Rodrigo Cano Muñoz

Thinker. I love economics.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

thinking about this banger from Naval

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…

Listen. You know I am right.

[鳄鳄 @krokodileyu]

@Espertma_ 西方民主只不过是在一群演员中选出演技最好的演员。西方民主制度的两大漏洞：1.只在选演员的过程中民主，而不是在具体决策中民主，2.智者和傻逼的投票权平等，而且傻逼在人数上有绝对优势

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Pick your fighter, America:

Elon or Ilhan.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The most important type of intelligence assessment is telling the difference between a surface appearance of intellectualism, and the actual capability to understand complex relationships between cause and effect.

Because it's easy to spot when someone is dumb.

What's harder to discern is when someone is pretending to punch above his weight class.

Go watch a recorded speech given by Barrack Obama, or Christopher Hitchens. If you don't listen carefully, you could easily be fooled into thinking these men were intelligent.

They speak in ways that sound like how smart people speak.

But, for a moment, imagine you were to take the ideas in their eloquent speeches, and restate them using the phraseology and vocabulary of a stereotypical construction worker... would either of them still appear intelligent?

No. They would not. The ideas, stripped bare of rhetorical frills and fancy presentation, reveal themselves as simple restatements of bumper-sticker level political and social commentary.

You see, plenty of people are clever enough to watch the habits of genius and imitate them.

But geniuses are not geniuses because they are eloquent. They are eloquent because they are geniuses. Eloquence, and other such habits, are a side effect of genius, not its essential nature.

The side effects of genius can be imitated with study. The core functions cannot. Because anyone who can is, by definition, a genius.

And now, for those of you who have been more patient with me than I deserve, and are still following along, we have at last arrived at a general principle we can use.

If you want to know how truly intelligent someone is, take him out of his comfort zone.

Make him do something new, learn something he's never learned, try a skill he's never practiced, solve a problem he has never faced before.

How does he adapt? How does he think? How does he learn?

Without his thousands of hours of practice, without all his familiar tools neatly stashed in his comfort zone, a man is forced to fall back on who he is, on the genetic recipe that makes him.

This doesn't mean that he will make no mistakes, or that he will magically know what he could only learn from experience. But it means that he will learn quickly, understand each mistake as soon as he makes it, and never make the same error twice.

This is why we prize genius.

Not because it speaks pretty words or covers whiteboards in complex mathematically formulae, but because genius learns.

And then genius teaches.

Genius captures knowledge from the world for the rest of humanity.

So if you want to spot it, ignore the habits, ignore the frills and tells and tics, and watch how it engages with the unfamiliar.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

@mehdirhasan Wait are you saying it's wrong to demand people compensate others for an atrocity they had nothing to do with?

What a concept

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years.
For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours.
It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt.
And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works.
Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life.
And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward.
Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug.
For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark.
This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it.
I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime.
I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field.
I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer.
We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.

[Omar L. Hamada, MD, MBA @OmarHamada]

I want to clear something up so that there is absolutely no doubt.

I’m a Board Certified OB/GYN who has delivered over 2,500 babies.

There’s not a single fetal or maternal condition that requires third trimester abortion. Not one. Delivery, yes. Abortion, no.

[Rodrigo Cano Muñoz @RCanoM]

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and decline to answer that question

[Arti Shah @TechByArti]

During a job interview, if they ask: “Do you have any questions for us?”

USE THE GOLDEN RESPONSE:

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children

[Claude @claudeai]

Bronze: Maieutic by Paula Vasquez-Henriquez from Chile

An educational coding tool that requires you to think before you type. Students can't write code until they can explain what they're building and why.

https://t.co/heZ6zSo9fs

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

When the product you sell is fear, you pay scary people to do scary stuff.

[Me dicen Nano @ElverdaderoNano]

📍CAE, muchas gracias.

Tasa UF + 2%
pagos no superior al 10% del sueldo.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Señor presidente @petrogustavo,

Hace algún tiempo planteé una propuesta similar a Hillary Clinton, tras sus críticas sobre el sistema penitenciario en mi país. Hasta hoy, sigo a la espera de una respuesta.

Permítame entonces extenderle la misma invitación, con el mayor respeto.

Si, como usted sostiene, en nuestro país existen “campos de concentración”, estaríamos frente a una situación que no admite términos medios, sino decisiones firmes en favor de la dignidad humana.

En ese espíritu, El Salvador está dispuesto a facilitar el traslado del 100% de su población carcelaria, todos, incluyendo los llamados presos políticos y cualquier otro caso que considere viole su política del “amor y la vida”.

Únicamente bajo una condición que entiendo será compartida por usted: deben ser todos. Porque si se trata de “campos de concentración”, incluso un solo detenido que permanezca allí sería inaceptable.

Esta es una oportunidad histórica para consolidar su legado como el libertador que extendió la cuerda firme de la justicia, para sacar a miles del abismo de la exclusión.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast;

"Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature.
They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy.

They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us."
🎯

[Tomás Casanegra @tomcasanegra]

Encuentro asustador que gente tan tonta tenga que legislar materias tan complejas.

[Rick Davis @TheRhetorRick]

John Cleese has now reached the third panel of the comic.

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

Gen Z has no idea how hard millenials were hit by this one

[Rodrigo Cano Muñoz @RCanoM]

@GiorgioJackson ❤️

[Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 @ztisdale]

"I'm going to post a gigantic lie and then lock the comments." - Leftists