John von Neumann Thought

Opinions are not my own. Kardashev II or bust.

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

@therainman5617 I second that

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@therainman5617 The new Thailand. I feel so sorry for what they’re going to do to those Chinese pretty boys

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Ad Astra

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla catches Starship! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on this incredible achievement!

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@SydSteyerhart The west can be saved

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@IterIntellectus The problem is that plenty of 85-115 IQ people believe they are bad without arguing about them.

It’s just a default stance soaked up from tiktoks. They’re not even thinking about it for themselves.

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

Europe is beautiful, but when I'm here I feel the weight of the restriction of freedom of speech.

Europe is not free like the US.

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THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nan kad akò bilateral ki genyen ant gouvènman Ayiti ak gouvènman Salvadò a, yon operasyon konjwen ki te reyini Polis Nasyonal Dayiti, Fòs Lame Dayiti (FAd’H), Task Force la, ak Fòs Espesyal Salvadò yo reyisi pran kontwòl Estad Sylvio Cator a epi mete l an sekirite. Pandan operasyon an, nou te dekouvri plizyè zo tèt moun anndan estad la.

Kounye a, nou pral tabli yon baz operasyonèl nan estad la pou n ka kontinye avanse pi fon nan teritwa gang yo kontwole.

Kounye a, se nou ki gen avantaj sou teren an.

Mwen mande tout manm gang yo avèk anpil fèmte pou yo kite zòn nan anvan ofansiv la kòmanse.

Moun ki chwazi rete pou konbat fòs nou yo ap oblije sibi konsekans yo.

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

Capital gains tax is really just a penalty for changing your mind / rebalancing your portfolio.

This feels wrong already, and will become more and more limiting as AI increases market volatility

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

Dear God the people in SF are ugly

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.

And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.

As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

The problem with wealth taxes and confiscations (like California’s proposed 5% confiscation) is simple.

You are killing the Golden Goose. The Goose can’t lay eggs if it’s dead.

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@yamisfun @violetllv @shanzzh1 @ycombinator I am the main character already

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@yamisfun @violetllv @shanzzh1 @ycombinator I am the main character already

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@KanekoaTheGreat He might be the best human ever

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@tsheko2020 This isn’t just a missionary, he’s fully on doggy style

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@nayibbukele Bukele continues to impress. Haiti is a failed state. If Buekele is the bigger man he seems to be, it has a shot at running its own government.

But Haiti will need to elect its own Bukele to keep the order he’s gifting them.

[John von Neumann Thought @vNeumannThought]

Don’t get me wrong, the republicans fucked up plenty.

But they’re not vocally trashing progress.

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One election thread I haven’t seen many comments on: the Demoncrats seem to have finally found their unifying voice.

Sadly it’s opposing progress and attacking our greatest entrepreneurs (@elonmusk @PalmerLuckey).

How do we rally them around *anything* else?

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I think the only way around this is to force focus on something else. Until datacenters fade so much from view that opposing them isn’t an attractive campaign issue.

Hard to directly flip an opinion when it’s become an identity/virtue signal.

Lulu with another good take.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

I took this pic last week. Opposing datacenters has now turned into a virtue signal. That’s bad

It’s a lot harder to overcome an objection once it hardens into a public commitment or an identity

If you’ve built a reputation around saying no to datacenters (like some politicians have!), it becomes super expensive to flip, even if new info emerges or your original concerns get addressed

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The selfishness and short-sightedness of stopping AI is appalling

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@RepYassAnsari Absurd. How will you explain what you’ve done to your children? You will make life worse for them for your own popularity