Lumi Muop

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Johann Sebastian Bach is the Shakespeare of music. Best there ever was.

[dnap @dnapway]

Jensen reveals he first met the Founder of TSMC by cold calling their number off Yellow Pages

"I heard about this company in Taiwan, TSMC and UMC at the time. They were of course quite poor companies themselves, and they were barely making it."

"TSMC was probably about $300 million, something like that. It's a tiny little company. I heard about Morris Chang. And so I tried to call their US office."

"Back in the old days there were yellow pages. I looked it up, TSMC. There's a number there. I called their number and it's a recording. I left my name and my number and said a few things about NVIDIA: we're a new startup company building computer graphics chips. I called several times. Nobody called me back."

"And so I finally wrote a letter to Morris Chang. Didn't hear anything for a long time, and then one day it was 6 o'clock or something, this person called and said 'this is Morris Chang from TSMC.'"

"And meanwhile, everybody outside my office was playing video games and they're all laughing and screaming. 'Hey shut up! It's Morris!' I was so happy that the founder would actually call us back, because hey, maybe we won't have to die."

"And so we talked and he invited me to Taiwan. I came back to Taiwan, and that was the start of everything. Not just that partnership, but just the whole industry."

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you think you understand it, try building it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The entire span of human civilization is a just a flash in the pan so far

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

True

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

It is the right and responsibility of management, and not the right of all employees, to determine when exceptions to radical transparency should be made. Management should restrict transparency sparingly and wisely because every time they do, it undermines the idea meritocracy and people's trust. #principleoftheday

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk described the mechanism that lets millions of intelligent people arrive at the same conclusion without a single independent input between them.

Musk: “If your entire exposure is to legacy mainstream media, so that all your information sources are that Trump is basically Hitler, and your friend group has that same information, you have no countervailing opinion.”

One source, repeated back by a friend group drawing on that same source, is a single input arriving twelve times.

Agreement gets counted as evidence.

A belief that has never met resistance feels, from the inside, identical to one that survived it. That is why almost nobody catches it in themselves.

Musk: “Then they actually just think Trump is Hitler, even though it’s a little strange he didn’t do Hitler things the last four years.”

The comparison had four years of executive power to prove itself and produced nothing.

The belief held anyway.

Any description of a person that survives the total absence of supporting events was never built on events.

Then the same apparatus turned on the man saying it.

He spent a decade celebrated as the builder of the electric car company and the rocket company that put American astronauts back in orbit from American soil.

The engineering never changed. His politics did, and the coverage inverted inside a single news cycle.

Output was never the variable being measured.

No conspiracy is required. Outrage outperforms accuracy on every number a newsroom is graded on.

Thousands of people chasing one incentive produce coordination nobody had to organize.

The arrangement collapsed when the layer between the source and the reader disappeared.

The person who was in the room posts it, and the correction comes from someone else who was in the room.

It is louder, uglier, and far more honest.

Contradiction now arrives whether you invite it or not. Even the owner of the platform gets corrected on his own posts by his own product.

For most of the last century a few dozen editors decided what an entire country believed had happened that day. People accepted it as the natural order because no alternative had ever existed to measure it against.

Every civilization inherits its picture of reality from whoever controls the distance between an event and the people who hear about it.

That distance is now close to zero for the first time in human history.

The filter is gone and it cannot be rebuilt. What you believe is finally yours.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

“Fascist:”

“Racist”

“Hate Speech”

Words so overused they’ve lost meaning.

They’re used to force silence and justify violence.

And it got Charlie killed.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

Happy 166th Birthday Max Planck.

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

I am no longer a professor of medicine at @Harvard. Here is the story of my Harvard experience until I was fired for clinging to the truth.
https://t.co/zSOQlNJTY2

[Lumi Muop @miyaszen]

@BillAckman @lexfridman @X In some corner of my brain I unintentionally remembered Bill as some greedy investor from a Netflix series… the media is indeed scary…
Thank you @BillAckman for your sophisticated insights and thank you @lexfridman for sharing the raw beauty of peaceful human interaction…

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Here we go…!