Starting to despise the tone and phraseology of AI. It's like music composed as commercial jingles, maybe worse. Just sounds fake. And sometimes I can’t tell whether an account is actually AI or just a person who used it so much he’s started to adopt its style.
excerpt from new podcast:
Don’t worry about it, I was just calling to say what’s up.
Think more have woken up than most realize, especially regular working people not subject to laptop class social and professional incentives.
Trying to wrap my head around this: Are you saying reality mines blocks in Planck-time, but it’s too fast for us to observe, so physicists invent “superposition” whereas with bitcoin we can see how it actually works?
I think it's that despite paying ~50 percent in income taxes in many states, despite sales tax, estate tax, property tax and capital gains, and despite the insane inflation of the money supply, we are STILL $38T in debt.
thanks for the heads up. Have to fix when I get home.
if you reject the story you’ve been told, not just about central banking, not just about covid, not just about modern medicine, but really reject the entire thing, you start to realize anything is possible.
If you wonder why we haven’t seemed to progress in 50 years, why we don’t have 2001 Space Odyssey-level tech, why we don’t have flying cars, it might be because even though you’re questioned many particular false narratives, we still fundamentally haven’t questioned everything.
And having not questioned everything, we are stuck in only the possibilities we’ve been offered.
I can shitpost longer than you can stay scrolling.
At the airport stupid early again. Think it’s more relaxing to be at the shitty terminal than waiting at home not knowing how much traffic there will be or how long the line is at security. At the gate, you just have to walk onto the plane.
I think the results were so-so. Woke too many people up. Overplayed their hand.
Problem was Trump was president. Had it been Hillary, they could have succeeded a lot more, but he delayed the plan, they got impatient, had to fix 2020, do the J6 psyop, jumped the gun.
They fucked up IMO.
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Went to a furniture design showroom yesterday. Very high end, way out of my range. Like 300K for a table.
Some of it was nice, some not. But it occurred to me some of the designs would just not have occurred to me as a possibility.
Had this idea my job was just to notice and post shit for which the only “market” is people who want to think about things they might not otherwise have considered.
Sometimes I imagine I’m watching a movie and things unfold cinematically, frame by frame. Like a word-class cinematographer is doing every shot. The East River at dusk, the highway traffic signs, the slow-speed airport traffic, the skinny untrimmed highway-side trees. It all portends something profound but you don’t yet know what, so you notice things.
Sometimes you gotta finish what you’re doing before you can move on, but other times you just need to drop it.
Advice fails because the whole game is about discernment, not heuristics.
It’s odd how I get caught up in habits for hours or days, like a zombie and then have moments of crystal clarity where I know exactly what’s up.
Of course I got a scratchy throat after three days of jet lag sleep and the change to windy fall weather. Gonna will myself to kill this off with only the most minor symptoms. Sleep a few hours on the plane, get ready for my Padel tournament tomorrow. Physics rules over biology and mind rules over physics.
Speech is itself a protocol the censor wants to treat like a platform
Can abolish most of the federal agencies
The left has zero ground to stand on re free speech or “cancel culture”. It’s basically just a discussion among everyone else where you draw the line between what’s government infringement and what’s legitimate private action taken for profit motive. Anyone on the left should just hope they are more 100x principled and just than they were.
One thing I like about Trump is he is a player character, he has his views and his vision. He might be wrong, he might be gauche, but he is a person. And he is trying to do things as he sees fit. Like he’s been talking about unfair trade practices and tariffs for decades. Whether that will help or hurt, I don’t know. But it’s his vision.
This is actually an exception for politicians. Mostly they are NPCs, playing a role at the behest of someone else, part of a bureaucracy that is angling for “the greater good” as defined by itself, i.e., usually what perpetuates its own power.
If you want a country that favors the individual, you are better off with a leader who is one, however flawed, than a leader who is not, however polished.
The constitution, the Bible, works of stoicism, Austrian economics, they are all just maps, provisional (and often useful), but not the territory.
Once you familiarize yourself with the actual terrain, you might glance at the map as needed to re-orient yourself, but mostly it’s folded and put away.
"If I wanted to destroy bitcoin I would just fund infinite developers who are very talented and tell them to make it better."
- Michael Saylor on op_return
I think he is not completely wrong, there is a risk. A risk of distraction, a risk of wanting to work on cool stuff because they are exciting, etc. those risks exist.
