Anas Uddin

Let me introduce myself. Hey, My name is Anas. I'm 22 years old, a 3rd grade drop-out. I'm considered "uneducated," by societal standards, even though I speak 4 languages, educated myself in philosophy, mathematics, finance, crypto and more.

.@friedberg: “A wealth tax takes away private property. If you give the government the ability to do that on even 1% of net worth for billionaires, the next step is 5% of the billionaires, or maybe 2% of millionaires, and then maybe it’s 3% on people that have a net worth of 100 grand a year. And by the way, to figure out how much you have, what your assets are, you’ve got to send me a list every year of everything you own. So now the government gets to look into your house, not just see what’s in your bank account, what stocks you own, but what cars do you own? What’s the value of those cars? How much is that art worth? What’s everything here worth? Private property rights go out the window when you institute a wealth tax. Because now the government has the right to assess all your value and to take anything they want from you based on a vote where a bunch of people raise their hand and say, we’ll increase the tax rate to this—5%, 2%, 10%, whatever it is—and here’s the threshold, and we’ll take it every year. And when you do that, it eventually leads to 51% of people voting to take everything from 49%. That’s the worst case. That’s the end state of this. It eats itself, and that’s socialism. And so I think that a wealth tax—and look, it’s not going to affect me, this California tax. So don’t think that I’m trying to speak my book or whatever the comments or bullshit are. I think this is a fundamental, principled issue. By degrading private property rights, we are setting a precedent in the United States that is the foundation of why the United States was set up in the first place, which is for all of us that came to this country to get away from tyrannical governments outside the United States that took all our shit and controlled everything and told us what to do all the time. And we came here and we get to have private property. Sure, I’ll pay my tax. Here’s my 53%. Thank you very much, government, for all the great stuff you do, for all the services you provide. But now, f*ck off and leave me alone. And that’s not the case anymore when this passes. Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, all these national politicians, AOC, Elizabeth Warren—they’re all saying we need to have a national wealth tax now. So it’s not just in California. This is going to be the issue between 2026 and 2028. The elites are the billionaires and the tech people. They’re coming after them. And the manifestation of that is to create this wealth tax. And that gives the government the system by which private property rights are gone. And the United States has a very questionable future at that point. That’s the thing I worry about the most. And I juxtapose that with my optimism about the future and this amazing shit. I mean, think about it—this amazing shit that’s happening in the world. We’re going to have free f*cking energy. We’re going to live forever. We’re going to have all of this insane stuff that we never imagined. Abundance and resources that we could never contemplate. Happiness. Spending time with family. Working less hours. Robots that build shit for us. Everything is going to get better. Everything is getting better. Everything is getting more amazing. And then we’re like, let’s f*ck ourselves. Why not? Because we’ll just f*ck ourselves.”

My foundational ideals (for now) Even before reading them in the book "The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad", my foundational ideals are like his: freedom and truth. I want every individual to be free, from their surroundings, others and by their own mind. Don't take your ideas too seriously as you have to work to falsify them not keep proving them true. I want everyone to strive to search for truth by testing the ideas against reality. But testing alone is not enough, you have to strive to find better explanations, not just survive falsification. Reality is the only thing that you are competing against. The things in your mind are not guaranteed to reflect what actually happens in reality. Anything that you conjure up is a theory yet to be falsified.

- Conjecture Institute: conjectureinstitute.org/university/cou… (@ConjectureInst) - Saylor University: learn.saylor.org (@saylordotorg)

And so that’s what I’m pursuing, the understanding of the entire world to the extent that I can be understood. Excerpt from Naval: The Beginning of Infinity (With tweaks of my own)

These four strands were, “The Theory of Quantum Physics, The Theory of Computation, The Theory of Epistemology and The Theory of Evolution” that these together formed a world view, a lens thru which you could understand anything that could be understood.

Understanding The Fabric of Reality Growing up I was told that I couldn’t understand the entire world. Modern science made it seem as though this was an impossible project. There’s no way I could understand everything about reality, there’s too much to know, how could I,

I'm genuinely excited to see America headed back to the Moon. But Artemis is a moondoggle and shows we haven't learned the deepest lessons of the Apollo era. Remember that Apollo did *not* result in durable progress in space. It marked a literal high point for more than half a century. The cost of space access remained prohibitively high until we had a rebirth of space entrepreneurship. Thank you for showing the way, SpaceX. Apollo was history's greatest tech demo—the Moon landing. This is inspiring—it shows the triumph of ingenuity, science, and reason. But also, Apollo led to half a century of stasis and regression. It was fundamentally uneconomic, contributed to creation of a cost-insensitive space agency and supply base, all more concerned with perpetuating their own existence, more concerned with make-work jobs than accelerating human progress. Now we're going back to the Moon... essentially the same way we did in 1969. Again uneconomically, again with central planning. A disposable rocket, no answer to how we create a self-sustaining lunar economy. Again, we're taking communists approaches in competition with the communists. Communism didn't work for the Russians, and it won't work for America either. The sooner we can be done with this moondoggle, the better. But there is also reason to be optimistic: this time around, there's a nascent, commercially-led vision for the moon. Lunar hotels. Mass drivers. Data centers in space. Helium-3. The commercial programs that gave SpaceX an early assist show a different and better path forward. This is where the better future lies, and this is where America should be focused. America should take the Moon, and we should take it the same way we took the American West. Let's encourage and protect lunar value creation. How about a Homestead Act for the Moon? Most important, let's stop dumping money and more importantly the time of our engineers and scientists on glory projects that will never lead to a better future. It is indeed time for another space race. Last time, we fought communism with communism. This time, let's remember what made America great. This time, let's fight communism with capitalism.

We launched Artemis II yesterday. Now what? Four astronauts recently launched from @NASAKennedy to embark on a mission around the Moon. But liftoff was just the beginning.

Humans are amazing

@astupple @realtimeai Why would you want to get rid of recycling tho?

@realtimeai Desperately. Just one big bin called garbage.

Infuriating. Always like this. Make garbage garbage again.

@arjunkhemani I want to better understand Quantum, whatever this is about, I’m assuming it’s about quantum computation. Can anyone point me somewhere?

Bitcoin walked so Zcash could run.

“Until death, all defeat is psychological.” If death is the ultimate defeat, than anything keeping you alive should be a victory.

@leoalexart @TCSparents @naval @arjunkhemani Not really. They didn’t send me to school because of financial reasons.

@_Anasuddin @TCSparents @naval @arjunkhemani Your parents into any particular phil of education? Unschooling perhaps?

Let me introduce myself. Hey, My name is Anas. I'm 22 years old, a 3rd grade drop-out. I'm considered "uneducated," by societal standards, even though I speak 4 languages, educated myself in philosophy, mathematics, finance, crypto and more.

@leoalexart @TCSparents Yes, I found him thru @naval and @arjunkhemani

@_Anasuddin A kid from parents who practiced or tried to practice @TCSparents . Did you find DD by yourself, then?

@leoalexart I don’t think so. What’s a TCS kid?

@_Anasuddin Hi! Nice to meet you. My son never went to school. Are you a TCS kid by any chance?

Now I'm making a conscious decisions as to what I want to learn and which direction I want my education to go to while following the fun.

Without any intention of "studying" or "educating" myself, I pursed them and educated myself as a consequence. From my pov, I was just doing what I liked doing. I was following the fun, as David Deustch would put it.