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Socialist fatigue is real.
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Envy is a terribly unattractive behavior.
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Isn’t it ironic that the same leftist agitprop machine which couldn’t stop lecturing us to ‘trust the experts’ during COVID suddenly can’t do the same when it comes to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool?
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Why does anyone sit down with an interview for any of the mainstream media anymore? It’s all propaganda anyways, and the only people that watch it are zombies.
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The scientists who wrote the "lab leak is a conspiracy theory" letter? They organized it themselves then told each other they needed "the appearance of independence." Both were paid intel informants. Both worked with the Wuhan lab. One scientist called it genetically engineered. Days later he wrote the opposite. Then got a $9 million grant. No conspiracy required. Just people covering their own tracks.
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The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a stark reminder: without the United States, there is no international peace. Who else would police the seas? What other nation would step up to keep global shipping lanes open? There is no ‘rules-based order.’ There is only America’s willingness to defend it.
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I hope the people of Iran realize that now is the only chance to liberate themselves. Read between the lines of what @POTUS has said. As far as he’s concerned Iran won’t be able to rearm for another 10 years, meaning, he doesn’t care if Iran devolves into chaos. The US will protect themselves strait and the people of Iran will have to figure out their own mess.
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Lost a huge amount of respect for the Europeans over the last 6 months

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Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingĂ©s (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a virĂ© le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moquĂ© pendant des annĂ©es, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le dĂ©but. Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la gĂ©omĂ©trie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collĂ©e sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro un : ça rajoute une modalitĂ© dans le training du modĂšle. Ton rĂ©seau doit apprendre Ă  fusionner vision lidar radar ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de dĂ©saccord Ă  arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplĂ©mentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalitĂ© bat systĂ©matiquement les architectures bricolĂ©es Ă  la main. Tesla a dropĂ© le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passĂ© full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accĂ©lĂ©rĂ©e APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops gĂ©ofencĂ©e. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la gĂ©omĂ©trie, pas la sĂ©mantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilitĂ© sont des problĂšmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus rĂ©sout rien, il ajoute du bruit. SĂ©bastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 Ă  180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zĂ©ro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'Ă©volution a donnĂ© des yeux aux prĂ©dateurs pendant 500 millions d'annĂ©es, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison. Le LIDAR c'est l'Ă©quivalent du marxisme appliquĂ© Ă  l'Ă©conomie. Une solution planifiĂ©e, centralisĂ©e, qui prĂ©tend modĂ©liser explicitement ce qui doit Ă©merger d'un systĂšme distribuĂ© et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la comprĂ©hension par de la donnĂ©e, l'Ă©mergence par le contrĂŽle. Ça rassure les ingĂ©nieurs qui veulent tout spĂ©cifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les Ă©conomistes soviĂ©tiques. Et ça Ă©choue pour les mĂȘmes raisons : la rĂ©alitĂ© est trop riche pour ĂȘtre capturĂ©e par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour ĂȘtre capturĂ©e par un plan quinquennal. La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance Ă  un systĂšme qui apprend de l'expĂ©rience plutĂŽt que de tout prĂ©-encoder. L'Ă©lĂ©gance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexitĂ©. Le LIDAR explose le dĂ©nominateur. DĂ©fendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est prĂ©fĂ©rer empiler des hacks plutĂŽt que rĂ©soudre le vrai problĂšme. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillĂ©e en rigueur d'ingĂ©nieur. Les mĂȘmes gens qui dĂ©fendaient les systĂšmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil. Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicitĂ©. Never bet against Elon.
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population has grown ~9x in 200yrs, while poverty trends to 0 people act as though capitalism is a zero sum game, but it’s actually the only system that creates positive sum outcomes the average person today is far richer than most kings in days past
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There is literally no one on earth that is more privileged than an affluent westerner flying a communist flag.
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The uniparty in action
“The Republicans will fix it this time” “The Democrats will fix it this time”
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We don’t live in a democracy if our elected leaders fail to implement the will of the people
CBS News Poll: Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show valid photo ID before they are permitted to vote? 🟱 Favor: 80% đŸŸ€ Oppose: 20% —— ‱ Dem: 65-35 ( 30) ‱ GOP: 95-5 ( 90) ‱ Indie: 79-21 ( 58) ‱ White: 80-20 ( 60) ‱ Black: 80-20 ( 60) ‱ Hispanic: 77-23 ( 55) YouGov | 3/16-19 | 2,496 A
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I wonder whether this is direct enough to make the point about Coasian rights. AI is a vampire. A wraith. A soul snatcher. It's human. It IS us. A tiny number of men are training machines on us, to be us, and to replace us with less mess and cost. Without Coase, you're lost.
JUST IN: DoorDash rolls out new app that pays people to film themselves doing chores for AI training data.
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Coase is you getting rich by training and liscencing your replacement. Universal Income is you taking scraps from the AI table. Which will lead to communism and the death of dignity. Everything we knew is over. History changed between November 1952 (H-bomb) and April 1953 (DNA). Well, it changed again between June 2017 and February 2026. The average person is being taught to hate the tiny number of experts he has on his side who could negotiate this deal. Look up Coase. Understand your right to liscence the right to create vampires from your/our data as a SCALING AMMOUNT OF THE WEALTH OF ITS OWNERS. I cannot believe that a tiny number of my friends and colleagues from my time in the bay area are just going to go for it. I'm super excited about AI. We all should be. Don't just sit there.
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Dignity & purpose, however, remain manditory. We can't wish away what is about to happen in the medium term. We have to *work* on it. A tiny number of AI HNWI may have to get even more fabulously wealthy at a SLIGHTLY reduced pace if we want to avoid *Revolutions*. Which I do.
All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income.
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UBI is for pussies and slaves. They are privatizing and repurposing all of human achievement for themselves and calling it training data or “The Corpus”. Get up. And fight. Dammit. Accept UBI and you enter that underclass, so grateful for the stolen morsel you were returned.
Eric, do you believe a permanent underclass will emerge if safeguards like UBI arent in place? Or is it too late
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The new crypto grifter: “AI just built Stripe in one shot”
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The solution to the coming AI Jobs Tsunami is Coase. Not UBI. Coase. UBI leads to welfare. Communism. Tyranny. Despair. Human dependancy. Coase leads to choice, Freedom, Markets. Human Dignity. Survival. Coase >> UBI
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