BUT, in my opinion, what Michael Saylor actually thinks is closer to this:
“If I wanted to destroy Bitcoin I would just scare people so that no one touches it and address the remaining issues and challenges that prevent Bitcoin to truly become P2P cash at the planet scale. It will make it easier for us to capture it and just hammer the NGU and digital gold narratives. Fuck their cypherpunk values and their hope of freedom.”
Who benefit the most from scaring people from ever touching Bitcoin again to try to improve it and fulfill its promise ? I think that considering Bitcoin final now is the biggest gift to governments or any powerful adversarial forces that would want to capture Bitcoin or prevent it from being adopted widely as money, and not just as digital gold.
Complacency also can kill Bitcoin. Job is not finished. The real fight has barely started.
https://blossom.primal.net/04dbdf0f6a405f0658a0d64a4773505be5812e89950928b43ea5498725e781c1.mov
Legitimate debate between not meddling to “make it better” and not meddling to freeze it in place. Freezing it is itself a kind of meddling.
good quote for the present era
because the stories don’t add up and the holes in them are simply dismissed/not addressed
One thing you discover when you have no job and can more or less do whatever you want is what you most want is to do what life requires, and that entails making peace with situations you used to avoid when you had someone else (or customers) dictating what to do.
The irony is you are *more* bound by things than before, but because that bond is voluntary rather than coerced your goal is to appreciate its terms rather than to get it over with so you can do something else more pleasant.
Most of the political violence in recent years has come from the left, but I think that’s more due to ideological capture than anything inherent about left vs right.
Because the left captured all the institutions — tech, media, academia — people on the left were able to live in a bubble. They were able to avoid the unpleasant cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering opposing viewpoints. It was like being in a very large cult.
When this persists for long enough, it’s easy to become a fundamentalist of sorts, someone who views contrary viewpoints not just as incorrect but evil. It’s easy to see how this would happen — as your worldview gets ever more affirmed, it becomes ever-more painful to have it exposed to contradictions and internal incoherence.
People on the right the last few decades were constantly told they were bad and wrong by the media. It was almost impossible for them to live in a bubble. When you don’t live in a bubble, you are exposed to cognitive dissonance all the time, and you have less absolutism and fundamentalism. Less existential dread when someone disagrees with you, more rigor in formulating your worldview.
What the right should not want is to swap places with the left where their views become fundamentalism, dissent from them is verboten and their side gets radicalized when challenged.
Free speech you disagree with has to be protected no matter what. Unfortunately, I think it’s just the nature of power that it corrupts, and when the right re-takes it (they have in the US, but not entirely as the institutions are still very much leftist), they’ll probably do stupid shit like outlaw mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination as “hate speech” or outlaw flag burning.
They are not tolerating the low standards for the cities. Some have just become reactionaries, reverting to lazy and fear-based heuristics.
Would be hard to administer! Think consumption tax is the only legit tax where it pays for externalities like trash collection, road repair, etc., based on use.
Here’s a couple links, you can definitely dig deeper:
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1954991725333868964
Myriad ways. Read Ashton Forbes’ account of what happened to MH-370 or Eric Weinstein’s posts on the gatekeeping of real physics. They basically just classified all the advances.
We’re going to find out advancement in physics did not stop in 1970, it’s just been hidden.
Ha, will let you know, but taking betting tips is usually a good way to separate from your sats! Gotta DYOR!
I’m saying you can maintain cultural standards and boundaries (reject suicidal empathy) without being racist.
You are saying, it’s not racist for maintaining boundaries.
I hear you — but I think you underestimate how far off the rails it’s gone. The mRNA was just the wake-up call. Pharma is a massive net negative IMO, even if some things work in some cases. Almost all of it is a lie. I would take antibiotics if I have to, and I would get orthopedic surgery for an injury, but otherwise I want to stay as far as way from the medical system as possible. The incentives were bad, and outcomes follow incentives. Hopefully, RFK can reform it, but we’re a long way away from that reality.
It was a lie. The injection was neither safe nor effective. The virus was man made, leaked from a lab. Masks did nothing, the injection made it worse, hurt a lot of people badly. Healthy people and children were at very low risk. They knew this, but coerced the injections anyway. They destroyed businesses, closed schools, ran roughshod over civil liberties, silenced dissenters and critics. If you don’t know this by now, I don’t know what else to say.