Yaakov Markel

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

“Grackles stalk the street like it belongs to them. They give ground before people and cars as a matter of practicality, not respect; they go where they like, sing and defecate where they please. No gods, no masters, they say with their glittering eyes. They are the patron bird of anarchists and poets.”

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[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@MaxNordau Honestly, anything from Anker. Great products. 👌

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@MaxNordau Tourney discredited his own recollection and believability within the first few minutes of his opening statement. 🤷‍♂️

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@wil_da_beast630 And also because they don’t *actually* make it work. Lol 😂

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@Falkenby @AnechoicMedia_ Or, more accurately, a marketing tactic. “It’s just too powerful to be fully released, so we need to restrict it” gets people talking about it more and clamoring for access. At this point it’s standard MO for Dario Amodei’s AI releases, going all the way back to GPT-2 in 2019. 🤷‍♂️

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

Gotta be honest, Grok, that’s a stupid plot and whoever wrote it that way should be pretty embarrassed. Marvel actually decided that an enormously dangerous supervillain in an escapist fantasy movie would be best defeated by “the power of love and unity”. Might as well have been “Diversity Man”. 🙄

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@Pine0wlple @Samzmarvel @grok this seems to be the most terrifying villain in comic media, but please explain how this villain was defeated. If it’s dumb, don’t hold back.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@MaxNordau People don’t understand that Shapiro is an extremely common Jewish surname and there’s essentially no relation between Ben Shapiro and the chemist Zalman Shapiro. 🤷‍♂️

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@itsolelehmann @BizarCoin $10/M in -> $50/M out

But…. It’s also absolutely nerfed to sh*t via “usage policy”, such that it’s basically unusable. So yeah, rather disappointing.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@AwesomeKermit @brucefenton @cmonjussthetip @EinhornGabe

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@camhigby @usslibertyvets I mean, he kinda refutes himself (undermining his credibility and his memory) in his own opening statement. 🤔

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@AwesomeKermit @brucefenton @cmonjussthetip @EinhornGabe Self defense against…………… what? 🤔🙄

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

This is the effect of “systematizing” everything into the ground. When conditions are perfect everything works fine, but one minor deviation breaks everything down.

[wanye @xwanyex]

One of the things that seems so stupid and infantilizing about modern culture is that you can’t just talk to people like an adult now and reason through things and make the case for this or that and encounter people with agency to do anything about it. There’s nobody at the company to whom you can give a firm handshake and the sales pitch. In its place as a process. You follow the process. And then a decision is made in the background. Everything is like applying to college.

So for example I ordered a water heater and I guess I didn’t notice that there was a separate option to have the guys carry it in for you. I got one of these fancy new heat pump water heaters and it’s much heavier than a normal water heater, which is already pretty bulky and heavy, and I can’t get it downstairs by myself. So I called to see if we can’t get the guys back out here to get it down into the basement. But of course there’s no making that happen. There’s no amount of money I could offer, no sweet talking. You can’t get anybody on the phone who has any agency to make this happen. There’s a process. And what I want is not part of the process.

So instead what we have to do is I’m returning the original water heater and I ordered a new one and this time I checked the box to have the guys carry it into the basement.

So later today, some people will come in a truck to take the original, perfectly fine water heater away. And then later different people will deliver a different water heater and carry it into my basement, because this time I checked the box that says they’re allowed to do that.

This is all completely absurd. I am capable of understanding that everything is optimized for the more common case and that this is probably more efficient at scale. I can understand the benefits of that just fine.

It’s just that the society it creates when things go wrong is one that feels very stupid and unsatisfying to normal people. And that’s a downside that actually does need to be registered.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@AwesomeKermit @brucefenton @cmonjussthetip @EinhornGabe Wait. What? Mass murder is literally what war is, by definition.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@QuahogFlats I don’t own a tv and I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident. Also, no one listens to radio anymore. This post was what was known in the colloquial parlance as “a joke”.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

This is why nothing gets done in this country.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@jackvlloyd Literally.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@hrmzdstmrg05 @DelusionPosting @grok, what’s the rest of the context?

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@CovenantArchon @jackvlloyd There’s literally no such thing as “Austrian policies”. Austrian Economics is inherently and fundamentally descriptive rather than prescriptive.

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

You can’t wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. 🤷‍♂️

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

Calling propagandists stupid when they're obviously lying is really kind of funny. Imagine it in any other context.

Bob comes home from work to find his wife in bed and a man in the closet in his underwear.

"It's... it's the plumber, Bob, he's just... checking the pipes in the closet."

"Nadine, there are NO pipes in the closet, and why would a plumber be in his underwear? My goodness you really are STUPID Nadine!"

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@entropyrian You can’t wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. 🤷‍♂️

[Yaakov Markel @yaakovmarkel]

@DanBurmawy “Maybe in some remote areas.”
— Bruh, the whole Mauritania is remote areas. 🤦‍♂️