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"I may be a hypocrite, but that doesn't make me wrong about you."
A good friend once said that to me, and I've never forgotten how true down into my bones I felt it.
In 1960, the US was 40% of the global economy, with five workers per retiree.
Today, we're coincidentally 26% with 2.6 workers per retiree, and falling.
Holding 26% with ~4% of the world's population is phenomenal.
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!"
Followed by Emperor Napoleon III pressing all the angry poor men into service to die in Crimea, Italy, and Mexico. For The Empire.
Saw Foil, Arms, and Hog in Birmingham. The people and the city were just lovely.
Your color problem is the same problem I saw in Dublin a few days later.
You all dress in the same black, white, and grey and it's so depressing.
I was in my Model Y at a red light, and was rear-ended by a truck pulling a big trailer going 40-50mph. Car barely moved, my sister and I walked away. The driver of the Nissan in front of us thinks he would have died without us being there.
Hospital bill avoided.
A great achievement is to build something that can outperform you. A tool, successor, system, etc.
Increasingly, I think humanity might have done it again; for the last time.
Or, we might merge with AI like mitochondria did with us long ago.
The Asian belief that you take care of your kids so that when they're grown they can take care of you, coupled with grandparents helping out around the house, and minding kids continues to seem like the best model for the most people.
"Roll up that map of Europe, it will not be wanted these 10 years."
William Pitt upon hearing news of Napoleon's masterful victory at Austerlitz.
Mr. Pitt wasn't wrong.
Map created on Claude.
"Did the reasoning lead to the conclusion, or did the conclusion hire the reasoning?”
It's can be incredibly challenging to let some conclusions go, and let reason guide you to a new one.
AI can give you twenty pages defending one side,
then twenty more defending the opposite side.
So the real question was never:
How good is the argument?
It is:
“Did the reasoning lead to the conclusion, or did the conclusion hire the reasoning?”
״צַדִּיק הָרִאשׁוֹן בְּרִיבוֹ וּבָא רֵעֵהוּ וַחֲקָרוֹ״
The first case always sounds convincing until another side examines it.
Intelligence can defend almost anything.
Wisdom is knowing when you’re actually looking for truth.
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I think this is correct, especially if taking Taiwan goes well, or if civil unrest suddenly rises.
Palmer Luckey warns China won’t stop at Taiwan… and believes Beijing is already building a historical narrative to justify territorial claims over Okinawa, the Philippines, and other Pacific territories. 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵
“This is my crazy theory, and people can disagree with me. But nobody in history has ever built a gigantic amphibious landing force, used it once, and then dismantled it—except for the United States.
If China takes Taiwan, I think they’re immediately going to hop over to Okinawa, parts of the Philippines, and maybe parts of Vietnam as well.
Xi Jinping has been talking about the Ryukyu Islands, where Okinawa is located, and historical tributary relationships with China.
They’re not bringing up ancient history just because they love wandering through national archives looking at obscure tributary states.
They’re constructing a national narrative that would allow them to convince their people to start with Taiwan—and then go after more of America’s Pacific allies.”
We're going to get roving bands of rogue uber hounds killing people unlucky enough to be caught out of doors at night. Ravaging and slaughtering unchallenged and unchecked.
These bad boys.
Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
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My 2YO, I'd swear, was waiting for me to leave the room so she could do only things that weren't allowed. I thought I was paranoid accusing a 2YO of being deliberately naughty at such a young age.
It only got worse from there. She's a 2E kid, and inevitably she'll surpass me.
My main takeaway from this is that women are still human, and like men drive towards the fringes of ideologies until somebody takes away the keys.
