Michael Vakulenko

Curious explorer of how the world works.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@danwilliamsphil Simpler explanation could be "Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome."

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@mgurri Same mechanism John Boyd (the pilot) used to completely dominate his opponents in dog fights. Famous but much misunderstood OODA loop.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@herandrews "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

The real test of progress is whether we can scale competence as fast as we scaled incompetence.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@minordissent Assassination of Rabin, the PM of Israel, in 1995.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@StephenPiment @JohnDCook Both statements are completely wrong.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@MenchOsint It's very evident you feel uncomfortable about this hit and desperately look for rationalizations. There is hope. May be one day you'll find the strength to escape the rabbit hole of hatred you are in. Your life will be much better without it.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@zarathustra5150 Source? Could it be that social justice is just "a reversion to mean"?

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@landryst @KlingBlog @danwilliamsphil The Enlightenment thinkers (Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Montesquieu) held a much more nuanced view on censorship. They distinguished between "civilized men" and the "lower classes" or "savages," believing the elite should guide public discourse.

[Hussein Aboubakr Mansour @HusseinAboubak]

The most exciting event in the lives of most people today is simply running into a sane person.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@dollarsanddata As someone who lived through a societal collapse, I'd say this perspective is a bit naive. Physical gold and jewelry will definitely have value. Not a gold ETF of course....

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@MiddleEastEye @paulg It's fascinating to see how social media messes even with the minds of intelligent and educated people like @paulg . It began with legitimate concern about the war in Gaza, continued with joining the echo chamber and devolved into the cesspool of half-truths, lies and fakes.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@nntaleb The number of $10-14 bn includes losses to the Israeli economy from 300K mobilized army reservists, 120K displaced Jews, and 1300 killed. These people don't participate in the economy and receiving compensation. Plus Hamas fired 10K rockets at civilians in Israel. That's why.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@RadmanMoshe יש מה ללמוד מצרפתים חוץ מיין ואוכל...
https://t.co/1iJbhIRpFf

[FactFactoryX @FactFactor2023]

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French farmers dumped manure in front of a government building in protest at rising prices for raw materials.

#France #FarmersProtest

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@lessin It's clear that algorithmic social messes with people's minds and is addictive. What else is addictive and messes with people's minds? Drugs. Yet, mass distribution of information is open to malicious actors while distribution of drugs is limited to thustworthy entities. FFT.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@jakobgreenfeld Sounds nice, but I'd love to see data. Not sure data will support this statement.

[Eze Vidra @ediggs]

Given Twitter is the collective “town square” you can understand why it’s full of pigeon shit.

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@benedictevans I bet this project is a brainchild of the marketing department rather than a research project. They care about leads and not accuracy of predictions...

[Michael Vakulenko @mvakulenko]

@joshelman Ah, Eudora!... I'd say unified global addressing system was more important to the success of email than SMTP. Rather than being deliberately designed, it naturally emerged from how you addressed users on UNIX machines connected over TCP. Some interesting lessons here.