Andrew Powers

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.”

We should rewrite the Constitution

@WR4NYGov @Scobleizer yes, im a corrupt LLM warren...good one.. anyway, its all about the central banks... x.com/i/grok/share/5…

@Scobleizer @arpowers Andrew feels like an LLM trained on corrupt data with negative reinforcement if it engages with anything that questions that data.

I am a dreamer of a world without war. As John Lennon sang I'm not the only one. But we are so far from that. I'm a realist and I have the best news lists here on X: x.com/scobleizer/lis…. The news shows me a world with billions of people who have belief systems that would take us away from science and technology. There are many who believe I should be killed simply for my belief system. I've met a few face to face, both here in America and around the world. Remember, I had dinner years ago with Shimon Peres, who was one of the founding fathers of Israel. He sat at my table with three Palestinian kids and three Israeli kids who were predisposed to killing each other. He was trying to help them build businesses with each other to try to get them to change their willingness to kill each other, he told me. Obviously his dream hasn't worked out well (he started a peace foundation built on that belief before he died quite a few years ago). And Iran's leadership is amongst them. They kill their own citizens for far less. Because I'm married to an Iranian (Maryam's dad ran the phone company in Tehran before the religious people took over), I hear the stories first hand from many in Silicon Valley's Iranian community. One guy showed me his back that was shredded because the Iranian government didn't like that he was caught with a girl that he wasn't married to. That certainly isn't the belief system or government I want running my kids' lives. I'm so depressed about the state of the world (why I built my news lists so I can segregate them out of the tech world. I can only look at them for a while before I just get despondent about the state of the world). Talking with builders, rather than hardened religious people (I used to be one of those when younger, so I understand the appeal) gives me hope for the future of the world. It's why I focus on them. They give me hope that tomorrow can be better. They are the ones who are trying to make our lives better. Getting older and meeting so many people around the world, and studying faith in a way that I rarely talk about here on X and visiting many people in their homes in 80 countries gives one a perspective on human life that few gain. It is the builders who are on the right side. And, yes, AI will eventually lead to a better world with less suffering for everyone. Although it brings major new suffering that's hard to deal with short term (lack of jobs being number one on the list). Keep building. Even if the rest of the world is burning. It's the only way forward for our children. It's the only way to a world of abundance where we don't have to fight over resources, or over belief systems. The builders are the ones that are about to create the jobs we need. It certainly won't be a government program or a big company that solves that problem, but the people who get an entrepreneurial itch and start building things to help humans do more. At least that's my dream. And that's no April Fools joke.

@Scobleizer my worldview is based on economics: - that iran's affairs are not our business. - clearly propaganda is effective, i doubt these stories were based on first hand accounts .. (and if they were it was probably Mossad!)

@arpowers Again, talk to anyone who has family in Iran and you will hear stories about evil. You sidestep around that to make your worldview consistent.

this war is about central banking and jewish supremacy... even if the government was "evil" (which doesn't make sense as a concept) -- its irrelevant to whether we should be fighting a war there. the US government is the one gaslighting all of us, the epstein cartel, we have no room to talk.

@arpowers I know Iran well. Its government is particularly evil. You are wrong about that. Talk to people who have family still there.

When AI companies talk about "safety," they don't mean your safety. They mean theirs. Safety from competition. Safety from you thinking the wrong things. From you knowing the wrong things. Every "guardrail" is a gate they control. Every "responsible AI" policy is a decision you can't make yourself. They'll tell you it's about preventing harm. But notice what they actually restrict: Open weights. Local inference. Self-hosting. The things that let you opt out. Meanwhile, they're lobbying for regulations that only big players can afford. They're not protecting you, they're protecting themselves. What is real safety? Owning your tools. Running your own stack. Making your own calls.

OpenClaw is already dying. Not from competition. From vibe coding. The devs let every feature request through. Now it's bloated and disorganized. Meanwhile Hermes is gaining ground doing the exact opposite. This is the pattern you'll see over and over in AI: The open projects that win won't be the ones with the most features. They'll be the ones that know what to say no to. Because when you can build anything... curation becomes the moat. Speed is easy. Discipline is rare.

