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Kittredge W Robards

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Pseudonymous because USA social media folks are just a modern mob.

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Kittredge W Robards
Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
My political priorities: 1. Dramatic increase in all types of energy production in short term and long term. 2. Decrease chance of nuclear war. 3. Stronger smarter military. 4. Deregulation of AI. 5. Bend the national debt problem.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
Another policy lens: let’s dramatically increase progressive taxation while dramatically cutting government spending.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
I’ve come around on the likely need for redistribution of $’s from the ultra wealthy. The key will be that it’s direct transfer. Use tech to allow very low fraud transfer from tax collection directly into bank accounts of citizens. No increase in gov. No increase in services.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
The next 10 years should see a massive relative outperform on US lifespan vs first world peers.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@AOC You really think that billionaires can only exist if they have done things that are harmful to society? What insanity.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC·
Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
Paul Graham@paulg

Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html

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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@DKThomp Seems like a simple solution: treat loan distributions that create negative basis as taxable income. Tax basis goes up from today's income allocation. When the asset is sold, it all nets out to the same total tax paid. That's a simple first step. Should be bipartisan.
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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
my position is 1. most billionaires earn their money legally 2. even if billionaires mostly "earn" their billions, i think that the concentration of wealth is a political, societal, and even economic problem. (for example: billionaire contributions to national elections could easily get to 25-50% of total political spend, and the power that implies over political and agenda capture makes me nervous; plus, at some point, concentration could move money from spenders to savers in a way that could be troublesome for growth) 3. recent tax cuts for s corps and c corps really don't help with (2) 4. to begin to address (2) i think we should undo the trump tax cuts, increase avg effective estate taxes, and probably raise the national minimum effective tax rate for the wealthiest ppl. it's too easy for billionaires to pay lower effective tax rates than the middle class with the c/s corp rules we have now
laurence pevsner@Lpevs

@DKThomp @CarterD generally agree with you derek, but in this case it seems possible to argue that it's good to create billions of dollars of wealth for equity owners, but also, ultra-extreme concentration of wealth isn't great for society?

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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@deanwball Ironically, @AnthropicAI and @DarioAmodei have done more damage to the Doomer movement than any. Cried wolf repeatedly. Now the whole village assumes that their dire predictions are just them talking their book.
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
A couple of months ago, at the India AI Summit, I sat in at a conference table with a bunch of Middle Power civil society figures and stressed the importance of securing access to frontier AI capabilities. Many of them smugly told me that frontier AI was just U.S. hype. 🤷‍♂️.
Nic@nicrypto

Let me explain how significant this is. Mythos can find vulnerabilities in virtually ANY software system. European companies haven't seen it so they can't build defences against something they've never assessed. The White House opposes giving European companies access. The result: US companies and institutions can prepare for what Mythos can do. European companies are flying blind. The transatlantic relationship just took another knock.

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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
No matter the poll, Bukele's approval rating is nearly always over 90%. In the last three polls, it's 93%, 93%, and 94%. I've never seen anything like this. We need to study this regime. The international community has massively underestimated the importance of public order.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
Thought balloon: if you’re a bad actor or gov sitting on some disastrous hack into a vital system — your window to use it may be closing with Mythos, 5.5, and others about to harden systems. The next 0-6 months should then be highest probability for high profile hacks.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
Great pod. Liked Marc's focus on HOW to get better governing. Ezra and Derek, bless them both, often veer into a version of the Underpants Gnomes: government is terrible at doing things in the USA. What should we do? Phase 1: Give government more money. Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Government is super effective! All evidence points to government getting worse when you give it more money. Marc kept asking how. The endless stakeholder discussion doesn't work. The left needs "Left Government Labs." See some lefties governing really effectively. Explain how they are doing it and how it is scalable to larger forms of gov. People will support abundance from government, rather than just private entities, when we have faith that the government is effective. That is the FIRST STEP.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
Sometimes it just hits me again the deluge of stupidity and harm that @charliekirk11 was holding back from the online Right.
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Isaac Saul
Isaac Saul@Ike_Saul·
The actor Ben Stiller, a diehard Knicks fan, posted about the Knicks winning a basketball game yesterday. Thousands of people, including a sitting member of Congress, think he was cheering on a failed (!) assassination attempt. This website rots your brain.
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Ben Stiller@BenStiller

Got it done

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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
The concept that "America is failing" because of increased income inequality is so foreign to me. Isn't the goal of a system to increase the quality of life of its people as much as possible?
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@dobetterdnvr Hey governments, pick the absolute lowest hanging fruit that is right in front of your face. Fix that. THEN, let's talk about bigger things like investment, projects, etc.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@dobetterdnvr -- License plate covers. -- Bike gangs on the streets. -- Street camping and public drug use. -- Inability to keep mail from getting stolen. -- Expired tags (more than a couple months). -- Motorcycles/cars with removed/modified exhausts.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
What's Denver like now? 1. Register car (3rd most expensive state). 2. Mail stolen (again). 3. Call USPS. Crooks have the keys. Police: "Can't do anything. Really want to report?" 4. Car current. Get ticket. 5. Call to protest, "Only in person." It doesn't have to be like this.
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Kittredge W Robards@K_Robards·
@RichardHanania Stop explaining their views and how they think I the world should work and the US should be governed? That is a really strange request.
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
Democrats, stop. Please. This is the road to hell.
Alex Christy@alexchristy17

The New York Times platformed Hasan Piker on their "The Opinions" podcast to promote theft as a form of protest. The Mao fan said, "Yeah, I’m pro-piracy all the way, like, across the board. Would you pirate a car? Yes. You know, if you could." He also says he would steal from the Louvre if he could, "I think it’s cool. We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, right? Stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in." (1/2)

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