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"Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust." - Travis Kalanick

BREAKING: Kim Jong-un has won North Korea's parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.

100% agree with this and have been saying it for some time Even if you buy the ASI-in-X-years scenario it takes a looong time to actually replace the last 1% of human input and that 1% gets exponentially more valuable during this transition period which can very well last decades.

"Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust." - Travis Kalanick

What this means is that if billionaires (about 3.000 households) spent all their wealth, they could buy 17% of everything that is produced in a given year globally. In 1987 – the first year of the Forbes billionaire list – this number was 3%.

🚨 Iran has fundamentally changed drone warfare. The Shahed-136. $20,000. Flies low under radar. Range of 4,000 km. 90 kg of explosives. The US Patriot missile that shoots it down: $4 million. That’s a 200-to-1 cost ratio. Iran doesn’t need to win every exchange. They just need to keep launching until the Gulf states run out of $4 million missiles. That’s the strategy. Flood the zone. Drain the arsenal. Break the bank. Ukraine figured this out fighting Russian Shaheds for two years — 250 to 350 drones per day, 4 to 5 days a week. That’s why the US is now buying Ukrainian $3,000 interceptors to fight a war in the Middle East. The most expensive military in human history is being economically exhausted by a $20,000 drone. Japan’s Nikkei down 6%. Oil up 53%. Gas heading to $5. The Strait empty. Seven Americans dead. And Iran has 200 more drones for every Patriot missile we fire. Do the math.

insane sequence of statements buried in an Alibaba tech report