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I needed to read this today; perhaps you did too.

Not advocating for a world where the strong devour the weak. Basic reasoning will tell you that predatory domination is simply a bad strategy. What you gain by crushing others is trivial compared to what you lose: trust, cooperation, the compounding returns of a functioning civilization.

If the will to achieve is the primary force in your life, then anything that taxes, restricts, or redistributes the products of that will feels like theft.

Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.” He goes harder: Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done. Feynman: “I know what it means to really know something. How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself. I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.” The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge. In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever. Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now? Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.

We cannot assume individuals or groups are never harmful; there is good reason to caution the public about potential harm. However, if we engage only in hating, it becomes painful without seeking ways to fix things. Deep hatred brought pain; understanding behavior provided practical ways to resolve situations.

Excessive condemnation of a race or group for past or present actions often assumes we would have acted superhumanly in their circumstances. Not to forget: if we were them, we wouldn’t have access to the knowledge we possess now as ourselves. Assuming the other as EVIL is a privilege of the ignorant

When we criticize specific individuals or groups too much, we miss the commonness of human behavioral traits. Our solutions lie in understanding general behavioral patterns and their triggers, rather than in mockery and disgust.

Have we become godless? Not likely! We are maybe just disliking or probably angry at Mr. God! What is to be checked again is whether it is actually his fault…. After-all with all that has been given to us, we are choosing to go purposeless, functionless, hungry and without the myriad of beautiful things we could have created for ourselves and each other, we are choosing to do nothing! It is like if your parents gave you all the possibilities and you decided to become a drug addict-homeless. What we need to do to love ourselves and the rest of the world is to make use of our abilities and all the raw materials to explore and improve our situation! Living in hell when we have the ability to create what may be our heaven is what is drawing on us the friction of stopping, holding back has hurt us too much! Small injuries but enough in number can lead to eventual death or even worse loss of actionability in the face of life, especially when we are physically capable! (Who cares who this God person is if we actually can feel what we are all referring to every-time we mention him.)

America is not as much as a noun, a flag, a constitution, or a government.
It’s the last patch of dirt left on earth where a human can still stand up, spit in the face of overwhelming odds, and say “fuck you, I’ll do it anyway” without instantly being crushed. Everything else is decoration and excuse. The only thing that actually matters is that if the determined and the stubborn have room to breathe, fight, and die on their own terms. Collectivism cannot and should not takeover, never here!

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"If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you." @naval

I just realized the death of a civilization isn’t the death of its people but the death of its ambitions and the fading of the story of why those ambitions mattered.

There are two types of people: 1Those who use an AI bot to fix their life. 2Those who watch others rave about their incredible AI journey and feel a bit weird about it, worrying it might make us useless. Type 1 usually started with messy lives: 500+ shallow connections, half-finished projects, chasing luck. Then they find a bot that finally brings some order. (excluding the people who are maybe using it to build rockets or improve green house efficiency 🫡) And the type 2. People have done everything with a lot of thought in life and don’t see it improving their lives but feel that this is powerful tech might have made all their preparedness useless…. Doesn’t feel like it is useless because having lived a thoughtful life brings the demand for clarity in the head and as long as we are telling powerful tools what we want that clarity in thought matters.

The guide to a dystopian future: Create insane tech, drive only the engine of growth leave the train behind, but then thanks to democracy ....all the people left behind, will get you the government that will hold you back physically or flood you with taxes to help their voters that were left behind..... keep running, keep hacking, keep building.. BUT DON'T YOU DARE THINK

I'm all for real advancement and progress. But why is it so hard for us to get this: AI is powerful tech, sure. But we humans face very specific, hard, systemic problems. It's easy to build with AI right now, but build what exactly? YOU folks are taking the ENGINE WITHOUT the REST OF THE TRAIN. That surely is a great way to garner attention and maybe VC checks fast, but it earns zero lasting respect. The hard part isn't the engine. It's the tracks, the cars, the destination, the coordination, and actually moving real value to real people.

Hey @Grok, I just watched footage from that recent AI party in SF, and it really hit me how much the AI scene is starting to look like crypto did at its peak. All the events, networking, and hype feel like a social buffer, mostly for people who aren’t deeply moved but want to be close to the action. I suspect we’re heading toward the same outcome: a handful of well-resourced companies (Anthropic, Google, xAI, etc.) will dominate the frontier because building truly competitive models takes massive compute, data, and top talent. Most other startups will just slap “AI” on their pitch deck, raise some VC money, and build wrappers or thin features that don’t really move the needle. They’ll probably create more genuine user value than the average crypto project did, but still, the vast majority won’t matter in the long run. What d you think, is the consolidation inevitable, or is there more room for a diverse ecosystem than there was in crypto?

Is anyone else driven by no obvious motive, not money, not fame but still constantly bothered, just wanting one small meaningful act that covers basic needs while mostly helping the mind create something important and beautiful…

It would be so funny that the future generations will remember us as the people who were terribly scared of getting anything wrong and so we just sat and consumed whatever