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@AncapAir Bugs people love: 10/10 Bugs forced by some government agenda: 0/10 probably.

Whatchu know abou dem dere mud bugs?

@Jessethefree Uhh... I have accepted that like the question of how to make a pencil, where the wise answer is that you don't know, the question to how to attain a libertarian society is that you don't know either. You need the market to decide.

I’m done man. Some folks in the anarchist space are living in lala land. I still fundamentally agree with the philosophy, but the absolutism reminds me of the same revolutionary movements that killed millions. Just complete disregard for orders of effect. Call me a pragmatist or whatever, I really don’t care anymore.

@CharlesMullins2 In short... the thing from Larraman's Organ, but real, right?

🚨 Scientists just engineered synthetic blood clots that can stop severe bleeding in seconds. Not sci-fi. Real preclinical research. Using chemically engineered red blood cells, researchers created ultra-tough “designer clots” that: • form in under 5 seconds • dramatically increase clot strength • reduce inflammation • help tissue regeneration after injury This isn’t just normal coagulation. They essentially upgraded the mechanical architecture of a blood clot itself. Natural clots are surprisingly fragile during catastrophic bleeding. These engineered clots behave more like living biological sealants. Potential future applications: • trauma medicine • battlefield injuries • emergency surgery • internal bleeding • hemophilia treatment • rapid wound repair The deeper physics/biology is fascinating: A normal clot is mostly a weak biological mesh. These researchers reprogrammed how cells mechanically link together, turning soft blood structures into high-strength regenerative biomaterials. Not just “stopping bleeding.” Engineering the geometry of healing itself. If this translates safely to humans, emergency medicine could change completely.

NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!

@Rothmus Yes. Your actions are moral by default unless someone else is hurt.

Imagine you’re stranded completely alone on a deserted island. In total isolation, with no one else affected, can any of your actions still be considered moral or immoral?

@predict_addict If you want a formal, rigorous calculus, shouldn’t you learn real analysis? And Terence Tao’s book actually start from Peano Arithmetic.

Did you know? At China’s elite “985” universities (Tsinghua, PKU, Fudan – where ~80% of top tech/finance talent comes from), core math like calculus & linear algebra don’t use American textbooks as the main text.

@AncapAir A lot of technocrats like wearing the libertarian label. I actually support a lot of policies if done on private properties or even private cities. But forcing it country-wide? Get off.

@travis4nh Hopefully you can work it out...

@travis4nh Or you need a rigorous probabilistic assessment to show that an action can cause harm with a nontrivial probability and then say it violates safety contract somewhere or...

"it should be legal to fire a gun into the air, because it's a lot of fun ... and if you do accidentally hit someone (quite unlikely!), they can sue to be made whole" discuss

@AISafetyMemes The equivalent to ending slavery for data centers is to draft an AI bill of rights tho, not ban data centers.

IMPORTANT HISTORY LESSON Today: "If you ban data centers in the US, we'll lose to China" 1800s: "If you ban slavery in the UK, we'll lose to France" UK: *uses Royal Navy and diplomatic pressure to enforce the ban internationally* Slavery: *gone* Slavers initially ignored the ban, so how did they pull it off? For decades, at great expense, they ordered the Royal Navy to patrol the oceans and seize slave ships. They didn’t just ban slavery, they even used the government’s money to buy the slaves and free them. This cost Britain a fortune, but they did it anyway. They decided slavery was bad, and largely stopped it. At the time of the US civil war, roughly 25% of all the wealth of the south was slaves - there was a LOT of money at stake! Yet we banned slavery anyway. If humanity decides it wants to, it is absolutely capable of pausing/stopping AGI. Right now the appetite isn't there, because few people are aware of the risks. That will change. But if we don’t do it soon, it’ll be impossible later, because we will be SO dependent on AI. Imagine trying to turn off the internet! AGI is being built by just a few companies in a few countries. One company makes the chips (TSMC), one company designs the chips (NVIDIA), one company makes the lithography equipment (ASML), etc. All chokepoints. "But some countries could defect!" If the US and China coordinated, they could stop these countries using diplomatic, economic, and military pressure. We do this ALL THE TIME when countries do things the US doesn't like. Maybe development wouldn’t stop 100%, but it could slow down 95%. Laws are never 100% successful at stopping crime, but that doesn't mean "never pass laws". AGI development would be morally stigmatized and most capital and talent would move on. Most top talent won't work on illegal things. We’ve solved much harder coordination problems than this.

@AISafetyMemes "Thou shall not make a machine in the image of a mind." "Challenge accepted. Put real brain cells onto the machines!"

Do you get it? Humanity just created The Matrix We put LIVING human brain cells into onto chips, then force them to compute things for us "The original Matrix story had human brains used as a neural network for computing power." So... WE are the baddie AIs from The Matrix? Apparently, the suits at the studio thought that was too hard for people to understand, so in the movie they made it so the AIs use our brains as batteries.

@AncapAir I mean... I knew the US military is a big bully, but if anything, I'm at least glad they're spent on other bullies instead of innocent people.

Are we literally doing the 1953 playbook??? The literal son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlvi — who was exiled in 1950, only to be reinstalled in 1953 by a CIA-led coup that overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh in order to serve as the US and UK puppet leader that would give up all of Iran's oil, and who created CIA- and Mossad-trained secret police force (the SAVAK) to brutally terrorize and kill dissenters — is being reinstalled by the US??? This is LITERALLY the goal of Operation Ajax in 1953, just with an overt bombing instead of a covert coup, and with the Shah's son because he's now dead.... God help us....

@Its_dazzy The cameraman.

@AncapAir And one thing that is certain for me is that the difference between people who use libertarian economic theories for themselves without principles and real libertarians is like those using Newton's law to aim cannon on innocent folks and bridge builders.

@AncapAir Back then, it was seen as dystopian to arrest people for pre-crimes using a model, no matter how sophisticated it was. Apparently, when the model becomes "Arrest every "illegal" immigrant.", they get a free pass?

@AncapAir It seems that a lot of "libertarians" took Trump's bait under the name of "pragmatism". Being unprincipled is not pragmatic. He took everyone he could get support from, tech folks to Amish alike. Now I am starting to believe that if we lose, it would be from us.

By stopping wasting government money on these nonsenses, returning money to the people, so they could have their properties and resources to defend them.

Even going by your logic that we should deport people... Obama deported more people without such a shenanigan.

@beinlibertarian Yes, so do US citizens.

Should illegal immigrants be banned from receiving welfare in the U.S.?