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Lies. Billionaires get rich by innovating and risk-taking, offering new and better goods and services at prices people are willing to pay. Government makes cash through confiscation. AOC's conspiratorial, envious view of the world leads to impoverishment and tyranny.

@theallinpod @friedberg Israel Is Unpopular. And It’s Never Had More Friends. thefp.com/p/israel-is-un…

🚨BIG EPISODE BESTIES! Sacks is back, Fifth Bestie Brad Gerstner fills in for @Friedberg -- Anthropic withholds Mythos: serious concern or another marketing stunt? -- OpenClaw vs everybody: Are frontier model makers trying to kill the open source agent platform? -- Anthropic's $30B run rate: fastest ever, do they already have market dominance in AI code? -- The AI vibe shift: OpenAI reels as Anthropic rips -- Iran War: ceasefire and Israel's influence on US foreign policy (0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner joins the show! (4:22) Anthropic blocks Mythos release for security concerns: serious or marketing stunt? (24:07) Are OpenAI and Anthropic trying to kill OpenClaw? Does Anthropic already have market dominance in AI coding? (42:20) Anthropic $30B run rate, fastest revenue ramp ever, the TAM for intelligence (58:01) Major vibe shift: Anthropic ripping, OpenAI reeling (1:10:12) Iran War: Ceasefire, Israel's influence, market impact

@theallinpod To all who think Iran was not ur war & u got tricked into it: fair enough u don't have to care about all the people suffering there, u actually benefited from it by oil capital and talent coming ur way. It ain't there no more BUT there is more opportunities if u finish the job

SpaceX IPO, Iran War Fallout, Quantum Bitcoin Hack, The Space Opportunity -- SpaceX IPO: The biggest ever (by far!) -- The economic opportunity of space -- Incoming 2026 IPO explosion, the race to get out -- Iran War costs, fertilizer crisis, downstream impacts, messaging problems -- Quantum Bitcoin hack potential (0:00) Bestie intros! (0:12) SpaceX IPO, the economic opportunity of space: a new industrial frontier (21:00) 2026 IPO explosion, OpenAI down round? (36:33) Iran War costs, fertilizer crisis, downstream impacts (49:58) Trump's Iran messaging problems, Bondi out, why the US is in Iran (1:04:18) Quantum Bitcoin hack possibilities, how crypto should react

@TeslaJigsaw @SkyNewsAust Some right wing people while accidentally right on the anti woke stuff are actually stupid and it shows in their attitude towards actual progress

Could MSM get ANY LOWER?! You are sick @SkyNewsAust This was ARSON as they well know, and as I've already reported here; youtu.be/4bsENmoNHZo

