Tim Paulson

[Jack Moses ∞ @jackmoses777]

I am so bullish on the real world.

Group events. Cookouts. Sports. Parties. Animals. Music festivals. Phoneless dinners. Co-living centers. Healing centers. Retreat centers. Beautiful views. Group adventures.

These things light me up. Tech, ai, and materialism continue to disguest me more every day.

The pendulum has swung too far. A small group of soulless nerds will continue to obsess over ai, automation, effiency, and the intellect. But those of us connected to our hearts and spirits are becoming disgusted by it. We want real, and we want human.

Expect a huge countersurge of irl businesses and events in the next few years.

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@nicochristie Invite code

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m drafting a constitutional amendment

To oust every member of Congress

Whenever inflation exceeds 3%

It’s better to disqualify politicians

Than for an entire nation to suffer under the yoke of inflation

Please let me know what you think

And share if you like the idea

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

A real-world story about how we adapt to the AI era, not by resisting it, but by harnessing it: a high school English teacher was frustrated that her students were using AI to cheat in writing their essays, so she turned the tables. She assigned the students to go home & train their chatbots to write the best possible essay in favor of a proposition. The next day in class, she made the students put away their phones, take out pen & paper, and write the best rebuttal they could to the AI-generated essay. And then she assigned them the homework to use AI again to then respond to their handwritten essay. A small act, with a big vision.

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@yashar Got ‘em!

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@elonmusk The dismissive arrogance is insane

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@mhp_guy This is awesome.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

From this interview by @arjunkhemani https://t.co/RGQXBdMmhW

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Yes, AI avoids moral absolutes when it’s controversial.

For example, if you ask AI whether slavery is wrong, it says yes.

Then if you ask it if there are countries that still practice slavery, it will say yes.

But if you ask it whether something is wrong with the culture in those countries if they allow slavery, it will not answer the question directly.

Instead it’ll give you a long explanation.

It should be ok to just say “yes, something is wrong with the culture if it allows slavery.”

That’s compatible with other things being right about the culture.

The moment America freed the slaves, it fixed something that was wrong with the culture.

There are things that are truly relative, like some food preferences.

There are also things that are moral absolutes.

We need to moral courage to identify right vs wrong.

AI reflects our lack of moral courage.

https://t.co/15hlNnrFS6

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Radical leftism attracts and creates unhappiness

It celebrates abortion and denigrates stay at home moms

It demonizes billionaires and valorizes victims

It rejects religion and worships Wokeism

It promotes national guilt, not pride

It helps people feel right, not happy

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

The same people cheering the murder of the head of UnitedHealth because you have to challenge the medical establishment were the same people wanting you dead for criticizing Pfizer because you can't challenge the medical establishment.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

just to get this straight:

> elon buys twitter
> axes the ministry of truth and the thought police
> ppl start saying what they actually think
> legacy blue-checks horrified, “this is a nazi platform now”
> likes go private
> users start liking what they actually like, finally honest signals, preferences align
> more moderate takes get traction
> instant cries of “algorithm rigged”
> the “open-minded” liberals start fleeing the platform, “saving democracy” by silencing themselves
> election rolls around, public opinion reflected in real-time
> turns out the average user isn’t a zealot, just wants normalcy and X is the signal, not the noise
> libs panic, label X a far-right echo chamber & bail (shoutout cuban, yann, lemon)
>...
> profit???

like, what's their point?
as soon as ppl’s real opinions come out, these “liberals” want out. true liberals should want the ideological battleground, right? they’d be ready to debate, to test their ideas in the arena. instead, it’s clear that the only freedom they ever wanted was the freedom to control others. real liberalism is openness to disagreement
pure authoritarian impulse masquerading as tolerance.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

More than anything I just feel relieved that reality has finally been imposed on the establishment left.

You can't manufacture enthusiasm using the MSM alone. You can't gaslight people into having the establishment run as the "change" candidate. You can't run a campaign without taking unscripted interviews. You can't install a candidate without a primary and claim to be the party of 'democracy'. You can't run a campaign without specifying policy positions. You can't be the most leftist senator and then claim to be a moderate.

The contradictions were too great. The arrogance was simply unbelievable. People saw through the facade. Thank God.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.

Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did.

If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM.

The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.

Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media.

The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript.

As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.

They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference.

When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.

The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.

The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.

Honest Abe said it best:

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@DaneMooreNBA I feel this deeply

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@Mike_kim714 What degree are you hitting here? 60? Is that what you’ll play from these distances exclusively?

[Tim Paulson @TiPaulson]

@DaneMooreNBA I can’t believe he’s actually done this. We’ve seen it be exactly what we need to put us over the top, for Karl to just be calm and decisive out of the post, but he’s just never been able to do it. Until he did the last 2 games. Kudos to you for calling it the other day. Unreal.

[control @SOCIALorDIRTY]

I feel sorry for anyone that isn't in a Timberwolves group chat with men that tell each other I love you

[Jon Krawczynski @JonKrawczynski]

The greatest game in Timberwolves history