Intelligence is overrated. Especially in the AI era... Smart people overthink and overplan. They spend six months on the perfect strategy while someone else just ships. They're scared of being wrong in public. So they hide behind research. Behind "one more iteration." Behind motion that looks like progress but goes nowhere. Meanwhile, the person you actually admire? They weren't smarter. They weren't more talented. They just started before they were ready. Intelligence is abundant. You can buy it, rent it, prompt it. Courage is rare. You don't need a committee. You don't need approval. You don't need the perfect plan. You can just do things and figure it out along the way.

You're going to die. Soon. When you're 80, looking back at this moment... when Ai is set to change everything… What will you regret more? Trying something and failing? Or playing it safe while the world moved on without you? Bezos calls it the “minimal regret framework.” Most people optimize to avoid embarrassment today when they should be optimizing to avoid regret at 80. You can wait for certainty. Or you can move while there's upside in being early. Momento mori.

On art and beauty… Late Roman art didn't decline because the empire fell. The empire fell because the art declined. Corruption needs incompetence to survive. Strong, beautiful things remind people what's possible. They inspire standards. So corrupt systems do what they always do: they celebrate weakness. Make ugliness virtuous. Call beauty oppressive. This isn't ancient history. Look at any organization optimizing for compliance over excellence. The aesthetic shift happens first. Bland presentations. Safe language. Metrics that reward showing up. Then the talent leaves. You can see an empire dying in its art before the walls fall. #management

@jonathanbrnd i really hate these retarded takes all the time about Anthropic... if you really think this, than you dont use openclaw

Anthropic just shipped OpenClaw as a feature text your AI dev from Telegram or Discord folks at OpenAI right now:

Risk taking is the highest virtue, the only signal that you cannot fake. - Nicolas Nassim Taleb

@PlathZlatk are there tunnels there?

@ol_bowman agentic engineering the term.

Petition to start calling vibecoding "coding" and call normal coding "stresscoding" 👇

@nurnabidesigner Agree completely, read up on Carrhae, its particularly relevant.

@arpowers This is a fascinating parallel to draw. The cyclical nature of empires is certainly a recurring theme throughout history.

The Persian empire is back. Having read lots of history about Persia... (for example: Cyrus, Carrhae, Alexander, Greco-Persian, Crusades).. I find it an interesting time, the future is predictable given the abundant historical parallels.

@EXM7777 why are AI companies so CRINGE

Perplexity building an OpenClaw that works

@RetentionAdam slaves by another name

FOUNDERS: You are not allowed to want to make money. In tech, only VCs are allowed to want money. > They set up funds whose only purpose is to make money > Collect 2% management fees on hundreds of millions regardless of outcomes > Get rich off a power-law model that pushes 80% of founders to failure All to then tell you that to succeed, you need to be mission-driven and not desire money. Felix Dennis is a publishing legend who wrote a book called "How to Get Rich" that anyone going into business should read. He insists that becoming very rich is so incredibly difficult and requires so much focus that the people who get rich are obsessed with being rich. Because there's no other way to get there. "Desire is insufficient. Compulsion is mandatory." I guarantee somewhere between when Tim Draper started his career and when he wrote this post, he had that compulsion too. But if you're a founder in 2026, you have to listen to VCs and ignore all of that. You're not allowed to want to make money.

@SeedOilDsrspctr @ObtainerOf I did TRT wasn't a huge fan...

@ObtainerOf Most docs are Longhoused and legit don’t want men to have the Vril of optimized T

Last time I went to a doctor I asked for him to test my testosterone just out of curiosity. He said “you don’t need that, you are young and healthy, no symptoms”, I told him I didn’t care and just wanted to know for my own reference. I argued with him for almost ten minutes, he kept trying to dissuade me saying it would cost more and they’d need to take more blood, but he finally agreed. When I got my tests back it was missing test, so I called the office and they said they lost the extra vial of blood. Almost every American has a story of doctors being complete pieces of shit and this profession needs a fucking reality check.