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We’ve been cooking something delicious for Facebook monetization.
The results from our internal team and early adopters have been better than expected.
Getting ready to take it public. More soon.
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Interesting
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The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
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Okay! I just got my first ChatGPT ad shown today
Looking forward to how it ruins the experience from here on
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not a tested hypothesis (yet!), but a pattern I’ve noticed:
the best way to go “viral” might be talking about virality itself a lot.
the word itself creates curiosity, sets an expectation, and gives people a reason to pay attention.
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“We might build something incredibly useful” is not a sufficient justification for letting private companies race toward technologies that could cause irreversible, civilization-scale harm.
We learned this lesson with nuclear weapons.
AI shouldn’t require the same mistake.
Not to flex or anything, but back in the day, when she was at the prime of her career and had a massive fan following, she was following only one account on Instagram, and it was our page.
Used to receive tens of messages from her fans every day. ♥️
Its surprising and lowkey weird how in this paparazzi era theres not even a single sighting of Asin anywhere for years
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