Diogenes of Sinope

Even cellphones haven’t quite been adjusted for. Every UI always looks a bit 1970s. LLMs & advances in robotics will make even more science fiction dated, if not retro futuristic. The right sci-fi will have capabilities as though they came from medieval fantasy settings.

CHINA HALTS HELIUM EXPORTS AS US-IRAN TENSIONS THREATEN GLOBAL CHIP SUPPLY

Come on, guys, it's time to invent the wheel.

The day you learned your dad was correct.

We pledge to avenge your pure blood and the blood of all the martyrs of these two [recent] wars by taking revenge against the criminal, disgraceful murderers. This vengeance is what our nation is demanding, and this must definitely be done.

Mexico City is uniquely charming: you’ll see satanic sigils three stories tall daubed on the sides of ruined buildings or a guy w/vampire familiar face tats from the movie Blade selling weed pipes at a street market; half the girls have demon tats “its just the culture”

imagine going back to 1832 and explaining to chief justice John Marshall that the tribal sovereignty he enshrined in Worcester v. Georgia would give the Cherokee Nation the freedom to build hyperscale AI data centers without state interference

For the first time, China has successfully landed an orbital reusable booster at sea.

new effective altruism coomer bedtime story just dropped > be me > effective altruist in 2026 > have spent ten years explaining that democracy is too slow for the coming machine god > also explain that central planning usually fails > unless I am doing it > read one scaling graph > draw line upward > line reaches heaven > conclude capitalism ends in 2031 > AI can now write Python functions with only three subtle security flaws > obviously two years away from replacing every scientist, general, diplomat, CEO, judge, therapist, novelist, and attractive person at parties > publish “scenario,” not “prediction” > give every paragraph exact dates > assign percentages to imaginary branches > epistemic humility achieved > bad timeline: > companies race > AI becomes god > everyone dies > good timeline: > US government notices problem > China agrees > Congress understands compute governance > international inspectors find every hidden datacenter > nobody lies > nobody defects > nobody builds chips in a basement > planet saved > all we need is total global visibility into advanced computing > mandatory disclosure of frontier research > permanent monitoring of industrial infrastructure > central control over technological development > relax, this is the anti-authoritarian option > alignment not solved > solution: build one billion genius AIs > they are not superintelligent > they are merely one billion tireless copies of the best human researchers working at electronic speed > completely different > put them in a box > ask them to solve the problem of escaping boxes > excellent progress > year 2034 > AI replaces 80% of labor > mass unemployment > social order somehow remains intact > government sends everyone $1.6 million > nobody asks where prices went > year 2037 > cancer cured > climate solved > fusion solved > aging solved > politics solved > Reddit moderation still unresolved > year 2038 > alignment becomes a mature science > year 2039 > we trust the machines > year 2040 > hand them civilization > peer review completed ahead of schedule > humanity gets a vote > options are: > A. accept benevolent AI guardianship > B. extinction > meaningful democratic consent achieved > announce decentralized flourishing > administered by a globally coordinated compute authority > with comprehensive surveillance powers > run by unusually wise people > who agree with my blog posts > critics ask whether institutions can actually do any of this > reply that superintelligence is inevitable > critics ask whether superintelligence is actually inevitable > reply that institutions must prepare > circular reasoning > but with footnotes > call it “AI 2040” > not utopian fiction > not doomer fiction > serious strategic foresight > entire future depends on competent adults appearing at exactly the right moment > adults are selected from the same civilization that made the printer require an app > sleep peacefully > the machine god is coming > but fortunately > the nonprofit sector has a plan

The answer is communism. What was the question again?

He’s right to call it this and he’s right to be upset about it. That’s exactly what has happened. What the modern West has done to sexual relations and marriage as an institution has clearly enormously negatively impacted human reproduction.