Erol Basturk

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@InvestingCanons That approach voids tech where you can’t have an idiot run it and do alright

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@TheRabbitHole 1984 is bad for you, trust your gov

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

AI can out-persuade humans by delivering more facts.

All the more important that the AI be truth-seeking and unbiased.

[Kobi Hackenburg @KobiHackenburg]

New w/ @AISecurityInst & @UniofOxford:

Frontier AI can now out-persuade expert humans in conversation - incl. world-champ debaters and professional canvassers.

This held even when humans chose their topics, prepared in advance, and competed for £1,000 prizes 🧵

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

💯 School vouchers would fix this. Add AI tutoring and the quality of education could rise very quickly.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

government destroys value.

in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years.

if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down.

this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

💯 Calling oneself a victim is an aggressive stance, it is based on blaming others

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Victimhood can fuel political extremism. The tendency to see oneself as a victim strongly predicts support for political violence.

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on how ‘social justice’ destroys a society:

“If I have a philosophy that everything belongs to society—if something happens to me, that’s not my fault, that’s because society did it to me—then the whole concept of property loses its role.”

“Why shouldn’t I steal? Why shouldn’t I destroy property? After all, it’s nobody’s. It belongs to everybody, so it belongs to nobody.”

“Moreover, if I happened to be in a lower-income group, or a deprived social group, or a discriminated-against racial group, that’s the malevolence of other people. It’s not my fault, and I have every right to get back at them.”

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

Once enough people are aware of the ploy, it is over. There is no going back

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Do you feel it?

The Left has lost a weapon.

For decades the Left could destroy a person if they called them “racist”.

They used the word “racist” to ruin, silence and get whatever they wanted.

Not anymore.

People are standing up.
No longer afraid.

This is a massive change.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

People like to sound sophisticated and worldly. Has little to do with their actual beliefs.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What Sowell said is exactly right and needs to stop.

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@Geiger_Capital At some point Europe will activate its immune system by electing leaders who do not suffer from suicidal empathy and who will focus on boosting their economies with deregulation, AI/robotics and increased energy production rather than importing workers

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

Different standards based on race or any other innate attribute is wrong and harmful to all

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

Parents of white male students are waking up to the fact that their children are the last to be chosen for medical school, law school, and other graduate programs.

MCAT scores that would be disqualifying for a white or Asian medical school applicant are close to an automatic admit if submitted by a black student.

Of course blacks should seek postgraduate training—but on the same basis as everyone else. It does them no favors to be catapulted into academic environments for which they are not prepared.

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

Gifts should not be taxed. Any person should be free to give anything to anyone at any time without the government taking a piece of it.

[Matt Loesby @LoesbyForIdaho]

All taxes are extortion. Inheritance tax is especially evil.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

The Afrikaner "Great Trek" of the 1830s introduced the word "trek" into the English language. Therefore, without the Great Trek, you would not have Star Trek.

[Naval @naval]

The enemy of truth is motivated reasoning.

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@elonmusk @wholemars "the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system" —Milton Friedman

[Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya]

Unfortunately black people who follow reason and logic will never have the numbers and will never influence the Black Hive Mind.

No more than about 10% of black people, at most, will grasp her point.

It is what it is. This will never change. It's just the reality of it.

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@WallStreetMav The left lives in zero-sum mindset and envy

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@elonmusk @wholemars "the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system" —Milton Friedman

[Erol Basturk @erolnodiff]

@pmarca He is inline with the Communist Manifesto
"3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance."