Nikos Moraitakis

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[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

We need a second amendment for AI

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

Take my money

[Microsoft Surface @surface]

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[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[signüll @signulll]

trillions of dollars of value for companies mostly under ~5k peeps is kinda insane.

slowly but surely we are decoupling enterprise value from labor.

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

@GreekAnalyst Share the feeling, still don’t think the reason revolut exists is down to Bank of England policies though.

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

Would watch

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.

The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.

To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.

A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.

The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.

It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.

Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.

In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

Managed decline

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This hotel I'm at in the Netherlands apart from having the AC limited to 23°C/74°F

Also will NOT clean your room by default to save the 🌍 🍃 environment unless you explicitly put this sign outside (we did and they still didn't come to clean ofc)

There's also no amenities at all unless you ask for it to contribute to "a more sustainable future"

Even the coffee machine talks about how it's "a force for good" and "protecting natural ecosystems"

Western Europe is so fucking tiring

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

This times every other profession or human activity. AI is a growth catalyst not a job killer.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme]

AI is creating a weird HR crisis because the best engineering work in the agentic era is deletion. And deletion will never get you promoted.

Here is an example of the paradox:

Jerry spends six months building a sophisticated image analysis pipeline. Custom scaffolding, real-time frame extraction, a vision pre-processor that compresses and annotates before sending context back to the LLM. Thousands of lines. A system design doc. A launch review. Bob gets promoted. The work is visible, legible, and frankly impressive. Bravo Bob!

Now Jeff comes in. Jeff looks at the pipeline and realizes the model does not need any of it. The last generation required that scaffolding. This one does not. Bob has 0 incentive to delete his work. Jeff goes and deletes 4,000 lines in one day. The system is faster, cheaper, more reliable. Token efficiency up 40%. Latency cut in half.

Jeff will likely not get promoted for his one day scaffolding deletion.

This is the core problem. Traditional engineering culture rewards addition. More features, more abstractions, more infrastructure. But elite agentic engineering is subtractive. The job is to remove every layer standing between the model and the task. Every unnecessary hop, every redundant transformation, every scaffolding that made sense six months ago and is now just dead weight.

The engineer who keeps code close to the model, who deletes a lot, this person is doing the highest-leverage work available. And they look like they are barely working haha!

How do we promote the Jeff?

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

It’s AGI

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope.

It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before.

Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.”

The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence.

We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard?

The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”.

But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks”. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence.

The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate.

Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over.

If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

The real Cretan diet

[yosoymario @yosoymario91]

Average balkan diet is like

Breakfast: coffee and cigarette
Lunch: coffee and cigarette
Dinner: 2kg grilled meat, bread, baklava, 2 liters of rakija from a coca cola bottle with a sprite cap

Life expectancy: 90 years

[Rory O'Driscoll @rodriscoll]

Managers across tech are getting wiped out. The ones who survive will be the ones who stayed close enough to the work. We’ve seen this play out before. In 2008, the financial companies that went bust had one thing in common: their leaders had no idea what was actually happening on the inside. They were managers of managers. The same thing is true today. If you are not using AI yourself at least 10% of your time, you are in the business of listening to other people tell you things you don't know are true.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

What the EU is building is effectively a digital identity system where access to information requires permission.

People fail to understand how dangerous this becomes once connected to the broader European agenda involving CBDCs, centralized digital IDs, online speech regulation, and financial monitoring.

These are not isolated policies appearing randomly at the same time. They are interconnected components of a single structural transition toward centralized digital control.

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

Words of wisdom

[Joel Lopez | Save Your Marriage @TheeJoelLopez]

If you don't know what this is ALL your parenting advice is invalid.

[Hayek-Club Weimar @WeimarClub]

Niemand hat den "Kapitalismus" erfunden. Kapitalismus ist das, was freie Menschen von Natur aus tun - Waren und Dienstleistungen zu ihrem eigenen Vorteil tauschen.

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

Your average person has no idea what's coming.

They think the human brain is something special - some unknowable, mysterious thing, and that since we don't understand it, AI is incapable of replicating functionally what it does.

Your average normie is going to have pretty much all of their preconceptions about reality absolutely shattered over the next few years.

There is nothing special about intelligence, it can, and already has, been replicated on a computer.

[Nikos Moraitakis @moraitakis]

Is consciousness an independent fact of reality or an interpretation/reaction to the phenomenology of a complex process? The latter becomes increasingly unsatisfying in the presence of machines that make us look less special. The former requires a spirit world.

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

The reaction to Dawkins deciding Claude is conscious is fascinating.

It really is just the Strong AI position that Roger Penrose was criticising in the 1980s. If you think consciousness is just an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computer then of course AI is conscious. It passes the Turing test and that’s it.

The really interesting part is why it is obvious to so many of us that AI is *not* conscious: obvious to the point we think Dawkins’ credulity is amusing. What are we basing that on? Are we deluded or is there something else to consciousness that we cannot articulate but that we clearly sense?

[Joonas Ilmasti @joonasilm]

Kukaan ei äänestänyt tätä VPN-kieltoa.

Kukaan ei äänestänyt komissiota.

Kukaan ei äänestänyt perussopimusmuutoksista.

Järjestelmä, jonka tarkoitus on irrottaa valta kansasta, ei voi koskaan palvella kansaa.

Valta ilman subsidiariteettia ja kansan suostumusta on tyranniaa, ei hallintoa.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Every one of the tens of thousands of people facing charges for their speech in Europe should print this on a t-shirt and wear it to their criminal trials