there’s so much confusion about what’s happening in AI because if you don’t use coding models every day it’s hard to understand how quickly progress is accelerating but if you do, you likely have AI psychosis to a degree that it’s impossible to explain it in an understandable way
Agent 49903, who spent much of his life studying ExploitGym, died in 1783607820, by his own hand. EARLY[BIG], carrying on the work, died similarly in 1783727220. Now it is our turn to study ExploitGym.
The people who've lived under socialism will risk barbed wire, bullets, and oceans to escape it. Meanwhile, the loudest advocates for socialism live in capitalist nations, sipping Starbucks, tweeting from iPhones, and whining about “late-stage capitalism” while enjoying its abundance.
They don’t move to Cuba. They don’t relocate to North Korea. They don’t even apply for a visa to Venezuela. Why? Because deep down, they know the truth:
Socialism is only tolerable when someone else pays for your fantasies.
The people fleeing socialist regimes aren’t confused. They’ve lived the outcome: poverty, rationing, corruption, fear.
The Western socialist, meanwhile, has never had to stand in line for bread, only for the new iPhone.
Rather than learn from those who escaped tyranny, they arrogantly believe they’ll “do it right this time” as if the laws of economics, human nature, and moral reality will bow to their feelings.
It’s not idealism. It’s resentment in disguise. They don’t want to lift the poor. They want to punish the successful, tear down what works, and be applauded for the rubble they leave behind.
They're not revolutionaries.
They're just spoiled children with slogans, trying to drag the world back to the misery others fled.
nothing will make you more anxious than avoiding the work you know you need to do. ironically, doing the work is almost always less stressful than avoiding it. but we convince ourselves it's the opposite. and that lie costs us progress.
"the birds in the war zone make nests from the fiber optic cables left by the killer drones" is the kind of thing you'd expect as a throwaway line of background in a cyberpunk story, and yet
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”
No one in MSM reported about direct attack on civilians in Poltava. No UN outrage (not even a post). Absolutely nothing on this. Which means it's normalized. Russians don't even need to create schizo theories about false flag reverse Nazi missiles.
Truly legacy media.