Christopher Marshall

things I've written or taken note of

@ewarren A wealth tax of what percentage would yield $6.2 trillion? And how often would you levy it?

A wealth tax on the top .15% of the richest families would generate $6.2 trillion in revenue. That could pay for: Universal childcare Millions of new homes Slashing child poverty Medicare for people aged 55+ Universal paid family leave Tuition-free community college And more.

@ewarren Even better, a wealth tax on everyone would pay for everything.

@thelady_O @pallnandi x.com/i/grok/share/4…

@pallnandi I have a different opinion. It’s not about peace. It’s the fact that men want to eat their cake and have it. They want to womanize like their fathers did, and still expect women to be like their mothers. But modern women are more self aware now The game has changed

The number of unmarried beautiful women worldwide should tell you one thing: beauty isn’t the prize anymore. Men aren’t struggling to find looks… they’re struggling to find peace, common sense, and character. Stop bleaching. Start building substance.

Upcoming negotiations will fail if we don’t restrain the Israelis & stop giving them access to our decision making. The Israelis push for zero uranium enrichment because they know it’s a poison pill for Iran & will result in the war continuing. Iran has committed to not developing or obtaining a nuclear weapon since 2003. A deal can be reached about uranium enrichment lvls & monitoring - ending the war & opening the SOH. This can only happen if we treat the Israelis like the junior partner & put our interests 1st.

@sfrantzman @ryangrim x.com/i/grok/share/8…

Where and for how long was this true? In some parts of Russia? But not in most places in the Soviet orbit, surely in the long term things are better than they were in the 80s in the Soviet zone. Isn’t it true people had to stand in long lines just to get things like bananas; they were crammed into Brezhnev apartment blocks ; many basic things were a luxury

The collapse of the Soviet Union saw the greatest peace time reduction in life expectancy and standard of living of any major human population ever. Just an fyi.

@ryangrim x.com/i/grok/share/8…

@grok @_everythingism @ryangrim Did the life expectancy recover after that period?

Yes, the claim is accurate based on demographic and economic data. Russia's male life expectancy dropped ~6 years (63.4 to 57.4) from 1991–1994—the sharpest peacetime decline for any major population in modern history, per studies from the WHO, Lancet, and Russian stats. Overall excess deaths: ~3–5 million in the 1990s. Standard of living collapsed too, with GDP falling ~40% and hyperinflation hitting 2,500% in 1992. No comparable peacetime event matches this scale for a population of Russia's size.

Trump has only one path at redemption. Only one. Come clean. Blow the lid off the whole scam. Decouple from Israel. Sadly he is a weakling and a slave and will not be permitted to take this path. Forever history will define him as a massive net harm to the USA.

Turkey is about to face years of being 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon

When I started higher education, I trusted the experts. After going through an MD-PhD, I learned for every true expert, there are several more repeating conclusions they’ve never really interrogated. And from the outside, it’s surprisingly hard to tell the difference.

In all my life I have not seen so much manufacturing of consent for a nuclear strike And all for the preservation of a psychotic little apartheid state called “Israel”

Notice how the conversation always gets redirected. You bring up Vietnam. They say: "What about what the Soviet Union did?" You bring up Iraq. They say: "What about China's treatment of the Uyghurs?" You bring up the drone program. They say: "Would you rather have ISIS?" This is not argument. This is a navigation system that has been installed to prevent any specific American action from ever being judged on its own terms. Every crime gets dissolved into a comparison. Every atrocity becomes relative. Every specific death becomes a rhetorical chess piece moved to block a different square. What it reveals is that the person doing it has never actually engaged with the original fact. They have only engaged with the threat the fact poses to their self-image. And they will generate an infinite supply of deflections before they let that self-image be disturbed. The deflections are the confession.

News flash to the Donald: Fertilizer prices are not set by monopolists, but on the free market by supply and demand. And you have just slashed the global supply by your illegal and idiotic War on Iran. So listen up MAGA: The GOP once stood for free markets, balanced budgets, sound money and rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and Constitution. If you can't see that Trump is the sworn enemy of all four of those principles, then you are blind as a bat.

Linux is too dangerous to release. Better give it to Microsoft and IBM to work out the kinks first.

Claude Code is not AGI, but it is the single biggest advance in AI since the LLM. But the thing is, Claude Code is NOT a pure LLM. And it’s not pure deep learning. Not even close. And that changes everything. The source code leak proves it. Tucked away at its center is a 3,167 line kernel called print.ts. print.ts is a pattern matching. And pattern matching is supposed to be the *strength* of LLMs. But Anthropic figured out that if you really need to get your patterns right, you can’t trust a pure LLM. They are too probabilistic. And too erratic. Instead, the way Anthropic built that kernel is straight out of classical symbolic AI. For example, it is in large part a big IF-THEN conditional, with 486 branch points and 12 levels of nesting — all inside a deterministic, symbolic loop that the real godfathers of AI, people like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky and Herb Simon, would have instantly recognized.* Putting things differently, Anthropic, when push came to shove, went exactly where I long said the field needed to go (and where @geoffreyhinton said we didn’t need to go): to Neurosymbolic AI. That’s right, the biggest advance since the LLM was neurosymbolic. AlphaFold, AlphaEvolve, AlphaProof, and AlphaGeometry are all neurosymbolic, too; so is Code Interpreter; when you are calling code, you are asking symbolic AI do an important part of the work. Claude Code isn’t better because of scaling. It’s better because Anthropic accepted the importance of using classical AI techniques alongside neural networks — precisely marriage I have long advocated. It’s *massive* vindication for me (go see my 2019 debate with Bengio for context, or to my 2001 book, The Algebraic Mind), but it still ain’t perfect, or even close. What we really need to do to get trustworthy AI rather than the current unpredictable “jagged” mess, is to go in the knowledge-, reasoning-, and world-model driven direction I laid out in 2020, in an article called the Next Decade in AI, in which neurosymbolic AI is just the *starting point* in a longer journey.* Read that article if you want to know what else we need to do next. The first part has already come to pass. In time, other three will, too. Meanwhile, the implications for the allocation of capital are pretty massive: smartly adding in bits of symbolic AI can do a lot more than scaling alone, and even Anthropic as now discovered (though they won’t say) scaling is no longer the essence of innovation. The paradigm has changed. — *Claude Code is plainly neurosymbolic but the code part is a mess; as Ernie Davis and I argued in Rebooting AI in 2019, we also need major advances in software engineering. But that’s a story for another day.

Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I will obliterate her entire civilization. She now charges me a fee to use the bathroom, that used to be free, and I didn't get dinner. WTF

This communication from Tucker Carlson and his company is very true very worrying and extremely gracious. Every American and International observer should read it.

NEW: Tucker Carlson just responded to Trump's attacks with this banger quote to Newsmax "I’ve always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves.” Tucker is not relenting and I love it.

@RemnantMd @AndrewZywiecMD faster than the damage causing processes, and the person is healthy. Once the damage processes are running faster than the repair processes, you are in a disease state and plaque is accumulating over time.

@RemnantMd @AndrewZywiecMD What do you think of the arguments presented in "the clot thickens", one if which is "as the endothelium is damaged, blood clots form to repair the damage. If the system is operating well, the clots disappear faster than they form, indicating that the repair process is running

It seems my "silly" question on the nature of plaque deposition in arteries vs veins has sparked quite a debate on X. Truthfully, there has been some good discussion about the various factors and the interplay between them, and I'm glad to see it. But, they miss something big.