keith council

@SenWarren What is "dollar owned"? Dollars earned in a year? Dollars in cash? The market value of a public security? Of a private security?

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

@EricRWeinstein Genuinely curious: the alphabet for the English language is set. The letters are known. There is no end to the number of sentences we can create, but the base elements are there. Is the same true of physics? Can’t we expect an endgame?

The purpose of AI in physics is not to figure out physics. It is to discover that the field was retconned with a false backstory and organizing narrative about “The Holy Grail of Physics” that dominates the AI training corpus and holds back the field, keeping physics harmless.

For a exactly 42 years, fundamental physics has consisted of a gated institutional narrative that anyone attempting to explain the origins of the Standard Model and General Relativity outside of one theory known not to work, is a crank that cannot be part of the community. Here:

You never thought about machine code that your CPU runs. Never questioned the binary. You told your computer what to do with a higher level language. LLMs make programming languages the next layer of abstraction that in a few years, you won’t think about anymore.

@adamdotdev It’s robbing the joy of craftsmanship

Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.

@BretWeinstein If this is true, what’s the appropriate response?

Lots of smart people are using past technological revolutions as a guide to the AI era ahead. They think ‘we will find new roles in a world we can’t yet imagine’, but that’s not true AI-humanoid robots are better suited to those new roles too. The time to understand this is NOW.

@ManzTrades My guess is that they are betting on the competition making it a commodity, and they will add value downstream.

Every once in awhile, I ask myself why is the 2nd most valuable company in the world, completely sitting out the largest capex investment cycle ever?

@bscholl @henloitsjoyce DFW is arguably the best attempt

@henloitsjoyce No one has yet invented a good large airport

i have NEVER hated an airport more than LAX. and i fly into denver multiple times so that’s saying a lot.

@BretWeinstein @ChrisWillx @ChrisWillx there is an element of sacrifice. Maximum control of your life is precisely the sacrifice you make. And understand, from their perspective, your Tuesday looks wrong. The sacrifice yields: a life long partnership, and a structure to allow for children.

@ChrisWillx Interesting. This is the inverse of the point I made yesterday. I think there is merit in both perspectives. And I'd add, the later you partner, the more you're contention overwhelms mine. Have a look: x.com/BretWeinstein/…

Your partner’s current life is your future life. “When you select a partner, whether you realise it or not, you are choosing a whole lifestyle, and not just the person. You’re choosing their sleep schedule. You’re choosing their money habits. You’re choosing their stress levels, their family drama, their levels of cleanliness, their work ethic, their coping mechanisms. All of these things will be a baseline of your daily life. If their normal is doom scrolling till 2 a.m., avoiding all conflict, impulse spending and never exercising, guess what? You’re signing up to live in that ecosystem. Love does not cancel out people’s flaws. In fact, love just makes you tolerate them for longer. Most people obsess over ‘do we have romantic chemistry?’ And they completely skip ‘can I live with this person’s version of Tuesday every week for the next 10 years?’ The hard truth is, you don’t fix somebody’s lifestyle from the inside. You either accept the package as they are or you walk.” — @Markmanson

@Faithfu12631152 @newstart_2024 Seriously!

@newstart_2024 Well, Chris, how many children have you brought into the world? Does your analysis challenge you with the cultural responsibility of getting married and raising children?

Chris Williamson lays out the terrifying math of birth rate collapse: For every 100 South Koreans today, there will be only 4 great-grandchildren in 100 years. A 96% population drop. The UK is on a similar path — “precipitous” decline. Elon Musk warns about this constantly. The shape of society flips upside down: Fewer young people to work, pay taxes, support pensions, provide healthcare. More elderly needing care. Fewer nurses. Less economic vitality. Even if AI boosts efficiency massively… 5–10 companies could capture almost all wealth and power. That’s not exactly a recipe for an egalitarian society. If birth rates keep collapsing this fast, do we hit a “top of civilization” peak in 70 years — then a steep, irreversible decline? Or does AI/immigration/tech somehow reverse the trend?

@newstart_2024 Where are his kids?

@PalmerLuckey @ChrisGloninger This! I live in a hot climate with little kids, I don’t want the ac to die at every stop light in august. And i don’t want to opt out of this BS _every_ time restart the car. Every other setting on the car can be remembered except that one???

@ChrisGloninger Running electronics, AC/heating, etc is useful work. Some cars use more fuel with auto-start than without, like diesels and cars with cylinder deactivation. If the goal is fuel savings, manufacturers should be allowed to do that in the best way, not forced to do bad things.

Lee, you hack, start/stop systems were invented by Toyota in 1974 and adopted by European automakers in the 2000s. They reduce fuel consumption by 5-8% and cut idle emissions by 100%. They restart in under 400 milliseconds… faster than your foot moves from brake to gas. Your car doesn't 'die.' The engine decouples from the drivetrain via a reinforced starter motor rated for 500,000+ cycles. This isn't Obama. It's thermodynamics. An engine burning fuel at zero mph does zero useful work. That's not politics. That's the first law. You're the EPA administrator and you don't understand combustion efficiency. Terrifying.

@EricRWeinstein “But where did the money come from?” I think E may have started dabbling in his darkest trade as early as Dalton. Explains his hushed dismissal. When he strikes out on his own, he becomes a wealth adviser. He receives “fees”…and I think some of these fees are for “services”

@EricRWeinstein And this is why you find him hovering around prestigious departments. If he _was_ an intelligence asset, when did he become one? From the beginning? Or was he employed later. Or was he just an amoral charlatan, who would eventually become the devil.

Ah. I didn’t realize what’s confusing. Pure Mathematics & Physics are CENTRAL to national security. I thought this was well known. Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, U. Chicago, MIT and the Institute for Advanced Study are (or at least were) essentially the Crown Jewels of the U.S.

@bryan_johnson I really think the landscape has changed so much for the average person. The average person 50 years ago could work a steady, boring job, own a home 1-2 cars, support stay at home spouse. For being like, middle management at the local grocery store. This is impossible now.

The majority of people around me are feeling pretty stressed about life/existence. How are you feeling and what's causing you distress?

@girdley I have some experience in the zone, what do you want to know? I might be able to help

Who can I talk to in the AI data labeling space that knows it super well?

@bryan_johnson I love to work. I think we are supposed to. There are lots of endeavors that I would enjoy doing that don’t pay enough to support myself and family.

if you were wealthy enough to never work again, would you pursue more wealth and status games or would you opt out?

@thegarybrecka So get sweaty before next flight?

Would you workout in a gym in the airport if they existed??