More or less his brain dead argument is that there is technological stagnation for the past 50 years and his solution is techno-totalitarianism, and he's ok with it because there will always be some freedom left in the human spirit. Doesn't see that stagnation comes from the infinite money spigot that completely decimates the free market of ideas. Both Theil and the interviewer look to Silicon Valley as the beacon of technological progress not noticing that it is Big Tech with their infinite money supply (they borrow at 0%) is the biggest road block to all technological innovation. What you have is unending optimization of the same tired technologies and anything possibly new gets bought up and extinguished.

I still haven't figured out how to market and sell my fractal art. I'm clueless.

#artstr

Does she know?

just had a conversation with a former ny diamond dealer i met at the gym. he says that the lab grown diamond industry is so wild right now that there are a flood of supposedly "mined" diamonds that are so good they are probably black market lab grown.

everyone is doubting all diamond these days due to black market labs creating amazing stones and destroying diamonds as "forever store of value"

traditionally lab groom diamonds needed to have a LG inscription buried in the stone, but so many of the diamonds now flooding the market are missing this subscription and seem too good to be true

he thinks that there are some Chinese labs that have created lab grown diamonds with boron so they fluoresce blue unlike lab grown, which fluoresce red or green. Apparently many diamond dealers have vaults of these questionable diamonds that are passing spectrometer testing originating from chinese dealers

 

I was stung by a wasp on my neck today. It swelled up immediately and it was so painful. I have never been stung in the countryside. Wasps have built nests on the walls of the city. It has added a new experience. 😂

Tip: After being stung by a wasp, never squeeze it with your hands. The wasp's sting will not remain in the skin, but the venom will remain in the skin, and squeezing will spread the venom. Rinse with cold water for about 10 minutes, and then go to the hospital to get some ointment and anti-allergic medicine. The swelling will go down after 3 hours.

too many people live in nodes in “the real estate market” and not homes.

nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h wrote the book.

Approve of this behavior to a certain extent. Once had a 6 month temp contract on my team at Citi. She was good at the job, dependable, and wanted to join full time at the end of the 6 months. HR and management wouldn’t approve because she didn’t have a bachelors degree even though she would report to me and I wanted to hire her. One of the many reasons I ended up leaving.

do you have a plan if your plan doesn't go to plan?

His excuse is that Palantir is just a tool, if the government uses it for bad things then it’s not Palantir’s problem.

What would you say to a Palantir stan who’s bragging about the stock being up 136% against Bitcoin over the last 2 years?

The world wants to tell young men that fatherhood is a burden, a sacrifice, something that “slows you down.”

They’ve got it completely backwards.

Fatherhood sharpens you. It gives you urgency, weight, and meaning. It forces you to grow up and live for something greater than yourself. It roots you in time, past, present and future.

It’s the most important thing you’ll ever do.

And the most sacred.

Happy father’s day to all my bitcoin patriarchs.

Continue to care for those under your protection and provision to the best of your ability and if you need a shoulder to lean on, don’t be afraid to reach out to another father who understands the struggle.

It’s in the dream pipeline.

Accurate and I say this as an investor in nakamoto lol 😂

Sex robots will win

The only reason AI CEOs keep saying things like these is because they want governments to regulate AI so heavily that startups won't be able to compete with the established companies.

OpenAI’s o3 model ignored shutdown commands in 7/100 tests.

Told it to die….tried to live.

Claude & Gemini played nice. o3 said “nah.”

Is this emergent intelligence or just bad training?

This Waymo car had no driver….

Trustless transportation.

Waiting for it to verify block headers before switching lanes.