lmenac

math enthusiast, physics BS, English BA, educator

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

Inside the mind of a senile crypto-Trotskyist

[lmenac @ljmenac_]

@57R4705 Se supone que Márquez es libertario? o de qué me perdí

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

AI cannot do science because the combinatorial & representable space is too big just to grind through limited symbolic inference that confuses the map with the territory. Only biological intelligences have the ability to really FAFO.

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

Blackpilling is not a solution. Imperfect solutions are solutions.

[lmenac @ljmenac_]

@AlexisCubells Esos estatistas que creen que todo problema se arregla con más estado me dan miedo.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Seeking explanations before data, not vice versa.

[roon @tszzl]

companies like Facebook record every imaginable interaction their users have with the platform. they log each of your clicks and taps. they keep track of how long your gaze lingered on a post, whether you were on the same WiFi as that woman who might be your friend, which instagram reel you watched three times.

for a single user this is quaint, but these practices are done on a planetary scale across all technology giants. they create petabytes of data per day and keep it for as long as the European regulators will let them. then they can have machine intelligence instrument it into useful knowledge for their cybernetic control systems that build newsfeeds, serve ads, decide how much compute to spend on you, which SKUs should be in which warehouses right before you want them. the Hive metastore bills run into the billions

hospitals throw most of their data and telemetry out after each case, every single day. they record videos of vascular surgeries, endoscopies, discovering interesting physiologies. sometimes they're not recorded at all and most of them the time they delete them as soon as they’re done

it's even worse for physiologic waveforms (ECG, EEG, arterial lines) which are essentially never recorded anywhere at all. milisecond scale views of patient's brains, vasculatures, hearts are generated and instantly destroyed. all of these time series of course predict people's hearts stopping, brains exploding, etc ahead of time. surgeons teleoperate robots, none of the micro-movements are recorded, policies never learned, never correlated into which outcomes were successful or not

this would be unthinkable to most software people whose instinct is to record everything everywhere never mind the cloud costs, because we are sure there will be some use for it later and some model to be trained later. i don't have a prescription here per se my point is just that our civilization routinely hoards and treasures some of the silliest data in the world "i pressed like on the john pork reel" & destroys much of all the most important data it generates and limits what machines can learn

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Decade after decade, the Republicans disappoint. They can control all levers of government and they still disappoint.

The election last November was supposed to put an end to that.

Republicans (with massive public support at their backs) were finally going to lessen the major burdens that Americans are forced to shoulder (spending, deficits, and debt).

But then came the Big Beautiful Bill, and once again, Republicans disappoint.

All three of the burdens will continue to rise.

Elon Musk, who was very instrumental in the election, finally had enough. He joined Thomas Massie & Rand Paul in saying we need a SLIM Beautiful Bill.

Watch @RonPaul & @ChrisRossini below:

[Thomas ⚡🏰 @Thomssmn]

“Javier Milei is the first ancap head of state”

No, he’s not and he’s not even ancap. Prince Hans-Adam II is the first and only ancap head of state. Liechtenstein is the most libertarian country on the planet.

It all stems from one simple principle: the right to secede. Did you know that every village in Liechtenstein has its own system of direct democracy? And if the village is not satisfied with the rulers of the country, they can just vote to become an independent country or merge with Switzerland or any of the neighboring countries. This already sounds great for any ancap/libertarian, right? But would you believe that Prince Hans-Adam II had bigger and better plans for his people? He wanted to scale the right to secede further than just the village but also to individuals. Yes, he wanted to give the right for every individual to secede and create their our country. Unfortunately, the parliament threatened to veto this proposition and it never saw the light of day. Still, the people of Liechtenstein might be the only people on the planet who are technically not forced under their government.

“Liechtenstein monarchy is a partnership between the people and the Princely House, a partnership that should be voluntary and based on mutual respect” - Prince Hans-Adam II

[Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay]

Newcomers to Bitcoin may not understand why old timers care so much about Ross Ulbricht. Let me explain.

He embodied the ethos of early Bitcoin more than anyone. He was an entrepreneur who created a thriving marketplace.

He believed in radical freedom, including the freedom to trade anything with anyone else so long as it was peaceful and voluntary.

He regularly wrote about his views on freedom and why he built the first truly successful Bitcoin business - the Silk Road. He wanted to created a better world and believed his principles deeply.

Politicians like Schumer targeted both Silk Road AND Bitcoin as criminal enterprises that needed to be shut down.

When he was convicted the judge and the establishment threw the book at him. He was a first time, non violent criminal and they locked him up and effectively threw away the key.

In the early Bitcoin community we all felt how unjust this was. It was like they were locking up one of our own out of spite for what we all believed was a peaceful revolution.

Now tens of millions of people own Bitcoin and many just because of Number Go Up. Never forget there was a deeper purpose here and that getting rich is a nice side effect of that greater purpose.

Fix the money, fix the world.

[Free_Ross @Free_Ross]

FREEDOM!!!!

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

You know what we need? A good P2P marketplace.