They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.

Ça fait un moment que je me pose des questions sur le bilan (provisoire) de Milei en Argentine. On lit tout et son contraire. Alors j'ai arrêté de lire les commentaires et j'ai regardé les chiffres bruts. L'Argentine, c'est l'expérience grandeur nature que les économistes attendaient depuis 50 ans. Même pays. Même peuple. Même culture. On change UNE variable : la méthode économique. Avant : des décennies de gestion étatiste et péroniste, "redistributive". Le résultat concret ? 211% d'inflation, 42% de pauvreté, un État en déficit permanent qui finance son train de vie en faisant tourner la planche à billets. Puis arrive Milei. Méthode inverse, brutale, assumée : on coupe, on déréglemente, on arrête d'imprimer. Deux ans plus tard (photo à son arrivée (fin 2023) vs aujourd'hui) : Inflation annuelle : 211% → 31% Inflation mensuelle : 25% → ~2% Déficit public : −5% du PIB → 1,8% (excédent) Croissance : −1,6% → 4,4% Pauvreté : 42% → 28% Sans débat. Jugez par vous-mêmes. Et le point essentiel : ces gains ne vont pas "aux riches" ou "aux marchés". Ils vont d'abord aux plus pauvres. L'inflation est l'impôt le plus injuste qui existe — elle frappe ceux qui n'ont aucun actif pour se protéger. La diviser par 7, c'est rendre du pouvoir d'achat à ceux d'en bas. Et 14 points de pauvreté en moins, ce sont des millions de gens, pas une ligne Excel. Pendant un siècle, on a expliqué aux Argentins que l'État les protégerait en dépensant toujours plus. Résultat : un des pays les plus riches du monde en 1910, ruiné. On vient d'inverser la méthode. Regardez le résultat. À un moment, il faut accepter ce que les faits racontent : sur le terrain économique, la méthode libérale a livré en deux ans ce que des décennies de socialisme avaient promis sans jamais tenir. Et ça profite d'abord aux plus modestes. On peut détester le style de Milei — la tronçonneuse, l'outrance, les sorties improbables, il n'a rien d'un homme d'État classique. Mais on ne juge pas une politique économique au style de celui qui la mène. On la juge à ce qu'elle fait à la vie des gens. Et les chiffres ont parlé.

和一个日本朋友深入讨论了一下中日两国性压抑的问题，发现两国的性压抑根本不是一回事。 日本的性压抑是常常和漂亮的风俗女啪啪啪，仅仅是肉与肉之间的撞击，完全没有灵魂的碰撞。很难找到自己心爱的人，所以感觉到压抑。 中国的性压抑单纯就是没逼草。

250 years of continuously extinguishing the bottom ~2% of men who could not behave produced the modern Englishman and Anglo-American , who from the early 1700s to early 2000s almost entirely created the modern world.

If all the smartest most rational ppl got their own civilization on it would be LEAGUES better than this one, just more functional in ways we can't even imagine, and like 90% of it would be downstream of their ability to understand incentives and ripple effects

The Crazy physics of launching at 80 km/h from a truck already moving 80km/h

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

No man steals copper, and so, there is no crime committed in summarily putting a copper thief to the sword. By sheer disproportionality of cost of repair, against the pennies attained by the thieves, the only correct punishment for copper theft is death. Make no mistake, these are not intelligent, scheming scoundrels; they are the incompetent, indolent refuse of the world. Subhuman mould, entropy given humanoid form, ripping into the most necessary parts of your civilization so they can pawn it off for a day's wages. These are not capable, competent, intelligent criminals that can effectively organize and terrorize; they are idiots, too stupid to hold a job, too stupid to find valuable targets, and too stupid to understand consequences. They are beasts, nothing more. And when a beast bites the hand that feeds, you kill it.

AI strategies everywhere hinge on widely available American frontier AI. Post-Mythos, amid compute crunches, security concerns and distillation crackdowns, that paradigm is under threat. Today, I argue the era of widespread access to frontier AI is almost over.

Both sides are Wizard-supremacist (there aren't really any alternatives, Wizard supremacy unavoidable in practice) The "good guys" basically think of themselves as zookeepers who have made the world a nature preserve & locked themselves in the cages (via an absurdly invasive surveillance apparatus that presumably sounds fine if you're English) The Dark Wizard opinion, I guess, is that there should be overt domination instead of occulted & restrained domination, but they can't go in guns blazing - Muggle tech is at least at parity for mass killing, & they outnumber wizards at least 1000:1 So the real bone of contention is whether Wizards should be a little more active about mind-controlling Muggle leaders & manipulating the Muggle public The Dark Wizards can't really be interested in enslaving the Muggles - for what? They already have flawlessly obedient slaves Presumably their objection is to the Statute of Secrecy itself - they don't want to be continually surveilled & punished to maintain the nature preserve The only other question is whether out-breeding is a problem - but magic ability clearly runs in families & seems to be a massively dominant trait (squibs are a rare family tragedy) So I guess Wizards are just rare because they slaughter each other every 30 years or so in narcissism-of-small-differences wars about exactly how racist to be

Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of near-impossible tasks AI would need to accomplish to truly "solve" biology: - Predict folded protein structures with ~99.9% accuracy, including fine details like side chains and conformations. - Perfectly predict the best drug out of 10^63 possible small molecules that safely cures a disease with near-zero failure rate. - Do the same for antibodies, gene therapies, nanoparticles, and complex drug delivery systems. - Reliably map brain activity to exact thoughts and future actions. - Scan an embryo's genome and perfectly predict phenotype, IQ, disease risks, lifespan, etc. - Design microbes or plants with arbitrary new capabilities (gold filtration, plastic degradation, hyper-nutritious crops, etc.). - Perfectly engineer safe genomes for long-lived, hyper-resilient humans. This is just a small sample. Biology's combinatorial complexity is mind-boggling, our current data is near hopeless, and buildling the vast training data required is beyond human civilisation's capacity. The gap between current AI capabilities and actually "solving" it remains enormous.