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yet another libertarian-ish, overly-credentialed, under-educated, tech bro who thinks the emperor has no clothes

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

When govt isn't just "god-by-proxy" but "husband-by-proxy" - https://t.co/QOkhrmBNe5

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Justice, Village-style

[Stanley Roberts 📺🎥 @StanleyRoberts]

Meanwhile in Stockton…💀

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

@robkhenderson They also believe the

... lower class is a political ally / constituency / group to be saved.

... the middle class is a political rival / stands in the way of grand social engineering projects

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Even local politics is increasingly a hammer to reshape society-writ-large. The result: it's very hard to build stuff anymore - https://t.co/bLCVDu3gFV

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Beyond, a certain size, all corps are infested with parasitic factions. Walmart's rank and file may be Blue Collar, but the HR / PR / Corp Staff departments are quite likely to be Woke.

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

NEW: Walmart was long a bogeyman for liberals concerned about the power of big business.

Now the company is using that power to pump DEI into Arkansas public schools, transforming its hometown through grants, nonprofits, and corporate outreach.🧵
https://t.co/EazDewECI8

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

wow.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

We need more moms like this in our cities:

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

@eladgil National governments / cultural entities will be far more involved in funding LLMs than they were in OSS.

For ex., "Brit-GPT" funded by UK Govt and built on BBC + UK media archives. Same with France, China, Japan & many others.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

some serious left wing fantasizing going on

[Debate Society of Berkeley @BerkeleyDebates]

Ai is getting out of hand. Y’all got me all excited for nothing. #TrumpArrest

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Alienation, rather than Assimilation is a much better Ivy League essay - https://t.co/vzESQGNK9C

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

% of Asian Americans who feel that they belong and are accepted in the U.S., by age

Ages 65+: 51%

55-64: 38%

35-54: 31%

25-34: 27%

18-24: 19%

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

@abidlabs Folks expect generated text to be "non-fiction" & generated images to be "fiction". Hence less need for grounding in real world tokens.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

How much of the last 50 yrs of financial innovation boiled down to "new ways to finance debt despite a measly ~2-3% productivity growth"

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

The U.S. Now Has:

1. Record $16.5 trillion in household debt

2. Record $11.9 trillion in mortgages

3. Record $1.6 trillion in auto loans

4. Record $986 billion in credit card debt

Total mortgage debt is now more than double the 2006 peak.

Meanwhile, 36% of Americans have more credit card debt than savings with balances rising at the fastest pace since 1999.

This is all while mortgage rates just hit 7.1% and credit card debt rates hit a record 24.9%.

We are "fighting" inflation with debt.

This can't end well.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

More -

- Covid-Zero was possible
- we're all equally susceptible
- overestimating the fatality rate
- Vax would stop infection
- that CDC / FDA are efficient

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

Almost impossible to overstate how wrong so many news corporations were on the science of covid:
- lab leak as conspiracy
- efficacy of lockdown
- harmlessness of school closures
- recovered immunity
- toddler masking
- vax mandates

A perfect record of anti- science failure.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

By many measures, Russia vs. Ukraine is more akin to Iran vs. Iraq than Iraq vs. Kuwait

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I was talking to an international investor who says the corruption in Ukraine is beyond belief. Theft and bribery are endemic — much worse than in Latin America. The oligarchs must be feasting on our hundred billion.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

A good choice for some individuals ?

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these buildings with respect, or disgust?

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Mobile phones were vastly more corruption -proof than Indian landlines.

[Balaji @balajis]

More examples:

- Aadhar dramatically reduced cost of ID verification
- Branded e-commerce increased trust among Indian consumers, relative to small roadside stalls
- Basic infrastructure has improved; you can trust that connectivity is there

Tech is *increasing* trust in India.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

The anchoring belief is that US + Western "Regimes" have been captured by the Transnational Left. Russia - with its sense of "national interest", "history", "Culture", etc. - is an enemy of my enemy.

(n.b. I don't agree with this position, but that's an articulation of it...)

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

A lot of left-ism boils down to "put scholars in charge... of everything".

It's a very attractive proposition if you're scholarly inclined

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

If you look at population level there isn’t an IQ gap, but if you look at the most politically relevant portion of each base, liberals are much smarter than conservatives. https://t.co/i4FcAV0zSz

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

@sama I fear that future generations, once synthetic meat is perfected, will cancel me & my carnivorous friends.

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Camp 1 = Bad AI
Camp 2 = Good AI used by Bad People

[anton 🇺🇸 @atroyn]

there seem to be two camps of 'a.i safety'.

- one group anthropomorphizes the model and is concerned with abstract concepts like 'power seeking behavior'

- the other group is more concerned about what multipliers and affordances the model gives to bad human actors

[Tech Bro @king_of_siam]

Because it's a moral virtue signal first, and a set of policy prescriptions second (if at all)

[wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat]

It's really amazing how Communism, even after killing hundreds of millions of people in the last 100 years and ruining every country it ever ruled -- without exception -- can routinely take the moral high ground and unfailingly strike the pose of the movement of tomorrow.