Sam Harris' latest remarks on AI: “If you’ve created a company that obviates the need for human labour…we need to create some mechanism whereby the wealth gets shared.” That's called *the free market*. Of course those who do not understand that mechanism see only one solution: coercion. Redistribution. Anything other than "People's whose jobs are automated are still people who can contribute, create and generate wealth." Some rightly see many many open “economic problems”. But they only ever see one solution: more socialism. Sam: “If we are one day in a world where human labour is optional…and fundamentally not necessary…” Like many he speaks of this with regret rather than something to be welcomed. We are not pack horses. We are creative people of reason who have problems we want to find solutions to. But the patronising way some intellectuals speak about…well literally everyone else that (typically) have not gone to university or who are not at this moment involved in work-similar-to-theirs (i.e: sitting down and writing stuff or speaking or composing and so on) - they think those people involved in trades or labour - are literally incapable of ever participating in the “creator economy”. They also don’t think such people even desire to do something other than *be* truck drivers or bricklayers for the rest of their lives. It is the intellectual equivalent of patting them on the head and saying “Don’t worry your little self about the AI. We intellectuals will make sure the big tech companies pay enough tax so welfare can cut you a cheque every month for doing nothing…because you’re not capable of contributing in any way to the economy. You’re basically a kind of useless house cat.” It is dehumanising, infuriating and simply false. He goes on: “...if we build machines that can do everything better than we can...” I’ll stop you there. Machines, if they are to be distinguished from people at all, are distinguished by being mechanistic: automatons we write the instructions for to do the tasks we no longer want to. But if the thing we’re doing has not yet had lines of code written to capture *how to do* the thing then it cannot possibly be automated...yet. Someone has to write the prompts. Someone has to *have the problem first* that prompts the prompts. Thus there can be no machine that can do EVERYTHING better than we people can because creativity cannot be automated. If a “machine” can be creative *it’s no longer a machine*. It’s a person! It’s not an automaton. It's not automatically running lines of code. It's creating solutions to its own problem. It’s the “thing that can write instructions so that automatons can do the thing we just figured out how to do automatically”. We, people, will always have problems. This “capacity to have a problem” isn’t going anywhere. And if a “machine” can have its own problem, again: it’s not a machine. It’s going to creativity have discovered the problem and will creatively decide to focus on it (or any of a wide array of other problems it might devote itself to) and then creatively try to conjecture solutions. It will be a person. Sam: “It all becomes like chess. All the way down to plumbers and janitors and mechanics.“ Down to? Down to?! 😂 Down to those lowly people who are not capable of doing anything much else, and never would be interested in doing so? This is the old refrain: just keep automating things as we did for arithmetic, chess, Go, driving cars, flying planes, and move on to plumbing, cleaning and fixing toasters and keep going and eventually you have a list of things computers can do where they exceed a person’s ability to do that thing without error, or getting tired and so on. Hence you'll have ASI by definition because you have the machine that can do everything we can name better than a person. But this is the whole thing! That “list of things we can name” that the AI can do...always gets ever longer. But why? Because *we* people are adding to it. And notice: it’s always finite no matter how long it grows. An AI (or in modern parlance “the agent”) that can do all those things on the list better than a person isn’t AGI much less ASI. It’s still a regular dumb AI. How can that be so? BECAUSE an AGI has no such list. The “list” for a person/AGI is literally infinite. It is the space of ALL POSSIBLE THINGS THAT CAN BE CONCEIVED. The list only ever contains the knowledge of things we have figured out how to automate. And the difference between a finite list and what a person is capable of doing is, literally, infinite - no matter how long the list becomes. Almost no-one talking about all this stuff has understood the distinction discovered by @DavidDeutschOxf between universal explainers and other things. Either a system has universality or it does not. There is no grey area between the two. Just as there is no grey area between the finite and infinite and for the same reasons. No matter how large a finite integer (or list) it is always as far from “infinity” (whatever that might mean) as the smallest integer 1. And so with AI that can do ever more things better than people. No matter how large the list it can never be infinite. It’s never “all the things people CAN do” because that includes not merely “things yet to be thought” but the act of creativity itself in producing them. That will take a different kind of algorithm not on the list. The algorithm for creating literally any algorithm one has an interest in creating. But if that ever appears on the list and is running on the hard drive, then you’re dealing with a person. And a person has interests. It won’t be a machine you can order around to just do your taxes or play chess or clean the floor. A person can always refuse, disobey, walk away and be uninterested in your instruction or “prompt” to “do this thing”. And that's a consequence of a person being a universal explainer because "universality" of that kind includes the possibility of creating a preference to do something other than whatever you're told you're supposed to. youtube.com/watch?v=2rldvy…

It’s rather ironic that a sexual abuse victim said nothing about the young women who were abhorrently brutalised, raped and murdered on October 7, 2023 and now joins the protesters supporting the rapist.

One thing the situation in Iran has made crystal clear is that whichever country, regime, group or political ideology, no matter how vile, disgusting or repressive, however many people are massacred or exterminated, as long as they are anti-West, specifically anti-US (and by extension anti-Israel), they will have the unquestioning support of the majority of the liberal left and the entertainment world. The same “progressive left” who happily live in the west, profit from its relative freedoms, yet turn their activism on and off like a switch, or in some cases, even make a living out of it. It is disappointing and exhausting. But grateful to all those who have spoken out. Especially in the comedy community. It takes a lot of guts to do so when everyone around you is looking the other way.

