Marcus Faber 🇺🇸

anon @ivyleague physics

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

The world would be safer with fewer safety regulations.

I believe there to be a Laffer Curve-esque relationship between the expansion of safety regulations and the standard of living for the average American.

Just as the Laffer Curve defines that higher tax rates don’t absolutely equate to greater tax revenue, increased safety standards don't absolutely equate to an increase in the standard of living.

Over the past few decades, we have seen several orders of magnitude worth of increases in safety standards. Simultaneously, regulation has grown to become the most significant constraint for many technologies—meaning that regulation now effectively determines the rate of technological progress.

Currently, we sit at a point where for every unit decrease in safety regulations, the associated increase in risk to human safety is of lesser magnitude than the increase in productivity.

Thanks to the rapid increase in safety in recent history, we can afford to cut safety regulations—and we should.

More practically:
>The primary constraints for widespread utilization of nuclear energy, instant drone delivery, and abundance of compute and production are regulation.
>Reducing safety regulations in such industries will dramatically advance the timeline of their mass adoption.
>The prosperity that will be realized alongside such technological advancements will account for monumental gains in the standard of living, offsetting the risk of reduced safety regulations.

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

America is an aerospace republic

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@tbpn YIMBY

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@typesfast @Molson_Hart @grok perfect follow-up question

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@mansizzzzle i think you forgot chuck norris

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@brettcalhounn oooo pick me please pick me: AN AGENTIC PILE OF DOG SHIT

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@hermeuscorp keyword: *today*
RIP Lockheed d-21

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@zebulgar sign me up. i want to be a space marine

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@zanehengsperger are the people on the recruiting platform a pool selected just from those who have previously attended YC?

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@zanehengsperger @reindustrialst me haha

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

intelligence and conviction are hardly correlated, but the overlap of these traits accounts for the majority of change on Earth

if anything, the pressures of conformity and equivocation in academia are responsible for an inverse correlation of these traits

those who become intelligent by attending prestigious universities are simultaneously stripped of their convictions

the overlap between those who are true positive outliers on the curves of both intelligence and conviction is near zero. these are men like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

on occasion, their ideas turn out to be horribly wrong—this is not surprising given that they are normal humans. more importantly, when they believe in something, they are capable of altering the trajectory of humanity to will it into existence

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@DefenseAnalyses i've noticed this strategy seems to work with most problems. if presented scenario with potential negative outcome->then obtain the positive outcome

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

>born too late to colonize the new world
>born just in time to colonize the NEW WORLD

[E Froh @elijahfroh]

I have a vision where second sons push out the frontier of civilization to the moon and mars while the firstborns stay on Earth to guide and guard the home planet.

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

born four centuries too late to colonize the new world; born just in time to colonize the new world

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

Being in Detroit, the location is already a decent filter for grifters. This is even better

[Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀 @_Faraz]

Reindustrialize and YC demo day on the same days. Agh.

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

@ADoricko @AJA_Cortes I know where I'll be 🦅

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

Depicted is the Berkley Plantation, VA shipyard during the Revolutionary War

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

In 1775, America had the best shipbuilding in the world. Before she had even declared her independence.

"No country on the globe is so happily situated, so internally capable of raising a fleet as America" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense)

I dream of being happily situated once more.

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

Thomas Paine recognized industrial capacity as the foundation of American security and prosperity:

“Our plan is commerce, and that, well attended to, will secure us the peace and friendship of all Europe…Her (America’s) trade will always be a protection" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense)

America is fundamentally an industrial nation. We derive our wealth, culture, and security from production.

[Marcus Faber 🇺🇸 @marcusfaber_]

Thomas Paine recognized industrial capacity as the foundation of American security and prosperity:

“Our plan is commerce, and that, well attended to, will secure us the peace and friendship of all Europe…Her (America’s) trade will always be a protection" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense)

America is fundamentally an industrial nation. We derive our wealth, culture, and security from production.