Acumenius

An ego in its death throes.
Professional and Volunteer Cult-Deprogramming: Covert and Large Scale

[Miguel Hernández @miguelhzv]

Nadie fabricó la pobreza.

Durante 200 mil años de existencia humana, la condición universal fue la miseria absoluta.

Sin excepciones.

Cada generación nacía, sobrevivía lo que podía y moría joven, hambrienta y expuesta a los elementos.

Eso no fue culpa de ningún sistema económico, no había sistema económico.

La pobreza no se crea, y np se puede crear, es el punto de partida.

Lo que necesita explicación es exactamente lo contrario.

Cómo algunos dejaron de ser pobres.

Esa es la pregunta que la clase política no quiere que hagas, porque la respuesta la deja sin trabajo.

Todo el discurso redistributivo arranca de una premisa invertida.

Asume que la riqueza es el estado natural y que alguien la está robando.

Que si hay pobres es porque alguien les sacó algo, pero no podés sacarle algo a quien nunca lo tuvo.

Lo que sacó a la humanidad de la miseria no fue un plan, ni un decreto, ni fue un comité de politicos decidiendo quién recibe qué.

Fue algo mucho más simple y mucho más difícil de aceptar.

Fue gente ahorrando. Acumulando capital. Produciendo más de lo que consumía. Invirtiendo el excedente en herramientas, en máquinas, en procesos que multiplicaron lo que un solo par de manos podía hacer.

Eso solo ocurre bajo una condición: Que nadie te saque lo que producís.

Propiedad privada.

Sin eso no hay ahorro posible, porque cualquier excedente se lo lleva el más fuerte.

Y sin ahorro no hay capital, y sin capital no hay productividad.

Y sin productividad estás exactamente donde la humanidad estuvo durante 199 mil de sus 200 mil años de historia.

Antes de 1800 el ingreso promedio real de un ser humano era practicamente indistinguible del de subsistencia.

Lo que cambió no fue la inteligencia humana ni la disponibilidad de recursos naturales.

Lo que cambió fue el marco institucional, donde se respetó la propiedad y se limitó la confiscación, la riqueza apareció.

Donde no, la miseria siguió intacta.

No es tan complicado de entender.

El político necesita que creas que la pobreza tiene culpables, porque si los tiene, él se ofrece como salvador.

Su carrera entera depende de esa inversión causal.

Te convence de que la riqueza es un pastel fijo que alguien cortó mal, y que él va a cortar mejor.

Pero la riqueza no es un pastel fijo.

Se crea.

Y se crea únicamente cuando dejás a la gente producir, ahorrar e intercambiar sin que un tercero se quede con la mitad en el camino.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

Reddit is this grouping.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson dropped a stark warning about psychopathy.

It’s contagious.

A famous 1930s study in Somerville tried to help at-risk kids by grouping them for interventions and summer camps.

The result? The intervention group did far worse, more crime, alcoholism, and mental illness.

They learned from each other how to be more criminal.

Peterson says the same happens in prisons and group therapy for psychopaths, they get better at manipulating.

Social learning theory shows people, especially youth, adopt behaviors from peers through observation and reinforcement, which is why grouping antisocial individuals often backfires.

A powerful reminder about the dangers of putting the wrong people together.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk reveals the mental model he uses to learn anything 10x faster:

"The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. We're doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it's like what other people are doing. 'Me too' type ideas. Slight iterations on a theme."

Elon on first principles thinking:

"It's mentally easier to reason by analogy rather than from first principles. But first principles is kind of a physics way of looking at the world. What that really means is you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and say, 'What are we sure is true?' and then reason up from there. That takes a lot more mental energy."

He gives the example of batteries:

"Somebody could say, and people do, that battery packs are really expensive and that's just the way they'll always be, because that's the way they've been in the past. Well no, that's pretty dumb. If you applied that reasoning to anything new, you'd never get to that new thing."

Elon explains how first principles changes the question entirely:

"They would say historically it costs $600 per kilowatt hour, so it's not going to be much better than that in the future.

First principles would say:
What are the material constituents of the batteries? What is the spot market value of those materials?

It's got cobalt, nickel, aluminum, carbon, some polymers, and a steel can. If we bought that on the London Metal Exchange, what would it cost? It's like $80 per kilowatt hour.

So clearly, you just need to think of clever ways to combine those materials into the shape of a battery cell, and you can have batteries much cheaper than anyone realizes."

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

People forget that we are now in an FSD enabled world. Anything that cannot drive itself is a zero out of 10. Obsolete tech. Why would I need one manually drive their car around like a fucking caveman when you can have your own personal chauffeur? I love to drive, when I choose to, but not having the option makes a vehicle obsolete.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@yayaokdude @gerrylum2 This is the way.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@multiplanet1 🥹

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk once held an all hands meeting at SpaceX the night before a Falcon 1 launch that everyone expected to fail. It was their third attempt. The first two had exploded. They had enough funding for one more try and then the company was dead.

An engineer in the back row asked what happens to all of them if tomorrow fails too. The room went silent. Over a hundred people staring at the man who had put everything on this rocket.

Elon didn't give a motivational speech. He didn't promise it would work. He said, very quietly, that if it failed he would find a way to keep going even if he had to sell his house and borrow from every person he knew. He told them that SpaceX would fly even if it killed him.

An engineer who was there said the room changed after that. Not because the words were inspiring. Because everyone realized he meant it literally. He wasn't going to pivot. He wasn't going to sell. He was going to keep launching rockets until the money ran out and then find more money.

The next day Falcon 1 reached orbit. The first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to ever do so. And a hundred people in that room knew they had watched the moment it almost didn't happen.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

We stopped the world’s economy for a virus 99.9% of people survive and we printed $7 trillion in unbacked currency while we did it.

This is how it is now. That toothpaste doesn’t go back in the tube. Sorry. Some of us tried to stop it.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@ryanasanchez This can't be real. 😳

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Our higher education system…

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@ThrillaRilla369 No. Wait until they kill you, then shoot them you racist bigot.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@RupertLowe10 You need a revolution. Like we did 250 years ago. But you gave up your guns. And you cannot assemble or communicate. Even though the odds are against you, and you're already conquered, if something is important enough you should try. Even if the highest probability is failure.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@stepfanie Getting so excoriated in the comments he turned them off. Hey @IfindRetards got one for ya.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@AaronParnas You're surrounded by feds. Why are you worried?

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@nickwaugh33 @parin_ajmera WTF. 🤡

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@niccruzpatane Everything you said in that is accurate except the first sentence. It is not a successor to the X. It's a different class of vehicle.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@teslayoda The most practical, useful vehicle, the Swiss army knife of vehicles: a minivan. Of course if Tesla made a minivan, that's what I would be driving.

[Acumenius @MissingEgo]

@bennyjohnson We are already being conquered. This is what it would take to stop it.