Saagar Singh Sachdev

Extropy. Sovereignty. Prosperity. Consciousness.

[Saagar Singh Sachdev @saagarssachdev]

First Principles Podcast playlist:

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[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

@sama @HeyPeterClarke The work we do will keep expanding in scope, scale and complexity to use up the available capacity for intellectual work.

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Why AI makes jobs instead of loses them.

1. There are more profitable ideas/projects than time, talent, and general resources there are to realize them.

2. AI lowers the talent and resources bar substantially leading to more ideas becoming reality.

3. Successful idea/project = more wealth, more work, and more jobs.

The reason why so many people made the mistake of thinking it gets rid of jobs is they see a fixed pie. But in reality we are growing the pie. AI is really only bearish labor for bloated mismanaged incumbents not the entire economy.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service. They are reminding Americans that this place is kind of awesome.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Duncan Cock Foster @dccockfoster]

The best American architectural invention is the stone skyscraper - the giant, ornately carved beautiful buildings that you see in midtown Manhattan, FiDi, Detroit, Chicago, etc.

I think we should be building way, way more of these

[Prep Propaganda 👔 @prep_propaganda]

This and a mysterious source of income

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

AI is freeing people to work as much as they want when unencumbered by previous knowledge gaps and points of friction/frustration. It unlocks latent demand for work.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

"It's all sprawl!" It's certainly a lot, and hey, that's how cities always and everywhere boom. But it's also a lot of infill. It's a lot of everything, because Houston defaults to "let people do things," warts and all. This is what real, existing American abundance looks like.

[a16z @a16z]

We're going back to the moon.

[Jake Kemp @JakeKemps]

Do people realize how much everyday technology was accelerated by the space program?

Microelectronics
Integrated circuits
GPS & satellites
Medical imaging
Water purification
Air filtration
Advanced materials

These things have measurably improved life for everyone… including the poorest populations.

Yes, much of it may have been invented eventually, but the space program dramatically sped up that timeline.

Solving the extreme challenges of space forces innovation, and those solutions end up benefiting society in ways no one initially predicts.

It’s not just ‘spending money on space.’

Beyond that, exploration matters. A society that stops reaching outward usually starts stagnating inward. That’s what we’ve been doing these last decades isn’t it. And where has that gotten us?

We need something inspiring to aim for again.

Isn’t that the American spirit?

The frontier mindset, exploring, pushing boundaries, taking on problems that seem impossible.

Didn’t our recent interactions here on X with our Japanese friends remind us of this? Shouldn’t we be the Americans the Japanese believe us to be?

What could possibly be more American than pioneering space?

So it isn’t a distraction or a waste… It’s one of the few things that still pushes us forward.

And it’s fundamentally American.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

You just witnessed the birth of a new empire.

We were born to explore the stars and this time, we’re staying for good.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I have a pet theory that the suckiness and stuckness of modernity is largely due to lack of a frontier. There must be new territory to expand into, places no one yet owns that aren’t choked with rent-seeking parasites.

There was a gap in time between settling the whole Earth and space being economically settleable. If we can build financially viable moon bases now, then thankfully the suck period has ended and a new age of exploration has begun. Expect everything to get better in a million ways small and big.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Without a frontier, there's a strong likelihood that we devolve into mouse utopia

This is why space exploration is far more important than most people realize

[Cory in San Francisco @coryfromphilly]

Art Deco is the peak of American design. Every skyscraper should be art deco, every piece of public art should be art deco, America was destined since 1776 to be Art Deco.

[Saagar Singh Sachdev @saagarssachdev]

@gietzschean Ornamentation, beauty, and slack (extra rooms) have a utility - people generally like to maintain and expand it, there is a sense of abundance which is good for one’s state of mind, prevents folks from becoming degrowthers.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Reminder: this is how the Victorians built their sewage pumping stations.

This one is more beautiful than most new homes being built today. Beauty matters.

[Saagar Singh Sachdev @saagarssachdev]

@a16z So this vindicates the “idea guy” then!

[Eyewitness News @ABC7NY]

Using headphones is no longer just considered proper etiquette, it's now a requirement on United Airlines flights. United says passengers who use speakers and refuse to wear headphones could be removed from flights and even face a lifetime ban.The airline says travelers who don't have headphones can request a free pair from flight attendants.