Chuong Nguyen

DOUGHCON 3.

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You don't need their permission to heal. Full talk (12 min): youtube.com/watch?v=XyF2W_…

A controversial new government draft outlines how #Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security plans to expand state control over the #internet by building a nationwide cybersecurity “#firewall” that can monitor, filter, and decrypt online data. tinyurl.com/45mjmjyk

Had Harris won the election, and the circumstances surrounding the war with Iran been identical, Democrats would be rallying around the president, while Republicans would be wildly condemning her actions. Putting party loyalty above principle or the Constitution is not a virtue.

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Boil the Oceans You know the phrase: “don’t boil the ocean.” Everyone’s said it in some overly ambitious meeting. It’s good advice in normal times. It keeps teams focused. It prevents scope creep. But we are no longer in normal times, and I think it’s time to retire saying it. Artificial Superintelligence means it’s time to boil the ocean. We’ll start with a few lakes first. I was recently with a university endowment’s head of private investing who told me their engineers were terrified for their jobs after seeing what Claude Code could do. And I get it — that’s the natural first reaction. But it’s the wrong one. It’s a zero-sum reaction to a positive-sum moment. Instead of worrying about doing the same thing we’ve been doing for cheaper, why not focus on doing the thing we never even dreamed of doing? Why can’t that endowment achieve 50% net IRR instead of 10%? Why can’t a startup deliver a service that is 100x better than the incumbent? Why can’t we have fusion energy? Why can’t we talk to every single user and have a perfect understanding of every bug in our product? These aren’t rhetorical questions anymore. They’re engineering problems with paths to solutions. Here is what I think is actually going on with the fear: our fear of the future is directly proportional to how small our ambitions are. If your plan is to keep doing exactly what you’re doing, then yes, a machine that can do it faster and cheaper is terrifying. But if your plan is to do something dramatically bigger, then the machine is the best news you’ve ever gotten. If you’re a worker — someone who trades labor for a living — this is the moment to become a builder. Start a business. And if you’re already management or capital, it’s time to go 10x more hardcore on what your aspirations could be. Not eking out 5% efficiency gains. Not increasing profit margins 2% by lowering cost and firing people. Those are the old games. The new question is: what would it look like to build a product or service so good that people would happily pay 10x what they pay now? The net result of this is more jobs, not fewer. As Ryan Petersen likes to say, the human desire for more things is absolutely limitless. We can actually fulfill that desire now — if we have the agency to prompt it for ourselves. Buckminster Fuller coined the term “ephemeralization” in 1938: doing more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. His entire vision of progress was about technology enabling radical expansion of human capability through dematerialization. He traced this from stone bridges to iron trusses to steel cables — each iteration stronger, longer, lighter, cheaper. He wasn’t describing job destruction. He was describing civilization getting better at being civilization. This is Jevons Paradox for everything. When you make a resource dramatically more efficient, you don’t use less of it — you use vastly more. Steam engines didn’t reduce coal consumption. They made coal so useful that demand exploded. The same thing is about to happen with intelligence, with labor, with every service and product we can imagine. But Jevons Paradox doesn’t activate on its own. It requires capital and management to actually raise their ambitions — to boil lakes and oceans instead of drowning them in committee That’s what startups have always been good at: moving fast in the face of radical uncertainty, building for the 10x future while everyone else is optimizing for the 1.05x present. Time to start.

When I see typically "left-of-center" or just plain lefty friends share and promote things from consistently pro-liberty sources like @RepThomasMassie, @justinamash, the @CatoInstitute, etc I find it both refreshing, yet funny because that likely wouldn't be the case if "their team" was in power. Same thing goes for my friends on the "other side." Does anyone actually believe anything anymore? 😂 #FirstPrinciples

> be like Linus Torvalds > writes linux for fun > tells everyone their code sucks > powers the internet anyway > most importantly, not in the Epstein Files

Ít ai biết rằng Việt Nam từng thống nhất dưới một chế độ phi cộng sản – Quốc gia Việt Nam, tiền thân của Việt Nam Cộng hòa. 👉 Ủng hộ dự án 1975: luatkhoa.com/1975-supporter/ #1975Project #LuậtKhoatạpchí #VNCH #VietnamHistory

Hanoi is planning for a 2nd American invasion: US policy heightening tensions and fueling repression @The88Project the88project.org/research/hanoi…

I took a lot of heat early on for pointing out that Trump is no friend to libertarians and constitutional conservatives. Everything he’s done since 2017 to target, smear, and defeat the most principled Republicans in Congress has proven me right.

Noticing a pattern in online arguments. Progressives and leftists refuse to use AI, resulting in glaring knowledge gaps. Rightists use AI to give them pre-packaged arguments in favor of their positions, which they then repeat without understanding them.

Stop the Distortion of History: Oppose Vietnam’s Oscar Submission "Red Rain" - Sign the Petition! c.org/ypPCmHB4jH via @Change

Once dismissed as “reactionary,” the vibrant literary scene of South #Vietnam from 1954 to 1975 has now been rediscovered and reclaimed, standing as a powerful testament to resilience, creativity, and cultural memory that transcends political divides. tinyurl.com/mpsxw2jd

Fall of Saigon, 50 Years On fee.org/articles/fall-…

1975.luatkhoa.com @luatkhoatapchi