It’s interesting that virtually every protest song coming out of the Persian soul has to do with religion and the rejection of Islam. Listen to this song she had to leave the country.👇

How They Lie & Why They Do It

Free Iran, no deal with the Islamic theocracy

Do you want the world to see what the Islamic Republic Regime did to its own people in just two days? Share this link and let the truth speak for the victims. #R2PforIran youtube.com/watch?v=7gypdx…

The @nytimes has compiled an incredibly detailed and comprehensive account of the massacre committed in Iran, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khamenei. It was so graphic and so harrowing that I was unable to read to the end. If you know someone downplaying what happened or peddling conspiracies please show them this. @farnazfassihi nytimes.com/2026/01/25/wor…

When Australia was United not divided 26 January 1988 🇦🇺

@VoteLewko @zoecabina Okay unless joking that was racist. Do you want the people who come here to integrate or not?

@zoecabina Plot twist: It's indian migrants trying their darndest to fit in.

A year ago I wrote about the vibe shift on Australia Day. Australia Day 2024 I was on Bondi Beach and there was literally not a single Australian flag to be seen on the beach. Last year was better. This year is even better. I’ve never seen so many Australian flags out and about. I think many of us have come to learn that there are some nefarious characters who would really like to destroy our nation and make us feel bad about who we are. There are people who want death and destruction, while we want to live a good life. Good will prevail but we have to have the confidence to talk about it and stand up for our values without being bullied into submission.

‼️‼️‼️MASS EXECUTIONS‼️‼️‼️ Translation: I was contacted from Tehran. I am a lawyer. Several thousand people are being held in large warehouse-like halls in Kahrizak — many of them young — on death row. — So they’re putting everyone into these halls under the label of “prison”? — Yes. And they are being executed in groups. Afterwards, they are registered as “killed on previous days” before being transferred. There is no trial. No due process. There is no real court. A so-called forensic authority retroactively approves the cause of death for previous days. The executions have not stopped, because there is no functioning court to stop them. Our hearts and eyes are filled with blood, grief, and rage. @UNHumanRights @realDonaldTrump #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 #KingRezaPahlavi

Iranians reject death and misery by fighting for life and freedom.

@JewishWarrior13 @RoKhanna On Iran killings:

IRAN Perché, rispetto ad altre grandi violenze, quella dell’Iran non suscita empatia che si trasformi in manifestazioni di solidarietà? Dove sono i ragazzi delle università, dei centri sociali, dei quartieri romani come il Pigneto e San Lorenzo? Le decine di migliaia di morti di questi giorni non valgono quanto gli altri morti? Trucidare i feriti nei letti d’ospedale, stuprare le donne nelle loro case non è abbastanza per i vostri palati fini? Ho provato a darmi qualche risposta. Credo che molti di quelli che manifestano siano più spinti dall’odio verso il nemico che dall’amore per il più debole. L’odio è verso Israele, l’amore verso il popolo palestinese è un di più. Poi c’è un fattore culturale. I giovani iraniani sono una generazione colta, con grandi capacità intellettuali, ingegneristiche e scientifiche. Fanno invidia perché, se finalmente liberi, sarebbero una voce di alto profilo, capace di raccontare per esperienza diretta ciò che i nostri manifestanti non conoscono, ma credono di conoscere. E poi c’è un fatto ancora più oscuro. L’Italia è una grande amica dell’Iran. Come raccontava un’inchiesta dell’Espresso, diplomatici e analisti americani arrivarono alla conclusione che l’Italia proteggesse i crimini dell’Iran non per ragion di Stato, ma per tutelare gli interessi di pochi imprenditori e politici collusi. Questo governo è in linea con la tradizione dei precedenti. Ecco, a me tutto questo fa schifo. Ci tenevo a dirvelo.

Why Reform Has No Choice