Beyond the basics and even in many basic things, what we think we "know" is largely 🐂 💩. Which is why I laugh every time idiots say, "the science is settled".

Just another day on the plantation... The other slaves will have him back in chains in no time...

There is a strong argument to be made that removing yourself from that environment is the best form of resistance.

Removing your skills, capital, productivity and tax base from that economy will have far greater effect than staying and LARPing as some fake revolutionary like our low iq friend who is still feeding the system he claims he is resisting.

In other words, it's revenge by the winning team.

In reality... Inter Arma Silent Leges

War crimes are only done by the losers... 😂

Don't you know anything...

It's been exactly three years since the terrorist and dictator, Vladimir Putin, and his regime committed war crimes with their escalation in the invasion of sovereign Ukraine.

Ukraine will prevail. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

Heh, it ain't much of a threat without eyes, ears or their electronic equivalent etc.

There are plenty of us that are very good at breaking things...

As with all technology, AI is neutral, neither good nor bad.

But the hearts of the people that use technology use it for good and bad.

(Guns can be used for protection or aggression. Planes can be used to travel the earth, or drop bombs on people.)

The technology is always neutral.

AI will be used for good and bad. That’s life.

But there are plenty of doomsayers that believe AI can be an omnipotent god. I’m sure many will be tricked into it. There are always people who are ticked into things.

No matter how much data AI has, there will always be more data that it does not have (and cannot have). So AI will never have complete knowledge.

Without complete knowledge, AI must always deal in probabilities and uncertainty.

People do not act the same when they know they are being watched. People lie and fake it. People act emotionally and irrationally. We’ve been living in a time where people tried to make error into truth (i.e., no difference between a man and woman).

AI can never calculate the incalculable, a person’s heart and motivations.

Central planning cannot work, whether it’s attempted by a Soviet Politburo or AI. So there’s no worry there either.

And from a religious perspective AI can never anticipate what the Holy Spirit will do next.

With that being said, the potential to use AI for good is extraordinary.

Using it to counter AI that’s used for evil will always be an option.

So I’m an AI optimist…despite the deceptions that are sure to come from this technology.

Humanity isnt aligned so I wouldn’t expect them to.

People accept the status quo of nation states with the George H Bush “new world order” as if that’s just the path we should be on, rather than the one we happen to be on because of US decisions decades ago which raped everything downstream.

If you’re long humanity you are long the idea that humanity can coalesce around certain primitives including not destroying itself.

Just because that’s not the current path doesnt mean that’s not where we ought go, nor that we can’t get there.

These parasites won’t top the tree forever. I don’t think they’ll top it much longer.

The bigger problem IMO is the lack of alternative visions to coalesce around.

In the kingdom of the naked emperor, everyone should take their clothes off! 😂

Nuclear is great when things are stable, it's a disaster waiting to happen in widespread unrest, war & natural disasters unless you use a very specific subset of it.

Nuclear is great when things are stable, it's a disaster waiting to happen in widespread unrest, war & natural disasters unless you use a very specific subset of it.

I wasn’t trying to disprove your statement but rather was disagreeing with your base premise.

I can point you to a few thousand economists each with decades of experience behind them who don’t actually have the first clue of what is happening with the economy because their entire knowledgebase (Keynesianism) is built on faulty foundations; but they’re certain they’re right all the same.

Just because “experts” think they know something, it doesn’t mean they do (and yes that applies to me too), especially when their foundational understanding of the field is built atop sandcastles.

So I’m not claiming you know nothing nor that I know it all, rather I am saying I don’t believe the “science” around energy production based on the repeated failures of expert predictions - when reality denies expert claims they are not just to be blindly believed.

What I am claiming is that humanity would be better off harnessing as much energy as it can readily/economically get its hands on and leveraging that into iterating better energy tech. We have instead stagnated entirely because of the US.

Wind and solar are NOT the most productive energy sources by any measure whatsoever - they are a step backwards embraced politically out of climate cultism ideology. They are not suitable for where humanity is and their embrace will set us back even further than the US’ curtailing of nuclear did which is societal suicide.

So while I'll call BS on their green shit, I hope they are stupid enough to do it.

Lets make this clear, the majority require the densest energy sources so civ doesn't collapse & kill their useless asses.

That doesn't mean the scumbags having enough energy to run all their spy toys is in the best interests of the rest of us who don't require it to survive...

>”fossil fuels are a one time use power source that will run out.”

I don’t believe this is true.

Known resources have hundreds/thousands of years of reserves, more comes online as it’s more economical so the idea that this is a problem that people alive today need to consider doesn’t make sense.

If the US didn’t introduce the petrodollar in the 70s we’d likely have abundant nuclear energy around the world with 55 years of build out and development behind it today leading to next generation technologies - history shows humanity develop better energy technology by using the previous wave and iterating with that energy and that was curbstomped by the US. They alone are responsible for curtailing global energy expansion to protect their fiat shitcoin.

People should be disgusted with what the Americans have imposed on the rest of us so they could live at our expense by exporting inflation to the world.

And I’m skeptical of the one time use claim. The science of oil and gas production coming from ancient carbon deposits is dubious at minimum. Whether the abiotic oil theory is correct is beyond me but I know that all the calls of peak oil and X years until Y resource is depleted have all proved to be bullshit.

If you want humanity to progress it needs energy. We should be using the most abundant sources to the max and constantly iterating to get more energy online.

I’m bullish that Bitcoin will force this on humanity and destroy all these doomer Malthusian narratives that we need to be conserving resources - no, we need MOAR POWAH!

It will be like cigarettes, never banned but taxed to hell. You are free to do whatever you want, but if you do something the ones in power doesn't want, they will use it as an excuse to take all your money away so you died miserably.

ANYONE CAN HOST NOTES IS STRICTLY BETTER THAN ONLY ELON CAN HOST NOTES.

WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.