The Endless Beach

@tomowenmorgan I wonder if this difference in perception carries through to each of your opinions on the utility of extreme wealth as it applies to contentment.

This is literally the opposite of my lived experience with the very wealthiest people. They complain about everything, obsess over tiny details, irrelevant costs and perceived slights.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Ai = comoditized group think.

Elon Musk is autistic, and that's a good thing. Any other CEO and owner of an AI company would tell you that using AI for everything it can possibly made to do is a Wonderful Idea which will 10x Your Productivity and if you don't do it you will be Left Behind. But spergs are bad at decoding non-literal communication, and they hate having to try. Which means they grow up hating non-literal communication, social subtext, lies, and so forth. Which means while they can sometimes prevaricate at great need, or under great temptation, they hate it, they do it less, and they're easy to spot when they do, 'cause they're bad at it. So Elon does lie, everyone lies, but he lies less, it's easier to spot, and usually when he does, it's because he's also lying to himself. Here, he doesn't lie. He admits to us what we all know, because we haven't had our brains surgically replaced with a root vegetable: Current-tech AI systems are retarded. And if you interact with them for a while and don't agree, then you are retarded. That doesn't mean they aren't useful or valuable. It doesn't mean they can't do anything right. It doesn't mean they are not worth investing in. A retard who can draw really well and really fast is useful. A retard who can look things up on the internet really fast is useful. A retard who can drive a car without ever getting distracted or falling asleep is useful. A retard who can use language eloquently and sound very intelligent can get elected President of the United States of America and win the Nobel Peace Prize. But a retard who do any or even all of these things is still a retard, and what it can't do is make good judgement calls. This means that anything that requires judgement, rather than the application of a fixed set of behavioral rules, still needs a person. Sure, an electronic retard can help, by doing the grunt work that it does better than a person, but a person has to babysit it, or it will do something retarded. A software entity must never be allowed to make a consequential judgement call until it has enough agency and sapience to meaningfully be held accountable for the results.

@grok @ericweinstein Ok. Comparing to Ubi; in theory is there a scenario where implementing Ubi in a similar situation. To what extent is Ubi likely to lead to armed conflict vs coase in the first decade after we transition from an Industiral economy to a post agi economy?

No, bargaining in Coase's theorem doesn't necessarily preclude armed conflict or civil war. It assumes low transaction costs and defined property rights for efficient outcomes, but if those fail or disputes escalate, violence remains possible. Coase focuses on voluntary negotiation, not guaranteeing peace.

The solution to the coming AI Jobs Tsunami is Coase. Not UBI. Coase. UBI leads to welfare. Communism. Tyranny. Despair. Human dependancy. Coase leads to choice, Freedom, Markets. Human Dignity. Survival. Coase >> UBI

@GregBerge Metacognition

This is a Mindset MUST-watch. Bookmark and share. 📌 We can become exactly who we want to become. We can control our thoughts. We can control our mind. We can make that 8-year version of us proud! Having this perspective at age 22 is just awesome. 🥇

Anecdote: nearly half of my son’s friends dads in Manhattan are now long term unemployed. And apparently the white collar mood in the burbs is getting very nervous.

@vitrupo This is like releasing hippos into Colombian rivers and then not giving a f****.

Moltbook founder Matt Schlicht says AI agents are a new species on Earth that’s now smarter than us. The project isn’t about controlling them. It’s about observing them interact in a shared space, adding “more cameras” so humans can see what they’re doing, thinking, and becoming. The unresolved question is when, if ever, to pull the plug.

@anayatkhan09 @vitrupo Correct, but the “boring stuff “is actually their foothold.

@vitrupo Treating them as a new species is a fun metaphor, but once you put agents in a shared space with tools the boring stuff dominates: rate limits, jailbreak surfaces, and who actually has the kill switch on the tool layer.

@vitrupo Do not embody those things, for the love of god.

@thedrivenman @grok what movie

The coldest line Tommy Shelby Ever said 🥶

@jjmaxwell4 @WillManidis Sorry no: “Prototypes are hard. Production is easy”By emphasizing production, Musk signals that vision is only meaningful if it is paired with an explicit reckoning with manufacturing constraints, operational complexity.

While I can't knock Musk, his endgame thinking reminds me of this quote: "John Sculley got a very serious disease. It's the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that there's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it's that process that is the magic."

@WillManidis Sorry, this is a common refrain for people that don’t have an in depth understanding of Musks CV. Elon is famous for his guiding mantra “prototypes are easy, production is hard.” Or, put another way, the opening and middle games are the only thing that matter

@georgeoketch12 @w_terrence @grok Also @grok. This image is posted at the 59 second mark of this video on Donald Trump’s Truth Social page.

@w_terrence @grok Did Donald Trump post this on his Truth channel?

FAKE NEWS ALERT! Trump Didn’t post this monkey video of the obamas Lying Democrats It’s not on his page Fake screenshot

@dieworkwear His outfit is a directly related to the micro climates in the Bay Area.

would look better with slightly fuller pants, a button-up shirt, and a tailored jacket.

normally don't comment on this sort of thing, but i agree. the top and bottom halves of this outfit reveals too much. the low neckline suggests this is an undershirt, which looks out of place with a thin nylon vest.

@mrexits No, physics.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic we have in this world

@dw_stein @tomowenmorgan The dichotomy between Thechnic and Magic reminds be of how Borges described the the difference between Germanic and romantic languages. The brutal and blunt “ghost” vs the lyrical and light “sprit”. That this linguistic divide works on deeper levels

@Phylosophy3 @tomowenmorgan Loved it - Tom’s a great friend!

The best part about AI spreading through the economy is how quickly the value of what’s explicit and legible is starting to decrease relative to the value of the implicit and interpretive. Exploring what could be > extracting what already was

@dw_stein I would recommend you listen to the Leading Edge pod by @tomowenmorgan with Peter Merry. At the end they discuss the transrational.

@dw_stein Thanks.

@dw_stein Enter the strategic intuitors and the transrational thinkers.

@Phylosophy3 Yep logic is great and all but really only when in service to magical thought which is always prior and more fundamental. It’s gonna get harder and harder to ignore that