I view AI as a horse carrying heavy bags, much heavier than a human can carry, only the weight is in computational units, not pounds. But it can no more direct the destination for those bags or their purpose. An electronic beast of burden.

There’s one psyop to paralyze you via fear of dystopia and another to lull you into ignoring its risks.

Very hard to tell how much purported dystopia is real and how much is imagined.

I can remain bullish longer than the market can remain irrational.

Doing an AMA tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9 am ET on Stacker News: https://stacker.news/~AMA in the highly unlikely event any of you are interested.

Cool, need a second guard dog in addition to @Oscar Liss. View quoted note →

Wall St. became the wealth storage vehicle for neolibs, and now they are aligned with it via incentives. This is how the upward transfer of wealth happened, so while so-called progressives purport to decry it, they are too captured to walk the walk now.

Game of chicken right now. That even people who supported Trump like Bill Ackman are worried means he's selling it successfully. The way to win in chicken is to rip out the steering wheel, hang it out the window to show you opponent you can't swerve, and your opponent has only two options, swerve first or die.

I like crashes. They’re fun. It’s the sidewise chop and false hope that kills me.

The English language is a protocol, but it’s amazing and disturbing some people wanted to turn it into a platform where you could only be heard if you “logged in” with your “good person” credential. That was the meaning of the pronouns and “disinformation” campaign. The First Amendment is essentially a law that says: “Language will always be a protocol, never a platform.”

Saw a post a couple days ago -- too lazy to find it -- arguing that bllionaires shouldn't exist and that we only tolerate them due to a pysop that says you might become one which is statistically as likely as getting hit by lightning. Not true. I am find with billionaires existing not because I might become one but because to confiscate their wealth would give the confiscators power over me. In fact, when the confiscators come for the billionaires, they will find that the billionaires are highly capable of defending themselves, but the principle of confiscation, once enshrined, will then be extended to all of us, and we are less able to defend ourselves. The problem is not that someone else has resources, and the solution is definitely not to give the politbureau confiscatory power. The problem is a lack of bottom-up freedom and opportunity which the government has stifled. The government’s ONLY legimate role is to create conditions for bottom-up prosperity, not to redistribute wealth or fix outcomes. Of course *some* billionaires have ill-gotten gains, and there are laws against that which should be used and are often not. But saying gains that are ill-gotten should not be able to be retained is very different from saying all gains above a certain threshold should not be able to be retained. Envy is a catastrophic council for governance of human affairs.

Made a grass-fed tomahawk steak last night for dinner. It was 900 grams, so figured I’d need to defrost only one of the two for my wife, 13-YO daughter and me. My daughter likes steak just fine, but prefers tacos or pasta and complains I’m always cooking meat. So I thought 900g would be enough, though it included a large bone. Wife cooks the steak perfectly with mushrooms from the local farmer’s market, and daughter keeps asking for more. (She had just gotten home from basketball practice.) I really wanted to eat a lot of it, but loved that she was ethusiastically asking for it, so I just kept cutting her more of my piece. Went to bed a bit hungry, but seeing your kid enjoy delicious nutrient-dense food with relish is worth it. Next time will make two.

you’ll never get a sat out of me for “GM”

Agree with Elon on ~90 percent of things, but this is why he is possibly the most dangerous person on the planet, perhaps the final boss, once the globalists bend the knee, for he is Godless.

Curious what people are looking for on nostr. I just post what’s on my mind, irrespective of how it’ll be received, but it occurred to me people only occasionally here for that type of content. I’m here for two reasons: (1) To find signal — I want to learn something or be reminded of something that’s true; and (2) to find an audience for my thoughts and observations, to distribute my “work.” The first is hit or miss. There’s a lot of GM posts and a lot of technical posting that’s over my head. But there’s enough signal to make checking my feed worthwhile. The second is also hit or miss. I find *some* engagement, have grown a surprisingly decent following, but many if not most posts go into the void. I also wonder why it matters, since I am not making a living in nostr, and following/engagement for its own sake is largely empty dopamine. But I guess I envision a world where one *might* one day make a living just expressing thoughts and observations, and that amazingly utopian prospect keeps me going — imagine how cool it would be just to speak your mind and get paid for it. To be clear, no one is obligated to read anyone else’s posts, and maybe my interests and worldview just don’t resonate with that many people. After all, I’m almost 54, and most of the people using this protocol are much younger. Would 30-YO me be interested in what I’m writing now? I’d like to think so, but maybe not. But I really am curious why people are here — is it mostly theoretical, the idea that you are on a protocol, not a platform, that it’s freedom tech? Or is there something specific you get out of it?

Starting to wonder whether every business is fake. Like the only reason restaurants are full is that DC and Wall Street types are using printed money to prop them up. Like 90 percent of them couldn’t survive in a real economy. And if they didn’t survive, all the money that flows through them into other areas of the economy would dry up too. Same with fashion. I remember walking up Madison Avenue one night from like 30th street to 90th where I was staying, seeing all the brightly lit shops, closed for the night, selling insanely expensive things. It was surreal, like who is buying all that stuff, buying enough of it all the time to keep these myriad places in business? What would exist in a real economy where everyone had to offer value in exchange for hard money? How much would disappear almost overnight, and what would take its place?

Imprisoning the opposition is desperation mode. Means you are terrified of what would happen in a fair election, means you know you are despised by the majority of your constituents.

Strange thing happening. Was in Valencia, Spain the last couple days, wife went with some friends to a wine tasting, I bailed, just kind of wandered around the city. At one point, I stopped into a running shop to check out some “barefoot” style shoes. I have wide feet, get squeezed by regular running shoes. Was in there for maybe two minutes, checked out a pair of Xero shoes, picked it up for five seconds, put it down, walked out. Last two days, been getting spam email advertising Xero shoes. Had not mentioned this to anyone, either. Fucking cell phone is tracking what stores/shoes I’m looking at apparently.

Last thing anyone wants to do is become enlightened but you run out of options.

Have 45 minutes waiting for my daughter's basketball game to start. Sitting on an urban bench with @Oscar Liss in a small Portuguese city 40 minutes outside Lisbon. Wife is in NY on a work trip. Sun just came out. Nothing to do but absorb it.