve all of society's problems with the power of HIS massive brain and brilliant ideas, and then everyone will oooh and aaaaah over how smart he is, just like mom did when he was 7 years old and he solved a difficult math problem.

Policy ideas tend to come from people who put lots of points into intelligence and charisma, but used wisdom as a dump stat, and consequently they can understand the concept of Chesterton's fence, but they're also oh-so-very-good at convincing themselves that it doesn't apply here.

So, to make myself crystal clear:

Socialism isn't just an example of a bad idea in societal design. It is a bad idea because societal design itself is a bad idea.

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani is set to enter Africa with a telecoms venture, seeking to win mobile broadband customers in a high-growth market https://t.co/7Vi0uYR1D0