Embarrassing levels of consumption.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

IM NOT HAVING A MANIC EPISODE MOM THERES A WAR GOING ON AND TWITTER NEEDS ME

Quick Kuala Lumpur review 🧵 * Horrible weather. Muggy, hot. Might be worse than Bangkok. * Questionable city planning. One of the few big Asian big cities where I wish I had a car. Some streets are difficult and dangerous to walk through. * Grab (Southeast Asia's Uber) usually takes a long time to come. Probably not enough drivers bad traffic. * Heavy-flavor and calorie-dense foods abound. I am a fan but know I'll gain hella weight if I were to live there (love bak kut teh, durian, and satay especially). Not surprised that the average Malaysian seems a bit on the pudgier side. * The Malaysian Chinese are secure in their identity, as I discussed in the quoted post, and I really respect that and think every Chinese can learn from them. * I know racial tensions and conflicts have been big in Malaysia for a long time (which probably is the main reason why the Chinese are extra cooperative and proud there), but people seem to coexist fairly well in KL in 2026. Felt the same about Penang when I was there last May. Hell, Malaysians even invented a term, "Kongsi Raya", which denotes Chinese New Year and Eid ul-Fitr (end of Ramadan) coinciding, leading to big simultaneous multicultural celebrations.

In the process of scoring every Fed speech over the last 20 years on @Havelock_AI. Still not done yet. But no surprise that district Presidents, who tend to do more community outreach talks, tend to score higher

I feel insanely guilty when I order DoorDash once every 6 months and yet there are people spending a solid 1/3 of their income on it 🤯

Thanks for the thought-provoking piece. My main critique is that you are overemphasizing flashy but low probability events like “left-handed bacteria,” while merely giving lip service to the risk of extreme economic concentration of power, which is very real and materializing as we speak. Anthropic is reportedly raising funds at a $350B valuation, and the wealth created thus far has been concentrated into a few hundred (perhaps more like dozens) high net worth individuals / institutions. It’s looking increasingly likely to me that none of the leading AI labs will IPO until they reach valuations in the trillions, at which point retail investors will finally be able to get shares. In order for retail to get a 100x return on these investments, which was achievable for Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, the valuations of the AI labs will need to reach hundreds of trillions of dollars, meaning it’s likely too late for a more equitable redistribution of wealth. Simply put, you are currently exacerbating the problem. The consequences of this are that voters may take matters into their own hands and push for either or both 1) more aggressive / nonsensical forms of redistribution — the CA Founders’ Tax is just the beginning or 2) a drastic knee-capping of the AI industry in America, which make the CCP dominance scenario more likely. The solution is to enable retail ownership now, increasing the number of Americans with economic exposure to Anthropic and other AI labs from hundreds of people to millions.

my late grandfather loved Alex Honnold-level danger (parachuting into wildfires) with 5 kids at home ppl always ask “how could someone do that to his family?” but knowing someone who lived so fully & answered a calling that big made us all better. drives like that are gifts